150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Jessie Egelhof
@tinseljess.bsky.social
Warrior Princess, according to my kid. Single Mom. Adventurer at heart. Amateur photographer & genealogist. History nerd. Hopeful future archaeologist. She/her Can also be found as tinseljess on Threads, Pinterest, & https://www.instagram.com/tinseljess/
MY BABY GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL TODAY 😭😭😭😭🤯🤯🤯🤯💕💕💕💔 #proudmom
Really fuckin sad at the moment, and Pinterest decided to sucker punch me. Oof.
news.artnet.com/art-world/hu... The Library of Ashurbanipal was to the ancient Greeks and Romans what the Library of Alexandria is to us today: a lost archive of unparalleled, almost mythical proportions. Ashurbanipal collected texts on every subject, from astronomy to medicine.”
How the World's Oldest Library Survived an Empire's Fall
Pretty much everything we know about the ancient Assyrian Empire, is thanks to the Library of Ashurbanipal.
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Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
DOJ is trying to block an independent monitor for the Epstein files, arguing courts can’t enforce the Epstein Transparency Act and lawmakers lack standing. Their position amounts to no court can force the DOJ to release the records.
DOJ Moves to Block Independent Monitor in Maxwell Case, Says Courts Cannot Force Epstein File Disclosures
DOJ Tells Court It Cannot Be Forced to Release Epstein Files
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The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias. It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature. Jeez...
Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends
Beltrami County in MN is trying to gut our already severely underfunded #library by 40%!!!! Not to mention the #history center which gets so little money that it’s largely volunteer-run besides the director. I am utterly sickened. #bemidji #saveourlibraries #historymatters #education
Fucking Covid and medication side effects from hell.
In Portland, Trump’s secret police lobbed so many toxic chemicals at demonstrators, a nearby school was forced to leave and decamp to another neighborhood. “There were chemicals being used on a regular basis and munitions being found on our playground,” the school's executive director said.
ICE Used So Much Tear Gas, a Public School Fled Its Campus
Officers with the federal agency lobbed so many toxic chemicals at protesters, a nearby school was forced to leave.
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Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Journalists - if you are going to report or repeat Israel's statement that one of the Al Jazeera journalists it murdered overnight was a Hamas leader, please outline for readers, viewers and listeners how you verified their claim before presenting it to your audience.
Yesterday morning: dew on the delphinium and asparagus.
Our stars must glister with new fire, or be Today extinct.
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · last yr.With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
2/2 …in the yard, countless more in our woods. Buildings are so far okay but there are multiple widow-maker trees just hanging too far up and I don’t know what to do. Making the kid wear a helmet every time he goes outside til we can make it safer. Another possible storm tomorrow. Fuck.
Storm update 1/2: All people and pets are fine here. The neighbour helped to chainsaw the trees blocking our driveway at multiple points. The horse was picked up by a family friend while we do repairs— but not before stomping on my foot and breaking at least my pinkie toe. At least 15 trees torn up
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing fear of criticizing Israel’s genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/acad...
Academic censorship on Palestine even extends to discussing Palestinian dance
A peer-reviewed article—on Indigenous dance in Palestine and Native North America as resistance to genocide—was formally accepted then rejected by the editors of The Journal of Somaesthetics, citing...
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Un outil pour identifier les livres toxiques a été développé par l'Université de St Andrews. L'arsenic et les livres verts sont liés à une histoire un peu macabre du XIXe siècle ou un pigment vert éclatant dit de Paris était utilisé dans les couvertures de livres www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers
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