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@chandlerprof.bsky.social

Medievalist, historian, trying to talk about things like normal people talk about normal things.

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Indeed. But it’s nice to see his blog up and running.

15.02.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Social Security Workers Are BeingΒ Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

wired.com/story/social...

13.02.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 842    πŸ” 577    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 39

Oohβ€”that looks good!

14.02.2026 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There may well be some discussion, but I don’t know of it. (Have you asked or considered asking JJ? Pardon me if this is a β€œwhole thing” as they say.)

14.02.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

12.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12504    πŸ” 4445    πŸ’¬ 202    πŸ“Œ 109

Reprehensible.

12.02.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish I could, and I’m flattered that you would think I maybe could. But sadly (or not, depending on one’s point of view), I didn’t really look into this kind of thing in great detail, given my main concern with the Carolingians. And I haven’t continued to look at Catalan material since then.

12.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kyiv.
We had one hour of electricity and were told we’ll get about 1.5-2 hours a day (yes, out of 24 hours).
The boiler heated water,
I washed my hair,
charged the EcoFlow (not fully).

That’s all.
These are the consequences of russian attacks.

07.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 702    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 6

Yes, I clocked that. But I’ve heard and read a whole bunch of stuff over the years about how it’s so bad in higher ed, seemingly ignorant of the fact that we’re not unique. Almost like β€œoh, you work in a cubicle? That’s nice. I have to write an assessment report of student learning!”

07.02.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love watching curling on tv. It’s the only sport where the competitors look like they drove there in their own minivan.

07.02.2026 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And it’s not just higher ed, lest we believe ourselves more survival than we are.

05.02.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

05.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9573    πŸ” 3243    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 229

The number is saddening. I wonder what the number is for the other side?

05.02.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago

The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

05.02.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2895    πŸ” 1584    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 144
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Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

04.02.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9279    πŸ” 2513    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 76

I wish that billionaires didn’t own all the media. But if we can’t have that, could we at least have billionaires with something like a spine and their own ambition leading them to stand up to the government?

05.02.2026 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œ.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

03.02.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5863    πŸ” 2594    πŸ’¬ 266    πŸ“Œ 237
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John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.

John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements

Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'

To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge

ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

03.02.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 854    πŸ” 332    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 25

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

03.02.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8775    πŸ” 3801    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 64

It is less common in many places outside the US, from what I know.

04.02.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get physics, chemistry, and business management students, among others, all the time. It’s how we do things.

My five (mostly much less socialized than others’):
1. The Emergence of Europe
2. Early Modern Europe
3. Medieval England
4. German Cinema
5. Historiography

02.02.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful news!

02.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the pandemic shows that a significant portion of the country would rather die by disinformation and racism than have good medical care

29.01.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They complain about paid actors in protests and the like all the time… it’s projection.

29.01.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

29.01.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3869    πŸ” 887    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 15
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FBI executing sealed search warrant at Fulton County election facility Federal agents carried out a law enforcement action Wednesday at a Fulton County election facility located in Fairburn.

So...... this seems real bad.

The FBI executed a sealed search warrant today on a key Atlanta area election office - and wouldn't say what that warrant was for.

"A source told FOX the FBI was there to take custody of Fulton County election ballots from 2020."

www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fbi-exe...

28.01.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6527    πŸ” 3151    πŸ’¬ 886    πŸ“Œ 384

These are all valid pointsβ€”including Trump's

26.01.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3256    πŸ” 556    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 15

I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.

24.01.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

I wish I hadn't watched that video. I never watched the killing of Renee Good and hope I never have to. I don't need to see it to fight it.

Today at least four federal agents were beating a man and then one of them (I think) shot him point blank while he was on the ground. More agents present.

24.01.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 678    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 24
A typewritten note that reads:

ICE has murdered another person
the video is horrific.
you do not need to watch.

A typewritten note that reads: ICE has murdered another person the video is horrific. you do not need to watch.

24.01.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 789    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 10

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