No Kings includes Draft Kings

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13 and that’s all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

Yes, the world is crumbling in various ways, but also I have a new article out - “The Klandidate: Senator Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan in Federal Politics.” escholarship.org/uc/jrws/3/2

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Come join me in the Austin College History department! Hiring a tenure-track Latin Americanist, so apply/spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/68903/a...

"General sense of doom."

We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!

The guy who wrote this has written for Quillette and The American Spectator and, if you google his name, you won't be surprised by any of it.

I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.

Anyone have any recommendations for longform pieces on Alex Jones and/or Sandy Hook truthers?

Since there seems to be some confusion, Tom Lehrer discussed his invention of the Jello shot in a January 1, 1984 interview with the Boston Globe:

Adjunct professors face low pay and few benefits even though they play an invaluable role at colleges and universities. Today, I led my colleagues in reintroducing legislation that would make it easier for adjunct faculty to qualify for PSLF and the debt relief they deserve.

Good news - Austin College is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of History - Latin America and the World. Apply, spread the word, and reach out if you have any questions! networks.h-net.org/jobs/68903/a...

Also contains an absolutely dead-on Alex Jones crying impression

thinking for no apparent reason about @felixh.bsky.social's brilliantly titled chapter "Invisible Umpires" in his book Ku Klux Kulture

Game-changer for you @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social fans under 70! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

the three words every girl wants to hear

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Mom just suggested that I march right up to the Vatican, introduce myself to the guy in charge, hand him a printed copy of my resume and tell him confidently and forcefully that I’m the right person for the job.

Can confirm my sabbatical research is truly engaging with the big questions of 1924

Cory Booker is currently 55 - the same age Strom Thurmond was when he set the (now previous) record

Accidentally wandered into an AI techbro session at SXSW and it’s truly remarkable how shallow the thinking is

NIMONA creator ND Stevenson is returning with his first illustrated prose novel, the pirate adventure SCARLET MORNING, this fall.

“I thought the AI chatbots would do a lot better,” said del Rio-Chanona, corresponding author of the study and assistant professor at UCL. “History is often viewed as facts, but sometimes interpretation is necessary to make sense of it.” Where does one even start....🗃️ www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...

You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

I have not even considered this!

Moon’s trying too hard again

You know it’s Bluesky when I see I’ve picked up a chunk of new followers and my first reaction is “uh oh”

instead of taking concrete measures to improve my situation I have elected to sit in a chair and look at phone

I remember when all this was fields of Alf hog, as far as the eye could skeet

"hey kevin are your syllabi done yet?" ... ... There appears to have been a massive DDOS attack on my laptop, working on shutting it down

jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

“It wasn’t just Sutherland’s tall, lean frame, gregarious energy and convincing performances as smart guys that made him attractive. (Remember his caddish professor in Animal House?) It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.” www.vulture.com/article/reme...

Donald Sutherland, a master actor, elevated everyone around him. He was the spark of M*A*S*H, the mesmerizingly still center of Klute, the hapless, decent dad who held Ordinary People together, the key to Don't Look Now. No Oscar noms? That oversight belongs in the Academy's obit, not in his. RIP.