One of the three Folkton Drums that were excavated during the late C19th at Folkton, near Filey in East Yorkshire. The drums were associated with a child’s burial, and date to around 3000 BC. Part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Archaeology #FolktonDrums

Historian of Reconstruction here, Eric Foner and I agree with this message. We did a joint presentation on this very topic in Princeton yesterday!

And where is the outrage from every member of Congress?

Guillotines. For all of them.

A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic

I’m just a simple country historian w/o a law degree, but it’s more than a ‘long standing tradition’ when its IN THE CONSTITUTION

2. This is an extremely small sample size in a house in Pompeii. And yet many headlines are universalizing in order to say ALL Roman slaves ate better than the freeborn. We know that this is absolutely not true. Look at this Reuters headline:

these AI systems routinely struggle to offer factual, basic breakdowns of the news stories they're digesting. And they still routinely just make up gibberish:

Remember: Juries are important not so much for the powers they have, but for the powers they prevent others from having.

RIP Juries 1351-2025 www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

One of the features of the Trump era is a formalization of the use of enemies lists to induce terror. It is one thing when MAGA influencers or organizations are naming you as an enemy of the state, but it takes on a different cast when its the White House. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

The great thing about iykyk, is I dkadntk.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

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I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.

Pulling the most recent police log led me to once again see an incredible holiday decoration picture a cousin in Omaha sent me

This is extremely depressing

Russia's ongoing scheme to trick desperate people to fight in Ukraine with promises of fake jobs is clearly a sign it wants a war it cannot win to end.

Russia's only chance to win is paying off Trump to sell out Ukraine. That's what Trump/Witkoff are attempting. The other option is a democratic US/international coalition giving Ukraine long range missiles to destroy Russia's military bases. Otherwise, Russia won't stop until it is stopped.

TPUs > GPUs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

“Device hoarding” un fucking real Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit

The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄 This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

There's a whole swath of political media -- Semafor, Axios, Politico, etc. -- where the average piece reads like a press release commissioned by its subject rather than an objective and independent analysis of them. This is just embarrassing.

NEW: Amid reports that the U.S. DOGE Service is "dead," alleged Acting Administrator Amy Gleason breaks her silence on LinkedIn: “I’m alive.”

What we’re seeing is a repeated and increasingly explicit offer of white reconciliation over a shared commitment to preserving white supremacy.

I wrote this six years ago and if anything we have to hear from this fucking guy *more* now. newrepublic.com/article/1565...

The article is called "Out With Woke". He specifically calls for sacrificing all marginalized communities upon the altar of the revered white male. Is that how desperate liberals have gotten for any sort of hollow "win"?

@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Posobiec spoke at CPAC this year where he made some news. He's not a fringe figure in the GOP in the slightest. youtu.be/oVfA4pkJ8rw?...

They did it, they did the meme, again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

2 Words: Stochastic Terrorism

1. Good riddance. 2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

Unforgivable.

Well well well well...

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October. An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier. me, for @forbes.com 1/

Okay, this kid is an absolute legend.

The ex-Reform leader in Wales has been sentenced to ten-and-a-half years in prison for taking pro-Russia bribes Nathan Gill's "sophisticated" activity was a "grave betrayal" of public trust, a judge said on Friday Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said Nigel Farage's party is a "danger to national security"

The latest, with gift link: wapo.st/4rdDQew

Trump's rants against Democrats have inspired everything from death threats and pipe bombs to the January 6th assault on the Capitol. This is a time to take him literally and seriously.

U Boats flying swastikas used to sink your ships, which many at the time regarded as potentially divisive.

This is a foul development: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...