Relieved to report no hostilities at the Cambodian-Armenian border at this time.

I'd wear this cape all day.

Rapture can't happen until the Cleveland Guardians win the division. At least.

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

Again Bouie from the top rope

Go fash, lose cash

This victory for freedom of artistic expression and the 1st Amendment was clearly right and will very likely be upheld on appeal . . . but the struggle will probably be over a stay of any injunctive relief, and if it’s stayed then irreparable harm will occur anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/a...

He is going to inspect pledge pins for the right pledge pins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GefT...

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social point about Trump's efforts to erase the history of slavery: It comes at a time when the American people's historical awareness has actually been on the rise, and it's *this* that must be rolled back at all costs: www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

I really needed a sign today that what I do as a historian matters. I did not expect to literally see a sign. On the sidewalk. And in the window. Hooray for local bookstores! Water Street Bookstore totally made my day! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

if you are coming to Clean Water Fest, use 4747 E. 49th Street, Cuyahoga Heights address in your GPS. look for the banners. follow the signs. if you are not coming to Clean Water Fest, reassess your priorities sometime between now and 9am. #CleanWaterFest

Aspiring to be Gary.

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

is anyone else getting golden calf energy?

No voter rolls. No lobster rolls. This rules.

The Shakers of Canterbury, NH, did their own testing with measles in 1851. The test failed. They vaccinated. EIGHTEEN FIFTY-ONE.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Herblock on the targeting and harassment of American scientists during the Red Scare, July 1947.

On Wednesday, my friend MG (retired) John Raaen - the last living Ranger who was in the first wave on D-Day - was presented the Congressional Gold Medal. It was an honor to be at this humble soldier’s ceremony.

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

Worth your time!

Love to my AFM brothers and sisters.

Everything is shit. Here’s Robert Redford with a mustache.

Queen

Will this KS GOP remove John Brown from the Topeka statehouse? 🙄

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️ cwmemory.com/contact-me/

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Also, while much of the country appears to have moved on, and Trump just acted like he had never heard of her, Minnesotans today headed to the polls to chose who will succeed Melissa Hortman.

the takeaway is that philanthropy is fucking hot

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Today's "delightful" research find--1873 history of Wales, MA. "Delight [Andrews Abbott]--Daughter of Robert and Delight Andrews. ... She had the good or ill fortune to give birth to a daughter anterior to her marriage. These ruptures of female virtue sometimes occurred in days of yore."

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

Here's how to support my work: I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Good night!

The free webinar series from the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy begins this week on Tuesday 9/16 & Wednesday 9/17 at 6pm, w/a two-part session on birthright citizenship. You can register now. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Sign up for our newsletter medium.com/@TheRefoundi...

Interesting Sunday discussion w/nephew asking "are we really Polish?" GGfather born Russia/Ukraine. GGmother born Ruthenia/Galicia/Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Both spoke Polish. German-born uncle fled Russians at WWII's end; his birthplace is now in Poland. History, law, identity, family, self.

Great piece by Joan Wallach Scott about her father & others targeted by the McCarthy Inquisition, and - inevitably - the similarities of our institutions to today's right-wing moral panic. Highly recommended.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

All pumpkin. No spice.

The government made a fraudulent claim.

12 September 1924 | A Hungarian Jew, Tibor "Ted” Bolgar, was born in Sárospatak. In June 1944, he was deported to #Auschwitz from where he was taken to other camps. He was liberated during a death march from Muhldorf. Today he turns 101. Join us in wishing him a happy birthday.