An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

"The Centrality of Slavery" arrived today. www.pennpress.org/978151282842...

I'm someone who has had a very stormy/complicated (and mostly bad) relationship with Catholicism in my life, but I dunno, reading this just reminding me of its good parts, and also shamed me into signing up for a shift driving for the local food bank. May it also shame you, person reading this lol

This is some damn good reporting

remodeling my bathroom like a king

The Versailles-ification of the United States

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. (They all suck, anyway)

We will never stop speaking out. Transphobia is white supremacist brain rot and the sooner we can shame these people out of polite society the better.

There is some masterful writing in this complaint.

"We owe allegiance to no crown," John Woodside, c. 1814 npg.si.edu/exhibit/1812...

OpenAI 2024: We're going to cure cancer with AGI. OpenAI 2025: Please buy our sex slave that may drive you insane.

These beauties arrived last night as author stock. Pub date is Nov 4 and I can’t wait to share these stories and this sprawling history…

I’m fine being on their side

They were TERRIBLE

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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

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