I got scammed by a fake Cotopaxi site and felt like a total boomer until I realized that it's so common that the poor company has to post about it

Happy 2026! Giving a talk at my local bookstore this month!

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

This is helpful because I had no idea what was going on

I told my students that my bosses read the evals and apparently they took that to heart I love them sm 🥹

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

Nothing says “full transparency” like begging staffers to spend their holidays blacking out names in the Epstein files. Funny how there’s always time to redact, never time to tell the truth.

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

It's gonna be 70 on Christmas Day in Georgia

Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help. I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬 This is my list please add/rip to shreds? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

Gonna show this to my students as proof that you can't do history through AI. The Senate investigation into Hamburg was THREE VOLUMES

Accidentally assigned a textbook that's so old that I don't get an instructor copy 😬😬 (it's print to order and too old for even an ebook)

All men's rooms should have changing tables

History found me on vacation: unionism in Blue Ridge, GA!

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids

This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come. CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

This is my state. This is pro-life.

The second of our yearly lists--this one features thirty-five articles and chapters authored by contingent historians in 2025.

I've gotta stop reading the news in public I'm crying in a coffee shop

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

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I really hope the psychology grad student at Oklahoma is doing okay and surrounded by love.

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

It's that time of year! Time to be furious at the Coca Cola AI Christmas ad

In the middle of the sheer commercialism of Wicked (which almost makes me not want to see part 2 out of exhaustion...I will tho) I like how Jonathan Bailey said "no thanks...I'll do Sesame Street though"

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

New parenting milestone unlocked: all 3 of us (and Grandma!) have the daycare stomach flu

Turning off the smart stuff takes away a TON of other helpful features that Google/Gmail had PRE AI. They want it to be inconvenient and make your experience worse if you turn it off. Just saying "no AI" would be an easy no-brainer

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Y'all I'm sorry, I love the maps, but this trad military history is making me so so sleepy. I wish some of the talking heads were more passionate. #HATM

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Civil war in the Six Nations! So many civil wars within a "revolution" #HATM

Love the phrasing of some tribes hating Bostonians specifically #HATM

"Washington is lucky" pretty much sums up his military career 😂 #hatm

"Benjamin Franklin, the most widely admired American on earth" sure is a STATEMENT wow #hatm

As a historian of the 18th c and an American, I've always known 2026 would be a critical moment. This doc is worth watching, and thinking through. Begins and ends w Indigenous contexts, conveys the horrors of a civil war wrought w racism + the ideals of liberty and equality we keep reaching for. 1/

No Revolution doc tonight, I'm watching dancing with the stars 😬😬

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

Oh, to love something the way Gordon Wood loves the Declaration of Independence #hatm

Okay the script made it sound like Dunmore refused to inoculate the Black residents of his floating city? Is that true? Truly horrifying smallpox section regardless #hatm

Okay wait that smallpox map is wild #hatm Tbh I always thought it was just "the regular smallpox hits different when you're in an army"

Oof that Lucy Knox letter really hammering this as a civil war #hatm

Oh wow was not expecting to see Bernard Bailyn, had me doing a quick Google #HATM

This happened on Nov. 14 and we're just hearing about it now vie People magazine.