FOLK ART MADE AT SEA! Reviving my bsky account for some shameless self-promotion. Please come hear me talk about my beloved sailors’ craftwork and see some examples at our amazing museum store (and tell your friends about it)!

Delve Deeper Curator Tour: A Closer Look at Sailors' Craftwork

This behind-the-scenes tour of the stores will explore the history of sailors' craftwork, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

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Big news to wake up to in #ncpol:

NC Newsline@ncnewsline.com · 9h ago

NEW: Congressman Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, has decided to drop his bid for reelection following Monday’s recommendation by the House Ethics Committee that he be censured. ncnewsline.com/2026/08/04/e... #NC #ncpol #WNC

i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

thenation.com

FCC chair Brendan Carr thinks neither he nor the president has to abide by the laws. This is what the Supreme Court set up with their immunity decision ⬇️

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · yesterday

Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700)

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...

routledge.com

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

trib.al

"An intricate, nuanced and amazingly well-researched journey into the 20th-century origins of a belief in a structural liberal media bias" MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *The International Journal of Press/Politics.* bit.ly/4xnZeA7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 21h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Thank you to all who attended today's meeting on the 'Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History'. Very valuable proposals in difficult times for history in HE / UK HE more widely. We've also a new guide bit.ly/4z1fAjO listing 100+ UK #history societies & networks supporting historians #Skystorians

Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · yesterday

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

BREAKING: ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers approve ballot measure for voters to clear way for new congressional maps that would boost Democrats.

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

What is Congress for?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

What is Congress for?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

August 4, 2026. There Will Come Soft Rains. Bradbury could set A Scene. users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

Can I say how corrupt this is? When we try to dismantle or reduce ICE, which these companies know is coming, they have reduced their exposure, and the US government is left holding the bag.

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · yesterday

New: ICE recently spent over a billion dollars buying two private prisons that they were already using as detention centers. Officials with the two biggest private prison companies say they expect more such deals are coming.

Judge Williams SPECIFICALLY said it was illegal under 26 USC 7217 for Blanche to immunize Trump on tax crimes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is what happens when you elevate incompetence (and remove checks and balances)

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

Courage

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · yesterday

"There is no one more cowardly, vile, and utterly pathetic than Putin." A resident of Vladivostok called on Russians to appeal to the Ukrainian government and to anyone "who can help free Russia from the despicable regime that has seized the country and held onto power for a quarter of a century."

One of my cartoons for Wed's Metro

The newest missive from Linda McMahon is a dressed up, watered down version of the Compact that was roundly rejected by universities and colleges last year. The fact that @aau.edu collaborated with the Trump administration on this letter should fool no one. Just say no. www.aft.org/press-releas...

AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...

aft.org

Reuters finds that judges have ruled Trump abridged speech in 75 cases. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it

President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...

reuters.com

"Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one’s wealth counts more than another’s vote" - Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Todd Eddins

A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court

In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.

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