Evan Sullivan

Handily I wrote this piece a few years back about the British ninja panic, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its social history here:

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Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration.

Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw.

All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

This is how it should be done.

A historical marker in front of the museum.

The wood-paneled interior of the mutter museum

A page from a surgeon’s journal.

Spent the morning researching at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, reading through US surgeon journals from the Western Front.

Today was my last day at the Barbara Bates Center at UPenn’s School of Nursing. Great experience, wonderful help from the archivists! Tomorrow I’ll be in the archive at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia!

Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.

At the Museum of the American Revolution, the temporary flag exhibit has a flag from the Massachusetts Militia, the same militia, though different regiment, in which my 6th great grandfather Captain Benjamin Barnes served.

Thank you!

Someone tell me, “Hey, Evan! It’s okay that you bought a couple books at the bookstore full price! Just enjoy it!”

One week in and Philly is pretty cool.

the struggle is real

“Oh yeah I love New York City”

“Yeah it’s great, I’m in upstate New York”

I’ll be researching World War I nursing records for a project tentatively titled, Searching for Olga, centered around a woman who was blind from her war service in the Army Nurse Corps. So grateful for this opportunity, and for all the support at home to make this possible!

Penn Nursing sign

UPenn campus

UPenn campus

Today, I started my first research trip since publishing my book. I was awarded the Karen Buhler-Wilkerson fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing archives, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this evening. 1/

Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators? | Defector In June, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the wetlands of the Big Cypress Nature Reserve, west of Miami and just ...

Back in @defector.com today! I wrote about the "Alligator Alcatraz," the vicious folklore of "gator bait," and the cultural history of white supremacists trying to recruit alligators as enforcers of racial terror

all those uber and lyft teslas will now use their many exterior cameras to decide whether or not to unlock the door based on the rider's skull shape

Again, the central feature of the people who want ChatGPT and AI to infiltrate every aspect of education is that they are deeply lazy & unwilling to put in the time & effort to do the actual daily work required in thinking, writing, learning, and teaching.

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Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this.

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“Letting an algorithm do all of your writing for you is like having your mom pack your lunch for you at your corporate job. Grow up.”

Exposure to wildfire smoke may negatively impact birth outcomes: Study Exposure to wildfire smoke and heat stress both before and during pregnancy may be associated with adverse outcomes at birth, a new study has found. Such links were particularly pronounced when exp…

Does this mean that conservative natalists have to support climate change mitigation policies now?

nothing more american than an abandoned toys r us, a company destroyed by private equity, painted with a giant flag mural

Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.

Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

#skystorians

Spot on

Don’t let fascists convince you that there’s no room for empathy in our society.

Hell yeah

Thanks!

A black Mazda MX6

It has been at least a few weeks, but I finally got the MX6 out for a drive today

Congrats!