Pamela Scully
@pamelascully.bsky.social
Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson
Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.
theatlantic.com
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Just what those migrant kids need: a law firm that, atop its home page, boasts about its expertise in advising “companies on complex environmental, regulatory, and enforcement matters.”
Politico@politico.com · 23h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
This week, Historians At The Movies returns to the 90s to talk about love, loss, and romantic comedies. Join us on both Prime and Netflix this Sunday, June 7 at 8pm eastern for FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL. Share #HATM with all your friends and we'll see you soon!
This is a very unserious administration-playing foreign politics as if it is a reality show. One couldn’t make this stuff up. And yet Paxton won?! I hope enough people wake up in November. #USPolitics
I just read Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s book Nobody’s Girl. The GOP’s depravity in continuing the cover up is disgusting and shameful. Grateful to @abigailspanberger.com for fighting for justice. #Epsteinfiles
What happens to survivors when an #epidemic ends and headlines fade? @hopkinspress.bsky.social's LIFE AFTER EPIDEMICS confronts this question through the voices of those who lived through the world's deadliest #Ebola outbreak. OUT NOW and available from bookshops everywhere in UK & Europe.
@democrats.org call for the 25th amendment to be invoked. The entire world is now at risk from this madman. #USPolitics
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov income the 25th Amendment now. This madman is making the entire world including the US unsafe.
“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2
DId Trumpstein confuse Easter Sunday with April Fools? Either way he does not deserve to be president. The GOP are an utter disgrace be refusing to impeach him. 25th amendment now! #USPolitics
And universities stay silent about this fundamental attack on research as they participate by shutting humanities departments and saying independent intellectual thought doesn’t matter. Looking at you @syracuseup.bsky.social #Academicsky
@mikenietzel.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere’s what President Trump wants to cut for research and higher education in the fedetal budget. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban after Easter. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
theatlantic.com
As Syracuse gives up the ghost, we realise we lost the universities years ago. The research universities have become branches of McKinsey. 😡 We should fight for the so-called “useless subjects.” Only they will save us from the perils of AI, or at least give us the tools to fight it. #AcademicSky
Trumpstein’s address last night was the companion to Biden’s disastrous performance. But Biden is at least a decent man.
The Trumpstein administration is full of people who think McCarthyism was a good idea. 😡
We can’t lose sight of this. Our President cut health care, cancer research, and food for hungry families. And then turned around to spend billions on war.
I highly recommend the Netflix documentary Filthy Rich on Epstein. It interviews survivors and shows the incredible dereliction of duty and corruption of the Florida Attorney General’s office & the FBI. We still need justice. #Epstein @netflix.com
This is a war waged to deflect from the coverup. #Epstein #Trumpstein What one gets from electing a mendacious narcissist and a spineless GOP. #Iran
The depravity & the cover up: see DOJ document. EFTA0078198. Lawyer letter documenting VERY young girls trafficked across international borders to Epstein, Maxwell & friends. Death threats to victim. How Bondi can say there is nothing to see is unbelievable. #Epstein #Trumpstein
The raw sewerage spill in the Potomac perfectly symbolises the Trumpstein administration which pollutes everything it touches. @nytimes.com @thebulwark.com #politics
The Democrats should reintroduce the bipartisan immigration legislation from 2024.
