CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

An everlasting W

Rhode Island has a chance to do the funniest thing ever here (RI almost tanked ratifying the Constitution bc it really liked not recognizing debts from other states levied in anything other than RI’s currency, a system that benefited them immensely and made NY have a rage stroke)

Man, the “point blank sandwich” discourse made it feel almost like Olde Twitter which of course made me realize how much I miss Olde Twitter Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had

The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.

Alright gents listen up! Yesterday we covered cone of sandwich fire and the beaten, or, “floured” zone. Today we will be discussing enfilade, plunging and flanking fires. As well as the preferred sandwiches for each. Open your menus to page three.

Dressed up kinda vaguely as a 19th century naval officer to hand out candy for Halloween and let everyone guess as to my costume Here’s a few of the guesses as to who I was: Washington Hamilton A pirate Napoleon A doorman A prince And my fave, just “Bridgerton”

BREAKING via AP Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

Ah

Whose land this is I do not know The statue fell down long ago; No one will mind me stopping here    To watch the sand o’er ruins blow. My camel friend must think it queer    To rest with no oasis near    And precious little shade these days    Gives Ozymandias, I fear. (1/2)

A college acquaintance on FB shared a long and overly verbose screed that can be boiled down to “people are poor because of what I perceive to be their sins” We’re just really trying to get back to workhouses and company towns and debtors prisoners, huh

Dreamt last night that Timothee Chalamet got the role to play a French general in WWI And now I want to see this

At some point I’ll sit down and collate the overlap of progressive German 1848 revolutionary immigrants in Turner Clubs, Wide-Awake Clubs, and 1850s-1860 militia companies - at which point I will reach full limit of potential and probably self combust

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found. 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Terrific thread (who doesn’t love a little Blair Mountain in the morning) Stronger together

I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).

Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Otis blessing our timelines tbh

Resisting the urge to give in to the pull of americas 250th by drinking like a founding father aka being functionally drunk on the daily

I did not know that this conversation existed. And now I do. And so do you. *boop* lbjtapes.org/conversation...

Hey Siri, what’s the precedent for not paying the army

For context, I’m barely even able to read works of history anymore, just mainlining Agatha Christie mysteries like they’re Otis Spunkmeyer muffins on a 12-hour convoy stuck behind route clearance

Is it time for the Butlerian Jihad yet?

I don’t have the energy to post these days but just go ahead and assume that I’m generally upset, troubled, put out, and otherwise pissed off about pretty much everything

No but I have seen the “what if Lincoln accepted the 50 or so war elephants offered by the king of Siam”

Wore my “don’t argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot” T-shirt today Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar “Who’s John Brown?” Reader, I despair.

Narrator voice: He did not, in fact, keep that promise

This evening’s absolute random-ass posting brought to you by me seeing the Army Chief of Staff (our highest ranking officer) doing a podcast with some energy drink brofluincers which made me think about the state of the “Profession” and blech

William Faulkner was too short to join the US Army Air Service in WWI, so went to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Flying Corps but they were like “no, too short” so he was a maintainer and never left Canada Returned to the US after the war, wearing unearned wings, medals, & bragged of a wound

I mean…yeah, that about sums it up

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

Military officers should have civ-mil relations embedded as a core part of their PME directly at commissioning, not once they reach field grade Maybe then it might sink in

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

Just so incredibly tired

Cats. They never change

I have returned to my ancient native land (Ohio) and have labored with great toil to rid the filth of ages from the caverns (the garage) to do my filial duty unto that matriarch to whom I am sworn to fealty (mom) I shall savor my triumph with ambrosia (ibuprofen and lemon tart)

Sorry, Grover Cleveland, was just reading Philippine War stuff and McKinley was on the brain

Did I doze off and it’s 1894 all of a sudden? Because this is nearly the exact plot of Pullman in Chicago, except subbing Regulars for the National Guard

The deeper we go into the hellmouth, the more impressed I am that Anne Frank kept a diary I can barely find the energy to write at all

Major non-NATO ally, hosts an US airbase (al-Udeid), tons of US citizens work there, & is home to multiple US university campuses (at Education City, which is far from where the hit happened). US embassy in Doha apparently didn't know a strike was coming. Unclear if WH & Qataris knew in advance.

Great account of the 1866 confrontation, @pptsapper.bsky.social. I only wish it included that when Johnson confronted Grant at the cabinet meeting, and Grant refused, Johnson appealed to the Attorney General, who judged that the President has no authority to give the military non-military orders.

The general who defied a president www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Irony is dead

We never finished the first one

"WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD BECAUSE SOME OF THAT PUBLIC GOOD MIGHT GO TO SOMEONE I DON'T LIKE" is part of how we got to where we are in 2025

Some folks might recommend getting promoted, getting a divorce, starting a new job, and moving all in the same span of four months, but I cannot Especially if those four months are in the year 2025 This year feels like it’s been 5 years long already

I’d rather exercise my demons than exorcise them because they’d look cute in leg warmers and I’m conflict averse anyways