NEW: I spoke to the journalist and researcher Pat Ellington, Jr., whose singular work expands the fullness and depth of Black history through Francisco Lindor, Ronald Acuña, and the global impact of baseball. issa very, very special BHM edition of [eyeblack]:

“Wicked ideology” just means anything that is not “Great White Men” history.

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website. He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Best things to read about the collapse of the profession, besides this one I love? contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...

Cute analogy, if entirely incorrect. Oh and the app this kid has 'created' appears to be a shell for another one, and it's *very* interested in scraping personal details from the computers of unsuspecting students.

MLB: “The sport is losing new fans.” Also MLB: “To watch your favorite team play during the week, you need this app, for weekends, you need a cable provider and an app, but every third Saturday you need to invest at least $500 in Batcoin - the official cryptocurrency of MLB - to get an access code.”

Yep!

this is why a history education is so so so important

Check out what @uvalibrary.bsky.social has put together as an open source AI policy guide: library.virginia.edu/news/2026/pr... libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

New York Historical receives gift of 150 works by Indigenous artists

The first time I went to Detroit was for a Tigers game, and my brother tried to convince me this was a statue to honor Doug Fister lmao.

Next para: "A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty."

Forgot to post this on Presidents’ Day, so here it is now: the “mediocre presidents” number from The Simpsons.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

It never ceases to amaze me the degree to which capitalism saturates White Evangelical Christianity in the U.S.

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available: _Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock

Agreed. I wrote this: eidolon.pub/this-is-not-...

Apologies for firing strays at gamers here who I want to be clear are not the problem. But I find it really frustrating the way that the conversation on a wide scale tech shortage that's started a couple years ago and gotten worse throughout the AI boom is focusing on toys rather than survival.

The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

The "erasure of white culture" guy having trouble when asked what white culture has been erased is like when the woman who wrote a "woke indoctrination" book couldn't define "woke." Many observers keep searching for a material or intellectual explanation for this stuff, but there really isn't one.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Isabella Wranå won gold for curling, but should've for this video

This morning Cathy Wurzer mentioned in passing that today is the 90th anniversary of the Gestapo Law

There is no greater indictment of the American system of government and economics than the fact that a literal suicide cult is basically the only people who have gotten what they want in this country over the past several years. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Yep! A friend shared this with me without an original creator. If you know who it is, please post in the replies.

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.

Finally, some good news!

"In fall 1927, more than 20,000 American World War I veterans sailed to France commemorating the tenth anniversary of the United States’ entry into the Great War." Read what happened next in Daniel Kovacs' essay, the latest from @contingent-mag.bsky.social contingentmagazine.org/2026/02/02/o...

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.