Reading @michaelgvann.bsky.social's THE GREAT HANOI RAT HUNT 🐀 to prep for class... & damn, I'm still jealous that Dave Del Testa & Eric Jennings actually got drawn into the graphic history 😆 while I only have a place of honor in the acknowledgments. I mean that's cool, but not like being a cartoon!

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

If only someone could have seen this coming. I mean who would have thought the proliferation of gambling in college sports would lead to problems? www.sanjoseinside.com/news/san-jos...

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...

"...in #Gaza, #Israel ’s assault on Gaza City has continued – pushing ever more Palestinians out & killing others who did not leave... Across Gaza, 76 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the last 24 hours. In the south, some died as they went to collect water." www.channel4.com/news/76-pale...

All music should be this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fq...

Meanwhile in Jakarta…

Thai woman jailed for 43 years for lese-majeste freed rfi.my/BxMJ.BS

"The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil."

Good piece! This was my brief - reconciliationtim.ca/timor/who-is...

¡Ahora en español, amigos! #cambodia #khmerrouge #genocide jacobinlat.com/2025/05/camb...

I forgot that I had a photo published in @thetimes.com two years ago. www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

In writer’s block hell right now.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Completely fucking embarrassing. This chart! Having AI “add points” to your argument? Insanity to call this ok. And the rest… ☠️

So Big Balls is the MAGA Horst Wessel?

‘1984’ is upon us

By the way, professors are celebrities in Asia.

More like MinangkaWOW, amirite?

Not so humble brag, but over 6 years since publication and Rat Hunt is still cracking #1 in Asian History. Looks like it will be translated into Vietnamese soon…

Here’s to the GOAT, UCSC math professor Tom Lehrer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

We live in the worst timeline.

I have written a staggering amount in Southeast Asian Starbucks over the years.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is. Like just when I worry things can’t get stupider, life finds a way.

Very Roman www.npr.org/2025/07/04/n...

Not that numbers matter, but this is my fourth Fulbright award. 🤷🏻

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Happy Birthday to Susan Janet Ballion aka Siouxsie Sioux, born on this day in 1957, London, England #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Macron getting slapped and then pulling his shit together was one of the most French things I’ve ever seen. Definitely vibes that are part of why I love that country so much.

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

@pbs.org is #punk AF

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1 million to $5 million worth of shares in President Trump’s media company last month on the same day that he announced expansive tariffs that led to a stock market rout, according to disclosure filings.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/