Claire K Clement

Writing Tip:

I like to pull out my WIP and read my notes BEFORE I take a shower, work out, clean, take the dog on a walk, etc.

I can think about my WIP while I'm doing other tasks, and when I'm done, I can type out everything I'd already "written" in my head.

#writing

It is true: many things were indeed invented in early modernity! It is also true that many things were only “invented” in early modernity because modern historians don’t like reading Latin or Arabic or Greek.

Medieval scribes used a number of different methods to correct mistakes and omissions. This one used the figure of a man pulling the omitted portion of the text towards the place it belonged - 1st half of the 15th century, Brit. Lib, Arundel 38, f. 65r

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

Supreme Court Overturns US Constitution
“We Don’t Really Like It,” Justices Explain

Let’s double the attendance. Pass it on!

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Where is our humanity?

On #HandsOff day with so many Americans exercising their constitutional rights, this great Seamus Heaney verse seems most appropriate:

History says don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.

National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

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This thread!!

Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen...

Louisville, Kentucky

How many train wrecks do we have to survive before we pull our heads out of our collective asses and let women run this country?

They called it from day one.

These are their names.

You may not agree with every action these people have ever made. But please recognize that this is ideological persecution, likely aided by digital surveillance evidence, and with no due process.

1/ Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia) (still detained)
www.aclu.org/.../a-letter....

Large manuscript page in two long columns with colorful U (V) initial midway down the first column. Lots of marginal space, with what looks like a pasted-over piece of parchment at the bottom but is actually show-through from the previous page.

Detail of the other image in this post, showing decorated initial, red explicit/incipit text, and blue pilcrows (paragraph marks).

Saint+Manuscript, let's go! This is a good one. Today is the feast of St. Katarina of Vadstena, daughter of St. Bridget/Birgitta of Sweden. Here is the opening of her Life in BL Harley 612, a spectactular and LARGE MS made for the Bridgettines of Syon Abbey in the mid-15th c. #medievalsky

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This, right here..

You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

Increasingly a Necessity: A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism – BillMoyers.com It’s good to remember the very big, very frightening picture before us, how far we’ve already come, and to consider what recourse we have with complicit and corrupt forces standing in the way. Continu...

Everyone read.
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X post by Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders ), featuring a verification badge. The text of the post reads: "No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism." The post emphasizes a defense of First Amendment rights and expresses concern about authoritarian actions.

So much for the “Free Speech” champions.

Taking a break from mental health to focus on social media. Just really looking to be as unstable as possible with everything going on right now, thx for understanding.

Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Feels like a think tank should be working on something called "The American Restoration 2029" which basically undoes Project 2025.

This daily stream of changes to the executive branch leaves no doubt that any effort to return to normal governance will take a years-long planning process.

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge | CNN Politics References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands ...

References to a WWII Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among photos and posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge DEI content, according to a database obtained by AP.

french flag

Trump portrait 2025

Scientist injecting vials with fluid

​A French university is offering funding to American scientists concerned about potential censorship under the Trump administration. ​

🔗 www.404media.co/french-unive...

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

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