Deleted my Academia.edu account. Sticking with ORCID and Zenodo for connecting with researchers. orcid.org/0009-0006-85...

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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the SCOTUS 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. He's using SCOTUS as an extralegal battering ram against the federal courts. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

“Forth now, and fear no darkness.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

“With its focus on global connections and local issues, the book offers a vital starting point for future studies on the impact of Christian missions in global history.” A generous review of Missionary Interests from Fernando Pinheiro in @dialoguejournal.bsky.social. @cornellupress.bsky.social

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Honored to receive (with @davidgolding.bsky.social) the Best Anthology Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association for Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (@cornellupress.bsky.social, 2024).

The very concern Lincoln articulated. You amend the Constitution, heaven help you

I’ve always loved A River Runs Through It. Redford as director and screenwriter was brilliant. The way he ended the film broke my heart about as much as Maclean ended the book.

Pretty sure Tyler Robinson is not a Mormon. This needs to be fact-checked. His grandmother described him being raised in a Christian home, his father referred to as a "minister," no sign yet of ward or stake members on social media knowing them.

Yes, and ideally some change. Alas. We know they're too entrenched in their access-oriented, engage-bait, and audience-sentiment reporting.

Asymmetrical polarization: one extreme being platformed more than another that pulls the center position farther away from center. We've seen "moderate" positions actually entail rather extremely right viewpoints for at least twenty years, until now a "center-right" position sympathizes with MAGA.

What billionaires, corporations, and elite class in USA have done with our economy is like catching a foul ball and MLB charging you for it. Once reliable expectations of quality and experience are being downgraded, pinched, squeezed all over the place.

The president of the United States has declared war on an American city. When will the party of Lincoln save themselves and drop this guy?

What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

Yep, you guessed it: the polymaths and intellectuals in pioneer Utah were … printers? "They have before them from day to day, dissertations on politics, religion, morals, history, and almost all matters of interest to mankind; and they should be qualified to instruct and criticise upon them all."

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

I am beyond ready for fall weather. California dreaming on this desert day

MAGA does not want to venerate the Founding Fathers. They really don’t. They want to venerate the confederacy.

Thank you SCOTUS

Journalists should be generating major headlines on a daily basis about Trump's confusion and unintelligibility; about his belief in disproven conspiracy theories; about how every accusation is a projection. presswatchers.org/2025/07/why-...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Being a historian in 2025 is like being Jerome Powell in every conversation.

Stunning charts show how disproportionately the Roberts Court favors the Trump regime. "This pattern exemplifies what scholars call 'autocratic legalism'—the systematic weaponization of legal institutions to consolidate power while maintaining the appearance of legal process."

There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

Submitted my first Obsidian plugin for review: Custom Modules. It simplifies adding a custom feature without having to make a separate plugin for each one. The plugin comes with 4 modules, too, that I quite like for my own notetaking and writing. github.com/davidgolding...

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No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.

Sorry, Supreme Court, they’re not gonna give you a Nobel Prize, you can stop auditioning or whatever it is you think you’re doing

He has made such a mockery of our nation.

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names, but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??

Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734 NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305 Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

One thing current events have shown is the media seems pretty comfortable insinuating progressive ideas are “radical” while the strongest term they can deploy for genuinely radical MAGA plans is “controversial.”

The best part of the Mamdani win is that a bunch of octogenarian Democratic officials might finally be realizing that it's long past time they pass the torch.

I'm glad Menendez was forced out & now faces the legal consequences of his corruption & treason. But I don't understand a system in which this happens, while the Republican President of the United States commits the same crimes, on a level orders of magnitude worse, & faces no consequences at all.

I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

I feel sick to my stomach and enraged at the utter imbecility and impudence of the government. This nightmare will never end.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Anyway, this, as with so much else, is in and of itself an impeachable offense.

Historian here No Kings was the largest protest in US history

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

The land of private equity and billionaires eating up news orgs for breakfast