William M. Cavert

Thanks to @urbanhistory.bsky.social! The article is about brewing in England, c. 1600, showing that breweries in Shakespeare's London operated at scales that looked impressive even by mid-18th century standards. An example of the gradual, long Industrial Revolution, from the 16th century onwards.

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We're delighted to announce that @williamcavert.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for 2024!

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Check out 'Industrial brewing in early modern London' here: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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A federal immigration agent grabbed a Chicago citizen by the neck on Kedzie Avenue, with four other agents dogpiling him. One of them says "she's next" to someone recording the interaction. (Video shared by Don Lemon)

If they appear imbalanced in their political coverage, their federal funding could be endangered.

Trump Hit by Harsh Fox News Report Showing Kash Patel Imploding at FBI As a surprising Fox News report says the FBI Director is in trouble—even as Trump’s threats to unleash law enforcement on enemies are escalating—a former FBI agent explains why this moment is so dange...

Crucial from @asharangappa.bsky.social: It's a stunning omission that in media coverage of Trump and Stephen Miller blaming the left for political violence, Jan 6 is largely absent.

"It almost seems like the whitewashing is successful."

On the pod, she's so good:
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I've been wondering if Donald Trump truly has the best interests of the American people at heart, and Senator Schumer has persuaded me that he does not. This is huge.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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US immigration officers kill man trying to flee vehicle stop near Chicago Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez shot and killed and officer injured in incident in Franklin Park, Illinois

Ice murdered Silverio Villegas-Gonzales as he was trying to flee

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Don-na Tartt do do do do-do-do, Donna Tartt!

Student suspected of gun theft sparks shelter-in-place, school lockdown in Richfield Richfield police say officers quickly found the student, who did not have a gun in their possession.

Often lost in the gun violence conversation: the trauma of false alarms. In this incident no one was hurt or even really in danger, police responded well, school leaders communicated effectively, and yet hundreds very reasonably feared for their lives.
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I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

is/was

I am confidently informed by multiple early adolescents that their cohort very much knows who Charles Kirk is.

Well it's hard to say; Bournemouth's David Brooks often occupies the center but he's really best understood as a right winger.

One of my most influential experiences was attending Sen. Wellstone's 2002 memorial, which was sad, inspiring, and led by his own family. Then that night I watched Fox News denounce it for being inappropriately political. Since then, no media framing of events, however absurd, is ever surprising.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

Skills

TIL that William F Buckley joined the world of political debate at age 18 in 1943 when he looked at the world of 1943 and decided that the very worst thing happening in that moment was that a movie star was suffering the unpleasantness of being prosecuted for having sex with a 15 year old.

The main problem with customers these days is that some don’t buy all of my products.

Get out there and do what your grandparents' generation did: wake up before sunrise, have a hearty breakfast, and listen to 12-18 podcasts written by equations.

good

Keeping standing armies among us in times of peace, rendering the military independent of and superior to the civil power, and protecting large bodies of armed troops from any murders they should commit, transporting us beyond seas: all just commonsense policies.

Not at all what you asked, but it will fascinate you to learn that I will have an article coming out soonish arguing that much of what churchwardens in rural areas did was to pay for the severed heads of dead animals. When they weren't doing that they also had to pay the dog whipper.

Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests Exclusive: stroke risk is 7% higher and heart failure risk increases by 27% in areas with worst level of pollution, research shows

"Those living in the worst 10% of areas for PM2.5 pollution had a 27% higher risk of developing heart failure, compared with people in the least worst 10%.

"The risk of having a stroke was 7% higher for people in the areas with the dirtiest air"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For 9 years the incriminating documents about Trump have been imagined just around the next corner instead of already here. Endless yearning for some big reveal, ignoring the known record of fraud, crime, treason, rape, the other sexual assaults, the attempted coup, the fascism.

oh no not my dershowitz

This is so beautiful and devastating from my neighborhood middle and high schools. The green and blue ribbons visible on trees in the second half of the video are to honor the victims of last week's Annunciation school shooting, which took place a mile away from these kids' schools.