Nothing better than a project where you get to collaborate with smart friends. This roundtable was fun! Thank you, @lucatrenta.bsky.social, Michael J. Ard, @cindystorer.bsky.social, @paulmcgarr.bsky.social, and the one-and-only @tim-weiner.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Protest in Wesley Chapel, Florida

Does the intelligence community warn of imminent threats? After speaking with my students, I’ve decided to offer clarification of the threat warming process.

Re Mark Kelly, I’m watching A Few Good Men and it got me wondering, what IS the penalty for a bringing false accusation against a senior officer?

Socialism is not Communism. Democratic socialism is not “pure” socialism. Crack a book, or stop supporting lies for your agenda, whatever that is.

This is what I see from my students. ChatGPT can help research, it is not research.

I worked for the CIA. Counterterrorism. I disobeyed illegal orders. Anyone else?

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

That’s nice re Democratic strategy Lawrence O’Donnell, but meanwhile I will not have health insurance next year.

Hegseth’s speech today is one more indication they plan to invade other countries and declare martial law in our own. Why not comply with the laws of war? To invade. Why practice in cities? Why emphasize “brutality”? Etc etc.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

Cancelled Disney+ today. I love the content but love my country more. I did not defend my country from terrorists for this.

Friends it is so essential to find your people. Hang out as much as possible with people who have decent values, who do their best to be kind You should have a community where you will be welcomed just as you are. And where your soul will be nourished. My community’s doors are open.❤️

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

CNN has made the editorial decision to keep playing this clip on air for guests making sure they get the full context of what Kimmel said. Good.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

So is it just me, or does anyone else think these plans to deploy the national guard all over are preparation for protests this coming weekend?

Liz has a plan. A good plan. Who’s in?

Crimes against humanity

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

www.facebook.com/share/1AdN32... Hell YES

Interesting add tonight in Florida. Biden broke Medicaid but Trump will save it. Does this signal a reversal?

All of the autistic people I know are accomplished in their own ways.

Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."

Oh wow. This just in from a CISA spokesperson: “The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA. Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners’ and stakeholders’ patience.”

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

In Congress, July 4, 1776. “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution….For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses…”

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

"Saruman, I have heard such speeches before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant." (Since Palantir is run by alleged Tolkien fans...)

“To have a hope of combating the end times fascists, with their ever-constricting and asphyxiating concentric circles of “ordered love”, we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures”

Absolutely epic parody. 💯

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

This is great advice. People are complex, emotional beings. We need to use that, not deride it. Is anyone listening?

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Making it all disappear …

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New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home. Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

Dr Fry is an Associate Prof. Of History at the Army Command and General Staff College, where officers on-track for higher command learn the profession, including the history of both successes and failures. Halting this education is not just a failure, it is gross negligence.

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

X-FILES x HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY "Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards." #1stlinepit #Q #A #SF

I am told that DOGE showed up at the peace corps this morning. If you’re there or know details please contact me at joshtpm.99 on signal.

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My mom died of Alzheimer’s. It’s an awful process.