Where is the lie? But also, people like to think they are special, and what they are going through is special, and if there is anything historians can establish with tedious frequency it is that no, none of us are special and historical precedent echoes and coughs its way through the decades.

Last bit of initial commentary from our house.

"I didn't want to be right about this" is the perfect theme (and rallying cry) for the moment. I often tell students that Cassandra feels like the real muse of history.

More lessons from Hungary:

This is reassuring. I've been quite surprised at how negatively most of my students view AI these days.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Some good first thoughts from my favorite Hungarian scholar (I am absolutely biased): open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Concession! Regimes do fall. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

As today's Hungarian election results continue to come in, it's worth remembering that one of the major moments in building this resistance was standing up for Pride. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

🧵It’s crucial that Americans closely watch the next two weeks in Hungarian politics. Trump is really, really invested in making sure Orban wins the April 12 election. So are Bibi, Milei, Wilders, and AfD head Alice Weidel. They’ve all shown up to campaign. Vance likely going next week. 🧵🧵🧵

Alma mater pride!

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Right back at you! It was a good weekend for connecting with good people.

"If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after."

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess

“The regents of Texas’s largest university system unanimously passed a policy Thursday setting “expectations of academic integrity and standards for teaching controversial topics” amid aggressive conservative pressure... The policy does not define “controversial.” Well, this policy is controversial.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.

Yep.

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Child is supposed to dress up as someone who exhibits kindness tomorrow. He's wearing his Wemby jersey.

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Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Solidarity with all the folks in MN putting themselves out there for the good of us all.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

“A lot of things become possible when [the nation state] is not the only framework,” @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social reminds us in this deeply intimate local history of North African migrants in France. Listen to her interview in @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: bit.ly/49GIoC6

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

SLAC historians coming to #AHA26: come join our pre-conference workshop on Thursday morning! We also have a Friday afternoon session on navigating times of crisis and an interactive Saturday morning session, "Hands-On History."

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Sending light and warmth on this longest night. ☀️

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Everything about this is horrifying.

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Today was rough (campus bs). But three of my students noticed I was off my game and brought me a giant cookie between classes. Solidarity takes many forms--and some of those are delicious. ✊🏻 🍪

We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!

This is such an amazing lineup!

Things here in TX are looking dire.

This! Teaching students to write (and thus to think) is all about inspiration and confidence building.

Excited for this one!

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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.