do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

I believe that should read (((cosmopolitan communists))).

I think it’s great that we had the world’s richest man who has the mentality of a 12 year old boy who just watched a YouTube explainer on Ayn Rand gut the National Endowment for the Humanities at the behest of a political party that claims to be the last defender of Western civilization.

I love how Ivermectin has become like “tussin” in that old Chris Rock joke.

What is the best idea out there for eliminating or reducing the impact of hyper-partisan gerrymandering? It strikes me that most voters dislike gerrymandering, and might be interested in voting for a Democrat who had a good, clearly articulated plan for stopping it.

Things that should not be run like businesses: universities, hospitals, and government. Things that should be run like businesses: businesses. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

They hacked Canvas during finals week. This is why the faculty need a secure ballroom.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Your regular reminder that MTG is a credulous, conspiracy-addled dope who is not qualified to be dog catcher, let alone a representative in a modern democracy.

In the 1960s there was a rabidly antisemitic & white nationalist preacher named Ken Goff who spoke at hundreds of churches around the country. He posed as a "patriotic Christian anti-communist," but he ran a paramilitary camp for neo-Nazis. A huge # of churches he spoke at were Assemblies of God.

lol and they immediately leaked it

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

Just listened to this and it is incredibly well done. Highly recommend. Leave it to OTM to take a seemingly boring/wonky topic, the history of FEMA, and make it totally riveting.

At this point, you should just click on the post below and see all the historians who have done their own great threads picking apart this thing.

This semester I taught a course on the History of the Far Right in the US. We were lucky to have one of the Pacific Northwest's best contemporary chroniclers and interpreters of the far right, @leahsottile.bsky.social, visit the class. This piece by Leah was inspired by what she heard students say.

This is such a great angle, and so well executed. We're only beginning to see the consequences of this. Must read.

At every single one of these companies that have bribed the Trump Administration there are people who arranged these deals with Trump’s representatives. A future government should give these folks immunity in exchange for testimony, & threaten the companies with prosecution if they don’t cooperate.

The chapter where Satan methodically eats all of the children in the school for lunch is pretty intense. And the illustration of Satan’s mother putting him on the bus in the morning with a worried look on her face is pure pathos

It's the former (or, like Ron Burgundy, he'll read anything you put on the prompter).

I know I'm coming late to the Tucker Carlson/NYT interview discourse, but I need to talk about this stunning moment of weirdness because I think it reveals an important TC tic--the gap between reality (he's a swampy insider) and image (just a truth telling guy, asking the tough questions).

The newly released Epstein note contains a weird a phrase "watcha want me to do - Bust out cryin!!" Well, our eagle-eyed producer @carebrose.bsky.social found it in an email Epstein sent to his brother in 2016. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The GOP’s outreach to Mexican-American voters is going great.

I finally had a moment to read this. At first glance Easter Island (Rapa Nui) feels like such a random inclusion. Tbh, it still sort of is. But the reason nobody is naming the "pattern," including Flynn, is because there is literally no pattern to name. And that's where Rapa Nui comes in. 1/

Now that’s what they call old fashioned corruption!

As I wrote last week, the warehouse concentration camps aren’t happening The people win. Again

Two years ago this cost $14.99. Thanks Obama!

"In their lives, those worlds have merged, blended. Political rhetoric that simmers online, divorced of all empathy and civility, flows offline. Horrific real-life violence has always been available to them: a Google search away, a reality they’ve been preparing for since grade school."

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

It’s fascinating how the movement that has attracted a bunch of white people worried about being “replaced,” is now furthering policies that will disproportionately harm the “melanin-challenged” community in the name of protecting their freedom to make their skin darker.

Join us Thursday, May 14 at 1pm EDT for a new political education series on the Christian Right. Learn about the rifts in this movement, how opposing groups can respond strategically, and which interventions are missing. Register now at https://bit.ly/CTRCP1.

You’ll never guess the direction this Mike Flynn “investigation” goes.

Every time I hear the phrase “colorblind conservatism” I’m reminded of this 1977 banger from Reagan. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Pleased to announce that Oscar Mayer has commissioned my new book project about the history of ground meat products that culminates with the rise of the hot dog to market domination in the late 20th century. It’s called “History is Written by the Wieners.”

Rosenblatt's book about the history of liberalism is quite good, IMO, but it's striking to me that the word "equality" is only mentioned (in passing) twice in this >1 hour interview. If your goal is to make a case for liberalism, why wouldn't you foreground that idea? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

🔥 NEW MSNOW: Major companies are funding Trump’s Christian nationalist event "Several well-known companies have signed on as sponsors of Trump’s plans to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th anniversary." Ja'Han Jones writes about the upcoming Rededicate 250 event: www.ms.now/news/news-an...

My university started paying to use Canvas two years ago and it has done nothing to make my job easier or, IMO, to facilitate student learning. If anything it’s been a net negative. Now this.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

The American Revolution was primarily a revolt against monarchy, but it was also rejection of aristocracy. I feel like the country is due for a revival of that old anti-aristocratic sensibility because today's huge concentrations of intergenerational wealth and power are bad for everyone.

In 1960, hundreds of synagogues and other public places were vandalized with swastikas. According to the Liberty Lobby, this was ackshually a hoax perpetuated by the ADL. FWIW, the Liberty Lobby was run by a guy who celebrated Hitler's birthday in his office, where he displayed 4 Hitler busts.

The next book covers Noem and prairie dresses and home decor and Noem’s late dog: share.google/23ZOgfb0lZen...

The University of Iowa paid this bigot 34k for an hour of anti-intellectual (and anti-higher ed) propaganda. It is embarrassing that he has a platform outside of right-wing message boards, let alone at a state flagship.

Hope the folks at the Times are happy with the role they played in platforming and legitimizing this know nothing bigot propagandist.

It's wild that a current events newsletter written by a historian of 19th century America, Heather Cox Richardson, has more subscribers (~3 million on Substack) than the Washington Post does(~2.5 million). Some thoughts on what this all means. rightlandia.ghost.io/slow-knowled...

The new piece by @robertdownen.bsky.social on Paul Pressler and the SBC is indeed incredible. It is a must-read and expertly details how and why the nation's largest Protestant denomination is what it is today, and how that affects the entire nation.

We’ve now reached the combination Christian Nationalist AND Qanon posting stage of Trump 2.0. “Trust the plan” is a common Qanon slogan.

My university uses Google products and these same aggressive prompts bombard me and my students every minute as we try to use our unique human brains…what I had foolishly thought was the entire point of “education.”

Kristi Noem and her granddaughter in calico dresses with a painting of John Wayne looking over them is some serious @kkdumez.bsky.social bait!

It's pretty wild that 25 years later Rudy G ended up on the same side of the political divide as most of the fools who think 9/11 was an inside job that Republicans were complicit with.

The Republicans control all three branches of government, the J6ers were all pardoned, right wingers own Twitter, Facebook, the Washington Post, CBS and CNN…right wing donors exert unprecedented influence over the nation’s universities, but sure, we’re on the verge of a Cultural Marxist revolution.

spoiler: you do not find out what tucker carlson really believes