My review of the @bittersouth.bsky.social's "Jimmy Carter: Rivers and Dreams" published in American Journalism www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNU8K...

Can someone who really follows college football help me understand the hype around Arch Manning? Is he actually good and just sucks today or is this a nepo-baby situation? The announcers have been non-stop hyping him all day and he hasn’t done anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

Short essay out for TIME Magazine's "Made By History" column today: "The History of Music Copyright–Before (Taylor's Version)" time.com/7290761/musi...

Dear Hollywood, we need a Sister Act 4 where instead of a convent Sister Mary Clarence goes undercover in an SBC megachurch and rallies all the women to overthrow the patriarchy…

1000% on American 4. I’d add

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

My President

This was on TikTok

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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@bethallisonbarr.bsky.social has been trying to tell us…

That is exactly true.

Personally, I would rate Jan 6, 2021 as quite a bit lower on the “decorum scale” myself, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are we ready for the 2nd American Revolution yet? If we start now, we could have a whole new system in place by July 4, 2026 for the 250th anniversary…

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

My romance? Chemical.

I’ll see your pontius pilate and raise you an Andy Warhol in Basquiat

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

(1/X) I've done some posts about the narcissistic sociopath I work with and how dealing with him has influenced how I see Trump. Now I'd like to do something about how it has influenced how i see the people who enable Trump. It's what I call the "shitty people problem"....

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

“Candace Owens has influenced me above all each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped push me further and further into the belief of violence over the Jewish question,” the school shooter wrote.

“I’m very concerned the way the message of Christianity is being distorted in our country.” -Bishop Budde 👇

Political attacks on higher education will undoubtedly intensify beyond their already heightened levels. Understanding the authoritarian inspirations for those attacks is crucial. Re-upping my recent IHE article on this subject. #EduSky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

This is what resistance to authoritarianism looks like. Pam Hemphill, convicted for her role in J6, rejects Trump's pardon, acknowledging her guilt and objecting to any attempt to "rewrite history." "We were wrong that day, we broke the law—there should be no pardons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m going to get thru these next four years the same way I got thru Bush Sr., albeit on a smaller screen…

Since we became a magazine six years ago, our entire operation--including every writer we've paid--has been funded by 893 people, most of them monthly donors. Only 893 people! Can you help us get to 1000 so we can keep paying great historians and publishing great stuff?

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🚨New Publication🚨 Trump pledged to make the US "far more exceptional than ever before." But his right-authoritarian politics are by no means unique. Srirupa Roy, Verónica Gago and I model a comparative approach to studying right-authoritarianism across countries for CCC. doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

Maybe King George was right, looks like authoritarian rule won out after all…

I’m a #historian of copyright & the creative industries. When I write about creators of copyrightable work, I don’t to like use “content creators” bc it feels sterile and dehumanizing. However, I don’t think many academics get the right message from “artists” or “creatives”. Any ideas #historysky?

Going to send this out for another round. Please let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/EzAZ2Hh

Some great insight from the most knowledgeable person I know on this subject

(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d...

Dems are still, for the most part, trying to play by traditional rules. The problem with that strategy is that they are playing against the political equivalent of a toddler who is perfectly satisfied to throw the board across the room if they don’t get their way.

Interesting read and great writing. Had me at: “I was a career minor-league baseball player and grad student,” Murphy says. “Those are like the two poorest people.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...

If you know me, you know I love the Black Press. I created a Black Press and Black-owned newsroom Bluesky Starter Pack. This includes the newsrooms and some of their contributors. Let me know who I may have missed! #blacksky go.bsky.app/NXgCMGi

#Bluesky is great can we get this same team to invent a new country we can all move to as well?

university faculty returning from a research trip

Finally got around to getting rid of my Twitter account for good. Staying on there is like being Alan Colmes in a room with 200 million Sean Hannitys.

This has probably been the single most influential book on my career: monoskop.org/images/6/67/...

A VERY preliminary list of Media, Communication, and Journalism Historians, please let me know who to add! go.bsky.app/EzAZ2Hh

Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General. There’s going to be sex trafficking in the White House, mark my words. What an utter disgrace.

Let me know if I’m wrong but couldn’t Biden issue an executive order forgiving student loans? Not sure what’s left to lose. Cheato has already said he wants to end the Dept of Ed. If the loans are cancelled I don’t think they will bother with trying to reinstate them…

Looking to follow smart people studying the internet? I created a starter pack to get you going. Let me know if you want to be added or removed! go.bsky.app/LVrPemK