Storm over Pensacola Beach

Civil War veteran/Congressman/future POTUS James A. Garfield spoke at first national Decoration Day ceremony on 5/30/1868 in Arlington National Cemetery. He offered remembrance of the dead—but also of why the Civil War was fought. “We began the war for the Union alone, but we had not gone far 1/4

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. — Booker T. Washington

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I once said on a panel that all big two superhero comics are just fanfic at this point and yep, that got some folks braying

Snagged a copy of this in a local second-hand shop. Just in the nick of time, apparently.

📢 CfP: Society for the History of War Conference 2026 📍 University of Limerick 🗓 26–27 Nov 2026 Papers & panels invited on all aspects of war & violence incl. gender, memory, civil wars, cultures of conflict, and lived experience. 🗓 Deadline: 3 July 2026 📩 [email protected]

As a single post (I’ll draft and post tomorrow on Substack as well, for ease of reference): The San Diego Islamic Center attackers’ manifesto is neither “novel,” nor “nihilistic violent extremism.” Rather, it is a clear (and uncreative) re-articulation (ad finitum) of Neo-Nazi accelerationism.

Shoe-leather reporting, archives-diving, rabbit-hole-immerson, tracking down former teammates, even some quasi-abandoned-site photography Even working solely thru the lens of ⚽, @mlsist.bsky.social found out more about POTUS' toxic roots than most of the biographers who've spent years on the task

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New genders just dropped.

Paging Sir Chortlemuffin. Sir Edward Chortlemuffin to the white courtesy telephone. Thank you.

did you hear about the horrifying thing that youre powerless to do anything about

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

If you're seeing Pride censorship in U.S. libraries–whether it's from inside the library or from pressure outside–please report it for the annual roundup. You can be anonymous. There are already *several* this year. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

Public Agenda’s new research into young men’s attitudes toward masculinity and success paint a more nuanced picture than some of the media discourse might have you believe. publicagenda.org/news/ym-pr/

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

"I have made you a book with a bunch of tidbits on the oddities of the universe," @chanda.blacksky.app said. "The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

Please go celebrate Lee’s birthday with Summer Sons or The Woods All Black or my personal favorite, fucked up wolf lesbians aka Feed Them Silence.

He's our king now. Kneel before your (tiny) king.

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

⏰️ Still time to apply for our £500 research bursary! It is open to masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians who research women’s and gender history, particularly for those working on Scottish themes. 🗓 Deadline 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

You're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?

Made some time to paint some better little flowers. #MakeAThing

Old men at airports who smell like SKOAL & whose favorite hobby is pulling quarters out of the ears of any child they see or simply 'get' their noses if they don't have change at the moment. We deleted these guys in favor of joyless old men whose only purpose is owning the libs. Let's reverse that.

One of the big failure modes I see in a *lot* of progressive spaces (and which has intruded into my personal life repeatedly) is "my feelings perfectly map the territory of reality." To say "my feelings are valid" entails a demand that one accept the emotions also describe real things.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

In the wake of the document's release, multiple right wing media outlets and viral social media posts have crowed that being trans is now classified as being a terrorist under US law. THAT IS NOT TRUE. It is NOT illegal to be trans in the US, and being trans in the US does not make you a terrorist.

And might tell the pinings I have .... the pulse of my nights and days.

Hold onto your butts.

Today, the Library of Congress officially opens The Source, a dazzling new gallery designed to show kids that research can be creative, tactile and adventurous. I visited before the opening & came away unexpectedly moved by the whole idea. My new newsletter: roncharles.substack.com/p/the-most-e...

The sound of me queuing 30 villagers to gather resources for militia production so I can bum-rush the enemy castle before they even get to the feudal age.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

At commencement today a man at the back roared out, "That's my WOMAN! That's my LADY!" when his partner crossed the stage. Girlies, get you a man who ... etc.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

William Blake - I Want! I Want! (1793)

I wrote about how parasociality invades our political lives, from Trumpism to the KHive to Will Stancil discourse. I hope you’ll give it a read www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasoci...

Just go read the whole thread for the wild levels of idiocy on display by the Texas Tech's book banning for anything to do with gender, queerness etc, & how berserk it is, because of course, since the beginning of humans, humans been thinking about gender roles & rules, queerness & transformation.

I sent off a story I wasn't certain about because it's darker and meaner and weirder than what I usually write, and it won Editor's Choice. www.thefreak.ca/stories/toko...