Alexia Yates

Canada's deportations reached "a record high last year" of 18,000.
We committed to deporting 20,000 this year and next ...in February.

What do "Canada Strong" policies look like? More deportations? More working with other nations rather than working with the U.S. to deal with "recalcitrant" ones?

Explicit support for trans rights please your silence is deafening

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

Colleagues based at UK universities: please sign and share this letter to support Gazan students coming to study in the UK, in order to request Governmental deferral of the biometric data requirement and safe evacuation.

It was breathtaking.

Photo of an interior corner of a large museum space with paintings on two walls and ceiling, and a series of twentieth-century sculptures in the middle of the room.

A figurative sculpture of mother and child intended for outdoor display, on a podium in a corner of an interior museum gallery. The walls behind are covered floor to ceiling in twentieth-century paintings of varied sizes.

A panel from Diego Rivera’s “Portrrait of America” entitled “A New Deal”, from 1933-34. It shows a violent strike scene.

The international gallery of the Skissernas museum, showing three painting-covered walls with sculptures occupying the centre of the room. Works include large sketches by Matisse, public murals by Delaunay, and ceramics by Léger.

Found the world’s most delightful museum and it’s Skissernas - a museum dedicated to sketches and preparatory works of public art. A little jewel that bowled me over.

A fascinating way to think about creative process as well as the relationship between art and the public in the 20th century.

Thank you, Frank IAMAW Celebrating the Heart and Voice Behind 25 Years of Labour Stories. After 25 remarkable years at IAM Union Canada, we say congratulations to Frank Saptel as he heads into retirement. It’s not goodbye, ...

After 25 remarkable years at IAM Union Canada, Frank Saptel's last day is today.

As a founder of the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF), he was instrumental in telling and preserving our stories as workers in the City.
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Bright spots.

Yes. And for five years migrants have a giant NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS etched on our IDs. And pay extra to the NHS the whole time.

At an economic history conference this week saw people using ChatGPT to write their papers and caught hallucinations on one presentation. At least they’re telling me who’s worth paying attention to.

Agree and is the world’s most obvious hill - it’s the gosh darn Himalayas of hills - and awful that it needs to be said.

So far I’ve taken the stance that I discuss AI only to clarify its moral and political economic transgressions - I.e. the obligation to resist it. But it may indeed be worthwhile adding “how not to get fooled by” or “caught up in” to the discussion.

This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.

Student evaluations have been dead and useless for a long time. Just axe them.

"The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns, the horsetails rotted under the layers of sand and clay and the clay, became black, and turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us, in this case with their carbon.

Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this:

""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."

Motherfucking wind farms…

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Here is the full Washington Post story, including name of every single child killed by the Israeli state.

The Post should remove the paywall from this now. It is public service.

Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials | CBC News The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping ...

“With certain, shifting caveats” is getting damning, from CBC.
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Rachel Reeves’ ‘save less to invest’ policy could be brilliant for ordinary Britons – or a disaster | Hilary Osborne People know about savings. But investing in stocks and shares? Not so much. Ministers have a duty to be clear about the benefits and risks, says Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer edito...

There's a growing historiography on the financialisation of everyday life but ongoing evidence that it is an incomplete & ill-defined revolution. Perhaps historians should ask not "When was financialization" but "why wasn't financialization?" @ayates.bsky.social
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Orsi Husz presenting on the performative power of statistics on “feminine finance” in postwar Sweden, showing a slide with female statistical researcher behind the front page of a financial gazette.

James Taylor presenting the work of female stockbrokers in nineteenth-century Britain, next to a slide showing Amy Bell defending women’s interest in finance, stating “I want to make women understand their money matters, and take a pleasure in dealing with them. After all, is money such a sordid consideration?”

And there’s more - no wonder there is a packed house here this morning.

Slides from a joint presentation on women’s financial activities in Italy and Spain by Stefania Licini and Susana Martinez-Rodriguez, showing a colourful portrait of a wealthy nineteenth century woman.

Slide from the conclusion of Susan Ingalls Lewis’s presentation that reads in part: “Conclusion: Finally I realized that women financed everything”

If you’re going to talk about women and finance, take advantage of the gorgeous visuals! Wonderful morning double panel on women and financial history.

people both freaking out about uk’s age restrictions on social media and certain platforms and expressing joy that it’s not perfect on first rollout. but i honestly think it’s an important step toward a more robust system.

Those signatories are still out there, proceeding. Maybe there is powder that needs to be kept dry for…something.

PowerPoint slide showing a working man in the centre, happily holding his cash savings (or investment profits?) thanks to Swedish banking schemes to save in exchange for lower tax penalties.

Perfect and delightful slide from Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad on turning wage earners (or are they taxpayers) into investors in modern Sweden.

A screen showing the opening slide for a presentation entitled “Gender, Race, Class, and Care Work: Toward Intersectional Political Economics”.

Keynote speaker Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk in front of a presentation slide showing Amartya Sen on production and social reproduction.

This is a very good opening to the World Economic History Congress.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Keynote on it intersectional political economy.

This is a 1866 oil painting by Robert Charles Dudley titled "Landing the Shore End of the Atlantic Cable." It depicts the arrival of the transatlantic telegraph cable at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, on July 27, 1866. A crowd in 19th-century attire cheers on a wooden pier over rocky shallows, with men wading in water to pull a rowboat ashore. A red flag waves from a scaffold on the left, and sod-roofed buildings stand on the pier amid a hilly, cloudy backdrop.

On this day in 1866, the first transatlantic telegraph cable came ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador. Over 2,700 kilometres of cable was laid. The next day, a message from England arrived, officially connecting the two continents.

This is a rich and ambitious book—an intellectual and political history of inheritance law in France, from the Revolution to the early 20th century. Plouviez explores how legal debates intersect with philosophical ideas and the problem of wealth inequality.

Don’t get me wrong - I’ll be elated if these are reliably keyword searchable (and available via the Archives de Paris website). But for different purposes than this article implies.

FWIW
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Sampling a portion of these records will tell you the identical demographic information this article (and exhibit?) is excited about.
Read Claire Zalc’s work on immigrant business and her and Claire Lemercier on quantitative methods. Please.
quanthum.hypotheses.org

If they’re now keyword searchable, kudos. Genealogists will be grateful and we can find James Joyce (though we already know where he lived). But breathless statements about how this could never be done manually…IT’S CALLED SAMPLING.