why is there suddenly a copilot icon on my Word document and how do i get rid of it

looking forward to bingewatching guiteaum wambsgans this weekend

the nyt could just choose not to platform this shit

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

and a history major! 😊

Amazing watching the CNN consultant class trying to wrap their heads around Mamdani and just totally being unable to comprehend a politics that isn’t built for and around cynical operators

hell yeah eugene debs

would love to see our professional organizations platforming public historians and not popular ones

When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story: 1. Reification of expertise 2. Growth of executive power 3. Use of DC as a testing ground (thread) 🗃️

its like that one white house correspondents dinner never ended for him

this is wild but he also sounds like every other developer here

I get such a high when I catch one of these — honestly the highlight of my working day lol

sorry @washingtonpost.com but no Washingtonian considers this an "obscure board" and our (nominal) hometown paper shouldn't either.

Ha ha ha ha sob

I am in Danish! politiken.dk/kultur/art10... umps-store-planer-for-USA%E2%80%99s-250-%C3%A5rs-jubil%C3%A6um?shareToken=TUXQGOAFKsKg

Exactly how I feel and it’s only Tuesday 🫠

this article is well worth reading but it's also missing the critical fact that D.C. has long been a testing ground for authoritarian measures: most notoriously: no knock, stop-and-frisk, and wiretapping under Nixon

looking forward to reading this vital and timely book

on DC's newest "museum" and the importance of public funding in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

I had a family wedding yesterday and missed this talk, so I am super excited that Kate's also speaking at Mount Vernon next month! www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...

this has been all but inevitable since colleges started pushing professional skills as degrees. I would love to know what percentage of of these folks have liberal arts backgrounds

no, what they *imagine* is an ivy league seminar course, which is always just some dead poets society imagined 50s prep school shit. not coincidentally, this is also what they're *really* trying to make ivy league schools return to by pushing out anyone who doesn't look like baby ethan hawke!

given that you don’t actually need any historian credentials for this job, i feel like AHA could’ve skipped on posting this.

Estoy traducida al español! for @france24.com by #NataliaCabrera www.france24.com/es/ee-uu-y-c...

some nice bicentennial history by @piperhudsburn.bsky.social and a plug for my book @uncpress.bsky.social! www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/p...

one book, five articles. pay me.

this happens when most of your humanistic knowledge comes from listening to an AI read the john locke wiki entry at 1.75 speed while you're on the treadmill

Related, some enterprising editor needs to commission @mjrp.bsky.social to write about this weirdness.

if you're puzzled by the existence of this exhibit may I suggest Tammy Gordon's excellent and *increasingly* relevant Private History in Public?

yeah, let's talk about this!

sorry but is this thing getting stupider

by "historians" the @nytimes.com means one historian plus a political scientist, an expert on international security, and a business school dean.

and if you want to know exactly which American workers they mean, there’s the other side of the building

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.

just some headlines from the last time the federal government was in charge of Union Station!

alarmingly sloppy history in the @nytimes.com today--this is exactly why we need the museum content the current administration is trying to take down.

just printed this out and put it on my office door

Plenty of people think this, actually, and it’s on us to change it! One of the most impactful things that professional historians should be doing is pulling back the curtain on how museums, interpretation, research works. History’s best allies are its audiences!

❤️ ❤️D.C. ❤️❤️

Today: rewatch of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; tomorrow, probably tankie history TikTok 🫠🤪

c'est moi! dans @lemonde.fr!

Sorry I am never leaving twitter, ever, I love being mad too much!

For research today I am on an absolutely cursed app that bills itself as Duolingo for history 😵‍💫

They really put a fitness trainer on tv to talk about the history of slavery

I don't think enough people realize this: people leave tenured & t-t jobs to work at SI! curators have advanced degrees, do original research, publish, teach, mentor, AND do history that reflects and engages the entire nation! it's not just "exhibits" that are being reviewed, its scholarship.

every SI exhibit is vetted at the highest possible levels and at every stage of development: peer review by top scholars, extensive visitor, studies panels with every type of stakeholder. I'd like to see reporters covering the curatorial process and the actual experts at these museums #publichistory

yes! I'll also add that the best way to puncture myths is by emphasizing historical thinking & historical methods in public engagement. right now, the majority of the discipline seems to be stuck in offering-corrective mode--that needs to change, like yesterday

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

In 1943 DC—including this very hotel—was segregated

time for everyone to dust off ye olde agamben