Mark Nixon
@fatbadger442.bsky.social
historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him
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The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, but its capacity is not. Tying up the regime's limited resources means less capacity for malfeasance elsewhere.
Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.
Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.
January 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, but its capacity is not. Tying up the regime's limited resources means less capacity for malfeasance elsewhere.
Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.
Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.
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Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
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Coming up next week, in person and online! Kate Gibson on Fostering in eighteenth-century Britain, Wednesday, 14 January at 5:30pm GMT
WINTER Term Card:
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics.
Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎
@ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Coming up next week, in person and online! Kate Gibson on Fostering in eighteenth-century Britain, Wednesday, 14 January at 5:30pm GMT
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Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
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In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.
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It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
"They could teach The Symposium. But only within the ideology of the idiotic far-right."
January 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM
"They could teach The Symposium. But only within the ideology of the idiotic far-right."
That the words "gender" and "oppression" are flagged is the idiot decision.
January 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
That the words "gender" and "oppression" are flagged is the idiot decision.
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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“The sense that work in the humanities is subjective or ungrounded in relation to the sciences occludes the more fundamental distinctions between the two forms of research.”
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Framing the Humanities - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Contemporary discussions of the humanities tend to focus either on its perceived decline in status (conceived mainly with respect to numbers of majors and the
pghrev.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“The sense that work in the humanities is subjective or ungrounded in relation to the sciences occludes the more fundamental distinctions between the two forms of research.”
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
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Happy new year to all of you *and* to this gorgeous set of forthcoming books! I am beyond excited to finally share A Cultural History of Gender (and especially the volume I've edited, The Early Modern World) with you all.
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Happy new year to all of you *and* to this gorgeous set of forthcoming books! I am beyond excited to finally share A Cultural History of Gender (and especially the volume I've edited, The Early Modern World) with you all.
Twitter's owner and engineers are giving it the capacity to do so, so let's not only focus on the users.
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Twitter's owner and engineers are giving it the capacity to do so, so let's not only focus on the users.
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If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.
BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.
Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis
One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor
decoherence.media
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 AM
If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.
Seriously!? Oh my!
January 7, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Seriously!? Oh my!
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SCA Director, John Pelan, recommends an excellent article by Louise Williams, archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive in the latest edition of Scottish Archives, making the case for investment in records management.
Read the article via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...
Read the article via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...
New article: Record-Keeping and the UK Infected Blood Inquiry - Scottish Council on Archives
7 January 2026
www.scottisharchives.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
SCA Director, John Pelan, recommends an excellent article by Louise Williams, archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive in the latest edition of Scottish Archives, making the case for investment in records management.
Read the article via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...
Read the article via: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...
Contact your MP (etc), too.
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
January 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Contact your MP (etc), too.
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Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
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From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
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Can't even teach Plato anymore, because of woke
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Can't even teach Plato anymore, because of woke
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According to the White House, this is the "true" timeline of January 6th.
January 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
According to the White House, this is the "true" timeline of January 6th.
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✨ New open access issue of British Art Studies! ✨
Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray.
My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...
Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray.
My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...
British Art Studies
*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.
britishartstudies.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
✨ New open access issue of British Art Studies! ✨
Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray.
My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...
Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray.
My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...
Stop-start is the worst.
It doesn't just appear in urban environments, mind. I once saw a (supposedly) serious plan for a cycle path in a rural area that included 7 gates in a two-mile stretch.
These things are designed by people who don't ride.
It doesn't just appear in urban environments, mind. I once saw a (supposedly) serious plan for a cycle path in a rural area that included 7 gates in a two-mile stretch.
These things are designed by people who don't ride.
January 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Stop-start is the worst.
It doesn't just appear in urban environments, mind. I once saw a (supposedly) serious plan for a cycle path in a rural area that included 7 gates in a two-mile stretch.
These things are designed by people who don't ride.
It doesn't just appear in urban environments, mind. I once saw a (supposedly) serious plan for a cycle path in a rural area that included 7 gates in a two-mile stretch.
These things are designed by people who don't ride.
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I timed @johnmunro.bsky.social's ride from Central Station to Sauchiehall St on the new cycle lanes. Fully half of the 8 minutes are spent static at red lights, cutting the 15 minute city area by 46%.
Normal speed version: youtu.be/czZTGE2cUWg
John's original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMq...
Normal speed version: youtu.be/czZTGE2cUWg
John's original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMq...
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I timed @johnmunro.bsky.social's ride from Central Station to Sauchiehall St on the new cycle lanes. Fully half of the 8 minutes are spent static at red lights, cutting the 15 minute city area by 46%.
Normal speed version: youtu.be/czZTGE2cUWg
John's original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMq...
Normal speed version: youtu.be/czZTGE2cUWg
John's original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMq...