FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations. GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

Without question. Shout out to the women this week. Just…shout out to yall.

Cabinet secretaries, lying on the record

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What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

They want to erase the violence and dispossession of the past, but enact it in the present. The history JANM tells is more important than ever, especially as the full history of Japanese American internment may disappear from national parks sites and the Smithsonian.

📢New in JBS! Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.

It seems like an excellent time for @stephencolbert.bsky.social and the journalists at @60minutes.bsky.social to start talks with @pbs.org fir several new shows. I suspect donations would roll into public broadcasting

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

Amazing.

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Read our new book review by Tammy Proctor! Proctor reviews Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars (Princeton, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @usuhistorienne.bsky.social

Congress? You awake?

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our latest Project History Matters video from @lawrencecphd.bsky.social youtu.be/kdi31m-ZGFI

Today’s Project History Matters video #handsoff history youtu.be/6jB4Srm7AbU

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

More #handsoff signs from Utah

Logan UT today #handsoff

Patrick Mason presents our Project History Matters vidro today. youtu.be/ifPbatsBiEQ

Has an archive ever looked this delicious?! In the latest One British Archive, @ellamchawk.bsky.social creates intricately decorated biscuits as a form of close reading. Read more about this unconventional archive in JBS: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #foodhist #skystorians #history

📢New in JBS! 📗“Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death”: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion by Ellen Smith Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump just invoked the Alien Enemies Act, so I’ll pass along this good explainer www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Join us next week on March 20 to discuss JBS editor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social 's most recent publication, Saving Europe: First World War Relief and American Identity. Information and RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

"Pardoning political loyalists, whose convicted conduct would otherwise fall on the extreme end of the category of so-called “violent criminals” he aims to punish, makes clear that the Trump admin is only performatively concerned with public safety." Read more ⤵️

It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage. Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …

For book publication weekend and Presidents’ Day - see my blog post for Oxford. blog.oup.com/2025/02/the-... @nacbsnews.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands." Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history. newrepublic.com/article/1912...

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

There we go, @schatz.bsky.social

"It's time to start playing the game we are actually in."