Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online. Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

No Kings Protest, Zanesville, OH. We fought one war to get rid of a king and tyranny. And another to defeat Fascism.

Commentary: In August 2023, Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected lawmakers' blatant attempt to undermine our citizen-initiative process. Instead of listening, politicians are now aiming to shut down grassroots campaigns before they ever reach the ballot. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/11/o...

Speaking of the horrors of detention without charges by an authoritarian state, most semesters I'm able to raise awareness of the situation of the Uighurs in China. This explainer from @pbsnews.org is very helpful.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Conservative Outraged Tampons Available In Men’s Grocery Stores theonion.com/conserv...

We need your help! To mark #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay we’re launching a challenge to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In the space of one week, we want to digitize 27,000 prisoner registration cards from concentration camps. Join in on January 25. #everynamecounts

In the Journal of Genocide Research Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shira Klein has published “The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am using this book for my Twentieth Century Europe class again this semester. And as I am prepping it and my assignments, its breadth and depth of primary sources documents showing how fascism grew in many different European countries is amazing. Thanks to all the chapter authors!

Come one, come all! Rachel Chin and I are launching Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe on Feb. 17 with a Zoom event. We'll be in conversation with my brilliant colleague Sam Lebovic, talking about all of the amazing research in this book. RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/reimaginin...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers." Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.

The Bier Stube is where Greg and I had our 1st date. They tore it down after 58 years of being a mainstay of OSU's bar scene. A Muskie alum is friends with the owner, Craig Kempton. Mike got Craig to sign a piece of paneling from behind the bar and drove it to the VNC to hand me today.

When all of the sudden it's the first of December, the end of classes are nigh, Final Exams are looming, and your two revise and resubmits that you were like -- those aren't due for SO LONG -- are now also tugging at your sleeve.

Every academic right now

Dear New Followers, I am a historian who teaches at a liberal arts university in Ohio. Posts will be about history, dogs, baseball, & general shenanigans. This is Scout, my rescue dog, who is part tri-color border collie, part Australian shepherd, part Great Pyrenee, & likely some other breeds.

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s important to push back on the entire framework wherein individual academic programs are evaluated based on cash flow. Universities are *nonprofits* and the goal is to provide excellence in an educational and research ecosystem. This means some subunits *should* subsidize others.

One more for the endless series of stories that repeat this one significant fact: the "it leads to more unemployment or lower salaries" argument about humanities majors is FALSE. In the last 5 years this work has made some important headway among humanities scholars themselves, which is nice.

Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...