Yersinia pestis

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

In Albertus Magnus’s De Animalibus, printed in Venice by Giovanni and Gregorio de’Gregori, 1495

Bossy

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

I am not exaggerating when I say I think this might be the greatest timeline cleanse I have ever seen.

Name a medical professional more qualified than #CaseyMeans

Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) at University of Cambridge Apply now for the Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

OK, I’m doing this

If you live in Philadelphia and have (or know of someone who has) a room for rent, please hit me up privately ASAP

One of my best friends on Earth is escaping an abusive living environment and needs somewhere safe to land by SUNDAY, MARCH 1st

Please spread the word for me

My late and much-lamented baby Sheba, illustrating

The front of the building has giant Gutenberg plates, which I have not yet stopped to explain to people taking selfies in front of them.

They’re less than a mile from my apartment; I pass it on my walk home from work.

I see what you did there

It’s just what I always wanted!

A graphic that says Organizing Under Authoritarianism: Immigrant Justice Monday, February 23rd, 3pm PT / 6pm ET

Workshop TODAY: Immigrant communities are facing detention + ICE raids + militarized policing.

Authoritarians wants us isolated. We are stronger together.

Join us + @npnewamericans.bsky.social @ndlon.bsky.social @afsc-org.bsky.social:
🗓 TODAY
⏰ 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT
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Earthquaaaaaaaake!

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The Birdcage: How an MLB owner could earn from Trump's mass deportation plan eyeblack identified an LLC, created by Orioles boss David Rubenstein’s private equity firm that sold a warehouse DHS is converting into a migrant jail.

NEW: Trump's Department of Homeland Security bought an Atlanta-area warehouse it's converting into a migrant jail.

I found the LLC selling the warehouse shares a DC address with The Carlyle Group, the Baltimore Orioles new owner's private equity firm.

All the pieces matter. issa new [eyeblack]:

What

Every activist needs to know this rote:

So that's at least two of the top programs for archivists & librarians being subsumed into a new unit for computing and AI, and I'm guessing many more to follow.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

TIL that my supervisor doesn’t know what’s in a particularly noteworthy collection that I catalog.

do YOU have any experience in art, social, organizing, fundraising, comms, graphic design, & want to help us try to raise an insane amount of money to keep immigrant families in MN housed?

I am looking for folks who would want to throw down. having a meeting monday evening. DM me if you're in.

You don't need to be antisemitic to criticize Epstein. You don't need to be a misogynist to criticize Bondi. You don't need to stoop to the lowest point of human character just to take a swing at an evil person. They're bad because they're hurting people, not because of their group.

Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

I so want to know how this came into their possession.

The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...