Averill Earls

Anchorage Police Dept lowest use-of-force year on record: still 3x Portland's rate. Still 2.5x Seattle's. In a city with lower crime than both. Alaska Native people are 7% of Anchorage's population. They're 45% of everyone APD put hands on. The audit dropped. Read it. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

I've been thinking a lot lately that maybe we need to stop treating this as plagiarism we report to the dean and start treating it as fraud we report to the FBI. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

I’ve read bits and pieces and heard countless conference paper versions over the years, but I forgot to bring the bonafide version on my summer holiday… so taking a pool day to finally read @tomhulme.bsky.social’s beautiful book!

Yep. The fascist project requires society-wide brainrot. And that means conditioning people to ask MechaHitler to tell them what to think.

ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

In Minnesota, you don’t have to show ID to vote *or* register. Perhaps coincidentally, we lead the country in voter participation while having essentially zero cases of fraud.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

Ships pass through Strait of Hormuz in secret as US and Iran continue fighting

This is my personal "we drank from the hose and didn't have a curfew"

Fascinating podcast. Found myself cheering out loud as @roopikarisam.bsky.social championed #archives & #libraries (as well as community organisations & #education systems) as key to building a data & #AI literate world. #AILiteracy #dataliteracy

Unpopular view but I think a lot of problems in unis could be helped by capping the maximum wage at 2.5 x full time entry lecturer pay (as lecturers do most of the core university work) which might increase lecturer pay as a side benefit to cutting a lot of nonsense.

Who Tiddles? Oh he wouldn’t hurt a fly…

If you're serious about all of that, Graham should spend less time calling a victim a liar and more time making amends with his accuser and with communities of women who have been (and continue to be) harmed by sexual assault. Make reparations instead of perpetuating harm.

Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social reviews 'Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972', by Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @templeunivpress.bsky.social

An entirely too generous review, appreciated all the same. Thank you, Tom!

Sarah, Marissa (in from FL) and Elizabeth will be talking about SPIRITUALISM’S PLACE in LeRoy NY - Monday at Woodward Mem Library, Wednesday at Author’s Note bookstore!

Next week in LeRoy NY: www.orleanscountytourism.com/events/trio-... @dig-history.bsky.social

Really enjoyed doing this piece.

tearing up watching this #skystorians

Who amongst us didn't read the Guardian article and think what items in their home would be shown to a jury as proof that you were a terrorist? (If you haven't read it, it's here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...)

Every historian knows that memory is fragile. Stories disappear, lost, forgotten. For decades, Opal Lee worked to keep the story of Juneteenth alive because she believed it mattered. She reminds us that preserving memory is an act of leadership—and sometimes a story can change a nation.

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement.

one for all you CS Lewis stans… come for the ripling muscles of a Percy Shelley statue in Oxford and stay for the sadomasochism (whipping, in particular)

Fun new post from @tomhulme.bsky.social on @notchesblog.bsky.social ! notchesblog.com/2026/06/18/l... If you haven't got yourself a copy of Tom's book, rush to the CUP website and GET IT NOW!!! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. That is a fact. It has been certified, litigated, and confirmed in court dozens of times. The White House is instructing its judicial nominees to treat that fact as a controversy.

Australia’s first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area, Karajarri Jurarr Ngurra, will protect 237,489 hectares of Kimberley coast, reefs, mudflats & culturally vital places. #IndigenousConservation #Australia #protectedarea

I could tell before I read this awful piece that they would simply not mention climate, fossil fuels or air pollution at all. Basically just avoiding all of the most significant impacts and just regurgitating effective altruist big tech bluewashing content archive.ph/kv2XP

Yesterday, the lower house of the Irish parliament passed a bill containing a disregard for consensual gay offenses. It will allow some people to have their records wiped clean. It's not perfect, but a big step forward. Thanks to people like my friend @karlhayden.bsky.social for their hard work

“The Bill passed last night rights a profound and historic injustice." Read 👉 buff.ly/5dIeWgX #GCNnews

Wonderful news!

#QTHC2026 is in the books. Hoping everyone feels energized, joyful, and purposeful after a week together. Thankful for the work of my fellow co-chairs & everyone who presented & made it all possible. Shout out to Nick for running mad @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social game!

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Incredibly generous review of LOVE IN THE LAV out in Dublin Review of Books courtesy of @charlielynch.bsky.social drb.ie/article/illi...

I am constantly flabbergasted by how well-received Spiritualism's Place has been. The latest in a long list of generous reviews: readingreligion.org/978150177726...

Almost a full year since publication and the first review of my book is finally out! Thanks @jhistsex.bsky.social and Michael Cronin for the kind review!

This is cool: a Portuguese LGBTQ+ media platform has picked up on the article about my book in the Guardian, and reflected on some similarities between Northern Ireland's and Portugal's queer history.

Today’s launch of “Belfastmen” at the Linen Hall Library with the inimitable @elainefarrell.bsky.social! Kindly hosted by Patsy Horton, on the library’s 2038 birthday! What would the founders think of this gay history book, I wonder…

In 1966, the NY Mattachine Society walked into Julius Bar and announced they were gay — a deliberate civil rights action to challenge laws that criminalized serving alcohol to queer people. They won. Our visibility has always been an act of courage. #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory

Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

The article is also online (behind a paywall I am afraid): www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/n...