Mark Rhodes

IRS Kills Off Popular Free Direct File Option For The 2026 Tax Filing Season While the IRS hasn’t officially confirmed that the program is dead, the website indicates that the program is closed—and states have been notified that it will not be in place for 2026.

Reminder as you file your taxes, Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, reported a total annual revenue of $16.3 billion for fiscal year 2024, representing a 13.34% increase from 2023.

Hashtag lawyers, lobbyists, and corporations.
www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Not just most, nearly all 97%! Now, let's compare those figures to other groups. Are our trans students welcome? Our Indigenous students? Do our international students feel safe?

Thank you Seren - I'm incredibly pleased and excited Muslim Wales is available for purchase.

I really want these stories out there, for the names of Welsh Muslim pioneers to be known, and for Wales' Islamic history to be celebrated.

Please do buy, order into libraries, and share with friends.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

Museums, national resources, and the broader economic impacts of National Museum Wales | Welsh Economic Review

Totally agree! Through the study abroad I run to Wales, we wrote a whole paper on this last year for the Welsh Economic Review @cuopenresearch.bsky.social.
Museums, national resources, and the broader economic impacts of National Museum Wales wer.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....

This Sunday: The Welsh-American soldiers of the Cambrian Guards

🗓 Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
⏰ 1pm CST/ 7pm GMT

Online lecture about the Welsh-American soldiers of the Cambrian Guards - a unit of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.

🔗 Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9217471692...

A flyer publicizing an unveiling ceremony for the Toni Morrison historical marker is taped to the covered marker in front of 513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February, 18, 2026. The marker was a project of Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective. The group is comprised of Cornell faculty, librarians, and scholars dedicated to celebrating the legacy of the 1955 alumna of Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The marker was sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation through its New York State Historical Marker Grant Program. The unveiling ceremony was moved indoors due to rain. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

Organizers of the Toni Morrison historical marker project and community members stand on the sidewalk between Morrison’s former home and the newly unveiled roadside historical marker on February 18, 2026. Left to right are three members of Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective—Kofi Acree, Director for the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; Margaret Washington, Professor Emerita in the Department of History; and Anne Adams, Professor Emerita in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature. Beside them are Anastasia Sopchak, Research Historian and Engagement Associate at the William G. Pomeroy Foundation; Elizabeth Bittel, Civil Rights Education and Training Specialist at the Cornell Office of Civil Rights; Kaleb Hunkele, artist and lecturer at the Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences; and Cally Arthur, retired staff member in the Department of Global Development. Bittel and Hunkele are current residents of Morrison’s former home. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

A street view shows the newly unveiled Toni Morrison historical marker (left) in front of the duplex at 511-513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February 18, 2026. Morrison lived in an upstairs apartment on the left side of the duplex (#513) from 1953 to 1954 while a graduate student at Cornell University. She received a Master of Arts in American Literature from the school in 1955. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

A close-up view shows the north side of the newly unveiled Toni Morrison historical marker at 513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February 18, 2026. The cast aluminum marker was sponsored by the Syracuse-based William G. Pomeroy Foundation through its New York State Historical Marker Grant Program. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

A historical marker commemorating literary icon Toni Morrison was unveiled in Ithaca, New York, on what would have been her 95th birthday, February 18, 2026. It stands in front of the house where she lived while a graduate student in American Literature at Cornell University in the 1950s.

President's House slavery exhibits restored after judge imposes deadline National Parks Service workers began rehanging the display panels Thursday morning after a court order mandated they be reinstalled by 5 p.m. Friday.

National Parks Service workers began rehanging the display panels Thursday morning after a court order mandated they be reinstalled by 5 p.m. Friday.

Institute of Cornish Studies | Institute of Cornish Studies | University of Exeter

I'm very excited to be a part of the revival of the Cornish Studies journal by the Institute of Cornish Studies. We are currently looking for submissions for our first issue, especially from ECRs! Check out details online: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
#Cornwall #Cornish #Kernow #Kernewek

Adaptive Reuse of a coal mine complex

Newly paved bike route

Reused school for a museum

Bike repair station

I've been impressed over the past week at how disparate Sardinian/Italian agencies and orgs are leveraging resources to bring together slow tourism, historic interpretation/preservation, community-led infrastructure, and industrial heritage.

The beginning pilar of the camino

A museum laboratory room

A goat mining mascot

Mining heritage

Wrapping up my first major fieldwork of my Fulbright on EU industrial heritage policy. I started in SW Sardinia where the exciting Mines.B slow tourism mining routes initiative was born alongside their own Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara and the first UNESCO Geopark.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I'll ditto that! 5 classes I took in college:
>Intro to Ethnic Studies (required for all freshmen!)
>Minnesota (pre-1858)
>Europeans in Indian Country and Indians in Europe
>Castles, Crags, and Coastlines
>Immigrant America

I want to see equivelent graphics for the average calories needed for one hour of manual labor.

1 hour of manual pushmowing✂️ = 1 avocado🥑

Minnesota outline with a heart labeling St. Cloud

I've had a rocky relationship with my alma mater this past year, but SCSU has shown its quality over the past month in the face of overwhelming adversity and violence. Very proud to see the new president take a non-negotiable stance protecting and supporting students. @scsualumni.bsky.social

I'm in a border district. My people in the U.P. can't see a doctor or afford housing. Some are living in bitter cold without heat or hope.

D.C. continues to treat this xenophobic immigration hysteria as a legitimate priority while my people's basic needs are forgotten.

That is utterly enraging.

Today marks the end of my fabulous APS (@amphilsociety.bsky.social) Fellowship at IASH (@iashedinburgh.bsky.social). What began as an empirical assessment into National Museums Scotland's books has instead revealed the relational, emotional, and fluid dynamics underpinning our national museums.

Emerging Writer's Residency 2026 - Nottingham City of Literature A paid residency for emerging writers. Applications are open to explore the feminist archive at the Nottingham Women's Library.

Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library.

Details in link.

Please share :)

Photos of 2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows with text ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, Apply now. Deadline: March 11, 9:00 PM EDT.

Looking to explore a career outside academia? Recent PhDs: apply by March 11 to be an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! Put your humanities PhD skills to work at mission-driven nonprofits across the country. Learn more: www.acls.org/LeadingEdge

Kent State National Historical Site plaques

50 years from now we'll be visiting the Minneapolis Homeland "Security" Shootings Site wondering how we could have let things get so bad and vowing "never again" while the next demagogue plays upon the nation's fears and vulnerabilities for their personal benefit.

We will need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission when these cruel, lawless people are out of office. They must be held accountable in order for our nation to heal.

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Illegal action is illegal... Who knew‽ Howabout we enforce our own laws?

Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...

@mprnews.org has been ON IT the past two weeks. Maybe it's time Minnesota takes some pointers from Catalonia and summon their fire fighters to help maintain the law and order that these federal forces show zero regard for. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

a black and white drawing of a person 's face Alt: A question mark morphs into an interrobang

Today's victory is being able to use an interrobang in an interview transcription. Exciting‽