Heather Dalton Historian

We are getting reports of Border Patrol activity near Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis that happened during dismissal time today. Bystanders say officers shoved, tackled bystanders and handcuffed 2 school staff

Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

Live updates: Around 200 people marched more than two miles from the scene of the shooting to Minneapolis City Hall, shouting “ICE out now!” after police hurried away from the scene Wednesday afternoon.

The crowd of is continuing to snake its way through downtown.

I am outside Roosevelt now, my daughter goes there. Talked to staff, ICE was in a car pursuit of someone and they crashed and went up on school property. Teachers formed a circle around the person to protect them. Ice releases tear gas and took two people

In 2019, I moved to Minneapolis for law school. My wife and I felt lucky to buy a house in a beautiful, vibrant part of the city. This is now the second murder by law enforcement in my neighborhood. to become national news.

Two things are true:
- Enough is enough
- I am so proud of my neighbors

UK citizen described as 'good friend' by White Australia movement to be deported A foreign national has his visa cancelled and is facing deportation from Australia, amid claims of links to the "White Australia" movement.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Community Colleges Are Changing the Landscape of Geography Education | ArcNews | Fall 2021 While the relevance of geography is being challenged at the university level, the growth of the field at community colleges is promising.

The demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college #geography programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography #education: buff.ly/GLo0tWP #GeoWeek

New spots are open! Come get that novel ready for submission in the new year 🎊🎊🎊

Part 3. bsky.app/profile/newr...

Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing

👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

A translation of 2 rival accounts of an expedition that deteriorated into friction and feuding. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H M Taylor is out now. buff.ly/Ko959Sj #medievalsky

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.

I live on the west side and I am very shook up right now. There's been a helicopter hovering all day. ICE throwing tear gas at a busy intersection with a grocery store! and a SCHOOL!!! People kidnapped from the Home Depot. It's like the stuff you read in history books, right there on your block.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Part time research assistant position in Melbourne working with the incomparable Jordy Silverstein on statelessness, migration, and intergenerational memory! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going…
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Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".

Drop the ‘job-ready’ mantra, leading dean tells business Expectations that universities produce graduates who understand work culture from day one are misguided, says the head of Melbourne Business School.

Great article. Employers say they need graduates with the skills in which the humanities are uniquely talented—critical thinking, problem-solving, communication.

Yet students who want to build these skills are slugged with almost double the debt under JRG. bit.ly/47I3Xml

I remember studying Nazi “degenerate art” removal and thinking how unthinkable such a policy was…How long until Trump holds the degenerate art exhibit of 2025 to shame those that resist.

www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

First They Came for Black History The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.

First They Came for Black History hyperallergic.com/1035834/firs...

Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack! Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians. Since October 7, in articles, on social media and at ...

Two Sydney Uni staff members are being sued in Australia's Federal Court by complainants who claim that statements opposing genocide and Zionist oppression of Palestinians are racist hate speech. Please give what you can to help @nickriemer.bsky.social & @professorjkeane.bsky.social's legal defence