I know many people who can ignore plenty of their job duties in 6 hours a day.

The “man-spread” on this guy!

Terrific thread, well worth reading in full, by @adamrothman.bsky.social.

It’s June, & with it comes my 279th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Political message.

Thanks, “Mario” and everyone else doing this work for us.

NTSIT Nothing Trump Says Is True

Another take on the IWW Pageant of the Patterson Strikers.

They are strong practitioners of TALE: Trumpers Always Lie about Everything.

#OtD 7 Jun 1913 150,000 people attended a pageant at Madison Square Garden in NYC to support striking @IWW silk workers in Paterson. Up to 1000 workers took part, with the assistance of John Reed, Big Bill Haywood and others stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1071...

Hegseth Compares D-Day Troops to Europe’s Migrants

I'm so old I remember when oil companies paid Republicans to wipe out America's domestic solar panel manufacturing industry. Remember the lies about "Solyndra"? So now China has a massive lead. They tried and failed with wind turbines so they're trying to keep them from being installed.

On 7 June 1934, the British Union of Fascists held a rally at Olympia, which saw violence meted out against anti-fascist hecklers who infiltrated the crowd. This began a summer of anti-fascists activity, which also highlighted the violent tactics of the BUF. hatfulofhistory.com/2018/09/09/f...

Nothing says "not a fascist" like the head of state printing out a list of enemies for the crime of criticizing him in public.

Look back over the last fifty years, and you see a steady pattern. Nixon kept an enemies list of American citizens and used the DOJ and the IRS to go after people on it. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/05/when...

New bibliography entry: A Life Lived like a Storm: Enver Pasha and the End of the Ottoman World ift.tt/HSrjNlc #FWWstudies

Today's Find: U.S. Senate hearing on "Competition & Safety in the Delivery of Anesthesia Services" June 7, 2000 bit.ly/1p13qim #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Grim @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the $$$$ war at home: on immigrants. And the face of America on this D Day is a white supremacist. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-6-2026

Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose.

Toronto Public Library is still looking for an innovator in residence, civic tech edition. Deadline has been extended to: Sunday, June 7, 2026 tpl.ca/programs-and... h/t @vassb.bsky.social

Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

A hero.

You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.

Exciting data analytics position at the Seattle Public Library! The position mentions "developing reproducible analysis, reporting tools, dashboards, data workflows, and policy/process recommendations." $108k-132k annually www.governmentjobs.com/careers/seat...

you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...

I don’t know what Whiskey Pete means by “boats and men arrive.” He and his pernicious throwback, half-assed ideology FLEW in.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an illuminating example of what politicians in power *can* do. Donald Trump is an illuminating example of what politicians should never have the power *to* do.

“Bovino gives a hand to the European Far Right” and I give the finger to them both.

Matthew J may be tired, but he has whipped out a powerful, succinct 4-post thread of interest to anyone beyond the troglodyte stage.

Make sure your pneumonia vax is up to date…

The largest & most influential union of the 19th C, the Knights of Labor began as a secret fraternal organization in Philadelphia in 1869. Responding to ongoing labor unrest with events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Knights enjoyed a brief but significant moment of influence & power -

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

In honor of D-Day and as part of Dothan, AL’s America 250 celebrations, my shop built its Voices of Veterans display and website. 12 local vets (and one spouse) interviewed 1997-2009, excerpted and introduced. WW2, Korea, Vietnam. Website at https://spectrum.troy.edu/wvp250/

Louisiana selects two books for the 2026 National Book Festival. See what was chosen. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Alexandria Black History Museum to host free lecture and book signing Saturday on untold stories of Virginia's Black Belt www.alexandriabrief.com/alexandria-b...

Attention graduate students and early career historians: Essay prize submissions due in 10 days!

John Deering nails it www.gocomics.com/johndeering/... Robes on, hoods off.

37 years ago, on the 5th of June 1989, a still unidentified Chinese man blocked a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square a day after that square had been forcibly cleared by the Chinese government. Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators had been killed. #otd #history 🗃️

Well-sourced research studies vs. unsourced reports is an epistemological issue. Sourcing supports critical engagement and thinking (in addition to Karen Wulf’s list) while unsourcing supports “revealed truth” (Kevin Levin’s “act of faith”).

Depends on what job you’re interviewing for, I guess.

1. Don't believe the headlines. Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund is not "dead." The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it's dead. But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.

Shorter Bari Weiss: Kneel before Zod!

There’s no sushi police. If you’ve ever wanted to make little balls of rice, raw fish, and dried seaweed, you’ve been able to do so.

It’s taken YEARS to get past the weirdness of clusterfuckery to open the first medical cannabis shop in Alabama, but it’s finally happened.

Commentary via Catherine Dorrough: "The Roberts court behaves for all the world as though it’s an extension of the Republican Party, even when the justices have to contort their logic into pretzels ... to arrive at decisions that weigh in the GOP’s favor." https://ow.ly/Ks9g50Z7hos