Very common pet peeve of mine: people treating representations lawyers make in litigation as unproblematic statements of fact. Not how that works!

Some of my thoughts about some of the critiques of the recent No Kings protests I've seen online:

I used to post my teaching fits and I haven’t in a while, so here is the Tuesday situation

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

I’m sooooo tired of doomerism and catastrophizing when it’s possible to pull one’s head out of one’s rear and see things like this happening

This was such a fun conversation. Don’t miss it!

average TGS prep morning

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the one and only Megan Kate Nelson @mkn.bsky.social and I talk 19th century journalism, questionable morality, and what it means to be a Westerner

Is your day $*&%(🤬? Reminder that Cornell ornithology lab has bird cams to keep your desktop 🪷😌 www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/all-cams/

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

so I stopped drinking and went caffeine-free at the same time six years ago and the most jarring part of the whole experience was discovering that I’m just Like This

Who up nurturing their little head tuft

Slotkin’s preposterous—and frankly, racist—“theory” reminds me of this piece I wrote in @dissentmag.bsky.social with my dear friend Matt Stanley several years ago. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Three days left on our birthday sale! 🥳🥳🥳

I was at No Kings today and I thought it was really great, sorry if I lose my leftist historian street cred for that

I’ve landed on the most correct reading of these protests. Unfortunately the answer is too powerful to share.

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

Why am I still getting bills in a post scarcity utopia

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

THE TAX GUY WAS MEAN TO ME AND I WALKED OUT AND SPENT THREE HOURS DOING THEM BY MYSELF AND THE ONLINE TAX REVIEW LADY SAID I DID THEM PERFECTLY

Famously nothing is as reliable and unbiased as a primary source

I am once again telling everyone to go buy this book IMMEDIATELY

In a fit of hubris, I thought I could figure out my taxes as someone who worked retail, moved states, started a small business (wtf), paid contractors, did paid media appearances, sold a book, and started an academic job halfway through the year. Anyways I will be meeting with my tax guy in an hour

This conversation with @ceaubin.com about how Archie Bunker paved the way for Donald Trump was so much fun!! Listen to @thisguysucked.com wherever you get your podcast!

Everything is so, so stupid

Engaging in my daily self-humiliation ritual on the Multitude Slack

Today on @thisguysucked.com: I’m joined by the wonderful @oscarwinberg.bsky.social to ask what happens when you give the nuclear codes to Archie Bunker, the television character everybody was DEFINITELY NOT supposed to be emulating.

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

Did you know you could pre-order a copy of The Public Scholar from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social? Help a local bookstore. Help a local author. And if you want it signed, I'll drive over. We're about a month out. :) moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...

Today on @thisguysucked.com: I’m joined by the wonderful @oscarwinberg.bsky.social to ask what happens when you give the nuclear codes to Archie Bunker, the television character everybody was DEFINITELY NOT supposed to be emulating.

Screaming crying throwing up, falling to my knees and clutching at the ground

A bunch of weird stuff has been happening by my normally very tame house lately - gunshots, screaming people, missing recycling bins - is now the time to contact an Etsy witch for a curse removal, or

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

A podcast that is none of these that I have enjoyed recently is @ceaubin.com’s THIS GUY SUCKED which is now very much in my regular rotation. Excellent fun history

I called Matt old to his face yesterday and he is still promoting my pod. Go subscribe to American Medieval!!!!

Applicable to podcasting generally, Actual Play specifically, with added dollop of “you can spend a lot of money to buy extra lottery tickets”

This Guy Sucked turned 1 year old last week, and it has been an absolutely wild year. I basically speed-ran podcasting, so here’s the biggest thing I learned:

Where is “unhinged zillennial with a doctorate invites a highly respectable colleague to lose their shit about a man who died 200 years ago”

Aparna is, as usual, right on this! For an example from my own work, Hubertus Strughold (colloquially “the father of space medicine”) was implicated in Nazi human experimentation. He and his team did, in fact, make scientific discoveries that we still use to this day.

taps into an underappreciated distinction of historians: unlike other fields where people have affection for their objects of study, we tend to hate ours.

Okay so I’ve got a podcast to pitch you

Teaching visual culture during the Dreyfus Affair today and whew I forgot how gnarly some of this stuff is

THURSDAY: Claire and Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social meditate on the dangers of electing sitcom characters to public office.

do you like lesbians and klezmer music? well have i got the shirt for you

Here's another photo of the year candidate from Getty contributor Megan Varner:

Oh my god. This mf spent the whole night screaming in pain and we thought he’d broken or torn something, and then when we got to the vet he was literally standing on his hind legs, slapping the vet with his “broken” paw to request more treats. They sent him home with DOG IBUPROFEN.

If you like your history intelligent, irreverent, and a little dangerous, this one’s for you. Join us at The Mark Twain House & Museum for He Despised Himself: An Evening with This Guy Sucked and The American Vandal - @mattseybold.bsky.social, @thisguysucked.com, @erinbartram.bsky.social

Starting the week off with a visit to the emergency vet :-(