IL coach Bret Bielema was "at a loss for words" after the Illini's most-lopsided loss as a ranked team in the AP Poll era. "I've never been a part of anything like that," Bielema said. Well, yeah you have, Bret. 2010, remember? You were just on the other side of it. How does this side taste? #iufb

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Hey guys!! I did it! I fixed the tenure & promotion process! auctions.potterauctions.com/_DeMoulin_s_...

Josh Heupel—what an absolute idiot.

Welcome, Purple Jesus!

Umm, what's that now? Weigh-ins at the Lincoln Memorial?? thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Feeling very good and fine about having Tua as my backup QB yessiree.

OK, McTeagueys. Who's gonna buy this? @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @ashleyrattner.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social auctions.neauction.com/online-aucti...

Venus lost to Serena in the 2002 US Open Final a day after her current doubles partner was BORN.

Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined

My undergrad alma mater is cutting humanities programs and halting PhD admissions because it lost big in crypto. My graduate alma mater (UT) is effectively eliminating free speech on campus. Just remember to work hard in school, kids!

What the ever-loving hell?

Maybe @markalanmattes.bsky.social or @jsench.bsky.social can buy this and start printing their own tournament brackets. tinyurl.com/5n7wkzxx

Leader in the clubhouse for best quote of the month: Sanders also added that he was “built” for the lifestyle changes that will come after his surgery. “I got eight toes, man,” he said.

How are Trump's economic policies impacting you? Let me give you a hard example. 🧵

"Employees at the Charles Pinckney Historic Site in South Carolina reported half a dozen books on slavery, plantation life and Black history." Thanks, guys! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Congratulations to Adam McNeil on winning The SHEAR Dissertation Prize. #SHEAR2025

#SHEAR2025 folks who are looking for an outstanding quick lunch close to the Omni, allow me to recommend Debbie’s (100 Washington St.)

#SHEAR2025 presidential plenary kicks off! Slavery emancipation in the early American republic. @profmsinha.bsky.social introducing Mia Bay, Lin Fisher, @sethrockman.bsky.social ventriloquizing @adamrothman.bsky.social, Jim Oakes.

Great batch of new manuscript collection finding aids at the Clements Library! Wonderful opportunities for research. clements.umich.edu/mss-finding-...

Surely one of you dorks is going to want to buy this. live.thomastonauction.com/auction-lot/...

Archive/library world friends, please spread the word about this archivist position at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, VT. www.henrysheldonmuseum.org/work-at-the-...

Better look out, folks--Senator Susan Collins has some "serious questions." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I am not someone who sews, so I can't really comment on the scale of this loss for folks who do. But I am someone who is interested in odd and specialized forms of printing, and from that standpoint, losing the last company in the U.S. that is able to produce printed sewing patterns is a disaster.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Best subject line of the summer so far.

headline construction masterclass

The two worst people in the world are fighting!

"...part of the Patriots’ hope for signing Diggs was that he could bring mentorship and leadership to a receiver group that struggled with immaturity a year ago" I'm sorry, but what events over the past 10 years would lead anyone to believe that "mentorship" is part of the Stefon Diggs Experience?

Playoff Who??

Friends, the Clements Library at the University of Michigan is hiring a new Head of Reader Services. Please circulate the posting to anyone you know who might be interested. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

Inevitable, I suppose, but still awful.

Warfighter Warfighter Warfighter!! www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Isaac Chotiner notches another one. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

We just got an Environmental Humanity. Paging @natewolff.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social

HALF A BILLION DOLLARS in free legal services to his pet causes. What an absolute embarrassment.

Everyone keeps saying "No one is coming to save us!" but I think it's a distinct possibility that whoever did this is coming to save us.

This is just an unprecedented level of looting, taking buildings that belong to all Americans and putting them in the hands of real estate developers, no doubt through a corrupt and opaque process that favors Trump's cronies 1/2

Imagine explaining to Mozart that the requiem he wrote for his own funeral would one day be used to memorialize the passing of Shelley Duval and Shrek’s publicist? No notes, 10/10.

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

If you want evidence of the demise of old models of association in American life a la Robert Putnam, you don't need to look any further than Facebook Marketplace listings in Michigan and Ohio, where you can buy both old church pews and pieces of bowling lane wood for virtually nothing.

“mummy, now that i am a lad of 13, may i wear long pants like papa?”

For the past 8 years liberals have been talking about how closely Trump’s rise resembles Hitler’s. As his army of religious fanatics works to destroy a wealthy, secular state because they’re afraid of science and educated women, it’s becoming clear that the Ayatollah Khomeini is a better comparison.

Russell Vought is giving Leonard Leo a strong challenge for the title of Worst Living American.

The last time I bought coffee (3 weeks ago) all of these bags were $9.99/pound. But tell me again how no American consumers will see price increases because of Trump’s tariffs.