okay that’s it for me I’m emigrating to Watopia

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

anyway today is a hell of a day to be reading in the history of policing, let alone Anne Gray Fischer, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification ( @uncpress.bsky.social, 2022) uncpress.org/978146966504...

people out here inventing the British East India Company from first principles

AAH

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces closure

"Earlier today, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s publisher failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a lower court order that required the company to make changes to its health insurance coverage for union workers"

In case y’all were wondering

finding it really hard to concentrate on any single thing while the world is falling apart

ever since I was a child, I knew I wanted to one day have 13 streaming apps, all of which hide the closed captioning options in a different place

huh I wonder why they're not posting new episodes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

Says Seth Stoughton in the panel on police power in #AALS2026: Taxonomy: law doesn't quite match what happens.

In a Lonely Place (1950) #FilmNoir

Need to start carrying a pocket constitution to keep up with each days list of violations

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

If there is a more iconic mustache in MN biking, we have yet to see it.

ah I have discovered the patent for the system of automobility patents.google.com/patent/US192...

I don't believe that they were ALL of them deceived. Surely at least one mortal man felt Sauron trying to rule him and was like, heyyy.

Ask me questions about the history of #bike policy in US cities and streets in general. #bikesky

New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...

new rule: if you don't know what the letters DFL stand for, you don't get to comment on today's news!

The first great American 250th anniversary date of the year arrives this Friday: the publication of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, which occurred on January 9, 1776. Many sources have the date as January 10, 1776. This is incorrect. But what accounts for the confusion???? Friends, follow me.

other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln

The first two hours this morning

It's not clear what Trump/Rubio are doing in Venezuela. But until they recognize that whoever leads Venezuela will have their own political and security interests, good luck with the strategy of telling Venezuela what to do. And that's before we get to all the problems with coercive diplomacy. 11/11

I think a fundamental problem in 2026 is the good solutions require smaller first year classes where we can create new assessment methods (oral presentations, digital research projects, etc). LLMs break the assignments that worked OK with big groups. But no one is investing in hiring professors.

Birkenstocks are shoes for people with no expectation of running away

cool thing about following the Criterion channel is they occasionally just drop shit pitching shit to you for 8 minutes youtu.be/qzRj7KSPmK0

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

*puts glasses on* *looks around* *takes glasses off*

2-minute comic

I hope you have a good NFL Sunday on Bluesky, the official app of sports.

foreign ham sandwiches on notice

All you product designers who love soft menu-driven items need to spend 6 months dealing with old people who accidentally hit input buttons and non gen-x kids saying things like “it’s not working,” and if you don’t come back and demand physical switches, you should be beaten and tossed in a river.

#5: "You're the biggest rube on the planet"

Just incredible meme potential #2: "You are barely smart enough to breathe"

I went to see if I could find some 23-year-old clips of Colin Powell explaining his "Pottery Barn Rule" and I gotta tell you there is some bizarre, bizarre stuff on Youtube. Just brain-meltingly weird. The future is such on odd place, I don't know how I'd even start to explain it to anyone.

anyway, here's the last couple seconds of a British Pathe newsreel from the end of WWII that I sometimes show to students to explain how hopeful the major powers were that the UN could create a new rules-based international order before the Cold War foreclosed on that. youtu.be/U3cGnbCEb-w?...

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

personally I blame the success of season 1 of "Landman"

gotta say I feel like a sucker now, teaching a module on the postwar international order in my world history survey course all these years

Well good morning everyone, I trust international affairs have been quiet overnight, let me take an exceptionally large sip of this coffee before reading the headlines. . .

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anyway, Amazon is increasingly a useless repository of AI chumslop. Here's the bibliography of "Claire G. Moats," apparently the author of 15 different biographies published in 2025, and another 10 in 2024. Incredibly prolific, no? A biography every three weeks? www.amazon.com/s?i=stripboo...

While ~ isFixed(Me) { thisNextBikeWillFixMe(); }

@sullivanjames.bsky.social Hey I sent you an email at your gmail address; reaching out here too.

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move