The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

Loving me some Sunday morning woke Bill Kristol.

This one is for FBI Director Kash Patel. "Keep an eye on There in Washington Watch the watchingmen Watching Washington Feel for you Feel for me Feel for the light that liberates the day!" -fIREHOSE, Honey Please www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsu...

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

The big reason I'm trying to hammer "civil conflict/political violence" here is because I've spent a substantial chunk of the last five years looking at mass graves. I want a society where people aren't plotting to kill their neighbors and throw them into one. That's where all this can lead.

Unless your last name is Ramone, you should never use the term "blitz." www.youtube.com/watch?v=268C...

TIme to break up the Union and form a new one.

So is Trump gearing up the Texas National Guard for Columbus Day celebrations in Philly, Newark, NYC, and Providence? I hear Furio was spotted at the Bing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD6...

This always kills it in Lecture 1, History (as an academic discipline) vs. Heritage "The Sopranos," "Christopher," Season 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD6...

He might not be the hero (sandwich) we deserve, but he's the hero (sandwich) we need.

The @pennpress.bsky.social Fall catalog is out. I feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when the phone book is released.

The Kennedy Center presents: Diddler On A Roof (I can do this all day)

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

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Got to spend the summer playing in a competetive co-ed league with my daughters. Finished 4th out of 10 teams with a trip to the playoffs.

Coffee drinkers really need to rise up over these 50% tariffs on Brazillian coffee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLb...

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On this date: July 13, 1987. The Descendents show at First Avenue that would become the “Liveage” LP on SST Records. #descendents

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After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Writing a long review/historiographical essay and in my research I came across this fantastic take on Ken Burns by @jrakove.bsky.social in a 1998 review essay of four works on Jefferson.

TIme to break up the Union and form a new one.

🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

My home girl just sent this through from LA.

What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

Who brags about this?

Scenes from suburban Pittsburgh

mood

What might have been.

The Hartford Conventionists had a point.

Donald Trump in 1990 on the Tiananmen Square massacre: “The Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.”

Project Muse page for the Centrality of Slavery is up. Check it out for chapters and pagination. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/monog...

Next up on summer reads ....

The Blues Brothers opened for the Grateful Dead #HATM #Bluesbrothers in 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OM...

This morning, like every morning, US President will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

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It's an honor to have my 2014 Journal of the Civil War Era Review essay, “Slavery, Sovereignty, and Empires: North American Borderlands and the American Civil War, 1660－1860,” translated into Japanese and published in the Fukuoka University Humanities Review. Many thanks, Professor Takeo Mori

Morning walk/run time

I caught up with @nic-wood.bsky.social yesterday. Thrilled to hear that our books appear together in the Fall 2025 Penn Press Catalog @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282842... www.pennpress.org/978151282832...

I caught up with @nic-wood.bsky.social yesterday. Thrilled to hear that our books appear together in the Fall 2025 Penn Press Catalog @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282842... www.pennpress.org/978151282832...

I love this 1816 Melish map. www.loc.gov/resource/g37... JQA used it in his negotiations that led to the 1818 Treaty with Britain It was option B for the cover of The Centrality of Slavery www.pennpress.org/978151282842...

Teacher Asks What First Graders Want To Be Once Child Labor Laws Repealed

Don't understand the need to prove to the world what an asshole you are. Can't wait for the return of closet assholery.