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Holly Brewer

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Historian http://earlymodernjustice.org/ Sample articles: https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/ https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf Opinions my own

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When I was there as a student in mid 80s we were told women were 2% of tenured faculty.

01.03.2026 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

01.03.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The β€˜Pilgrim Hare’ from St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Dating to the mid-14th century, the hare is dressed as a pilgrim, hence the title. It is thought that the carving was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit. πŸ“Έ My own. #StoneworkSunday #Beverley

01.03.2026 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly not keen on AI-generated images as a rule.
But this one is like a political cartoon come to life.

01.03.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia β€” and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Notes from the Digital Field: Ethical Dilemmas in Open Source Research - bellingcat Working with open source information brings a whole range of complex ethical issues – here are some tips based on Bellingcat's experience.

Read the full article here:

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Burj Al Arab in Dubai was hit by an Iranian drone.

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'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran
YouTube video by MS NOW 'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNs...

28.02.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7237    πŸ” 2866    πŸ’¬ 432    πŸ“Œ 231

How so?

01.03.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8224    πŸ” 3434    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 95
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All you Chat GPT fans who can’t be arsed to write your own words or think it’s great fun to drain the planet so you can show what your cartoon work persona looks like, well this is what you’re funding. It’s basically Skynet.

28.02.2026 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

No doubt.
martyrdom sadly does not work that way.
But I’ll delete it, in hope.

01.03.2026 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Did they bomb a school because Claude told them it was a military target???

01.03.2026 06:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1010    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 19
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AI’s β€˜memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement

β€˜The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’
www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

01.03.2026 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 16
Men studying a dragon

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

27.02.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

01.03.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3699    πŸ” 1008    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 78

Thanks!!

01.03.2026 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Americans rise up against your government.

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You know what DID age well?

28.02.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13016    πŸ” 4140    πŸ’¬ 447    πŸ“Œ 323

β€œWar is peace” George Orwell

28.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

28.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17805    πŸ” 5844    πŸ’¬ 2025    πŸ“Œ 559

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

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Some local reporting background from @amelianews.bsky.social on the West Virginia jails at issue from earlier this month: westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/05/a...

28.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 355    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Statement from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on Recent Iranian Influence Efforts | Office of the Director of National Intelligence Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system

BTW the 2024 Iranian influence campaign that we know about amplified the Gaza protests, which if anything, helped Trump.

www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

28.02.2026 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

28.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6116    πŸ” 1898    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 264
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

28.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2105    πŸ” 940    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 54
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NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(πŸŽ₯ Al Jazeera)

28.02.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1355    πŸ” 697    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 117
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European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core European Journal of Political Research - Alessandro Nai, Isabelle Borucki, Nicole Curato, Caterina Froio, Emilie van Haute, Airo Hino, Markus Wagner

Did you know? πŸ€” We’re 100% Gold Open Access βœ…

Every article we publish is peer-reviewed, high quality, and free to read from day one. 😱

This #OpenAccessWeek, dive into research you can share without barriers. πŸ“–βœ¨

20.10.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It would take more than two.
But yes.

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