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Live the next block over and walk by almost every day. This place has been in disrepair lately, but still tragic. @drdougthompson.bsky.social

Are you aware that OMB's proposed new rule for research grants gives political appointees final say on federally funded research? @ncph.bsky.social's Advocacy Committee has organized a comment-a-thon to give public historians a unified voice against the new rule. community.ncph.org/event/JulyCo...

Trump has made it frustratingly hard to root for this current USMNT. But this team, like the sport, exemplify America's foundational diversity, community, & inclusive ideals. I refuse to cede any part of that to our worst. Enjoy & share, please! @profloumoore.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Crazy game but 11 minutes of extra time was benefit for Mexico. They failed to capitalize.

A game where you can look away from three seconds

This ENG-MEX game is nuts

Civil rights veteran the Rev. Ed King, who helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, has died mississippitoday.org/2026/07/05/c...

Douglass has always been right. Even with its blindspots the Declaration points toward something we can be. Too many think it’s a document to cling to as a perfected past. Shame on those who narrow its promise

I don’t think I’ve ever been as proud of a team as I am of this Cabo Verde team. What a remarkable performance. One of the best games I’ve ever watched. I’ll never forget it.

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

Cabo Verde wins the WC. I don’t care who holds the trophy at the end.

On our 250th anniversary, I refuse to cede the idea of patriotism to the white supremacist fascists. That mythic patriotism has always been part of our identity--but we can tell a very different story through the legacies of American critical patriotism. My new @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social essay! 🗃️

There is actually only 1 vision of American history that I can safely say 95% of all trained American historians see, and it is this: “It’s complicated.”

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

"I’m looking to be shot any time I step out of my car. If I die, it will be in a good cause. I’ve been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam." Medgar Evers, born on this day in 1925

I genuinely think that we can beat Belgium, even without Balogun. Pochettino has made me a believer.

To my great dismay, not because I wanted more exposure, two major international news outlets canceled on me last minute yesterday after the decision dropped. Both believed the danger had passed b/c the birthright was upheld. They should've let me explain. I am doing so in a blog this AM.

“Sweden, rank outsiders, but this is knockout fútbol” (tv commentator) seems like bulletin board material (for halftime)

Quite the meltdown on the postliberal right today....

4 Supreme Court justices think the Constitution is exclusively and only what they say it is. Teach that in your civics class.

The justices are activists judges. The projection impulse of the past three decades reveals itself as the sham it is. Federalist Society is a partisan organization wrapped in pseudo-intellectualism.

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

Justice Roberts’ majority opinion on birthright citizenship traces (accurately) the history of citizenship law. But J Brown-Jackson’s concurrence discusses the larger history of America, and how the 14th A fits into it.

I would add that this erasure reinforces the illusion that AI can "do history." When history is filtered through popular media, it often erases (deliberately or inadvertently) the years of research, archival work, & interpretation that professional historians have invested in to understand the past

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

And too many democrats are salivating at inheriting what Trump and SC built, as if they’d ever be allowed to wield it. (Wanting it is disqualifying enough, to be clear.)

The Rapture took the crowd and left the porta-potties.

for those of us old enough to remember, the difference in the vibes between then and now simply cannot be described

Such a shame that women rarely drive main plotlines in histories; it doesn't mean they didn't in their own time. If we saw the past the way we see a street scene today it would be populated w 50%+ women. A useful reminder that history isn't what happened, but what we say about what happened.

Planted a few scraggly mountain mint plants three years ago. Pollinator garden on it own. #pollenators #nativeplantas #garden

this legitimately made me tear up. a tremendous public servant!

I feel like this is the epitome of every single academic historian's experience...

My moment of Zen: listening to honeybees do honeybee work. The hive produced 50+ pounds of honey this season. #beekeeping #honeybees #unmute

When Livingstone said in 1850s that the civilizing mission was the merger of Christianity and commerce, this example is likely not what we had in mind. And yet, it is the culmination of that logic.

What I've been up to lately ... (well, obviously not brushing up on pithy talking points, that's for sure)

I actually gasped. Impressively hateful.

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

Christian Pulisic struggles in every commercial except the one by Hershey’s.

I am pleased to share that my dissertation has now been published as a book: Catastrophic Christianity: An Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity. #acrel #amwriting www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/catastr...

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

This is true if Christianity since at least the 2nd century CE is also “basically a form of Gnosticism” What I mean is that Gnosticism has always been a strong intellectual force WITHIN Christianity and Enlightenment savants made most people into suckers by simply asserting it wasn’t

like the workers are idk alienated? from what they uh produce?

The key is not that the flawed men who wrote the Declaration got it right, but that every generation after understood the importance of expanding who is equal. It has never been a static document

a Black man named Freeman scored the second goal and the first goal happened because of a great run by our birthright citizen striker, these chuds can fuck all the way off

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

As I wrote a couple weeks ago, states like MN are working to shore up those rights on the state level, but that I'll be surprised if we make it to 2028 with the ADA, IDEA, Olmstead, 504, etc. all intact. We might save some. We might mitigate the damage. It's a fight worth having.

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Just so we are clear, this is the FBI of the 1950s through 1970s. Read a memorandum today written on Sept 16, 1963, calling MLK as the most dangerous man in U.S. on the day after 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by Birmingham Klan.