Diane Levin

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I could live with this.

As a duck fan, I love this! I can’t recall ever seeing a representation of an animal like this in a Torah manuscript before. How common was this for scribes to do this?

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As always, the Arc of Massachusetts doing the Lord’s work on behalf of the disabled.

It’s about time.

From the Oath of Allegiance new citizens take in case these legislators need reminding of their own duties to democratic values:

“I hereby declare… that I will support & defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America …[and] that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Great bands here! Here are my 5:

The Patti Smith Group
Bonnie Raitt
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Blondie
Diane Ross and the Supremes

I’m so sorry. I hope that this gets resolved quickly for you.

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

A red squirrel on the ground. It almost looks like it is in superhero pose with one front paw and one back paw on the ground. The other front and back paws are raised in the air, its head is forward ready to run towards the camera.

What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose.
You're welcome.

I just finished rereading the LOTR and was struck by Sam’s heroism—an ordinary person standing up defiantly for the goodness in the world against an unimaginable evil.

Sam is the hero in LOTR.

Now that is wicked pissah

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Nothing on a wintry day like the aroma of a chicken roasting away with crispy potatoes!

Mazel tov on your simcha! And I’m sorry that’s even necessary—it’s the reality that every Jewish community is facing and it stinks.

A photograph of the sun rising across a harbor with a lighthouse in the distance.

North of Boston, the winter sun rises across the harbor. Only 5 degrees F. The calm before the arrival of the storm tomorrow.

Team red squirrel without a doubt

The trunk of a large oak tree

When windy place an ear to the bark of a tree, & with a hand stop all noise entering the other ear

You can now concentrate on listening THROUGH the tree to the low rumble of the trunk & branches working with the wind

You can also feel the movement of the branches as they react

Battle of Cable Street: ‘I was there when the East End said “No pasaran” to the fascists’ | Tower Hamlets Slice Bill Fishman was just 15 when he became caught up in the Battle of Cable Street - when thousands of East Enders rose in opposition to a rising tide of

Here's a first-hand account from the distinguished historian Professor Bill Fishman, who participated in the Battle of Cable St aged 15: towerhamletsslice.co.uk/whitechapel/...

YouTube video by The Young'uns - Topic Cable Street

Great thread and timely. Here’s a song to go with it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMr...

“And twice each day the flowing sea
Took Boston in its arms…”
—Emerson

A loud cheer from Boston—I feel the same frustration when I hear from our Democratic leaders. Their inability to show fortitude and fierce resolve makes me despair. But your words leave me heartened. Thank you.

How much I needed to see acts of kindness today. A moving compilation.

Not only does this sound delicious but the instructions are equally delectable. “[A]s Tammy almost sang, Stand By Your Pan”. Thanks for thinking of dessert lovers in smaller households, Nigella!

A compellingly written call to action to join the “broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity”

A brown rabbit sitting atop a window air conditioning unit outside an office window

An early morning office visitor!

This was a great explainer!