@fayway
Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. F’ing bitch.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
We are taking the seminar on the road tomorrow to the University of Warwick! Join as either in person or online, 4pm-6pm, to hear Imogen Peck (Birmingham) discuss her paper ‘Family Archives in England,1660-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History’
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Friday 13 March 5:30 pm London time Sam Geens (Antwerp) will be speaking to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries.” In person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS As a veteran science reporter, I have long tracked how research can be distorted for profit. The tobacco industry may be the most famous practitioner, but efforts to besmirch independent evidence of a product’s potential harm as “junk science” have been financed by the chemical, fossil fuel, pharmaceutical, and sugar industries, among others. Now Republican power players are taking things even further by censoring science they dislike. Notably, last month, the Federal Judicial Center—an educational agency Congress created in 1967 to serve the judicial branch—deleted a chapter on climate science from an influential reference manual federal judges have long used to parse complex science issues in the courtroom. The deletion was orchestrated by 27 Republican attorneys general who called for the chapter’s immediate withdrawal in order to retain the “judiciary’s impartiality” in climate and energy cases.
Our latest newsletter explores a type of censorship that may have gone under the radar. The federal government has erased climate change from the scientific manual judges reference.
From @lizagross.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org
Ballpark?
Read the comments.
"'Make America Great Again' or 'This Is Our Country' or 'Take Back Our Country' are all slogans and songs that were very common in minstrel shows."
Since Rep. Andy Ogles is back in the news for the typically bigoted, boneheaded reasons, it's another opportunity to point out that he once raised $25K to open a cemetery for miscarried babies. He then ditched the idea and can't explain what happened to the money.
The Winter Olympics is not over!
Rumor has it that this was the opening salvo of USA's AI-driven military assault.
*Raises hand* I wrote an article about this very thing happening in the 1920s.
Antonovich, Jacqueline. “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 439-469.
How our enemies must tremble.
A guy at the grill outside Otto’s here in PDX told me he watched the price at the gas station across the street go up $0.60/gal. over the course of 20 min.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Can confirm.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Don’t come here.
Screenshot of an X post by Dan Scavino reading, “Happening Now in the Oval Office at the @WhiteHouse. God Bless the USA!” with prayer, heart, U.S. flag, and eagle emojis. Below is a photo inside the Oval Office showing Donald Trump seated at the Resolute Desk while a large group of men in suits stand around him in a circle with heads bowed and hands extended in prayer. American flags, gold drapes, and framed portraits are visible in the room.
“Iran is run by religious fanatics.”
Dearest Charlie. May he have a long and joyous retirement.
Get in loser, we're going beatifying
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.
MAGA Masculinity, in 3 steps:
1. Change DoD to "Dept of War" & act all butch abt it
2. Take pleasure in US bombs & drones killing ppl
3. As soon as someone calls your violence "war," shriek like a wounded little bitch.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
“It’s not a given Amish — or other religious adherents — will reject vaccines. Successful outreach requires making effort to understand how religious adherents think, acknowledging their concerns, and humbly recognizing that medical knowledge is shaped by more than mere empiricism.”
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Orbán's government kidnapped seven employees of the Ukrainian state-owned Oschadbank and stole millions in cash and gold, as he turns to outright piracy. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
I like the idea of rubbing it with olive oil.
