Maybe they should require reading the Establishment Clause first. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“We are LOSERS, not winners!” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

This language is virtually indistinguishable from that of a mob boss overseeing a protection racket.

James Grimaldi in @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning. Let’s gooooooooooooooooooooooo!

A typical summer morning formation.

Am I the only one who finds carrot sticks infinitely more satisfying to eat than baby cut carrots?

Good morning to everyone except that painfully mediocre propagandist David Frum.

This assault on academic freedom should be understood as part of a broader project to destroy everything that once made IU a world-class research university—foreign-language programs, the Kinsey Institute, etc.

An interesting and encouraging piece. But it’s astonishing that professional political commentators still present Clinton’s “Sister Souljah” moment as an example of “tacking” to the “center,” rather than an appeal to the politics of white grievance. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

They got me good.

Getting a precancerous growth removed from my forehead this afternoon. I’m told this is pretty routine, but if you don’t hate me, please feel free to send some positive energy my way. If you are one of my professional nemeses, please refrain from inserting pins into the forehead of my effigy.

So many things I wish I could say. jobs.chronicle.com/job/38003953...

Still can’t believe this guy isn’t going to be the mayor of Los Angeles.

Happy Daddy’s Day to me, proud father of these two beautiful baby boys.

"[A] black presidency is a contradiction—it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad." Just an incredible piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Memoirs of a racist, anti-Catholic Catholic who would be President. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

I know it’s just an advanced reader copy, but look at this beauty!! Thank you so much for sending, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social! (Sonya’s the one to ask if you’re looking for one!)

The lovely folks at Women’s Prison Book Project have a pride month fundraiser to get LGBTQ+ books to incarcerated people. www.givemn.org/story/ja2ngf

Recession indicator.

And some folks still refuse to call it fascism.

Unspeakably racist and cruel—and entirely consistent with this administration’s MO. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...

During the Atlanta youth murders, police collaborated with the Art Institute of Atlanta to develop an original cartoon character named "Arty," who delivered safety tips to city children through free coloring books and televised public service announcements. Arty was voiced by ... Bill Cosby. 🗃️

Me, crying to track ten on High Violet:

The only Claude I recognize.

My Gen Alpha kids (8 and 5) are OBSESSED with Mr. Brightside, so maybe it's speaking to a new generation now!

Why has “Mr. Brightside” enjoyed a resurgence over the past several years? It’s a great song—not knocking it. Just curious. Is its reemergence attributable to a broader nostalgia (however misguided) for the 2000s? Discuss.

Oh no. Night Battles is another banger. And I loved this amazing article in @historyworkshop.org.uk. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

omg, The Cheese and the Worms was one of the first readings I did in grad school where I was like 🤯 more please!

Justly a staple of grad seminars for decades

We had those at the height of Jim Crow too. drawingmatter.org/w-e-b-du-boi...

Damn. The Cheese and the Worms goes so hard. Rest easy, king. 🗃️

Once a dumb asshole, always a dumb asshole.

Welcome to another edition of “Bee-bopping Around the World with Huey and Gumbo.”

Many thanks to the (sadly) Bluesky-less Tamar Carroll for her very generous review of my book in the most recent issue of the @oah.org’s Journal of American History. 🗃️

True story: Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts’s birth. www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1...

Euphoria.

So fitting that the president was born on the fourteenth, given his affinity for a particular mantra.

I’m always saying this.

Haul from @pennpress.bsky.social. 🗃️

It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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I finished a draft of another chapter in the Atlanta book. Three more to go (plus an epilogue). Please clap. 🗃️

RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!

“The most historic sporting event of all time”? The NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup and the World Cup are all going on right now. This is maybe the fourth biggest sporting event of the weekend.

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “Free at last, free at last! Thank God almighty we are free at last!”

Halftime. Time to grab some McDonald’s fries, wash them down with an ice-cold Coca-Cola, and fly to Saudi Arabia on Qatar Airways to work for Aramco.

I’m in the same airport lounge as Dana Bash and John King right now. Hopefully this doesn’t mean that I’m also a mediocre, overpaid professional who has failed upwards throughout my entire career.

If you truly wanted to understand the pressures facing humanities scholars in the US academy, you'd speak to folks working and teaching at public comprehensive regional universities—not three individuals from NYU and one well-known asshole from Princeton. 🗃️ www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

“Historian here”! He actually ran on deregulation, cutting social assistance programs, and boosting defense spending. 🗃️