oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

As it should be. Make it so.

What are the odds that racist nepograndbaby Timothy Mellon is also bankrolling the White House ballroom? His grandpa Andrew likely caused the Great Depression with his “Mellon Plan” aka tax cuts for the wealthy. The OG Robber Barons have reached beyond the grave. We have learned nothing.

Fabulous stuff fabulous stuff the troops getting paid with literal Gilded Age Robber Baron money. The Pinkertonization of the world's greatest military. With some fresh banana wars being cooked up in the process.

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

The ICE raids by schools serves multiple purposes, one of which is showing children the power of the state to disappear people. It's not a byproduct of their mass deportations. It has to be seen as one of the goals.

If you are a journalist or pretending to be one, I am begging you to unlearn the phrase "growing concerns"

Often seems like I work in a Van Gough, no more so than in October.

I had never heard of these until @gettoknownature.bsky.social shared a photo of one and now they are one of my favorite little birds! So pretty!

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

One good way to obliterate all credibility with just three simple words is to say "ethical AI use"

"Working class voters do not support Democrats at levels they used to" & "Democrats have abandoned the working class on policy" are not the same thing.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. Also, I am once again begging people to go read the actual party platforms of the two parties from 2016 to 2024. It’s immediately obvious which party has focused on concrete policies to help “working class Americans.” We don’t need to do this anymore.

I mean, the administration is currently sending military troops to Portland under the pretense that they’re needed to dismantle a network of supposed “domestic terrorists” who are supposedly being protected by the Portland police and state elected leaders. They see Portland as akin to Fallujah.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

If you're zip tying children in public you've done worse to them in private, I would stake my actual life on it

And the Swainson’s have arrived. 3 of them. ☺️ #birds

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.” Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”? Or do they just sorta do it?

Winter weather-wise, we appear to be in for it.

“One More Lane Will Fix It” goes global.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

An apt visual companion to the footage of Trump supporters ransacking the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Tulip tree flowers, bracts & a caterpillar friend moving across a road to the tree - an Eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillar nearing pupation (typically green until near pupation & it turns brown) - tulip trees are one of the primary hosts for the larvae - inset near center is an adult butterfly.

Killed my grandfather and my great uncle for speaking out against the Reich. Took over my grandmother's house with my mom living there as a child. And they were not Jewish. Nazis are not an abstract concept.

200 years ago this coming weekend, the Erie Canal opened. That moment was the culmination of a great deal of debate & planning & construction, & also--like the waterway it inaugurated--opens up to a number of fascinating AmericanStudies contexts, from the Early Republic & across our history. 🗃️

“Working class” in a lot of political discourses is a polite euphemism for white male.

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds." A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow. youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...

I am thrilled to have written the chapter on education in this first historical assessment of the Biden presidency. A lineup of major historians in the TOC; now available for pre-order from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A favorite tree at work. Stopped to admire a few palm warblers, stragglers, I think, move low through some alders to the left.

Maybe he meant to get a tattoo of Nina Totenberg and the guy wasn’t listening.

"Gettysburg Magazine," which is published by the University of Nebraska Press is looking for an associate editor. Attached are the details.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?" Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

So there’s a phenomenon in religious apologetics called “proof texting”: When you have some doctrinal precommitment that doesn’t really have any clear scriptural basis (like “the Bible condems abortion”) and stitch together a bunch of lines ripped out of context from wildly disparate passages…

Radical trans Marxist illegal guns down one of our fines- Ope! Hey, look at that east wing demo, huh?!

I'm always very open about the fact that I received SNAP benefits and Medicaid for a bit after I fled my abusive husband with my little kid in tow. I used it to help me start over in a new state and go back to school to get my BA. I now have a PhD. SNAP benefits saved my life.

It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.

"We are deeply concerned with anti-Semitism. As for The Jews, they are on an express train to hell with all the other Non-Believers"

pretty worrying how predictive Peacemaker turned out to be.

This is hilarious because why is this OpenAI’s desperate, scrabbling marketing strategy for women but the equivalent for men is ‘you can fuck it now’

Vouchers = forced tithing. MO "approved the use of millions in state funding for MOScholars, a K-12 school scholarship program that had previously been supported by tax-deductible donations. But an investigation found that nearly all of those state-funded vouchers were used for religious schools."

It is propaganda for the left to accurately report on the propaganda for the right.

centrist: Where do we go from here? We have to find common ground. We can't just call the other group "Nazis." At the end of the day, we're all just rich white men with podcasts. Republican lawmaker: Welcome to Hitler Chat. I'm Hitler Republican lawmaker 2: Hello. I am Hitler as well.

donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes