A short thread on #soccerhistory here in Utah, featuring Utah State University’s championship-winning eleven from 1950, led by a decidedly international group.

Ardis Parshall was an OG Mormon on the Internet. The same generosity she described in 1997 carried forward into 2017 at least as she was more than willing to share resources when I reached out to her about a tangential piece of research. In her honor, I will keep-a-pitchin-in

This will largely be meaningless here, but I need to share it anyway. Ardis Parshall was a relentless researcher in Mormon history. She lacked the degrees to break into the academy, but she nurtured almost everybody from my generation of Mormon Studies scholars. 1/

Here's a short thread about some political and intellectual icons and their work at, and appreciation for libraries.

“Yeah, it’s the same shit all the time. Get rid of truth, get rid of a free press, destroy communities, nationalize the businesses, find an arbitrary enemy that you can elevate and false flag them through propaganda.” Quite astonishing Q&A about Andor and Trump

Undocumented immigrants don’t vote Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein The board of peace is a huge grift The Melania movie was a bribe You pay the tariffs The boat bombings are murder The ceasefire is not a ceasefire Ice is not targeting criminals And on and on

I’m very excited about literacy. Reading and writing is basically a Time Machine. Also, architecture, I’m very enthused with that

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

woof. from what I've heard the power intakes on Lake Powell are likely to be sucking air this summer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As we drown in edtech surveillance and AI slop it's easy to forget that we already discovered the best methods of human learning a long time ago: focused listening, reading, talking, and writing. Any tech innovation designed to shortcut any of those things actually hurts the learning process.

No joke, the previous architect I worked for frequently used the phrase “asses and elbows” during deadline crunches. I had no idea he meant it so literally…

It’d be a really great extension of this years performance if an upcoming Super Bowl half time show critiqued “corn is a platform”. Extra bonus points if that Super Bowl is held in the Midwest. I’m not sure what popular musical acts are already doing work on this theme… any suggestions?

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Never would have thought that an ad for prostate screening would be the GOAT of Super Bowl adverts but here we are….

the joy and musicality of that performance, regardless of being able to fluently understand lyrics or not, was cool. Fuck hate

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc. A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad. n.pr/4t3yQtH

Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.

The most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI: Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.

The US is a great place to live for the super rich and super famous. For everyone else, plenty of other places would offer a better life. And yet, a big chunk of the latter group doesn't demand better from the US, because the former group convinced them that they too could be rich or famous someday.

I want minimum wage and social safety net programs tied to an actual cost of living that includes housing. I want universal pre-k through graduate /professional education. I want my votes to actually matter. I want to get rid of daylight savings time…

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

“The technology does not inherently provide factual accuracy. Instead, it reflects whatever inaccuracies exist on the websites Google’s algorithm ranks highly, presenting the facts with an authority that makes errors appear trustworthy.”

Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

Parking spaces can cost developers up to $50,000 each. Dropping the mandate to have them at all opens the door to cheaper housing and walkable neighborhoods. Lessons from Denver where decisions to eliminate parking minimums follow similar moves in other cities: buff.ly/CONT05v

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.

There’s been a turn in a lot of left/liberal moral thought over the past decade away from individual culpability and toward analyses of structural forces that generate bad behavior. But I’m increasingly convinced that those structural forces can’t be confronted while individuals enjoy impunity.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

“Dork Ass Losers” from this exchange is my all-time favorite:

"To heal our blindness, the Lord chooses to reveal himself in each human being, who reflect his true image, according to a plan of love begun at the creation of the world. As long as the night of error obscures this providential truth, then...

Research shows “Christian nation” language signals: 1. 👑 Desire for traditional social hierarchies 2. 🚧 Commitment to strong ethno-racial boundaries 3. 💰 Idealizing free-market capitalism 4. 🔒 Preference for authoritarian social control 5. 🌀 Embrace of populism, victimhood & conspiracies

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

The standard story was that 1950s religious revivals were about contrasting America with the godless commies of the USSR, but I found material that hinted at an older well funded campaign that reframed the revival as a corporate pushback against the New Deal. So I followed that unexpected thread!

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

What I learned from 2025: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/four-big-t...

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...