The only real analog I can think of to Elise Stefanik's decision to run for governor of New York in 2026 is Thích Quảng Đức, the buddhist monk who lit himself on fire at an intersection Saigon in 1963.

Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything

The dust on a spectacular night for Democrats in general, and the left in particular, is going to settle for many hours and days. But we're starting to fill in our big board: make sure to jump in and explore! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

They're multiplying and embiggening!

Sunset from the mountain

This resonates. I've ended a couple of decades-old friendships with people who pretended to believe things that I know they could not actually believe.

All the royals worldwide are inbred idiots with subpar morals. I cannot stand that the British royalty are now celebrities in America. We used to ignore those degenerate royal chuckleheads. They do not matter.

We have this wonderful Japanese garden here in #Spokane and today it was really showing off in its fall colors.

Me: "Everyone grieves in their own individual way, and none of us have a right to-- HOLY HELL WHAT IS SHE DOING IN TIGHT LEATHER PANTS WITH HER FINGERS IN HIS HAIR LIKE THAT??!!"

Scicomms program I normally like: “Throughout history technological progress has been linear.” Me a historian of technology: *livid screaming*

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

So so many folks is academia are absolute shitbirds.

This is your occasional reminder that every time an American pays any attention to the British royal family, George Washington rolls over in his grave.

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (80/≆800)

"Workers Hurt by Wage Hike." When I travel I always buy a local newspapers at the little towns that still have a newspaper at all, and they always feature an editorial from one of those business-funded policy institutes that make work for mediocre white men. (Whitman County Gazette, 10/23/25, p. 4)

#3goodthings Classroom observations of 2 amazing dual enrollment HS teachers. An admin relented on an annoying decision that had negative impacts on my employees. Sweeping views of the Palouse region on my way home from the high school visits.

This looks wonderfully stupid. It's someone who sat through the what was it like 70 seasons of Dowton Abbey I am the target audience.

Autumn in New York 🎶 #NewYorkCity #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

This is Finn. He may have plenty of toys, but he refuses to play with anything other than a concrete block. 13/10 to each their own (TT: emilyyheide)

Hey #historians, is the Directory of U.S. Newspapers at the #ChroniclingAmerica site at the Library of Congress broken? I used to use it to see what newspapers had been published in a town and who has the microfilm. #AcademicSky #librarians #digitalhumanities www.loc.gov/collections/...

The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

Here's an in-class exercise for #publichistory classes working with digital databases. In this one, students explore online death records at the Washington State Archives, look up some of those people on Newspapers .com & tell their stories to the class. #AcademicSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Apparently it is difficult though.

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Me: Oh that headline looks super interesting in a non-intuitive kind of way! Let me click through to this article. 2 seconds later: Ah fuck it is Malcolm Gladwell. Nevermind.

A failing leader has two choices: 1) own up, or 2) lash out. Own and analyze the situation so as to do better, or blame others. #AcademicSky

I observed a colleague in class today. She had this coffee mug.

He is so damn good.

Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!

Today in heartwarming tales: A man posted this historic photo from his collection, with some Natives in a parade in Pendleton, to a regional history Facebook group. A great-great granddaughter of the man in the lead recognized him from family photographs. So the owner is mailing her the pic.

Ok this actually gets even more interesting. When you google the lede of this story, it pops up also as a story by Anita Hollier at KHQ. So did someone plagiarize? But then you search Anita Hollier and she has stories across the country, in Montana, in Charlotte, in Spokane.

Kurt Vonnegut was a children's author.

#NextDoor has only two kinds of posts: 1. "Please help me find my lost pet Fluffy!" and 2. "Let's round up the homeless and send them to prison camps."

I rejoined NextDoor to promote a local history event and 30 seconds later I am arguing with racists.

Same in the US. So much (very real!) doom and gloom at the structural level, so much joy in the classroom.

Holding another workshop for homeowners to strike racially restrictive covenants from their property. They want extra forms for their neighbors! Here's our website: ewuracialcovenants.org #AcademicSky #RacialCovenants

Can anyone recommend a *specific* portable PA system for a #tourguide? I need something to amplify my voice over that of the traffic. I do not want one of those systems where each person on the tour gets a little headset, I just want a speaker that attaches to my belt. #publichistory #academicsky

I asked my oldest son to bring me back some #sardines from his trip to France, Spain and Portugal. I love that guy! #tinnedfish #winning

Reporting live from the world's largest swedish meatball restaurant.

Ai companies be like “the price of tulips bulbs will rise ever higher!”

Me to my wife: Go take your meeting, don't worry about me. I'll duck into this coffee shop and get some work done. *gets coffee* *admires view* *opens laptop* *PRAISE MUSIC BLASTS VOLUME 11*

I am leading a student research trip to the San Juan Islands. It's pretty great. #AcademicSky

Great thread.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I had the same LinkedIn photo for I think 22 years.

"Holland is ruled by Midgets/ Pope owns CBS/ Subway cars have been equipped with bars/ And they're cloning Rudolph Hess!" Back in the day all the cool kids HATED on #TheDeadMilkmen. I loved them for their bright punk pop and goofy refusal to take anyone seriously. youtu.be/J92l1YwQxVc?...