Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')

Hey Minnesota if anyone knows the artist they could talk to Karen.

The federal government is just disappearing children.

With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As someone who taught a 3:4 for the first 13 years on my career and 3:3 (thanks @psc-cuny.org!) since 2018, I laugh and laugh some more at this nonsense.

^and

This post just saved me, the last one. I moments before seeing it had made this very typo and this made me go an fix it.

I just a phone call with good news for both me and my students. I cannot tell you how much it means to have external partners trying to help classics at BC. I hold it so close to heart.

And forced the lay off of the paper’s full-time Amazon reporter. Nice to be wealthy enough to remove the people holding you accountable. 🤨🧐

This is a great example of the nature of a Language Model - wonderful at dealing with patterns and the logic of a document - linguistic structure! But it simply doesn't deal with *knowledge* or *facts*, and asking it to do that is intrinsically going against the grain of how it is structured (8/9)

Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany? Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?

New at @startribune.com

Trump is threatening to “nationalize” elections in key swing states, such as GA, MI and PA - the same states that defeated him in 2020. He sought to overturn the results in these states in the lead up to and on January 6th.

This should be seen as a warning not only for 2026, but also 2028.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

Species!? How can they report this without understanding what we really need to know is if it is a North African Forest Elephant or an Indian Elephant?!

Somebody is sick of the Muskrat's shit & is going to do something about it.

That Zucker better be paying attention too.

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Delete your account

You probably know that ICE agents shot Renee Good.

You should also know what happened next.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

The answer is to write more emails. This is not about one man or one email. It is about trying to silence all of us.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

[I'm pretty sure it will need a new home for publication, but that's ok. It grew beyond what I imagined]

I've written well over 1500 words today. I have a full draft of the body of an article I started on c. Jan 22. I've done a first run at editing and need a few more sentence in conclusion, to clean the bibliography, and decide on necessary figures/graphics, but this may be my fastest ever drafting.

Visiting AP in Classics and Religious Studies at Hamilton College: Religions of Late Antiquity with the ability to teach Greek and/or Latin and New Testament (in translation).

Review of applications begins February 23, 2026.

A mentee sent me an image of Olympia from back in day from their internship. Old photos archaeological photos with humans of yore spark joy. Thought I'd share as a feed cleanse.

Evidently the redesign of the #EDCS #epigraphy database has broken all direct links to the old database, so now there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of broken references in the #PleiadesGazetteer . I knew we were taking a risk with those php-cruff-filled URIS, but it still hurts.

a man in a suit and tie is making a gesture with his hand . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a gesture with his hand .

From my secretary:

"… we got a box lined it with a plastic bag to catch some of the water. Also going to put in work order for bugs as I found very large water bugs, roaches, mosquitoes in the room…"

This after reports of the SMELL yesterday. This is the office between mine & the student lounge.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month.

we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000
goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.

I've often thought what the *F* were our teachers thinking and now I watch the news out of MN and see all the radical grannies fighting ICE and know those same grannies were as young educator prepping us for this distopian future...

You are so right. And part of my process is screaming in to the void. 🤣