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Winning yet?

Assumes those around him would know what a complete picture is. Everything after day one is predictable and a second-year undergraduate would know. Our seniors would recognize the consequences of day one on day one.

sorry but this is insane framing for a problem that was caused 100% by republicans

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Weird how the Lost Cause mythology acts as history. Wonder why that is? Dear reader, I do not wonder. It is because white supremacy advocates spent more than a century shilling it as “what actually happened.”

So if Russia phones in fake threats, as they did last time, our institutions will leap into action to do what Russia wants…. This is very transparent.

Wahoowa!! Go Cavaliers the women rocked the house today

one of my related hot takes is that we should ban news networks from real-time updates of results. they can report results when the votes are counted.

‘Power to the People, Y’all’ will premiere in Winston-Salem, NC, at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 18th.  Producer: Tressie McMillan Cottom Director, Cinematographer & Editor: Holland Gallagher Cinematographer: Patrick Lebby Producer:Johnica Rivers Key Art: Shefon N. Taylor

Someone in the administration should do an in-depth study on French troops at Dien Bien Phu: disaster and humiliation

This car passed out when it saw the price of gas.

Honestly, Donald Trump is probably more racist than George Wallace ever was. Wallace was an opportunist who embraced racist politics because it played well with his electorate. Trump is a true believer in racism who keeps saying racist things despite the political blowback.

This! I have to remind colleagues who when I talk about eugenics as science say “not science.” I tell them and students that in the day “it was science” in your journals of record.

someday this mewling pile of crybaby shit will also die and when he does there will be scolds who try to shame participants in the global celebration and when that happens i want you to remember and repeat these four words: “oh DO fuck off”

THE GREATEST VIDEO EVER

Regardless of outcome, the final two minutes of the first half Michigan/Howard game was fun. Except for Michigan fans.

As called, once again, by Jimmy Roselli and Griffin Wright on High Point student radio:

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

I spent two years in graduate school focused on metacognition, by the way. It’s an interest. And yeah there’s no mechanism for it in these platformed lessons and assignments. A smart teacher *can* augment but they need time and support. Two things we don’t encourage. We are ruining the kids.

Cool thing about beekeeping is orientation flights (at least for me). #beekeeper #honeybees

Entered winter with one small hive and expected they would not make it. Been watching through rough weather and opened hive today in beautiful weather. Thriving! Added medium honey super.

Meanwhile, Brendan Carr, Chairman of trhe Federal Communications Commission, continues with "nice licence you have there..."

Consequences are good.

There is absolutely no bottom. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

Historians have long contributed in this way. Keep it up. We can aid archivists and librarians in preserving stuff and helping share stuff with the greater public. Way to go @historians.org!

Lenten reflection (story of feeding 5000 edition): we should never act out of a sense of scarcity. Abundance is made up of small acts of giving.

Not what unconditional surrender means

The most famous line from Lincoln's second inaugural address is also probably the most misunderstood: "with malice toward none, with charity for all." I'm a fan of Frederick Douglass's gloss on it.

I'm honored to have contributed to a roundtable in @modamhist.bsky.social reflecting on Jon Butler's 2004 article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History." Thanks to Darren Dochuk for the invitation to join a great group of scholars.

I have thought about MLK’s challenge to Johnson’s *war on poverty* while mobilizing for actual war. King consistently noted that every dollar spent on S Vietnam was more than a dollar lost in the war against poverty. He was correct. No one bothers with poverty today so this math will be far worse.

I did not share the original story because my gut was that the sourcing was dubious. Someone who knows more about the sole source confirms that skepticism. Don't fall for clickbait, read the piece linked below. (If the story is confirmed by other outlets, that's another thing. But ... it's not)

Happy to report that the Journal of Southern Religion returns after a two-year hiatus. Four articles that examine religious expressions in the 19th and 20th century American South. jsreligion.org/vol24/curren...

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Delighted that my article on Charles Sherrod and others' 1968 trip to Israel and the BIG religious/political imagination of the late 1960s is finally in print! Thank you to everyone at the Journal of Southern Religion and the archivists at @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. jsreligion.org/vol24/quiros/

Spent four hours in the ER with my daughter (she's fine!) and overheard the patient on the other side of the little curtain -- a college student freaking out because she has midterms and can't waste time getting treated. Students, take care of yourself. I promise you, your profs will understand.

King Center for Southern Studies hosted the Laurie Byington Lecture on the Contemporary South last Thursday evening. @chuckreece.bsky.social of @salvationsouth.com was the lecturer. Lecture posted on the King Center for Southern Studies YouTube Channel. youtu.be/eXKdnOxFErU?...

If ever there was a reason to have a foreign policy “wonk” as president and not a business person, this should be reason enough.

Lenten reflection: waging war is an act of empire not of following Christ. In the midst of Ramadan and on Sabbath, waging war means the holy in life is made profane. We much look for and act out of what is holy in the days ahead. Holy One, have mercy.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands. Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.

We have unleashed a regional war. It is NOT a significant leap to world war.

Virginia Tech is a senior military institution. i teach courses on the medieval world & crusades and so have cadets (and vets) from every branch of service that have, over my 20 years, served in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere). Me and my colleagues have way more respect for them than you, Pete

I mean, hats off to James Comey, John Roberts, Joe Rogan, and Jake Tapper. Just outstanding work, gentlemen. You’re like the Four Horsemen of the Idiotcalypse

Powell Doctrine: you break it you buy it. (First Gulf War) Even Powell didn’t learn his doctrine. Failed in Iraq invasion.

Tear jerker of a note from a student: “your encouragement…ignited my spark for learning again…you made me feel smart again and made me feel as though my voice and the work I do matters.” 😭😭😭

who is my neighbor? the one who needs your care without conditions If ever there was a rebuttal to Christian nation rhetoric, it is how they treat humans.

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

LOL I got an R&R from the AHR when I was about to be a mom & was like #oops, they didn't like the essay enough, too busy to fix all this. I didn't realize they *wanted* me to resubmit* & I could argue for what I wanted to do & not. I've published plenty since but I wish I knew to prioritize that!