Fifty years from now, historians will have to write sentences beginning with "As the president's dementia worsened"

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

A despicable decision by the University of Utah. University administrators caving to fascism.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Review of Omer Bartov's new book, Israel: What Went Wrong? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

More ridiculous framing from @nytimes. How does Trump threatening to do a completely stupid thing put pressure on Iran? Now they're going to cave?

Trump is uniquely deranged, but he is not the first U.S. president to threaten genocide. Jefferson threatened leaders of an Indigenous resistance movement: "If we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down til that tribe is exterminated ...

U.S. military and political leaders often threatened massive violence---indeed, genocide---against Indigenous peoples to force them to comply. Five examples from volume 2 of SURVIVING GENOCIDE (to be published in late 2026/early 2027):

Cherish the Strait, grab it and cherish it.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Some good news for a change www.klcc.org/environment/...

Poor academics, hardships of getting reimbursed for giving talks.

All this bullshit about 47 years of being at war with Iran, does anyone remember that the Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua?

All charges against Nick Tilsen have been dropped! Tilsen, who is Oglala Lakota and the founder of NDN collective, was facing criminal charges that he allegedly accelerated his vehicle toward a South Dakota cop in 2022.

U.S. denied its own genocide of Indigenous peoples, so I suppose it makes sense it will deny Israel's genocide of Palestinians. apnews.com/article/worl...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

“The selection of Mr. Khamenei makes one thing clear: Rather than compelling Iran to change course, the president’s war plan is pushing it to dig in,” Vali R. Nasr writes.

On the disappointment that comes from reading a retired Commissioner of Indian Affairs’ memoir. michaelleroyoberg.com/native-ameri...

This interview is a must-listen for history lovers. Marc James Carpenter, author of THE WAR ON ILLAHEE, gives an in-depth look into the settler-Native wars that shaped the Pacific Northwest. 

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d put together a thread of *other* Presidents talking about George Washington and slavery. Away we go! 🧵/1

A few thoughts about another ill-informed refutation of the undeniable fact that the U.S. is built on lands stolen from Indigenous peoples.

Just finished readings this brilliant, beautiful, and moving book by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social

Trump regime erasing more history---this time at the Little Bighorn Natl Monument. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...

What really happened in Eugene, Oregon: "there has been no information backing up the claims that protesters went inside, and video shows federal agents inside the building kicking out the glass." eugeneweekly.com/2026/02/02/c...

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor. You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought. They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

I don't believe the Trump regime's project of erasing history will succeed. Too many people know too much.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Recommending these very insightful observations of the past year by Aziz Rana. www.equator.org/articles/day...

Lots of theft in US history, that's for sure.

Saw this ad for Max Mueller's new book WAKARA'S AMERICA in the NYRB. I was lucky to read a draft. It is really really good.

The owner of X is ignorant about American history.

Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...

An eloquent critique of capitalism and plea for the Earth by Apache elder Wendsler Nosie, Sr. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...

To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust.

Field “also reminds the intellectuals of the New Right of something they all too easily forget: They can indulge in fantasies of an authoritarian regime because of the freedom and security afforded by the liberal democracy they loathe.” A terrific review of @lkatfield.bsky.social ’s “Furious Minds.”

RETVRN

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

When Texas seceded from the US in 1861, it issued a proclamation declaring that Blacks "were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race." Could one even mention this fact in a history class at Texas A&M under these new guidelines?

Another to reason to hate AI. Gemini screwed these guys over by hallucinating false info about their company. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

Eugene caught a stray at last night's NYC mayoral debate, so now I'm forced to imagine Curtis Silwa wandering the Saturday Market www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/n...

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

I was one of the 12,000. Had to avoid antifa terrorists at aid stations, but made it.