Now, Illinois has sued Trump regime to stop it from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago. From the summary from Illinois AG’s office, appears theory of case is the same as what federal Judge Immergut has relied on to issue TRO against National Guard troops in Oregon. Will now read the […]

Chicago Sun-Times - Illinois sued President Trump early this morning over the deployment of National Guard troops into the state against the wishes of Gov. Pritzker. https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/06/illinois-sues-trump-over-national-guard-deployment

NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@davidho “I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.” […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Stephen Miller now sending goons to target judges. SCOTUS: you cool with this? Because, you know, you’re enabling it. SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/10/04/sled-investigate-alleged-arson-incident-at-s-c-judges-home/ […]

TL;DR: Trump’s decision to send out-of-state U.S. military troops to Portland represents a decision to potentially use the entire U.S. military to invade Oregon. That’s a declaration of war by the federal executive branch on the state. And since Trump equates Portland, OR with other blue cities […]

In Oregon, the Republican Fascist President’s introduction of U.S. military troops is even more egregious. Trump has ordered the use of troops stationed in California to invade Oregon. Not only is this the use of the federal military to occupy a peaceful state, it is in direct contravention of a […]

If you're looking for something beautiful this Friday evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxJbqTCr3M&list=PLoth48xsiR79C6bCGigChcWf4fDLv2dfD&index=2 A fourteenth-century mozarabic-rite Alleluia combined with a fourteenth or fifteenth-century North African sufi chant.

When each day is a dark day in America, pretty soon they're all dark days. SHAME on the Supreme Court. Supreme Court lets Trump strip deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants […]

The U.S. dollar has recently fallen to its lowest level in nearly three decades, with its share in global foreign exchange reserves dropping to 56.3%, the lowest since 1995. 1/2 #TrumpKillsEverything #impeachdonaldtrump #norepublicanseveragain #republicansownitall #republicankakistocracy#trumpkillseverything[…]

There are so many things making me angry and frightened right now that I feel silly tooting about this, but: I'm trying to acquire a rare recording of the monks of Santo Domingo de Silos singing a 10th-century Mozarabic-rite Latin Mass. No copies in the US, but plenty in the UK, Spain, and […]

The director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum was ousted from his position this week after refusing a request from the Trump administration to gift King Charles III one of former President Eisenhower’s swords. Ahead of Trump’s visit to the UK... the Eisenhower Library […]

NY Post - Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days. https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/media/paramount-skydance-to-name-bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-of-cbs-news-sources/

What's the over/under on Trump having watched A Clear and Present Danger for the first time sometime in the last six weeks?

One of my pet peeves: journalists and pop historians taking the work of hard-working scholars, repackaging it, and getting sizeable advances and royalties for it. Really glad that Geggus had something to say about this […]

#trump admin FBI found and fires several agents for being in a 2020 photo taking the knee during a racial justice protest https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52

Empty threats from a broke, morally bankrupt evil oligarchy. Russian people: resist! Russia will give ‘decisive response’ if provoked by the West, says Lavrov https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/27/russia-will-give-decisive-response-if-provoked-by-the-west-says-lavrov

Thinking again about yesterday’s EO in the States declaring that trespass and property damage associated with protests will be prosecuted as terrorism, along with the UK’s decision that holding a sign can constitute terrorism. And some of us were saying 20+ years ago that the whole concept of […]

When I got home there were several NYPD officers in the lobby. Turns out someone hacked a neighbor's Amazon account and bought thousands of dollars in computer equipment. (The NYPD was involved because of the scale of the theft.) I came upstairs and immediately removed my saved credit cards […]

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean #histodons Call for papers! […]

OK, so I read through the omnibus chapters six and seven. I think I see a good way to split them up that builds on the theme of fire and blood. (The title of the chapter currently is, "To Make War with Fire and Blood.") #amwriting #amrevising

🧵 1) ..."we’ve found a cache of previously unreported... Epstein travel records, with a curious pattern: ... 2010-2014... Epstein was jetting back and forth to Istanbul... the US, frequently stopping at his tropical hideaway... official residence. Records from CBP show Epstein flying his private […]

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

Chapter ONE is now DONE and in the bag. This means that since November 1 of last year, I have put the first five chapters (of eight) to bed. Current total: 85,045 words and 241 manuscript pages. This means my second book is already as long as my first book... #amwriting #team500

I just got an email addressed to "Dear Professor Gaetz" and I want to DIE.

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

"What It Looks Like When ICE Violates’ First Amendment: Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Thrown to Ground. 'What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power—and it’s still nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities,' said the Illinois congressional candidate" […]

Would Disney make Andor now? That's how rapidly things have descended. When I was watching it I did fear that could be last of that sort of thing we could see for a while now, if ever. #disney #andor #fcc #uspol #fascism

(AP) — The US attorney whose office has been investigating mortgage fraud allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James has been told he is being removed.

I have to say that my relationship to the internet has changed wildly in the last two months. I'm no longer using Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, or Academia.edu. Over the longer term, I dumped Twitter and of course ended up here.

Also just junked my academia.edu account. I didn't keep anything in particular there--it was mostly a placeholder. Also I gave it to Cuban scholars who needed connections for a US visa. But I will not ever cede my intellectual property to those assholes.

When wet, Sinclair could easily pass for Satan’s brother. #sinclair #FreeSpeech #fcc #firstamendment #USpol

Just cancelled my Hulu and Disney accounts. With gusto. #freespeech #firstamendment

My great-uncle Donald Hanmer was killed fighting Nazis somewhere along the Gothic Line on October 6, 1944. He was an antifascist. I am an antifascist, and in the finest American tradition.

Many of us will need to practice the following sentence: “Of course my values are anti-fascist. Are yours not?” Anti-fascism is humanism. Don’t let them demonize what we must assert proudly and vigorously to ensure the future of #democracy. #uspol #authoritarianism #fascism #maga #antifa […]

There were a bunch of gun violence threats at several public schools in my kid's school district today and tonight they sent a long email including this paragraph and can I say I FUCKING LOVE MY COMMUNITY

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right. — Malala Yousafzai envisioning a confrontation with the Taliban

The office of #illinois Governor #jbpritzker criticized #bovino's actions. "As a federal law enforcement operation gets underway, they don't pick up the phone to call the Governor but do have the time to create a TikTok video showing off beautiful #chicago scenery," Pritzker spox Matt Hill […]

Pres. Trump is sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. Trump was planning to send them to Chicago, Illinois but opposition from the governor of Illinois (JB Pritzker) and the mayor of Chicago (Brandon Johnson) was effective in causing Trump to leave Chicago free from Trump's army of […]

The US military attacked a second boat from Venezuela carrying drugs and three “narcoterrorists” were killed, according to President Trump.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

[USpol cynical] Can’t be long now until USians decide to declare bullets a form of protected speech

"Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s voter registration organization has gained another victory in its ongoing legal battle with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Fifteenth Court of Appeals ruled unanimously to lift a temporary restraining order placed by a Tarrant County district court […]

Charlie Kirk inherited his tactics from the White Citizens Councils. https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-civility-council/

#starmer #keirstarmer #fascist #fascism #ukpol #ukpolitics #themet #PalestineAction #defendourjuries #unitethekingdom

This morning's PhD inquiry email is from someone who has studied Ming and Qing China. They write, "I admire your work , and your work resonates strongly with my background and aspirations. I would be honored to learn more about your current research and any opportunities to contribute to your […]

Well, well, well. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-governor-cook-declared-her-atlanta-property-vacation-home-documents-show-2025-09-12/