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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

NYT: Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

By Miriam Jordan. Photographs by Maddie McGarvey.

In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.

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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

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In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

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Eugenics.
Also this will force mostly women out of their jobs

Magnolia blossoms and bright blue sky

It’s happening 🌸

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person."

Latest from Columbia U: "This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building & detained a student. ... [T]he federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

Scholarship at Risk 1: Academic Freedom vs. Autocratic Repression

Organised by Prof Susan Breau (IALS), this, coming up on Tues 3 March, is the first of three free online training workshops on the vital topic of Scholarship at Risk, a collaboration with @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social, with participation from @penamerica.bsky.social.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is happening at schools across the country and similar to ignoring Trump’s racist attacks we’re seeing these moves being downplayed in the hopes of white racial reconciliation.

cops tasered and beat a blind man and then charged him with possession of a weapon because he had a walking stick. then border patrol eventually dumped him on the other side of town and now he’s dead

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I’m giving an on-line lecture on Saturday March 7th about East India Company artworks! Joining instructions below.

Nice to notice some #DisHist on the programme this week at the IHR.

Online participation possible too!

"...confidence went up when [people] had AI access, even though half the answers were deliberately wrong. They borrowed the machine’s confidence—always quite high—without checking its accuracy...The subjective experience of using AI is that you’re doing better, even when faulty answers pile on."🔥 🔥

Fluffy cat curled up for a nap on a tartan blanket

Timeline cleanse

UCL axes ‘utopian’ Institute of Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary research hub focused on arts and humanities will shut in July amid financial sustainability issues

'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.'

Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?

#golf #augusta #masters

Can anyone help me identify these golf signatures?

From the masters , no date

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

📣 3-year early modern French job at Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusin...

"organizing with others in your same condition generates a lot of the goods we’re alienated from in our competitive society. the connection you have to others, the nonalienated ways of relating, it’s something I didn’t count on because I’ve never been in a union before."

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March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

Join us today at #RenSA26 #RSA2026 for a roundtable on #earlymodern materiality, material culture, and emerging methodologies! What am I going to talk about? Diplomacy and women (what else?) but questioning how transportability and movement impacted gift-giving.

After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

Rümeysa Öztürk: I want them to know how many of us tried, with our small hands, to stop the wars.

One day, they might. They may grow up to read what we write and share. They may know someone heard their screams and held space for their grief.

CRUNCH: The Architecture of Imminence Swati Chattopadhyay draws on Bengal's flood-prone riverine landscape to propose ways of reimagining architecture beyond permanence, challenging how we design in the face of global warming.

CRUNCH: The Architecture of Imminence
23 Feb 18:30 – 20:00
Swati Chattopadhyay draws on Bengal's flood-prone riverine landscape to propose ways of reimagining architecture beyond permanence, challenging how we design in the face of global warming.
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