Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

Hey, urban history folks, do you know any adjuncts in the NYC area that might be able to teach the history of the city or something similar?

Already passed it along to a student in our senior seminar who is working on the 2008 financial crisis.

This is fucking sick

Holy shit...

Self portrait shot with a Minolta x 700 on Arista 100 film. #film #photography

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college: 1. Contemporary China 1945-Present 2. Soviet Film: Propaganda, Myth, and Modernism 3. History of Architecture 4. Relativity 5. The Japanese Cinema

How dare you speak of the star of Shasta McNasty in such a way?!

Today's featured title: "Dreams of a Young Republic: The American Vincentians in China," by John J. Harney, University of Nebraska Press, 2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social @ludensprof.bsky.social www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

What a time to be an American visiting the U.K.

it's a real show of character (derogatory) to lend your name, your mind and your credibility to a fraudulent and disgraceful effort to gut a fundamental constitutional protection, and then whine that people are mean to you about it

What year is it?

*Me, innocently starting a Mad Men rewatch for the first time since it aired* Betty, mentioning who she invited to Sally's birthday party: Helen Bishop. Me: Why does that name sound... Oh... Oh no, Glen...

This is not my “official backup account” because I don’t have one. It is an impersonator. Please block it into oblivion.

The "rule of law" part is particularly galling from a program under the direction of a person who spiked a story about the foreign gulag where never charged migrants were sent in defiance of a court order.

I am looking for examples of well-structured 20th century US history articles, ideally written by junior scholars, ideally something to which my MA research seminar participants can aspire? Something where a bunch of the research could have been done in a semester?

Clearly by showing participation in debate or Presidential Classroom, but not Model UN because it makes you a globalist.

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A question for folks who will know why: how much genAI use do you think is happening among early program history PhD students these days?

The musicians cancelling their concerns are trying to de-platform Donald Trump. That’s censorship and it’s bad. Greg Lukianoff at The Free Press

Just re-upping this job opportunity. DM me with any general questions you may have.

Some people will commit human rights violations rather than just go to therapy

If my dad was still alive and someone tried to do this to him, I would end up in legal trouble.

And the lowest number of views? You guessed it: Frank Stalone! (Not really, but I couldn't resist.)

Re-upping this for the morning folks.

Folks, Centre's History Program is hiring a two-year visitor. It's a great opportunity to get a couple of years of really good teaching experience. Share widely, please! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69669/c...

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Folks, Centre's History Program is hiring a two-year visitor. It's a great opportunity to get a couple of years of really good teaching experience. Share widely, please! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69669/c...

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

I mean, maybe it's just a really big Aquaman fan?

It's kind of funny that the last time CBS News/60 Minutes did something like this it became such a big scandal that they made a movie about it www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insider

Notable absence of substantive reasons to prevent the piece from airing the day it was scheduled to bsky.app/profile/benm...

I am sure the 60 Minutes report on CECOT was very well done, but what makes the decision to kill it even more damning is that CBS was hardly out on a limb on this story. It has been extremely well documented and reported by many journalists.

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Well, thanks to @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social, I get to learn how Julie and William Aloysius Maher Jr. made up a guy for @oldmanweldon.bsky.social to get mad at.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This guy looks like he murdered Laura Palmer and just can't stop dancing.

So, it was literally just this? youtu.be/w-eJSHoH9Fs?...

a lot of media commentary on the academic study of history, particularly when its actual attention to specific pieces of academic work is glancing or cherrypicked, just reads as The Revenge of the Buffs

I do wish more journalists would spend a minute or two imagining, for the mental exercise if nothing else, that academic history is a profession rather than a hobby

No, see, this is how he gets ya. You sit down to interview him and very quickly things go sideways.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

proud to be part of this conversation on the battle for academic freedom and its many dimensions across the country. look for the folks in your community who are organizing and building power together!