@jgienapp.bsky.social responds at great length to critics of his criticism of originalism. It’s a tour de force. read it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Fundamental and essential reading for any serious constitutionalist.

Heja Sverige! A men's hockey team I can support. I'm no monarchist, but those are the best jerseys in the tournament. (Analysis by Henrik Lundqvist is a bonus!)

Thinking of the time that Jesse Jackson received an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. There were about 20 people at dinner before the ceremony. He went around the table and greeted everyone urging us to ask him (and each other) questions throughout the meal.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Turns out he was a wartime consigliere ...

If you told 1980 Frank how badly he would wish that the US (men's!) hockey team would lose at the 2026 Olympics he wouldn't have believed you.

I had the Tkachuk brothers on my bingo card as Olympic villains. The Canadian curler was a surprise on the other hand.

"Scotts"? 😂 Baio? Bakula? And, yet again, the Welsh get left out.

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

Deciding it’s too dangerous to reveal just how unpopular the current president is seems like the worst poll result ever.

Tomorrow, a download button will appear on our webpage and that’s also when most In Our Time listeners outside the UK will get to hear Misha’s first programme via usual providers including bbc.com. (UK BBC Sounds listeners are always 28 days ahead.) We enjoy making these & hope you enjoy listening

Reason number 298 why I love Scotland: It's cold wet this morning. I waited at the light to cross and a young guy stood next to me with a full set of golf clubs. I gave him a nod and said, "Nice day for it." He smiled and said, "Aye, every day's a nice day for it."

Maybe Anas Sarwar should now call on Anas Sarwar to resign.

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Was at an eatery in lovely Hartsfield and overheard the funniest spousal dispute where the dude said he’s “really getting into curling.” the woman was like “I don’t have time for that” and it took about 5 minutes for them to figure out he was talking about a sport and she likes her hair as it is

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

if he does say so himself

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

The op-ed by Epstein and Raskin in yesterday’s WAPO was a graceless, tendentious and condescending critique of Billie Eilish’s statement at the Grammys that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” It was a bad faith effort to dismiss an important argument. michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...

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

Playing the grinch at the 250th. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/p...

Falstaff: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. Prince Henry: I do, I will. (Act 2 Scene 4) (posting as I find those lines chilling 🥶) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Peter Mandelson's so dodgy he's been approached to work for FIFA

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Things we don't need: a UK version of Saturday Night Live and a US version of Have I Got News for You.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

I had a conversation with a European friend, long resident in the US, who's a huge winter sports/Olympics fan. I said, "Americans are in for a shock. The Winter Olympics are going to bring home just how detested the US is at the moment." 1/

Seriously, it shouldn't be hard to identify the other reporters in the Oval Office and to ask them why they remain silent when the president of the United States verbally attacks one of their colleagues.

We will be awash in sloppy nostalgic representations of the American Revolution this year. That’s why sharp careful analyses of the distance between those representations and evidence-based history is so important. Also I really appreciate @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social !

Robert Tait is always worth reading. As for Bovino: Hey paisan, it wasn't that long ago we were the people they wanted to deport. GTFO, gavone!

MPs, experts & campaigners have called on King Charles to make a formal apology for transatlantic slavery, after research in THE CROWN’S SILENCE highlighted how the British crown & Royal Navy extended & protected the trade in enslaved African people for centuries. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Contemplating the message we received about the University's 'Academic Size and Shape Principles to guide Colleges and Schools as they review and design changes to their academic offer and staffing model' (read: CUTS) as I walk by this, which allegedly has nothing to do w/ our financial predicament.

A shaft of sunlight in dark times. Credit to colleagues in Edinburgh Global who lead on this www.ed.ac.uk/news/univers...

Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Edinburgh Airport has the fastest passport control and slowest baggage handling of any airport that I use regularly. The former exacerbates the latter.

It will be amazing if a US athlete asks for asylum during the winter Olympics in Italy.

Returning w thoughts abt LTribe's review of Jill Lepore's _We the People_. First, I really love a strong review; at its best NYRB is one of the places that can let reviewers serve the reader. 1/readerhttps://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/is-the-constitution-dead-dead-dead-we-the-people-lepore/

This five year old is still in jail

Hello terminal bird. It's a lot warmer in here than outside (-11c).

@smh-historians.bsky.social www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...

I am not a sky-is-falling type. As a biographer and historian, I look for complex explanations and contradictions in human beings, because simple answers are almost always wrong. But right now it *is* simple. Renée Good and Alex Pretti are martyrs. I hope they are the last. I fear they won't be.

"He has ... sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people ... He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power." 1/

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I want to stress this. We have to defeat Trumpism, with clearly articulated values and positive plans. We need to rebuild what has been destroyed by Trump, enabled by a lawless SCOTUS. And we have to reform in ways no one is talking about yet, to prevent this from happening again. Never again.