“But Doctor Hammond, additional Brontës are impossible” “They were…until now. Welcome. To Brontë Park.” (Enormous Brontësaurus roars)

New Mexico, thank you for believing in what we can build together. I’m honored to officially accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Mexico.

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

He won’t be the last. Utterly insane that the US was allowed to host this World Cup.

A new study found that the National Guard in D.C. has had no effect on violent crime.

That email from the AHA Executive Council asking members to vote for their pre-vetted slate of candidates in the name of saving the discipline from scholars opposed to genocide in Gaza is not doing the work they think it is.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

I am going to take a baseball bat to my computer

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

DC area friends please join me for my book launch event at People's Book in Takoma Park MD (@peoplesbooktakoma.com) Tuesday, May 19 6:30 pm! The brilliant Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress will lead a brief discussion before mingling and book signing! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/polici...

Let’s go Liberty!

I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

This part: “Disaffected and independent voters aren't angry at Dems due to missing moderate policies or bad talking points; rather, they're disgusted by a perceived lack of courage and clear values. Again, this argues for finding better ways to talk about climate more often.”

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I already dealt with this.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.

This power of hers is extremely dangerous. I literally just gave her my credit card information, I don’t even care.

There were 8 African Americans in the 44th Congress (1875-1877), only 1 by the 52d (1891-1893), and none from 1902 to 1928. history.house.gov/Exhibitions-...

Much like the laws criminalizing abortion they had ready to go as soon as Roe was overturned.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (White Cloud Over Purple), 1957 Oil on canvas © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts." there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥

More than 3000 Washingtonians were emancipated. Congress compensated their former owners, leaving behind an extraordinary paper trail documenting slavery and emancipation in the District of Columbia. Here's an example from the Georgetown Slavery Archive. slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/236

Cool.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Light Over Deep, 1956 in the San Francisco apartment of private collectors in 2007. Interior design by Sandy Walker 📸 Matthew Millman for @archdigest © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Pee-Wes’s Big Adventure is a very good movie

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library. digdc.dclibrary.org/do/523a37ae-...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

"Very young girls who have survived significant trauma do not represent a gray area in medicine."

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."