Trump hijacked America's 250th birthday celebrations. Freedom 250 diverted donations funneled $100M+ taxpayer dollars to his cronies & sold presidential access. Corruption masquerading as patriotism. Trump's grifting again. #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Almost word for word my life this last month: Halving household income + doubling of domestic duties + bureaucracy of death. Family can help. And do. But ultimately it all falls to the surviving spouse.

Dear Good Job: Quitting my job will have some real repercussions for the people I help. The guilt is eating me alive. slate.trib.al/TdK8kp9

Here is the Celebration of Life for my wife, Anna Bromberg, who would have been 45 on birthday, June 25, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhJ...

+ @maxperrymueller.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social @charactergap.bsky.social @thisistheheff.bsky.social & many more! Please share the whole thread widely, check out the clue for this week's Easter Egg hunt above, & enjoy, all! blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Dan is my husband, as well as a phenomenal science reporter and editor with experience at not just SciAm but NatGeo, USAT, BuzzFeed, and Science News, too (and has a background in aerospace engineering to boot). You should definitely hire him. I don't know anyone who hustles more to get a story.

My "obituary" of my wife, Anna Miriam Bromberg. moreamerica.substack.com/p/anna-bromb...

Once more before this holiday weekend ends, here’s today’s #ScholarSunday thread. Please share widely to gift all this great work to all the folks, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

As the person who called the report "diabolically evil," let me just reiterate: the report is diabolically evil. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

I so hope Talarico‬ in a debate just lists them, and has to get cut off by the moderator for going over time.

The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! Also, I wrote about one example from my ten-year campaign to try to get editors to understand that yes, these are concentration camps. (Spoiler: there *is* a shift currently underway—hooray! But it needs to expand mightily.)

As I understand it, Sikhs are considered defenders of the weak in their culture. Oh, and badass warriors. #HATM

And now that everything's been announced, I can also praise the other books that made our list of finalists, including some by authors here on Bluesky: @hofrench.bsky.social (THE SECOND EMANCIPATION) and @maxperrymueller.bsky.social (WAKARA'S AMERICA). biographersinternational.org/award/the-pl...

My Anna and More, America. Note: I can’t sleep, so I wrote this last night. This is the only way I know to distract myself right now.

I wrote about Trump's stranglehold on the GOP and how it's turning into a deathgrip. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Very cool work from @unlincoln.bsky.social alum!

Hey all! I am looking at a dry June, metaphorically speaking, so if you have freelance editing jobs (or, long-term ones!) ones: I’m your gal! DM me for details and rates: I’ve done newsletters, novels and now, even comic books! I’ll also be doing a workshop next month so keep an eye out for that!

Wakara's America and More, America on the front page of @journalstar.com! It's a tough time in our family (this photo was taken at the hospital because that's where we spend our time these days). So this was a welcome sight on this Sunday morning.

We’re going back to Selma and Montgomery. Why? The Supreme Court destroyed the Voting Rights Act, and the country needs to be reminded who we were before Civil Rights - and why we can’t go back.

Kevin O'Leary, who is Canadian, accused two ordinary Americans -- by name, on Fox News -- of being Chinese communist agents working against "our" country. Their response is fantastic.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

What Sir Charles says here is why I will always choose him over "Republicans buy shoes too" Jordan.

Why can't we too have nice things?

In case this wasn’t already completely obvious in every possible way. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.

This excellent analysis lays bare that they realize they're wildly unpopular (popular agendas can achieve success through democratic means). And of course the more of this they do the more unpopular they become, so it's a treadmill and feedback loop.

Here's hoping you'll buy another!

Oh, this book! 'Not so much the why but the how.' @lollardfish.bsky.social's _The Public Scolar_ newly out fr @hopkinspress.bsky.social (tyvm @gmbritton.bsky.social!) hits just right. + you need one to read, one to gift!

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

To all the families--especially those with young children still at home--for whom Mother's Day is a day of remembrance instead of celebration, we see you and feel you.

We found the paid protestors/attendees!

Someone just asked me how I can have hope for the future and be sober. Maybe they were saying that you have to be delusional to have hope. I only can have hope for the future because I’m sober. YMMV. But my truth is that I should be dead. I’m not. Therefore, anything is possible.

So, the Democrats need to start playing like Republicans IN ORDER TO SAVE THE UNION. Virginia needs to play like Ohio or Tennessee. The SC ruling for Louisiana is precedent. Don't know what to tell you. You have to meet fire with fire before rhetoric is met with more bullets everywhere.

I'm somehow old enough to remember when SCOTUS in March halted a Democratic gerrymander in New York because it was racist against white voters. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The AHA at work! Thankful for @historians.org leadership and collab with ACLS and MLA in this critical case.

earlier this morning at the gym i was on a beastie boys kick and i was reflecting on how their music — which i discovered at like 10 — is a constitutive part of my personality, from my sensibilities to my politics and general demeanor towards the world

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! ALL EYES ON ALABAMA! Amid tornado sirens, flooding, and evacuations, the AL State Senate rammed through a bill to disenfranchise voters and strip representation But ppl are still showing up b/c this is an attack on us all & our democracy -TN

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

🗺️ A.M. REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️ 📍AL: Day 4 of special session to redistrict. 📍TN: Day 3 of special session to redistrict. 📍LA: Tomorrow, a legislative committee will begin hearings on a new GOP map. 📍SC: House voted to take up redistricting. Senate vote expected today. 📍FL: GOP gerrymander in effect.

The U.S. continues to shoot itself in the foot. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

1000% We haven't gotten a raise in three years. Our insurance coverage was slashed, resulting in a net salary cut of 5,000 dollars. I make less now than when I did 10 years ago.

Religion reporting.

Me standing in front of columns. Would Plutarch approve?

Yes, China is not a democracy (the U.S. is also no longer one, really). So it's hard not to question the anti-Chinese propaganda from politicians of both parties and the media when the Chinese are: 1/