New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark" "That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

“When boards marginalize faculty participation and rely primarily on search firms, quality control erodes. Vetting serves as a means to select a finalist, not a way to protect the institution. Faculty involvement is not symbolism. It is quality control.”

this is at least the third clip I've seen of journos asking Frey about the F bomb and I mean, give me a fucking break

The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

The gaslighting, my god. I don't even know what to say. Incandescent.

it’s really important to have publications like People covering this because it’s going to get seen by so many people who don’t consume political media

This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

New Episode: Revolutions in Retrospect! "Fighting Plagues of the Heart in Scotland with @mikkibrock.bsky.social" Come for the story of Rev. William Adair in Ayr, stay for regicide, the plague, civil war, occupation, and witchcraft. Special appearance by Satan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhO5...

they're doing it for gender, imo

The speed at which the 2026 season of America has jumped the shark, my god.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Stop it and call for his impeachment & removal. No resolutions. No handwringing. Spare us those, please.

Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty

Good morning to everyone on this side of the pond who has just woken up, checked their phones, yelled obscenities, and feels now, somehow, even more ashamed of and furious with their government than when they went to sleep last night.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

This is a good thread. Fields of inquiry naturally develop new questions, sources, methods, and styles; in a fundamental sense, that change is what they are for. Culture war makes normal intellectual variation and change suspect and turns run-of-the-mill resentments into civilizational struggles.

INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS/government

are the "serious historians" in the room with us right now?

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Soon enough, it’ll just be Kid Rock and Jason Aldean in residency at the Kennedy Center.

We could teach more of all the kinds of history if we weren’t systematically defunding the humanities and the public universities

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

According to Karoline Leavitt, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President...As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.” AS A STUDENT OF HISTORY This is the dumbest timeline, which I can say confidently, as an actual student of history.

A new essay from me on the contentious topic of the sexuality of James VI and I - an attempt to get past the old ‘did he or didn’t he’ by looking at the king’s style as read by his contemporaries and subsequent historians. King James - QAF. main--britishartstudies-29.netlify.app/issues/29/qu...

New post to #FindTheMidwife! It's 1688 and a midwife is at the center of a scandal about a royal birth -- and fake news is not a recent development! www.findthemidwife.com/fake-news-1688

This has already been said, but I’ll say it again: what an absolutely garbage person he is.

This new headline about findings from Roman Berenice is doing the most. 🐒 🐖 www.iflscience.com/roman-milita...

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it. I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.

This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

you know what? good advice.

Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!

I feel this in my bones.

It was such an honor to be shortlisted for Scotland’s Research Book of the Year. I was sorry to miss the ceremony, but I was cheering everyone on from my side of the pond. Huge congratulations to all of the winners—so well-deserved. (I too am just delighted by the illustration on the program!)

“POTENTIALLY DIVISIVE.” Gtfoh.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.