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Nancy Pelosi could hold together a caucus. Schumer can’t. Time for a new leader.

This film is way too intense for me to follow along here as well. #HATM

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

So a new version of “Physogs”! This link is from the Huntington but our special collections also has the game. Always interesting to see students dig into it. hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...

I finished the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building last night and, well, you be the judge...

I will never not think of these two photos when I hear the name Pelosi, also when she maintained decorum during the SOTU and then very publicly ripped up T's speech afterwards. 📷 left: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock (I think); 📷 right: White House

This news has been under-reported in all of that good news for the Dems from last night. Mississippi Dems flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat and broke the Republican Senate supermajority (after 6 years, not 13). Johnny DuPree, who was mayor when I lived in Hattiesburg is one of those Senators.

I seems that I am in the “putting a note in my calendar to remind myself that I am parked on a different level of the parking garage from my usual spot” stage of life.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

New York is a-changin'.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

It's been such an honor and so much fun to serve as emcee for LMU's Global Conversations this fall! Three fascinating conversations and Finding Your Roots episodes: John Legend, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Joe Manganiello, each in conversation with FYR creator Professor Henry Louis Gates.

I love this photo. It shows, like his videos, how much Zohran Mamdani loves NYC & New Yorkers in all their diversity. Cuomo doesn't; he seeks power for its own sake, & his vile racist fearmongering reveals contempt for that diversity. 📷 Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York (from FB), dearnewyork.com.

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

This seems like something that prominent Catholics in the administration or allied with it might be concerned about. Also all of those "Happy Holidays is a war on Christianity" folks. www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

So excited to dig into this graphic history from @richardivanjobs.bsky.social and to see how I can integrate it into my world history through graphic narratives course.

Melissa is one scary storm! It brings me back to Katrina, but with the knowledge that this is going to be so much worse. Stay safe, people – it’s going to be a long day for you.

Oh, wow, I love this! Might have to arrange my travel plans so I can get there before it closes. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

There are some great buildings here. Griffith Observatory (1935) and Union Station (1939) are two of my favorite places in L.A. www.latimes.com/travel/list/...

I'm such a sucker for a story where you put a bunch of really smart people in a room (or in a room and in space), and they work to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem and save the day. Also, Apollo 13 – this is fictional but that wasn't! #HATM

My NASA swag...here on earth. #HATM

I love the Project Elrond meeting scene with Donald Glover and the stapler. #HATM

Back in August 2017, I made my own viewer for the solar eclipse. "I scienced the shit of it!" (humanities-level science, of course 😂) #HATM

In honor of tonight's #HATM film "The Martian," re-upping my post about when I sat next to one of the co-authors of the recent "Nature" article about life on Mars.

My colleagues in LMU's film school teach a summer program around this film festival every year. I keep volunteering to teach a course about Weimar film or postwar Eastern European film. They've not yet taken me up on the offer. 😔

I saw Sr. Jean once when I was on the Loyola campus. I didn’t realize that she had an LMU connection.

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.” Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I love her! And it's nice to have some good news on the timeline. If you've never listened to the podcast "Dolly Parton's America," do it. It's all great, but the 4th episode about Dolly and Jad Abumrad's rather is just beautiful.

I feel like Kelly Bishop was so underutilized in this film. I mean, long before she was Emily Gilmore, she won a Tony for A Chorus Line! She can dance! #HATM

I love the dictionary!

There’s a house in my part of town with a flagpole flying US and German flags. They’ve turned their front yard into a kind of Schrebergarten – and are out there all the time. Makes me chuckle every time I drive by.

I love the @wendemuseum.bsky.social and love being able to have my students do things there (tours, research, internships). It really shows how a museum can be an anchor institution for a neighborhood, all the more so with the new Glorya Kaufman Community Center. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

If you are at the #aaslh2025 meeting & going to Friday morning’s poster session, be sure to stop at The Marymount Tradition poster to learn about LMU students’ oral history & digital history project about the history of Marymount College & its merger w/ Loyola University. No Marymount, No Merger!

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

I sat next to one of the co-authors of this paper (Morgan Cable from JPL) on a flight from Frankfurt to LA this summer. And while I normally try to avoid plane conversations, we had a great chat about her work at JPL, including this article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Exciting to see it out! 1/2

Kara Walker's work is always so thought-provoking, a challenge to consider our past. And I am so excited to see her deconstruction of the Stonewall Jackson monument and the entire Monuments exhibition. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

SCOTUS now ~officially~ allows the Trump admin and the Court to overrule centuries old cases on the shadow docket. Apparently "irreparable harm" entitling the gov't to a stay now means "The Trump admin can't preemptively by fiat overrule cases it & we don't like."

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Live footage of historians these days

In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

We’ve compiled a few essential tips, drawn from the experiences of on-the-ground activists and immigrant rights groups. Guide: lataco.com/documenting-...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

I have been a loyal reader of the @nytimes.com Kids Section for the past 8 years. The last issue was today. 😢 Reading kids talk about what's important to them was always my favorite part. Case in point: this advice about conquering middle school. The advice is just as good for college – and life!