this fwiw is an astoundingly poor understanding of how the new deal coalition took shape and reveals a real inability to grapple with its contradictions

Just got word from WHA that the great historian Quintard Taylor has passed away. His book, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West was such a huge inspiration in my own work on the region. Also first Black president of WHA. A legend who will be missed.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

I remember being told multiple times that the Trump administration would kill fewer civilians with drones than Democrats would.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

I don't care

"money has gone. But not everybody is going begging. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the United Negro College Fund announced record earnings this week, due mostly to large, anonymous donations." 💙

We watched "Sneakers" in memory of Robert Redford tonight. This final quote... "In a surprise announcement, the Republican National Committee has revealed it is bankrupt. A spokesman for the party said they had plenty of money in their accounts last week, but today they just don't know where the..."

they've tried to co-opt MLK's name for so long while at the same time shitting all over his legacy, so they've shifted to reshaping one of their own into a cargo cult version of the progressive visionaries they learned exactly one thing about in like 4th grade

You're welcome! I didn't pay much attention to the portrait before, and so forgot or never realized that it was based on the 1865 photo of Lee in Richmond - the one with "devil" visible on the brick behind him. Maybe that photo could be displayed beside the portrait at West Point, for context.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

who could have imagined the second Trump term would go so poorly the first was great

Dear pundits: Please proceed with caution when invoking Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address, and his appeal to the "better angels of our nature." Remember, it didn't work! Quoting an appeal to unity that was followed by 4 years of civil war should give you pause about the power of such appeals. 🗃️

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

I actually think it's really important that Kimmel doesn't do this!!

Every day of 2025 has been a new version of "I will never forgive the people who let this happen."

"grate a pear" is the new "go fuck yourself, nerd"

ah, well

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

it's bananas

Sneakers is an absolutely perfect movie. Every frame is flawless. And one of the best scores/soundtracks of all time. Sheer perfection.

Guns n Roses have definitely mellowed with age

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

This is essential reading.

I'm going to have to watch Sneakers tonight

Too many great moments with Robert Redford to pick just one, but I'm currently re-watching All is Lost, the shipwreck movie where he is the only character, and I'm having a hard time thinking of another 77-year-old actor (his age at the time) doing so many of those punishing stunts, *at sea*

Yeah okay but they seldom make history

Covid boosted!

I've said it before but people in the future are going to have a better understanding of the 17th-19th centuries than the 20th-21st centuries. Why? PAPER [the most durable technology invented by humans]

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Exosquad

I will die on the hill that a major reason we are where we are is Gamergate

Fill this out please, all Seattle baseball folks.

Huh I can't seem to find your statement about Melissa Hortman and her husband being assassinated in June? How weird

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

A reminder: You can turn off autoplay on videos in your settings here.

Oh okay cool

I wish I was the moon tonight

Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way

Courtesy of a brilliant UD diss student, take a gander at this 1899 Report from the US Commissioner of the Bureau of Education and it's 21pp bibliography of "CONFEDERATE TEXT-BOOKS" archive.org/details/repo...

the Minneapolis shooter was a cis man who detransitioned before he then became a nazi. he was a rightwing stochastic terrorist & he deserves to be forgotten like every other fascist.

It's stupid to rename it, but I'm far more upset that I never get to vote for a Democrat who would cut its budget than illegally changing its name to something it's never been named.

Look, the next Democratic president needs to put everybody involved, from Trump all the way down, on trial for murder. They blew up 11 civilians in broad daylight without statutory authorization.

The people currently running the United States of America, despite wrapping themselves in our flag, actively hate the United States of America and everything that makes it good, unique, and worthwhile.

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.