Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Thank you Kevin Gausman.

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here are the details of the trade that sent Kevin Gausman to Chicago. The Blue Jays acquire INF Ty Southisene, Cubs No. 13 prospect per MLBPipeline and OF Brett Bateman, Cubs No. 21. (H/T Mark Feinsand)

RFK tried a common COVID disinfo tactic, but messed up the delivery. The right loves to say ER visits fell in 2020. 
Stat is true, but it's due to people who use ERs for primary care delaying visits while social distancing. So, ER visits fell but ICUs were full due to an influx of COVID patients.

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

This book is excellent!

Mark Doyle@markdoyle.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you've read the Guardian's list of 40 best Kinks songs and are looking for a little more insight into Ray's songwriting and other things, might I humbly (well, not so humbly) recommend this little book by me: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-kinks

Wondering how to deal with AI in your classroom in a way that isn't grounded in suspicion, or punitive? Here's one way of doing that: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...

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Glen Hansard, the Frames frontman and 'Once' star who won an Oscar for Best Original Song, has died at 56 following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning 'Once' Musician, Dead at 56

Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who achieved international fame in the 2007 drama 'Once,' has died in a motorcycle crash at the age of 56.

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Gosh, the news out of Indiana is horrible. ICYMI, the Indiana Historical Society fired its entire Education and Engagement Team and its Exhibits staff. Apparently, the emergency all-hands meeting lasted 3 minutes & then they were all escorted from the building, having to return later for their stuff

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Hivemind! Can anyone help me out? If you like the content on this stream and you agree with me about Higher Ed, is anyone going to be at the UK National Archives now or soon who could photograph a single file for me? I will be eternally grateful/ can pay back in coffee, beer etc.! ☕🍺

squeeze your darlings and treasure tiny things, death never comes on time

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT Seek Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas Tech’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Policies www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT Seek Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas Tech's Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Policies

Read a full PDF of our statement here.  Today, plaintiffs in the lawsuit Texas AAUP-AFT, et al.  v. Creighton, et al., which challenges Texas Tech University System’s censorship directives, filed a mo...

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AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT Seek Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas Tech’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Policies www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT Seek Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas Tech's Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Policies

Read a full PDF of our statement here.  Today, plaintiffs in the lawsuit Texas AAUP-AFT, et al.  v. Creighton, et al., which challenges Texas Tech University System’s censorship directives, filed a mo...

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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

"It seems obvious that…we need these subjects to help us understand what is happening and how we might move forward…To make sense of this we need to understand history, culture, languages and theology." www.ft.com/content/fbde...

We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI

Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society

ft.com

Just leaving this here. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/15/c...

Texas Tech chair donated $275K to Paxton before he intervened for Sorsby

Cody Campbell, a major Texas Tech booster and GOP megadonor, has vocally defended Brendan Sorsby’s right to play amid a legal battle stemming from his betting scandal.

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Just leaving this here. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/15/c...

Texas Tech chair donated $275K to Paxton before he intervened for Sorsby

Cody Campbell, a major Texas Tech booster and GOP megadonor, has vocally defended Brendan Sorsby’s right to play amid a legal battle stemming from his betting scandal.

texastribune.org

English supporters instead forced to sing “Don’t Look Back in Anger” at the conclusion of the match.

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll got paid. www.lawdork.com/p/despite-tr...

Love this film, with Gregory Hines saying to Kermit, "you gave her the huggies?" and Louis Zorich as the cafe owner with the great line about dealing with people in NYC, "peoples is peoples."

Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 3w ago

OTD in 1984, The Muppets Take Manhattan was released in theaters. Written and directed by Frank Oz, it would spawn one of the Jim Henson Company's most successful--and unexpected--spinoffs. It would also be the last Muppet film to be released in Jim Henson's lifetime. /1

The message in chalk: "This is blood"

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

Comments close at 11:59 PM tonight. For handy toolkit of how you can submit a comment, hit this link.

Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health

A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...

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Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.

Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)

The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.

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A perfect film, IMO.

TCMFanatics@tcmfans.bsky.social · 3w ago

Moonstruck, 1987.

As an American who was rooting for Norway, here are my thoughts about that match.

Registration for NACBS 2026 opens tomorrow! A draft program is now available to view on our conference page. We hope to see you in Pasadena! www.nacbs.org/conference

Conference | NACBS

The North American Conference on British Studies annual conference homepage

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Yes! This lawsuit is made possible by Texas AAUP-AFT members. If you’re not already a member, now is a great time to join! Together we can fight back against the attacks on academic freedom, shared governance and due process we are seeing across the state. 💪👏👊 connect.aft.org/app/memberfo...

Kevin Reuning@reuning.bsky.social · 4w ago

Proud to know that my dues helped fund this lawsuit.