“Here Is My Life”

What is the Greenland-sized evidence in the Epstein Files?

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I don't like this new version nearly as much as the original

Try to organize your thoughts. [My thoughts.]

No compass in the stock, though

“At my school…you see this tremendous and terrifying impact on children and on families….A third grade boy…confided in his teacher. He said, ‘Well, I don't want to type in my lunch code….I don't want ICE to know where I am, or to know my family is.’”

What was this haircut called?

Herblock on California Governor Reagan's fight with the state's university system, January 1967.

"...Let's re-shoot that last scene...!" Paul Conrad on newly-elected California Governor Reagan's culture war with higher ed, January 1967.

Redacted files room

This seems somehow on brand for 2025

Here's an 1882 advert for Oscar Wilde's lecture in Atchison, Kansas. Reports circulated that only a dozen people showed up, one man in the gallery snored loudly during the talk, and Wilde lost $35 because of the poor turnout.

We are hiring a PhD to work on climate politics and class! Come join us in Copenhagen

Some fanciful dandies from the Gardner, KS Gazette, July 11, 1901.

Jan 6, 1967 Time cover of "man of the year" and Jim Berry's response.

"Where's the rest of me?" Dennis Renault's take on California gubernatorial candidate Reagan, Oct 1966. Incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Brown hold up the mirror of experience.

“The Trump administration is holding a record number of immigrants in detention, up to 65,000…To find more detention space, federal officials are reopening former prisons. Many of those prisons had closed after facing allegations of abuse and inhumane conditions.”

“…the speculation about his age and physical decline reflect a reality of his regime: that Trump is mortal, and that he is old. His reign—as the president, as the head of the Republican party, and as the gravitational center of American politics—is going to end.”

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By the time I’m done shouting and sputtering, you will agree like never before!!!

“In conclusion, the buck stops with everyone else.”

I have to hand it to him, I didn’t expect that he’d sing “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”

It’s giving apocalypse

Bill Crawford on America's glaring pollution problem, November 1966. In the years leading up to Earth Day 1970, editorial cartoonists like Crawford, Herblock, Bill Mauldin, Hal Campagna, Lou Grant, Hugh Haynie, & others were focusing greater attention on the environment.

"I am the ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future..." Paul Conrad, Ventura County Star, 12/24/1966.

I'm thinking of reworking a Civil Rights course I taught years ago. Will probably be orienting it around history & film. I'd esp like to teach it through major debates. Anyone on here done that? Any suggestions about topics and readings? (Peter Pettus photo of the Selma to Montgomery march, 1965.)

"You're probably wondering why I called all of you together…" Paul Conrad on newly-elected Governor Reagan and his talent pool, November 1966.

"Don't hang that one—that's the candidate!" Herblock on the Reagan image and the 1966 race for governor, October 1966.

"Tell me—is Berkeley as immoral as Hollywood?" Dennis Renault's take on Reagan's run for California governor and his pledge "to clean up the mess at Berkeley," Sept 1966. The NYT reported, "Reagan has demanded a legislative investigation of alleged communism & sexual misconduct at the UC Berkeley."

"I always knew I was ahead of my time..." Paul Conrad on Goldwater as a forerunner of white backlash politics, September 1966.

«Et statlig utvalg ledet av fysikkprofessor Anders Malthe-Sørensen fraråder å bruke hjemmeeksamener som eneste vurderingsform, fordi de mener risikoen for juks ved bruk av KI blir for høy. Rektor ved Universitetet i Oslo Ragnhild Hennum er enig i konklusjonen.»

What a time to be alive. Blue books "may not be the foolproof way to prevent AI-assisted cheating that faculty are looking for: Meta now offers Ray-Ban glasses with a built-in AI assistant that sees what the wearer sees and can communicate silently and privately via an in-lens display."

"Nothing messes up your Friday like realizing it's only Wednesday. Amirite?" - Karl Marx

"As the film world and people of good taste around the world mourn the sudden death of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, President Donald Trump jumped to make the apparent double homicide about himself...." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"'Religion and politics are necessarily related.' -Reagan." Paul Conrad, LA Times, 12/31/1984.

Great to see these poll numbers so low. Hope the approval rating will be in the 20s in the new year.

“…the cost of opposition becomes high. In a democracy, you can criticize the govt, & still not have to worry that your govt contract will be revoked or that you'll be audited by the IRS or lose your grant funding. But in the authoritarian regime, this is precisely what people have to worry about.”

"TV Frankenstein." Cy Hungerford on the menacing TV presence of Joe McCarthy and his televised anti-communist crusade. On the antenna sits McCarthy's chief counsel and future Trump mentor, Roy Cohn. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/13/1954.

Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History. president.yale.edu/committees-p...

"Finally coming to a head." Cy Hungerford on Ike's, and the GOP's, McCarthy problem, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/18/1954.

Reminds me of Trump speaking to Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: "I just want to find 11,780 votes."

The US Embassy London posted this some hours ago. One more checked box on the authoritarian card.

“…I think that Trump has been one of the most pro-Israel presidents we’ve seen. On the other hand, has at no point denounced Fuentes, nor, for that matter, has VP J. D. Vance, despite the fact that Fuentes has routinely insulted not only Vance, but Vance’s wife and her family, who are from India.”

"Do you think we peaked too soon...?" Paul Conrad, October 1968. Former Alabama governor George Wallace won 13.5% of the popular vote (over 9 million). He also carried five states in the former Confederacy: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Paul Conrad's cartoon on George Wallace's violent authoritarian rhetoric, October 1968. Louis Heren in 1968: "Sinclair Lewis wrote his tale of American fascism, 'It Can't Happen Here,' in 1935...many Americans are now looking apprehensively at George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama."

Is this Trump's Gettysburg Address? Mt Airy Casino, Dec 9: "I haven't read practically anything off the stupid teleprompter...You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter...I said, 'Why is it we only take people from shithole countries,' right?"

Paul Conrad on George Wallace's "running mate," 9/20/1968. “One of the issues confronting the people is the breakdown of law and order,” Wallace said. “The average man on the street in this country knows that it comes about because of activists, militants, revolutionaries, anarchists, & communists.”

"We're gonna make history, Hubert...!" Paul Conrad on Vietnam War escalation, September 1968.

The liquor and beer situation in Dec 1934, one year after the repeal of prohibition. (The camels in Kansas and Alabama symbolized the bone-dry element.)