It was a political hire. We know that because Bari Weiss had almost no experience in brodcast news when hired. Thus: "When the season finale of '60 Minutes' airs Sunday night, it may very well mark the end of the program as it has long been known inside CBS News." www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

A lot of assumptions in the interview selection below. There are at least two more courses in Chem before getting to anything remotely looking like edges. And it assumes faculty are just information conveyors rather than knowledge guides pointing students to those edges.

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My thoughts on how I'm trying to navigate danielsilliman.substack.com/p/the-messen...

There is a long history of former confederate states asserting that the post-Civil War amendments are unconstitutional.

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Golden calf moment

Goddamn right I'm proud. Aside from my boys and the work I do with Tribes, Reckoning and #HATM are the things I'm proudest of in my life. We get cool guests and talk about cool stuff. If you like that, you should check it out, even if this guy isn't impressed. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

Friends, don't do this. Stating that Harry Truman did a thing is not an endorsement of Harry Truman. It is a statement that Harry Truman did a thing. Historians are allowed to discuss discrete historical facts on the internet without attaching a disclaimer paragraph every single fucking time.

LBJ gave Harry Truman the very first Medicare card in 1966 to honor his work in trying to get comprehensive national health insurance plan passed in 1945.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

the fact that this photo looks like it could equally have been taken in 1968 kind of proves the point

My feed is Canvas outage wall-to-wall. For those forced to use the LMS, I am sorry for what this means in the coming days regarding final assignments. And for those trying to set up courses online because their uni/school requires it, I feel you. Same.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

All the smug faculty on here like "bet you sure regret you used Canvas now huh" as if we haven't always regretted having to use Canvas

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

Even when I attempt to be offline my institution requires all assignments online and grades posted there. It’s frustrating

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

This is exceptionally silly stuff, and I don't know who could be taking it seriously. The "major questions doctrine" is a straightforward insertion of the Court into political matters; so too are Roberts's revealed concerns about the effect of environmental regulation on businesses.

Possible tornadoes and a flood, but they’re still voting to nullify Black representation. It’s a tidy encapsulation of the history of southern racial politics: whites in power caring more about repressing Black people than about their own lives and welfare.

And by definition political because you render the meaning of the Constitution to be interrupted in a particular way. You use your own interpretative starting point to say what it means. And over Roberts term as Chief Justice, that has been political.

Could there be a timelier book? I think not.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

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This is a Westmoreland vibe.

Between @pablo.show winning a Pulitzer and @minakimes.bsky.social being named the new host of the national spelling bee, it's been a solid 24 hours for two of the best people in all of sports media.

General Ulysses Grant would like a word. And Eisenhower . . .

This is an interesting interview and American liberalism isn't Rosenblatt's scholarly area of interest, but I question some of the framing (some of it by Ezra Klein), in particular the relative lack of attention to the power of conservative forces in U.S. history. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Gorsuch, non-partisanly, chose Fox News’ morning show to hawk his new children’s book over the weekend, celebrating the exceptionalism of the United States days after gutting voting rights for Black Americans. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...

Congrats to @salvationsouth.com contributor James McWilliams—a Pulitzer Prize’Finalist www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/cl...

Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia all held elections in 2022 using maps that federal courts had already found were likely illegal.

It's wild that a current events newsletter written by a historian of 19th century America, Heather Cox Richardson, has more subscribers (~3 million on Substack) than the Washington Post does(~2.5 million). Some thoughts on what this all means. rightlandia.ghost.io/slow-knowled...

Huge respect to Kacey Musgraves for bringing the Mariachi Brothers to open for her after their release from wrongful detention - drawing attention to ICE abuses. Kacey has a long history of standing up for what’s right. Enjoy this gorgeous cover: m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgKm...

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

This is the pretext for war the administration didn’t have in April.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Pope Leo’s message to Trump ain’t subtle. He just appointed a former undocumented immigrant as the new Bishop of W Virginia. Same day, he named a Howard University chaplain as auxiliary bishop, who’s been clear: Trump’s attacks on DEI are a dangerous “regression” in the fight for racial equality.

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

they did it. you're literally watching history and the end of Reconstruction play out in real time

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

@cagraham.bsky.social is kind enough to remember I wrote a book about religious Richmond in the 1950s. Richmond Baptist Association had a significant footprint and outreach.

Another experiment with putting the events of the week in order and context: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/stack-the-...