Third swatting lockdown of the year at my kid’s school today. At least it was a distraction from <waves hands> everything else for about 100 minutes.

The clinic diagnosis of moral injury… Well, now, that’s something to think with and about!! www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

The cruelty is always and still the point.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the resilience of transgender Americans. We affirm, today and every day, that trans rights are human rights and that all our neighbors deserve to live safely and authentically.

"People get the government they deserve. I must be a terrible, terrible person." A 1969 cartoon that resonates.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Since AI is so confidently wrong so often, even about “can you do x” questions, I’m alarmed for our collective safety. Again/still. I want The Jetsons future, not this one.

Remember when politicians called for faculty to be fired for quoting primary sources?

“Growth mindset” in the workplace is a total sham. Is your salary growing? Are the rights of the employee against the employer growing? Is your union growing? Show up, do what you are contracted to do, leave. That gets the job done and doesn’t require constant “growth” to justify yourself.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

somehow I don’t think “finger prince” will catch on for that guy at work who asks questions he could damn well answer himself. LMFTGY guy just doesn’t roll off the tongue, thought. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

when what you already knew feels worse in print. apple.news/Aulng7RIkT-W...

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre worried about continuing escalation in the Iran war. Speaking alongside the leaders of Canada and the other Nordic nations, Støre added: “That’s the danger with initiating wars, that they rarely follow a script.”

Why don’t they quietly buy Florsheims in the right size and tell him he guessed their size perfectly?

Sometimes I need to remind my students to define their terms.

If I hadn’t dropped WaPo a while ago, I would be doing it now on the strength of this algorithmic pricing story.

When the talk you have been invited to give (and are busy pulling together) gets chopped from 35-40 minutes to 20. That’s going to be…challenging, given the topic (women and the American Rev.)

I feel naive for not realizing this — and angrier than ever: “Trump uses pardons not only to shorten the sentences of his political friends but to wipe out the debt they owe to their victims and to our society.”. ie court-ordered restitution goes poof.

If I were a cartoonist, I would draw Lincoln at Gettysburg in a baseball cap. (Pls don’t suggest AI could do it for me.) Or have half a dozen real political cartoonists already done similar?

Well, this version of the confession hit hard today. …we have denied your goodness in each other, in ourselves, and in the world you have created. We repent of the evil that enslaves us, the evil we have done, and the evil done on our behalf…

have skystorians actually caught people wearing Meta’s pervert glasses during a test? I have a colleague in another dept who swears this is happening all the time.

Just watched the first Burns Revolution episode. Nice to see some familiar faces, but it seems very…old-fashioned? Slow?

Free speech at its Florida finest? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Evergreen student skills: reading the test instructions. And reading the syllabus, wherein the requirements and extra credit opportunities are, in fact, itemized.

My fantastic department is hiring in Caribbean history! (FL is FL, but we are a great group of people, though I say it myself.) careers.historians.org/jobs/2208769...

ICE activity in Broward leads to school lockdowns because that‘s just what kids need. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/broward...

Summers should’ve been kicked the curb when he said: There are “innate differences” between men and women and that might explain the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. So this is loooong overdue, and frankly allowing him to step down at end of year… is more grace than he deserves

This seems like a good time to remind ourselves that Donald Trump is not the president of the United States. He forfeited his claim to office and is a usurper.

Happy mid-semester break to those who celebrate. Here’s some unhappy reading — but smashing writing — from François Furstenburg. bsky.app/profile/josh...

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts February Stated Meeting Kirsten E. Wood on "Accommodating the Republic: Taverns and Citizenship in the Early United States" Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Hybrid Event No. 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston

“I think it’s really important not to underestimate, again, why a single day of protest can be so powerful, given that in some parts of the country, people are demonstrating very obvious levels of personal courage to engage in it.” —Erica Chenoweth

Miami #NoKings

headed to Miami #NoKings on a metro full of people headed the same way. Late start, full of heart!

Academics and graduate students: have you ever found your own writing incorrectly flagged as AI generated? If so, how did you handle it?

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

moonset

A taste of what might be in store: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-i...

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Florida is now open carry. But some spaces are still not. Including courthouses, schools. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/15/f...

Faculty placed on leave at FAU and fired at UM www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/14/s...

Well, I picked an interesting week to assign Kellie Carter Jackson’s _Force and Freedom_. Looking forward to discussions in seminar 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️