The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Shared at CPAC this year

I wrote about some things making me furious open.substack.com/pub/mollyjon...

All the media attention around my situation has been…interesting. But seeing myself mentioned in one of @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s daily must-read “Letters from an American” columns this week makes me feel like I’ve really made it.

what an image!

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

I just loved this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z... Loved this! Watch for Kermit…

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.   100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.   SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Voters overwhelmingly agree that health insurers should cover all recommended breast imaging beyond just screening mammograms. radiologybusiness.com/topics/healt...

You know the meme

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

A huge chunk of Americans "on the right" in the 1960s and 70s were not principled believers in "small government." They were what historian Jefferson Cowie calls "believers in racialized anti-statism." They opposed "big government" only when it threatened white supremacy. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Remember to love the people around you, deeply and unironically. That’s going to get us a lot further than spite.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The fight I was born for: Trump vs me as a dorky child numismatist who has never heard of any federal law other than the Thayer amendment of 1866

One of the things the Lost Cause did, and still does, is sanitize slavery and even racial violence.

Adelita Grijalva should get sworn in Tuesday. Republicans swore in 2 of their Florida members right away. But the government is about to shut down and leadership is more concerned with blocking Massie & my vote to release the Epstein files. What are they hiding?

Kind of would like a world where one of the President’s staff accidentally triggering an escalator safety stop doesn’t trigger calls to bomb the UN.

I’m working on another (follow up) historical FBI Op-Ed. Nearly done. Meanwhile, here is the first: theconversation.com/the-parallel...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

I am not going to say it. But its there.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

the Trump administration told The New York Times that IUDs, hormonal implants, and the Pill are actually abortions open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

I’m old enough to remember when the Justice Department told a federal judge that Abrego Garcia’s immigration matters would be handled by an ICE desk officer like it would in any other “garden variety” case

Stop and really imagine this. It's June 1740 in the Bordman house in Cambridge, MA. Seven-year-old Ruth and five-year-old Andrew are in bed, struggling to breathe as diphtheria slowly closes their throats, choking them to death. Ruth dies first; her little brother dies the next day. Fuck RFK Jr.

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

As someone with one kidney due to cancer who nearly suffered kidney failure due a paricularly large stone (I don't recommand the experience), let me tell you, there is no such thing as a healthy spare. Redundancy is a survival mechanism, you dotard.

The cost of losing an election shouldn't be a potentially life-altering illness. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

I like what Newsom is doing. I like what Pritzker is doing. I like what Mamdani is doing. We need all hands on deck NOW. We can worry about the presidential race LATER. Once we secure its relevance.

Not sure how useful it is that the Times keeps writing the same story about the different iterations of fascist intentional communities popping up like pustules across the country, but I do have to admire the attention to detail in this one.

You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers. The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.

Members of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy, the closest crime we have to treason itself

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Attached is the text of an email sent to the Office of Inspector General at the Smithsonian. Historians and others must start protesting now before this revisionist "cleansing" has occurred. Please!

Trump WH is now rewriting history beginning with the Smithsonian- saying it will give museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

If you want a fuller history of the Confederate monument being returned to Arlington National Cemetery, check out my essay in this book. That’s it on the cover.

There is no starting from the position that AI summaries or AI-generated "sources" are viable components of historical understanding without ending up at the position that history as an attempt at human understanding of the past is worthless.