Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place)

Liner Note 35: How Will Faculty Ever Have Managerial Power? (Paxson, Tooze, Ganz, Campos, Khalidi) No Regrets Sunday Morning, Victoria Line    I’ve often broached this topic, most recently in relation to the new UC Irvine plan for hyper-au...

Brown University's agreement "accepts extortionary bargaining without evidence, argument, institutional reply, attempted resolution prior to punishment, or any other feature of the Congressionally-mandated Title VI process" Chris Newfield's cogent analysis: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/line...

What is wrong with the press. Why has possible no reporter asked Donald Trump about. Victims. Victims. Victims. Victims. Victims.

It's truly DISGUSTING to see the focus only on MAGA Voters. I don't care what voters do.

Ask why Donald Trump does not care about Epstein and Maxwell victims

“Both of them.”

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Here's what I'm prepared to offer you on behalf of our office 🙂 (code for the DOJ-Trump Admin).

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell-all on Epstein, his associates Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a far more favorable Texas prison camp as she hashes a possible deal to divulge secrets about her sex-crimes accomplice Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump transfers Ghislaine from Florida to cush Texas club fed camp as initial inducement to exonerate Trump as negotiation for pardon/commutation continues nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

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Miss Lambe from Jane Austen's Sanditon brough to life - Harewood House Lela Harris has created a compelling new portrait of Miss Lambe, the only character of African heritage in Austen’s novels, from her unfinished manuscript Sanditon.

You can read more about Lela’s extraordinary work, research and process here: harewood.org/stories/miss... Please share widely! 5/5

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.

So Nancy Drew-coded or maybe Harriet the Spy

Disinformation ghouls. Every single one of them.

@safety.bsky.app

You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.

Please unban Mira of Kyiv
@reshetz.bsky.social

Wedding gown 1862 MMC, inv. TA 6790 This magnificent three-piece ivory silk satin ceremonial gown comprising a bodice, a jacket and a skirt, was made in 1860. Its shape, with a wide lightly gathered dome-shaped skirt that is longer at the back and sleeves flaring en pagode attached at the shoulder by gathering en coulisse, is reminiscent of a Renaissance gown, reflecting the 19th century interest in revivals. The extremely fine embroidery, involving the application of gilded metal yarn spikelets in a complex knotted weave composition is also inspired by the Renaissance. Donated by Pia Teresa Mallaby Carmi, 1997

A gold dress with high color & tight bodice embroidered with magenta flowers (sorry--I seem to have not gotten the museum description!)

Woman's dress C. 1913 Label:"A La Ville de Lyon / Raphael Goudstikker Naples" MMC, inv. TA 6846 Silk chiffon dress dyed in shades of green and yellow. The deep V-neckline is edged with a jewel decoration made of black and white glass bugle beads and small pearl beads running down from the breast to the waist The short sleeves are adorned at the hem with the same pearl and bugle bead motif. The waistline is underscored by a wide black silk velvet band. The lightly flaring skirt, which is longer at the back to form the hint of a train, is elegantly decorated with a geometrical decoration of large stylised plants clearly inspired by the Jugendstil. This dress belonged to the Countess Margaret Brinton White Sa-vorgnan di Brazzà. Donated by the Associazione Amici della Galleria del Costume, 1999

Women's outfit C. 1935-38 Sleeveless garden party dress in pium and grey striped silk with plunging neckline. Different fab- ric cuts create the herringione pattern and other visual effect. Boncompogni Ludovisi Museum for Decorative Arts, Costume and Fashion of the vg* and 20* Centuries, Rome

Fashion exhibit at Palazzo Pitti (I would totally wear that herringbone patterned plum & grey one today!)

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3

Sigh.

I mean, holy hell. They probably asked Bing to name the fields he thinks he should replace. Holy holy hell.

What do these ghouls think American Stage Musicals are about? (I mean, the Orange guy is obsessed with Cats, right?) (feeling like I should break out in: Don't cry for me, Ghoulveritas?)

Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday morning...

Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...

Motherfucking wind farms…

This is really wonderful! Mary Robinson is such a fascinating writer.

What Columbia's settlement with the Trump administration means for higher education Columbia University and the Trump administration reached a deal that restores federal funding and research grant money to the university. As part of the agreement, Columbia will pay $200 million to th...

"This is massive overreach. This is an assault on the independence of civil society in America. And conservatives, liberals, moderates, they should all be concerned when a White House tells you how to run your private associations." - Wesleyan U President Michael Roth

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

“What did you think Epstein was ‘stealing’ those women for?”

Liner Note 34: Derailing the Columbia Precedent Milos, Greece, on July 19, 2025    There’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration   as ...

I've a post at Remaking that reads the Agreement between Columbia & the government. It's much worse than they say. The idea that Harvard is about to cave in too is truly horrifying. The post also outlines the framing that universities should be setting up utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/07/line...

Ghouls.

Brown University is apparently looking at ways to appease Trump using the template of Columbia's crumbling to extortion. As an alumna, I plead w Brown to say no to this threat. Sign the petition opposing attacks that would destroy Brown's freedom www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Notice how the NYT's headline writer, violating professional best practice, uses the passive voice so as to avoid identifying who is attacking the president of George Mason. Shameful.

George Mason University is the latest target of the federal government's campaign against higher education. You can help mobilize support for the university by standing with @georgemasonu.bsky.social here:
standwithmason.com

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...