Faye Getz
@fayway.bsky.social
Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. Uncollegial.
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
Keep this in mind.
DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Keep this in mind.
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Today is the anniversary of the capture of Noreiga in Operation Just Cause.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Today is the anniversary of the capture of Noreiga in Operation Just Cause.
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It can sometimes feel like the history of the physical sciences is on its back foot. The AIP History Weekly Edition set out to show that, globally, there's so much going on that you can talk about it weekly and not get to everything. Here's some of what we couldn't get to in 2025. #histsci
A New Year’s open-access smorgasbord
AIP History Weekly Edition: January 2, 2026
www.aip.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
It can sometimes feel like the history of the physical sciences is on its back foot. The AIP History Weekly Edition set out to show that, globally, there's so much going on that you can talk about it weekly and not get to everything. Here's some of what we couldn't get to in 2025. #histsci
You'll be shocked to learn that Trump and his buddies are using The "Trump" Kennedy Center to loot, grift, and hand out money to pals, just like he did with his charity and inaugurations.
Well probably not shocked.
Sheldon Whitehouse is working to expose this.
www.rawstory.com/investigatio...
Well probably not shocked.
Sheldon Whitehouse is working to expose this.
www.rawstory.com/investigatio...
Trump accused of 'slush fund' by turning the Kennedy Center into a MAGA 'private club'
A top Democratic lawmaker revealed how an investigation has found that President Donald Trump and his allies have been accused of using the Kennedy Center for their own personal gains. Sen. Sheldon Wh...
www.rawstory.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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cheap rubber prosthetic hand. very obvious.
Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
January 2, 2026 at 11:36 PM
cheap rubber prosthetic hand. very obvious.
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As it turns out, the Clooneys are political refugees ... "A UK government warning that Amal Clooney risks US sanctions over her role in the issuing of an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister is key among reasons the couple have sought French citizenship" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
January 3, 2026 at 3:08 AM
As it turns out, the Clooneys are political refugees ... "A UK government warning that Amal Clooney risks US sanctions over her role in the issuing of an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister is key among reasons the couple have sought French citizenship" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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When you say that “only the sick kids die from the measles”… you’re telling sick and disabled people that they’re expendable.
You’re telling them their lives don’t matter.
That vaccinating to protect them is too high a price.
That’s eugenics.
Also, healthy kids die from measles too.
You’re telling them their lives don’t matter.
That vaccinating to protect them is too high a price.
That’s eugenics.
Also, healthy kids die from measles too.
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
When you say that “only the sick kids die from the measles”… you’re telling sick and disabled people that they’re expendable.
You’re telling them their lives don’t matter.
That vaccinating to protect them is too high a price.
That’s eugenics.
Also, healthy kids die from measles too.
You’re telling them their lives don’t matter.
That vaccinating to protect them is too high a price.
That’s eugenics.
Also, healthy kids die from measles too.
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Eight people who were hospitalized from injuries sustained in the deadly Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University have now been discharged from Rhode Island Hospital.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...
One remains hospitalized after deadly Brown University shooting - The Boston Globe
Eight people injured in the Dec. 13 attack have been released from Rhode Island Hospital, a hospital spokesperson confirmed Friday.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Eight people who were hospitalized from injuries sustained in the deadly Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University have now been discharged from Rhode Island Hospital.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...
Get on board, historians everywhere. Don't let them steal our past. We can do this. We must do this.
Not tanned, not really rested, but definitely ready.
Scholars who do historical research, eat your Wheaties (or whatever else fuels you). In the year of the nation's 250th birthday, there will be all sorts of nonsense that we will counter-program with actual history.
January 2, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Get on board, historians everywhere. Don't let them steal our past. We can do this. We must do this.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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“…library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it.”
“…the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.”
Doesn’t bode well for specialized Federal libraries.
“…the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.”
Doesn’t bode well for specialized Federal libraries.
NASA library closure in Maryland the latest in Trump cuts to space research
NASA library closure in Maryland the latest in Trump cuts to space research
The Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, this week.
buff.ly
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
“…library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it.”
“…the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.”
Doesn’t bode well for specialized Federal libraries.
“…the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.”
Doesn’t bode well for specialized Federal libraries.
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The early reports from the Swiss bar fire immediately reminded me of The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island, which happened almost 23 years ago now. Low ceilings and pyrotechnics (even simple sparklers) do not mix
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...
The Station nightclub fire - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The early reports from the Swiss bar fire immediately reminded me of The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island, which happened almost 23 years ago now. Low ceilings and pyrotechnics (even simple sparklers) do not mix
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sta...
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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🎙️Encore: On the #RIReport podcast, former Brown University President Ruth Simmons recounts her journey from daughter of sharecroppers to trailblazing Ivy League president
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/12/m...
Encore: Ruth Simmons recounts her journey from daughter of sharecroppers to trailblazing Ivy League president - The Boston Globe
On the Rhode Island Report, the former Brown University president talks about the importance of teachers, the US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, and legacy admissions to college.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
🎙️Encore: On the #RIReport podcast, former Brown University President Ruth Simmons recounts her journey from daughter of sharecroppers to trailblazing Ivy League president
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/12/m...
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We wanted to make diverse radical versions of social medicine from the global south available to health workers, including those in the US - just as partisan politics is suppressing even conventional social medicine! Bad timing - but that may change...
Medicine on a Larger Scale
Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale
www.cambridge.org
January 1, 2026 at 12:13 AM
We wanted to make diverse radical versions of social medicine from the global south available to health workers, including those in the US - just as partisan politics is suppressing even conventional social medicine! Bad timing - but that may change...
Open Access to important book!!
A warning from @jama.com about damage to ethics and social medicine in the US, which we anticipated in our book Medicine on a Larger Scale, edited with @ahlie.bsky.social and Jeremy Greene, available open access from @portersqbooks.bsky.social Pity these authors didn't engage with it - but you can!
Teaching Through Uncertainty
This Viewpoint discusses the uncertainty that medical ethics and social medicine instructors face in regard to the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and university funding cuts.
jamanetwork.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Open Access to important book!!
Thread!!
Thomas Paine began 1776 with _Common Sense_ and the call to reject monarchy, and ended with _The American Crisis_, warning that "these are the times that try men's souls."
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Thread!!
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DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
![@DHSgov on X: The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.
[Image of a beach] America after 100 million deportations](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreiccvipzc5mayvbrzoo3cxhkp2iayuhphh4grk6lziqajuk7d2leee@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
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I'm wondering if anyone knows of books/articles on society/society & politics in late 18th century/French Revolutionary Ratisbon/Regensburg (in French or English). I'm not having much luck finding anything. All suggestions welcome. #skystorians #c18th 🗃️
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I'm wondering if anyone knows of books/articles on society/society & politics in late 18th century/French Revolutionary Ratisbon/Regensburg (in French or English). I'm not having much luck finding anything. All suggestions welcome. #skystorians #c18th 🗃️
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Our last issue of 2025, #29.5-6, is available online! This special issue is entitled "Environment and Empire in the Early Modern World."
It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...
It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our last issue of 2025, #29.5-6, is available online! This special issue is entitled "Environment and Empire in the Early Modern World."
It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...
It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...
Auntie once thought the USA would continue to dominate science and the humanities over Russia and China because we had intellectual freedom at our educational institutions and our bureaucrats weren’t all political appointees whose only qualification was loyalty to the autocrat. Happy New Year. VOTE.
President Trump – and Republican lawmakers across the US – have shown they will use all the power they have to reshape American campus culture, in the hope of reshaping America.
A small college in Florida offers a snapshot of what that looks like.
A small college in Florida offers a snapshot of what that looks like.
New College of Florida is a preview of Trump’s plan for Harvard
Trump and MAGA want to remake higher education. New College is their blueprint for how to do it.
trib.al
December 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Auntie once thought the USA would continue to dominate science and the humanities over Russia and China because we had intellectual freedom at our educational institutions and our bureaucrats weren’t all political appointees whose only qualification was loyalty to the autocrat. Happy New Year. VOTE.