Robin Fleming

Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.

Yup. Jetlag

Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3

Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥

Cowards

Liar

Global Boston Global Boston is a digital project chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods and ethnic groups, the site features ca...

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Be brave.

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Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg. A photo suggests otherwise Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News, "If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together."

“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”

There’s one appropriate response from faculty: fuck you

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A reminder about the Smithsonian: the Vice President has a seat on the Board of Regents (defined by law). But he’s not chair of the Board, or vice chair, and he’s not on the Board’s executive committee. Structurally he has one vote.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million.

And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all?

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

Just got back from a very fun protest at the downtown Boston Tesla dealership. Well attended, raucous, and a great antidepressant.

Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.

This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.

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They installed the TV...

At his request...

So he can play video games...

In his office...

In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

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Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

"The White House has directed the military to draw up options for increasing the US troop presence in Panama to achieve Trump’s goal of 'reclaiming' the Panama Canal"

And *yes*, this does include:

the "option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force"

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Ugh. The arrival of my books, freshly translated for the Chinese market, is perfectly in sync with today's launch of Trump's trade war with China.

Time to find a copy since it’s now happening here: apnews.com/article/dei-...

Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin

On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum:

"The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."

New research on the earliest image of Pope Gregory the Great, painted in the C7th on the inside of a C5th ivory consular diptych, reveals not only how it was made but also that in the C8th new names were added including 5 Anglo-Saxons, pilgrims perhaps. artsandculture.google.com/story/nwVxkd...

12th-century feline-shaped incense burner from Iran. Seen at the exhibit “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World” at @bostoncollege.bsky.social.

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