i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

“Moderate to high risk schools” - you might learn something. Better not go there.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Sorry sweetie, but thanks to Trump’s policies, Valentine's Day treats are 15% more expensive this year.

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Yes. But worth noting that UCLA also didn't fight. Its faculty and staff did all on their own.

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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

I was recently promoted to Associate Professor. I’m so grateful and I also wanted to tell the truth behind what people call “effortless” success. I wrote about infertility, fostering, work as coping, and choosing differently in this next chapter Full story: destenienock5.wixsite.com/destenienock...

One of my regular rants against the single person tax. I would save $20 on my cell phone plan if I carried four lines. But I don't need 4 cell phones, or even two. The rate I was promised is not available because I only need one phone for one person.

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

What a story: “Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship. “The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country” 1/ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What a sick conference program! Heavy hitters! www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...

As promised to his is my list of my favorite restaurants/bars in downtown SF (including Chinatown and North Beach) that won't break the bank for #rensa26. #earlymodern

Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’

Hey so remember when I said white women are endangering their own freedom when they cozy up to white supremacy? And that the hard right fantasies do not include sharing power with women? Yeah so the not so quiet part is here

Yesterday I asked my students how many were following the Epstein case, and almost all were. I think Republicans should be very afraid.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

"El Apagón" is the song Bad Bunny was performing during this part of the halftime show using imagery that was apparently too subtle for some people It's one of his most interesting songs with a ton of political context and meaning plus it’s an absolute banger

Please watch the whole video from our Saint Paul Olympian. It’s one of the most direct and eloquent statements about the situation that I’ve heard from anyone. Proud to be a Minnesotan, proud to be represented by Rich Ruohonen.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

As someone who has co-written two National Historic Landmarks, I know just how much work goes into getting these important sites designated (even more so for monuments). I keep thinking about the group of scholars who must have dedicated so much time to this, only to have it made meaningless.

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In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”

So much media loves denying that moral panics about poor people are in fact fake panics, while also insisting that real crises involving rich people are just moral panics.

I wish we still did this grade of expert disdain in academic writing: "The act was passed with almost masterly inattention to draftsmanship." (that's Harvey C. Mansfield [père, not fils] on the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921) 🗃️

"traditional Eurocentric perspectives .. have tended to focus primarily on empires & imperial agency as the dominant analytical category. [This book argues] instead that environmental factors played a much greater role in influencing the formation of trade routes." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

A #Roman glass bowl in cobalt blue with white irregular swirls; it was made about 2000 years ago, probably in Italy, but ended up in a C1st AD grave in Roman Britain #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome

For this Black History Month, given the regime’s vile smearing of Ohio’s Haitian population, I think it’s a good time to remember a literary giant of Haitian descent, Alexander Dumas, père He gave us the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo & so much more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

/4 I continue to think that the constant theme is elite pundits being hostile to trends or discussions that criticize or hold accountable other elites.

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th! Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

The stories of all these men - and many more - are told in "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation"! The book is available for affordable preorder now :) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... www.waterstones.com/book/belfast...

Self-checkout is evil, and this is why.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Very useful thread

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.

Oh gosh

Always, always, always projection.

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

[nods] newrepublic.com/article/2055...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.