No. It hasn’t. They are not likable.

I don’t think I’ve seen a cleaner summation of the American strengths in WW2 that contributed to Allied victory.

I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

This is just embarrassing. A fifth grader looking at a map would be able to recognize the threat.

I’m starting to think the Trump administration has ignored Carl Von Clausewitz’s warning “not to take the first step without thinking what may be the last.” In fact, I’m starting to think they haven’t thought through much of anything.

Before and After #IYKYK

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

My god no! It was mass slaughter! In 1915, the US government counted the largest ever horse population in the US at > 21 million, which started to drop in the 1920s until the population hit 3 million in 1960 when the count ended. Horses live for 25, 30 years. This was not natural decline.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

I once had a 2 hour conversation on originalism with Akhil. He & I may not always agree on originalism but this is one of the cases where “original intent” is actually incredibly clear. Everyone understood what they meant. Both those for & opposed to passing the Amendment agreed on its meaning.

A staffer for TX GOP Rep Tony Gonzales said she was having an affair with the congressman before she set herself on fire outside her home last year.

Excited to see this out in the world.

This is pretty messed up. Trump. Has. Dementia. #25thAmendment

Donald Trump could be naked, yelling at cars on the freeway, and Republicans would still be all "Democrats have just never witnessed a genius at work".

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

Starting a war because you didn't win the peace prize is world-historical idiocy

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

The mouse that roared but in reverse?

Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

“Do no harm” doesn’t include finical harm I guess…

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

I kind of wonder if Trump’s random demand to renew nuclear testing was just him getting confused about the option of the senate using a nuclear option on the filibuster?

The whimsy and weirdness in these protests is just damned delightful. It dispels the gloom of this terrible moment and laughs in the face of lies about America-hating terrorists’ organizing the demonstrations. Now vote.

It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Big protest crowd in New Orleans.

Boston. Wow.

It's a republic. Let's keep it.

My first thought at the news was, “yeah this tracks.”

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Am I the only one who wants to know where the chain break is on that chainsaw? And what the heck is on the bottom of it (is that a Christmas tree stand)? That chain saw is just gonna take off the user’s hand if it even had an engine in it.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Tip for anyone discussing the Roberts court: Taney sounds like “Tawney.”

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

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Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

If you want to understand the Supreme Court this article may do the best job of explaining the shadow docket and how the court is undermining the law. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Someday Stephen Miller will be the villain in many a historical drama set in the Trump administration. I used to say Bond villains aren’t realistic. However, Miller and Musk showed up and I changed my tune.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Hey Military Historians, esp Grad students! The SMH is announcing its 2026 Summer Seminar in Military history, hosted by the Adams Center at VMI. This is a fabulous opportunity to learn the field outside your specialty, to network, and enjoy the Blue Ridge Mountains. www.smh-hq.org/summersemina...