@althistorian.bsky.social, I’ll be introducing my US and World Civ students to alternative histories at the end of this semester. Do you have any advice for things to highlight/tips to help them with the reading/anything?

This was FDR’s 1932 playbook. Promised a vague “New Deal,” but otherwise said little because he knew the election was a referendum on Hoover. Could work for Dems now, too, but the media landscape is radically different in 2026, so it’s time for an update.

oh my god

This is why Democrats need to compete EVERYWHERE. We won’t win every race, but it’s stupid and irresponsible to simply forfeit certain races to incumbents. Always but especially now, we need competitive elections. And at the bare minimum, make them spend money defending seats they had won by 17 pts

How’d you get your citizenship, Stephen?

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I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.

At some point the Levys are gonna say something and I genuinely might go back to bed for the rest of the day

The book will be written about geographies of authoritarianism and how this regime zeroed in on cities w/ large Black populations, African immigrant populations, Black leadership and histories of Black protest. That book has already been written many times over about US history, but history repeats

goddamn it they took the wrong actor from home alone 2

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No. I am not accepting that Catherine O’Hara is gone when someone else is still here. That’s not the universe I want to live in.

I’m so tired of “I only order black coffee at Starbucks.” Starbucks overroasts their beans so the bitterness counters some of the sweetness in their drinks. Overpaying for a bad cup of coffee isn’t a flex.

a seahawk is a bird go birds

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Black journalists are being arrested for covering the ethnic cleansing of Black people by a President whose defining obsession is his hatred of Black people.

Someone got upset when I said that Bruce Springsteen is an American bellwether (when he’s good, America is in trouble). I’m sorry, a healthy society doesn’t produce “The River.”

Government by content, just as the Founders intended.

So airliners that American carriers have already paid for, imported and put into use will “hereby” be grounded, cancelling thousands of flights and ruining millions of Americans’ travel plans. IN YOUR FACE, CANADA!

There are so many Trump quotes on the TL right now, and none of them are coherent.

This is what happens when you grow up drinking from garden hoses.

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Went to dinner with the girls, and the server was wearing an Eras Tour tee, so I asked her which era was hers (Speak Now). She returned the question: “what’s your era? You give off Folklore vibes.” And I just had to laugh and say, “I do give off Folklore vibes.”

ICE ALERT- They are signing up to be Uber & LYFT drivers. Check your driver's stats. If they are a new driver, cancel the ride before they get to you.

Shrinking is back.

The Big Bang Theory was on television for 35 years* and no one ever ate anything. *possibly less, but feels true

Yea?

american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

The problem with anxiety is that it’s not rational or reasonable and it refuses to negotiate.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

good time for all of us to revisit this thread

Reminder of the pattern: when the real trump falters, he is removed from the news and replaced my in headlines by a fake, imaginary trump who is instead doing reasonable and popular things.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Ta-Nehisi Coates lays bare in brilliant prose the original sin of the Department of Homeland Security. It is right there in its name. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Anyway, the continued American instinct to assume Catholicism is always and inherently authoritarian down to its bones would make Lyman Beecher very happy and that's reason enough to question it.

Big fyi

A terrible beauty is born.

I genuinely think this is both necessary *and* perfectly achievable, and I think anyone who claims it isn’t should not be taken seriously and certainly not elected to any public office

I think Obama is in a no-win situation. People are right to look to him, but he is also Trump’s biggest trigger — the man wanted to invade Greenland because Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize and he doesn’t.

My worry is that When It Happens, everything will collapse under Vance’s watch and that will be used as an excuse to campaign on and enact the same things in the future — “the ideas were sound, but Vance wasn’t the guy to do it.”

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Never invade Minnesota in the winter.

JUDGE: “It concerns me that Attorney General Bondi’s letter cites three things that are the subject of pending litigation before this court,” referring to the District of Minnesota. "Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can't achieve through the Courts?"

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

I made Paul Newman laugh once, and it was one of the best moments in my life.

Thread. While we are looking for productive actions to take, cannot possibly educate oneself enough. 🧵

Immigrants to America are great. They enrich communities and make us stronger, safer, and more prosperous than society would be otherwise. Just saying this out loud because I’ve not seen much articulation of a positive case for immigration, lately, even as opposition to mass deportation grows.