I hope you’re enjoying your day as much as Honey Butter enjoys Egg.

I think I may put this on my syllabus.

This pains me. insideclimatenews.org/news/1905202...

I would never do this during football season. It’s not football season. If you are in the area, feel free to stop by. Would love to see you.

The footage of that day still exists. The testimony of officers still exists. What has changed is not the historical record but the willingness to look at it honestly. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

In NY’s North Country, Indigenous children were treated in ways that would never be contemplated in the state’s more affluent districts. open.substack.com/pub/nativeam...

Such an important point. Our rabidly right-wing SCOTUS will, I imagine, abandon its tendentious commitment to strict construction when this comes before them and prove once again, that they are attempting a revolution in American life.

Taxes. That’s it. I can think of some historical examples of “villainizing” the wealthy that will make paying taxes seem like a gentle caress.

We’ve had ABCDF grading forever. Maybe it’s worth discussing a transition to alternative modes of evaluation and measuring competence and accomplishment that more accurately reflect student learning.

I grew up and return often to Ventura, directly across the Santa Barbara Channel from the islands. I’ve been to the islands many times, one of my favorite places on earth. This is very sad news. A Sailor Shot Distress Flares. Now a California Island Is Burning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

this is a masterpiece

So many “academia out of touch with Republicans” pieces, so few “Republicans out of touch with highly educated people” pieces

I’m old enough to remember when unacceptable corruption was failing to pay taxes for your nanny.

He is so immensely talented.

Why are all U.S. military strikes now described as "kinetic," which means "relating to or resulting from motion," so it means...absolutely nothing? The gobbledygook is just meant to further numb you to the fact that human beings are getting their heads or arms blown off by bombs from our mad king

Good Morning, Friends, I am looking for help in compiling a list of readings that you like to help convince my students that the liberal arts and humanities are an antidote to the hellscape that is AI. I will be happy to share what we can compile together at the end. Thanks in advance!

Found this in my office mailbox. My honors student attached fifteen dollars to a book he borrowed from me. His roommate, he said, spilled a beer on it. Looking forward to handing this back to him as I send him off at one of the happiest places on earth, a college campus on graduation day.

This is a good bill that should pass. It should also be unnecessary. There is room, young scholars, for more work on Indigenous citizenship. www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/...

“NY orders broad reform of public school that held Native children with disabilities in wooden boxes”… Let that headline sink in for a second. In 2025. At a minimum, these people should be banned for life from ever teaching children or administering schools. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

Someone could do a “This Is Spinal Tap” parody of the CBS Evening News

I actually liked this essay, and deeply respect the Boss. But the premise is wrong. There are tons of artists doing good work. Pop stars like Bad Bunny for example, but also a zillion small timers you can see at your local rock and roll club. saltypolitics.substack.com/p/why-is-spr...

Which way to the Round Table, my Lord?

This is stunning, if true, and at the end, there are easy steps on the actions you can take to get Roberts disbarred. mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/the-twenty...

So Donald Trump has decided that an executive branch agency answerable to Donald Trump has damaged Donald Trump and must pay $10 billion to…Donald Trump.

Updated for the end of another semester. michaelleroyoberg.com/teaching-nat...

Tomorrow, in Pultneyville, Wayne County. This talk I expect will be part of the concluding section to my current book project, a history of the Sullivan Campaign and dispossession in New York State. Stop by and say hello.

I have taken many greater American roadtrips.

This essay is filled with everything I hate. Dont wait for the music to come To you, man. Pop sucks. Always has. Go to your local punk rock club. Pay your cheap cover and drink shitty beer. But you will see that the musc is alive and well and the kids are all Right. 🤘🎸 jacobin.com/2026/05/popt...

The Omohundro Institute is holding its conference in Nashville next month. Too close in time to reschedule and relocate (I get that) but some sort of statement ought to be made about the redneck racist MFers who have gleefully redistricted the state.

Boycott the World Cup.

What a feckless, weak, and hollow man who has overseen the destruction of the judiciary. He is worse than Taney.

Bob Lonsberry, a local radio talk show host, is a racist dipshit.

Cartoonist: Paul Duginski

Thoughts and prayers, Kyle. Thoughts and prayers. Or how One spider has done more for gun control than the three branches of the United States government combined. www.rawstory.com/kyle-rittenh...

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs says there are at least 4200 unsolved cases of Missing and Murderee Indigenous Women and girls. Today we remember them. michaelleroyoberg.com/mmiw/a-brief...

The lack of moral or ethical courage is astounding. It’s easy to abandon principles when you have none. Coons made a valid point, but I would Have asked, “why are you afraid to answer this question?”

It’s Red Dress Day, a day Donald Trump once set aside for commemorating Missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Here is a Brief History of the Trump Administration’s shallow effort to address the crisis of #MMIW and #MMIWG.

Just remember that the Court is not done with its reconstruction destruction. They still have time to destroy birthright citizenship. I mean, their hoods are off…

The Enlarged Prostate of the Arab World.

Outstanding analysis from Kevin M. Levin.

I really have no use for Democrats who are unwilling to expand the Court. It’s really a matter of whether or not one is opposed to white supremacy. John Roberts has secured his place in history as the worst chief justice in the history of the Court.

Albion’s Fatal Seed.

Hi Friends, I know this will be obvious to one of you, but can you tell me what the circles word is? “They do not at all _______ to,”. I’m missing something that appears obvious to some of you.

Do we need another essay from an Ivy League professor blaming the problems in Higher Ed on the faculty? Yes, the Chronicle editors said. Here’s two! Not only are we enabling Trump by neglecting our duty to educate citizens, they say, but we are too old. They know little about what we really do.

Watching Jeffries do this is like clapping for a 3-yr. old who successfully hit the ball off a tee. It’s good, for him, but we all know he can’t hit major league pitching.

The shootings we still won’t talk about.

The Chronicle is rivaled only by the AHA Perspectives in being completely out of touch with how most of us work and under what conditions. michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...