hmm

I talk about moderating (banning) Holocaust denial on AskHistorians in all my courses to help students see why historical literacy matters in a real world context. Last semester, a student stuck around to office hours to share that he's seen denial points online

Both may perhaps be encompassed by household & hearth.

The *magic act of Jesus is often highlighted as the key part but I think it's pretty obvious that Jesus's alleged powers are tertiary or even irrelevant to his actual moral and historical importance.

Patently ridiculous argument. It can't stand!

It's the glamor. It's why Sex and the City is still popular, or Seinfeld or friends. Those shows showed unbelievably privileged lives while the Carolyn shit is ridiculous, she had the most privileged of lives as a young woman.

BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Wrote for BFT about the coming surge of earnestness and virtue signaling that could define the backlash to Trump badfaithtimes.com/in-the-absen...

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see

These are just enormous Hispanic swings:

Receipts:

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Opportunism

Can someone explain why Lindsay went this route? He was a well liked guy by Biden and McCain, why did he become this?

realistically speaking, senators are the only legislators who need to be concerned about foreign policy impacts. that's why its complete absence is so jarring here. this is simply unacceptable behavior from a senator. it would be unacceptable if they were a state department appointee. it's shameful.

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press

Leftists love the aesthetic of the Vietnam protests more than the actual principles/politics/realities of the protests.

And more popular with younger Americans than older ones!

Another version of this I see on here are leftists who make MLK out to be this bomb-throwing radical who hated liberals and the electoral democracy

Media coverage of this needs to start with informing people that the JCPOA existed, what it did, that it was working, & that Trump unilaterally destroyed it, & inform them that anything now is almost certain to fall short of that.

If we're going to do "when has automation ever made people's lives easier" discourse, I encourage everyone to read book 1 of Caro's LBJ series, and in particular the part about what happened once the Texas Hill Country got electricity and people could suddenly put their clothes in washing machines.

You can, actually, make a utilitarian argument that we'd all be better off as subsistence farmers and hunter-gatherers, because otherwise we just destroy the planet, but those changes weren't imposed, it was/is an organic part of being human, and you have to grapple with that.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

I've been covering Congress for the past decade on and off and I can objectively say the Congresscritters on the GOP side (particularly on the House side) are objectively more racist, antisemitic and conspiratorial than they were when I started.

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Hahaha, this is so gross.

I cancelled the Nyt many moons ago but no single piece of writing has ever succeeded in validating such a point as this one.

This guy is going to be completely unaccountable to Illinois voters. Completely. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/10/r...

Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content www.youtube.com/watch?v=joma...

Thom Tillis is increasingly "sick of stupid" from the Trump administration: Just don't call him anti-Trump. My exit profile of a Republican power broker who got labeled as a RINO, and how he wants to take out Stephen Miller. #NCSen #NCPol www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

compare how foreign elites took electiion interference (bolsonaro and yoon will die in prison) versus how american elites take it: a man who will sufffer *enormous* political losses is about to pardon what basically amounts to a coup attempt for inscrutable reasons

The headline that highlights the absurd form of American fascism we now live with:

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

"Trump family-linked financial group [Dominari Securities] probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams" GOP-led committee. And Dominari is central to so much of Don Jr. and Eric's latest business, um, endeavors. George Steer for @financialtimes.com

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

It was this or gay parents in Pixar movies, so I completely understand.

Leaders of a think tank aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Monday for eliminating the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule and removing vaccines from the market until they are proven "safe and effective.

Trump is completely flailing. He didn't anticipate the economic blowback and now he's trying to undo the past 10 days and contain the damage.

Tech Guys Learn About Banking Regulations is maybe a top 10 domino for the 2010s in my book

Trump signed an EO benefitting Bayer, the makers of cancer-linked weedkiller Roundup and deadly munitions component white phosphorus. It came after Bayer hired top Trumpworld lobbyist Brian Ballard and spent over $9M last year on federal lobbying. "Drain the swamp."

Damn, I got pump and dumped by the president again?

I know nothing matters any more but here's the president admitting that he accused Iran of bombing a school full of their own children based on absolutely nothing.

Trump can just openly say “I am doing this to bring in a one party state for 50 years” and commentators will hem and haw about the intricacies of carrying off a talking filibuster

Trump: "They emptied their mental institutions. They emptied their insane asylums. That's a step above a mental institution. They emptied them all right into our country."

Maybe nothing ever really does happen