Yet another data set illustrating which party actually opposes gerrymandering. The Republican number only spikes in 2025, when Democrats respond to Trump’s escalation by fighting back

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

Sheesh, it's a travesty we feels obliged to applaud when a newspaper manages to run a truthful headline

Happy ten year LEMONADE anniversary to all who celebrate 🎉🙌

And this super fun, often quite intense discussion on Presidency (U)Pending. Sharing the YT version so you can see mine and @clarecorbould.bsky.social fail to control our faces in response to unironic use of the phrase “woke hegemony” youtu.be/5pgu8KfT9_E?...

Made me laugh.

Struck by Reich's recollection of a 1973 Yale law class: "Hillary’s hand was always first in the air....perfect answers, whole paragraphs...I was awed. ...when called on, my answers were meh. Clarence’s hand was never in the air. I don’t recall him saying anything, ever. Bill was never in class."

Hoooray! So damn glad this one has come back. ‘Check it out, check it out’, as that orphan in the Blues Bros said …

why not both

This is a great discussion and worth watching on Youtube if you can, the facial reactions are half the debate!

Presidency Upending, the podcast I co-host about US politics, has launched for season 2. Zim and I open with a *lively* discussion with Emma Shortis (Australia Institute) and Timothy Lynch (Uni Melb). Find it wherever you get your pods, or here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...

the mid-20th century "lost" novels of William Demby, Catacombs and Beetlecreek, have just been released as audiobooks, narrated by the always-compelling Dominic Hoffman.

16 hours per day, Epstein enjoyed “work release.” His “work”? Running a foundation he’d recently set up. His “release”? Sex in the jail carpark with a model he met when she was a teenager. Words fail me.

On the "Fresh Air" podcast, I listened to historian Rhae Lynn Barnes discuss her book "Darkology." She said that the expression "Make America Great Again" can be traced back to blackface minstrel shows. It was a call to go back to the pre-Reconstruction South when black people were "happy" slaves.

Rhae Lynn Barnes's book, DARKOLOGY, about all-pervasive blackface in 20th century American life is now available. I am quite sure something similar could be written for Australia. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

"The group nodded thoughtfully, as book people do." A fun, considered review of something that sounds at first ridiculous: paying (a lot) for cheffy food and the opportunity to read a novel aloud, in a group, for a weekend. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

I guess the pin is indeed mightier than the sword.

The thing about white supremacy is that it’s a receding horizon—it can never be accomplished and maintained. So what you’ll get is increasing infighting among the elites of this sect as to who’s truly white, who’s the right kind of Christian, who’s a real man, that will exclude more and more people.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

You and me, both, Dr. Du Bois. You and me both.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

Budget models are not neutral admin objects. I tell everyone that the flow of resources reflects your institutional priorities. Changes in budget models are changes in institutional priorities. For example, modeling majors at the college level versus department level is a (deliberate) choice.

Hey. I know cash it tight but if you have a few bucks to throw at the Royal Children's Hospital #GoodFridayAppeal, it really makes a difference to the care available for kids, and research into childhood diseases. Donate via the QR code/ link in alt Anything I er $2 is tax deductable in Australia.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

Dr. Kevin Roberts at the Heritage Foundation wrote his PhD dissertation about slavery in Louisiana. I haven't seen the connection, but looking at this I do! There's definitely something happening in the right wing for them to mirror Black women's work in this way. Vile. But they are doing it.

BREAKING: We're challenging President Trump's executive order that aims to restrict mail-in voting. Once again, the president is trying to seize power he doesn't have at the expense of our democracy.

Sure beats the NYT‘d milquetoast “Turbulent Tenure”.

Pam Gone-di, amirite

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

oh ALL the classics. very very very funny

New email signature!

Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens. That history ALONE should be dispositive.

One thing to remember about ACB is that she has adopted kids that she sure as shit wants to be US citizens and she knows damn well that if they can come for birthright then can come for naturalized as well.

100x this. It’s change by degrees, pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable, etc.

Domicile….

And thus Roberts begat a thousand undergraduate honours theses: “‘Well, it’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution,’ the chief justice quipped.”

It's possible, and just hear me out, that Trump has not taken full account of the kind of egos and self-belief that tend to accompany being a supreme court judge...

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

The US comedian’s latest viral video has (predictably) offended many conservatives. Here’s why it can’t be considered ‘racist’ on any level.

We just learned we are the most visited nonprofit news site in the U.S.

Why whiteface is in no way the opposite and equivalent to blackface. (Yes, I took the risk of trying to explain the joke.) theconversation.com/druskis-vira...

Druski brings Baldwin to mind: “Whatever white people do not know about [Black people] reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” Here's me on why whiteface is not in any way “reverse racism.” Please repost. theconversation.com/druskis-vira...

The Social Survey in Global Perspective, ed Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social, and me, from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social now available! As ebook; or print at 50% off till April 30 with GREE4033 code #histstm @austhistassoc.bsky.social @acadsocsci.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Ian was a colleague when I was at UNSW, I’ve always admired his work

Re-upping: a whole special issue on Ian Tyrrell's life & work. www.jstor.org/stable/e4852.... Ping @oah.org @historians.org @shearites.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social @modamhist.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

The Trump administration restored the Philadelphia slavery exhibit after judge set Friday deadline. Let’s be clear, they never should have been removed in the first place. This is the pattern: Trump tries to erase the history, gets caught, then quietly “restores” it. 1/2