@ericabuchberger
History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
Exactly right.
The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.
Like, none of this is a secret. The planners at the DoD who are using this technology to make deadly decisions not only have blood on their hands, they should be put on trial for negligent homicide, for war crimes. It is an outrage that they are so careless with civilian lives.
“I say who is a human.”
—Stephen Miller
Of the many things I never asked for, digital necromancy is one of the more fucked up things I never asked for and I think we should treat these people as if they were performing actual necromancy
Even within the paradigm of 'uni increases your earning power' it seems odd and a shame that people apparently think it is the grades and degree/paper doing this, rather than knowing stuff, learning how to do things, and learning how to learn.
The most high-profile kidnapping case of our time is still unsolved and Kash Patel is slamming beers in the locker room with US men's Olympic hockey team.
These are the same people trying to keep us from teaching ‘divisive concepts’ like the afterlife of slavery.
You know what Einstein didn't need to do his work?
"if we place these humans in a simulated world and then harvest the energy that their body produces in that 20 years, the savings will be immense. I present to you: the Matrix."
A Calvin & Hobbes comic -- the last in the series -- celebrating the wondrous possibilities of a fresh snowfall
Reject those blizzard-provoked "pivots" to remote instruction! Claim your rightfully-earned snow day! There's far too little room for unscripted, exploratory, joyful learning!
always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered
Although not as bad as January, we all know that February is still quite a tough month, so here's a Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant, showing off a bit but then, if I looked like that, I'd show off quite a bit too.
In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.
Ooooof
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid.
Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
The world is entitled to know if our negotiators are entertaining side deals with Russia while negotiating for the United States.
www.politico.eu/article/surp...
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
I'm a public scholar because David showed me how to be, and opened the doors for me to make it possible. I cannot wait for this book.
The Resistance is winning. From New Mexico to Munich, Trump is losing control. Read more:
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
My god! This is amazing. Imagine if we had an administration that recognized #Science & funded it accordingly! 😔
Democrats should offer a vision of orderly immigration, opposed to cruel closure and mass deportation. Basically, channel Reagan: “if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”
Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...
