I have so many questions!

took exactly 35 minutes into my train trip for me to quiet car hulk out on a chatty couple behind me

always trying something new!

I finally watched “after the hunt” and it really feels like they should have consulted a single actual academic

I have a bunch but when I was in high school I was working at a store in Georgetown and Liam Gallagher came in and bought a throw with the Sgt Pepper album cover printed on it

has anyone written a cultural history of the american university? if not, it would be a great time for someone to do it and i even have a great title for you: "what was college"

I talked to @usatoday.com about commemoration and said "really" like a million times www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

this is like 25% of people in academia actually

interdisciplinarity has become a retrenchment strategy

what scam is this

cool runnings, everyone in the theater slow clapped while they walked the bobsled to the finish line and then cheered and I was so moved by the whole thing I wept uncontrollably and was really embarrassed because it was for someone’s birthday party and my whole sixth grade was there

truly sorry to say that I am eventually going to have to read this for research for my book about terrible people who come to d.c.

seems clear as day that there wide open lane for some brave administrator to stake an institutional anti-AI position and guaranteed they'll see a spike in enrollment

Dunno why exactly but I feel instinctively that this is a thanksgiving movie

the key to understanding this guy is that he came up as maureen dowd's assistant

nothing makes smoke come out of the top of my head faster than reading this mckinsey nonsense talk coming out of university admins

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.