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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Cooking and Culture: A Conversation with Priya Krishna | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Priya Krishna will share her experiences as a cookbook author, food writer, and video host in a wide-ranging discussion with Durba Mitra.

At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...

Update

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

ANOM, no question!

After you became the first Cuban-American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, in 2006, your mentor, Jeb Bush, presented you with a sword. What was that about? Chang is a mythical conservative warrior. From time to time, if there’s a big issue going on, you’d see Jeb say, “I’m going to unleash Chang.” He gave me the sword of Chang.

i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP

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.

Gift link!

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.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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

😢

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