the Wounded Knee Massacre, as described in Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)

Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.

A student gave a presentation on the Andrews Sisters last week in my class and it took more effort than I’d care to admit to not go “BING BING BING” like @timidfrieda.bsky.social

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

this is just my personal pet peeve but it sucks to feel bad all the time and i am not into it

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

we are fucking broken as a society when mainstream news publications are saying things like "the school shooting industry is worth billions"

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

"Average American believes in freedom and democracy" factoid actually just statistical error. Average American believes in cheap consumer goods and low wages. Thaddeus Stevens, who believed in equality of man before his creator, was an outlier, and should not have been counted.

Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

despite nearly every demographic / socioeconomic advantage imaginable, I just entered *year 7* of my Ph.D.; the international students in my cohort, some still working alongside me, are among the finest, most brilliant people I have ever met. impossible to articulate what a loss this would be.

Besides all the creative solutions people are discussing, there’s one thing everyone can do: M A S K

I am right behind @bcdreyer.social in defending Our Town, fight me.

Now That's What I Call Public Humanities

This is so obviously true it makes you wonder why so many people refuse to see it

everyone involved needs to be permanently barred from public office, for starters www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The National Park Service has taken down an exhibit at Muir Woods National Monument that aimed to tell a more complete history of the site, It’s the first confirmed removal of what the regime administration has referred to as “improper ideology” www.sfgate.com/california-p...

if it wasn’t obvious Instagram was trash it put a sensitivity tag over this post

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

something to remember for next time is that you can't present a positive, sanitized vision of US history that actually satisfies fascism. telling the truth even if it hurts white feelings is always a good idea, if your goal is education not entertainment or nationalism. at least IMO.

I was given this as a gift by @toddbrianbackus.com last year and it was really lovely! Highly recommend!

every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory

it's too early in the morning for me to be this mad.

you stand strong for trans people and against every bit of terf bullshit out there so you can say Absolutely not. We don't compromise. That's a fucking 18 year old in there and she's not going to show you her fucking tits at a Buffalo Wild Wings to use the bathroom.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

“This committee recognizes that generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning.” Okay why would you recognize that. Based on fucking what.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.

"but then how else, as a public servant, am i supposed to get fabulously, luxuriously rich??"

A preschool that includes services for kids with special needs is closing after the Republican cuts to Medicaid make it unviable to operate. #mepolitics www.sunjournal.com/2025/07/29/l...

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.