We gonna party like it’s 1989

There are many organizations that you can join to help your communities. It is at the local and state levels where you can make the most difference. Pay attention to who is elected to school boards, utility boards, city council, county commissioner.

Does the congressman know how constitutions are ratified?

I'm willing to test this theory

*screams in Cold War historian*

Jim Crow 2.0 is about voting rights (as many have now figured out), and it is also about attempting to eliminate Black people from public life, powerful institutions, and economic prosperity. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

New graduates of Sitting Bull College said proposed funding cuts to tribal colleges could mean losing schools where tribal citizens are best able to thrive. via @northdakotamonitor.com

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

I ask myself this every day.

We have to take back every penny from the Trump family. They need to be dressed in barrels by the time we’re done.

this is somehow *even more corrupt* than him suing for the money, even though it’s a smaller amount, this is a taxpayer-funded bribes fund over which he wants sole control and no oversight

Yale School of Medicine 2025 admissions: White: 39 Asian: 38 Hispanic: 19 Black: 8 Native American: 3 If you think that 8 Black med students is too *many,* there is no other word but “racist” that applies.

no dude has ever rocked harder than this, I judge. how has this not been made into a movie

Hahahaahhahahahah

Tight tights!

Pete Hegseth’s Princeton BA makes more sense when you realize no one was in the room when he took exams.

I just read something that refers to a C as “poor work.” NO! A C reflects work that meets the standard. It shows understanding of course content and skills development. Grade inflation is out of control.

I think that if, after 15 weeks, a student still doesn’t know the professor’s name, they should fail.

I'm doing a Ask-Me-Anything thread on Reddit today. Your chance to learn about the stuff like matters, like my historiographical favorites, why I hate the 4-4-1-1, and my magical pressure cooker chicken stock recipe www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

My friend’s dad used to joke that he wanted to see if I could still speak while sitting on my hands. I wonder if anyone in the administration can say more than 10 words without Biden being mentioned.

I am out of patience this semester. I am out of patience with students. I am out of patience with higher education. Just. Make. It. Stop.

I don’t want to hang out at the Nazi bar, though.

If his job was to represent the rest of South Carolina, he would be Senator Clyburn.

Well, that was stupid.

There is no way to do anything interesting in any sustained way in any field without immersion in that field. That's just a fundamental fact of being human, and there's no getting around it.

it is flatly not possible to assume good faith of anyone who claims not to recognize the republican party as a white supremacist party seeking, as its central policy, resegregation

They’ve read Paul Kennedy.

Oh, that’s not good.

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

Hegseth’s purging the “disloyal.”

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

People know taxes pay for things, right?

Great few days for VAR.

Needing to win by 4 points nationally to get a bare majority in the House of Representatives due to partisan gerrymandering is (1) unfair, (2) a sign of America’s democratic backsliding, and importantly (3) doable.

Public trials for everyone involved, and face brandings. Give them scarlet forehead ICE letters so they can be shamed and suffer for every moment they choose to exist.

the Trump-Hormuz cycle: 1. Open it right now 2. It’s open because I said it’s open in a social media post 3. I mean it, open it or I will commit war crimes 4. It’s not important and we never needed it anyway (we are here) rinse, repeat

Hard to say it was a “clear and obvious error” under the circumstances.

Absolute comedy if Arsenal secure 3 points here because a goal they’ve lived on all season is waived off

Raya jumps and touches the ball?

MOVE TO LONG ISLAND YOU DUMB BABIES

There’s a timeline in which Donald Trump bought an NFL team and George W. Bush was appointed MLB Commissioner, and I wish we lived in it.

My spouse tucked the dog in.

If there are political benefits on the margins from blood-red turf, great, but you don't expect it in a game that is rigged against you, and you certainly don't sacrifice the interests of your base, especially on issues of immigration and minority rights, in order to virtue signal to them.

Spending your energy trying to win over the people who hate you the most would be a drastic misadventure even if we had an equitable information environment. But it is a catastrophic error in an information environment that is specifically rigged to reinforce that hatred.

Everything I know about figure skating I learned from The Cutting Edge.

Lord, please let me be witness when these people speak to St. Peter.

Wait WHAT

How do you get the attention of lawprofsky? Does anyone have thoughts on pleading requirements

As @jmritchey.bsky.social wrote: If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

This matters infinitely more than anything Trump does to the goddamned White House