This was the favorite movie of my very best friend who left us in 2021 and I shall rewatch it this weekend in her honor ❤️

Me going to teach the Supreme Court to high school students while the court is just doing this to my entire curriculum (and justice and basic rights)

This is an incredibly important and insightful piece that you should read.

I hate it when the Second Amendment ruins the First Amendment’s dinner!

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

At least he called himself a Protestant and not a “Christian”? I taught a lot of evangelical students who described themselves as “Christian” (as in, the only true Christians) Catholics & Mormons were not “Christians” - I couldn’t convince them otherwise.

A little on the nose I think 🙁

I left for 4 days and their plan is to sit on me forever so I won’t leave again.

Downtown San Diego this morning

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

To all the people who thought my religious studies PhD (with a focus on history of Christianity) was useless: SUCK IT.

We run a voter registration drive at my HS every year. Vermont makes it easy! We have town clerks come in to help.

We have to raise our political expectations.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT. CLEAN THEM OUT

Damn, JD Vance kills everything

I am so so sick of mediocre white men who have failed upward thinking they can solve problems in 1 day that dozens of experts who have spent decades studying IR solutions and working toward them couldn’t solve (or had started to! see JCPOA) They’re not special. Catastrophic hubris.

She’s not mad, just disappointed. C’mon man! 🪶

Purple finch in my lilac this morning. Spring comes late here! #woodlandbirds #birdoftheday 🪶

1) coffee 2) birds 3) skiing 4) pottery (I took my pets out of the running - they count as people)

A Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite book as a young one. I’ve read it dozens of times. I never thought I would be living under the rule of an American Mad Dog Branzillo and wishing for a “might have been” to turn this timeline around. In this fateful hour.

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia >threaten the Pope himself with personal violence >heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion >misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

This is so well done. 👌

To everyone who asked what I was going to do with my religious studies & history phd: UNDERSTAND THIS JOKE My entire life has been leading to this moment.

Rewatching the Independent Lens doc on Dolores Huerta and wow the photos of her with CC…her body language really hits differently now that we know.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Avignon papacy what now? Bad day to be a euro history PhD I think 😐

Home sick today with my support team

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Actual Bluesky challenge - post your favorite work of art from 50 years before you were born

I threw up the morning after Election Day in 2016 and this is why. Took a little longer than I thought, but here we are.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Waiting for Hegseth and Vance to burn each other at the stake over whether to kneel during prayer.

I think if I got roasted by JCO like this I’d just shrivel up and die. This might be a worse death than a chotiner interview. It’s close though.

Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.

On trans day of visibility no less 🤬

Term limits are bad. There’s very little waste and inefficiency in government.* Members of Congress are seriously underpaid. * this one may not apply to Trump-headed governments

Happy to report I did a stupid annoying time consuming thing I have been putting off since the new year, so yay me

Watching so many educators I know and respect succumb to putting every task into AI is so damn depressing. *Humanities* teachers!! Educators should know better. I thought so, anyway ☹️

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Sandra Wong, the great-granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, in San Francisco today 👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/asam... #NoKings

Will Bernie attend a protest in his home state? In his home town where ICE broke into a house and abducted 3 people a few weeks ago next to a school? And violently abused protestors? Apparently not.

Sign of the Day (from NYC):

Post a non religious photo you think of as holy

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Today & tomorrow my AP gov students are doing their “save my agency” speeches where they make their case to the president for why their chosen federal agency should get funding restored. I’ll let you know if we get to keep the FDA.