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18,500 children have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

Despite these war crimes, the US has provided more than $22 BILLION for the war.

Our taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb schools & gun down hungry people as they wait for aid.

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

It’s still a rush seeing Keith with BBC Concert. Proud of you, bro!

This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

Thanks!

Appeal to folks with access to the ProQuest Early European Books database: could I persuade you to download for me a digital copy of Anders Sørensen Vedel's ANTICHRISTUS ROMANUS (1571)? I'll be your best friend! #skystorians #earlymodern

"Superman" star Dean Cain says he joined ICE: What to know The former "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" host praised President Donald Trump on social media.

Now "Has Been" celebrities have another option besides doing "Christian" films!
www.newsweek.com/superman-dea...

In a little more than five weeks, I'll be coming home to Denmark. It's been eight years since I've been back - way too long.
Nicolai Habbe, 'Reservesoldater fra 1848 paa Marschen', 1852 (Nationalhistorisk Museum, Frederiksborg)

I really hate my state.

In Samuel van Hoogstraten's incredible perspective box you look in from 2 different angles & see 7 rooms & 3 outdoor areas of this house. An ingenious feat of painting. Today is Hoogstraten's day.

mmmm Lorck...

Hello #renaissance #reformation & #earlymodern historians: I'm really trying to rev up my Ren&Ref course this syllabus time: any inspiring/successful monographs, sources, websites that you could recommend? Melchior Lorck, Satire on the Papacy @metmuseum.org. Thanks!

Racism is why we’re never going to have universal healthcare in this country. Because some white folks will die themselves rather than see a Black person get a goddamn thing.

This is so sad.

Great idea! Funny - I had been contemplating a 1572 book myself but gave it up. It's a big year in the Oldenburg realms - which is what initially drew me. Drop me a DM if you're interested.

I realize now all the opportunities I missed by not naming him Skeletor. But Spit is a pretty good name, too

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Five days left (!) to submit proposals for Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World panel, RSA 2026! Networks broadly conceived - econ, familial, dynastic, political. Submit by Aug 4! #RenSA2026 #earlymodern #medieval #CFP #digitalhumanities #womenshistory #Renaissance #dh

A shot of Cologne's town hall, ornate and adorned with statues of historical figures.

A close-up shot of two statues, one of Friedrich Spree and the other of Katharina Henot, carved into stone.

☀️Memorial of the Day (MOTD): Katharina Henot Memorial in Cologne, Germany.

Outside Cologne’s town hall stands a statue of Katharina Henot, Germany’s first female postmaster, executed as a witch in 1627. Wealthy and influential, she never confessed under torture but was still put to death.

Small gray cat with ball.

Little Girl Cat. This is about as playful as she gets.

YouTube video by History Council of Victoria Making Public Histories: 'Hearing the News', July 2025

For those who would like to watch the recording of my public talk the other evening on Ballads as News Media in Early Modern Europe, the link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGVz...
Thanks to the @historycouncilvic.bsky.social, University Publishing and the Old Treasury Building Melbourne!

orange cat asleep with his tongue out and his paws curled up

i can't believe this

At USMA with my son, indulging in 19c artillery aesthetics in the Academy’s collection of cannon captured in the Mex-Am War. #skystorians

Revisiting the Baron de Steuben for a couple of lectures. This - written as he was despairing in the wake of Shays Rebellion - jumped out at me:
"It seems to me that we have neither the virtue nor the wisdom to be a democratic republic."

Funzo from The Simpsons, with heads of Malibu Stacy and Krusty the Klown impaled on pencils.

My highlight of the day: learning that my brilliant, erudite, Ancient Near East scholar daughter just got a toy Funzo for her birthday and that she had to text me about it as soon as it was unwrapped. I'm all smiley over here.

CNN: Epstein
MSNBC: Epstein
ABC: Epstein
NBC: Epstein

Fox News: OBAMA IS BLACK!!!

I'm well aware these aren't my usual venues. An old HS friend is in charge of RevWar 250 events in Dutchess County and invited me. It'll be très swell taking my son to see where I grew up, and I don't when or even if I'll ever get that chance again.

oops, I forgot to add: informal talk at Lagrange Library, Rt. 55 in Lagrangeville, the following evening, 7/24 at 6:30pm. www.lagrangenyhistoricalsociety.org/events

I don't know if I have any Hudson Valley friends here, but if so, I'll be doing a thing at Mt. Gulian (the old Verplanck house) in Beacon, NY, one week from tonight - about my old friend Steuben. Follow the link and scroll down for details. #RevWar #skystorians mountgulian.org/events-calen...