A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

It turns out that when you treat students life consumers and don't even acknowledge the full-throated rightwing attack on higher education, you fail to build trust.

Teaching about #MayDay shouldn’t get you on Fox News it should be celebrated. May Day is American history and Chicago History specifically. “On May 1, 1886, 80,000 workers marched up Michigan Avenue in Chicago…” Learn your history-The Haymarket Affair www.illinoislaborhistory.org/the-haymarke...

Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors. And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I love how Trump spends much of his time offering bemused commentary on his own administration like he’s Fred Willard ‘s character in Best of Show.

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What happens when you guy the federal government? Things break.

RFK Jr. just claimed with a straight face that Trump and Vought “didn’t want to cut SNAP”.

Open invitation to pitch some public scholarship to either my Review Roulette or @americanstudier.bsky.social's AmericanStudier blog!

This was not, in fact, the chief complaint against Big Balls

Hating on university professors is foundational to conservatism in the US and has been for nearly a century. (That's my go to image in my intro courses when discussing the Cold War attacks in education.)

I adore Max so I say this with respect: this is the wrong line of questions The correct one is: what are the political conditions in Maine such that he is more popular than his opponents with working class white folks *and* POC despite his problems? Why don’t the Dems do better talent development?

Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu. Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) John Fetterman (PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Jackie Rosen (NV) Chuck Schumer (NY)

I was totally a triceratops kid

"If treating Chavez as a celebrity and putting him on a pedestal was a fatal mistake, then we need to see the union's accomplishments not simply as the achievements of one man... [but as] the result of many discussions among many people," writes David Bacon. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Never want to USians fix their mouths to speak about so-called Third World political corruption again.

Given that movement conservatives spent the 20th century obsessed with unmarried teenage pregnancies in the US, this is rich. It also shows just how little most people know about the history of the American family.

The House Budget Committee hearing with OMB Director Russ Vought temporarily stopped as protesters chant, "PEPFAR saves lives. Spend the money." They have been escorted out by Capitol Police. PEPFAR is the The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

Are you going to @oah.org? Do you have a potential book project for our UNC Press series Boundless South? Please contact @francoisehamlin.bsky.social, my co-editor who will be in Philly, and tell. her about it. Her email: [email protected] uncpress.org/series/bound...

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In Nigeria, Why Isn’t Broadband Everywhere? By Lucas Laursen It has 8 undersea cables, but fiber-optic networks miss half the country.

TOMORROW ON @thisguysucked.com: TGS is teaming up with @superlinguo.bsky.social and @lingthusiasm.com for an episode you won’t be able to forget, although you might really, really want to! In it, we prove that Australia has spent the past few centuries being a weird bad place.

The new Fellowship crypto PAC has filed its first fundraising disclosure. It reports a $10 million contribution from Cantor Fitzgerald (previously headed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, now controlled by his sons) and $1 million from Anchorage Digital.

Plant-y #SciArt opportunity!

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Clavicular "micro doses" crystal methamphetamine, i.e. he uses drugs and is high all day. I hope he recovers. People doing well don't use crystal meth though and too few called him out on this before today.

Has anyone calculated the chance of a J6er being convicted of sex crimes vs the general population? It's gotta be like 10,000% higher

External funding is rapidly reaching crazy levels of competition. Good luck, folks. www.gf.org/stories/anno...

April 15 marks three years since the outbreak of war in Sudan. We trace the conflict through 10 of Sudan’s most heavily attacked regions and record firsthand accounts from people living there aje.news/blak6n

I've been thinking about this all day, especially in light of re-reading @lclaberge.bsky.social 's wonderful piece about Hampshire's previous almost-closure. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ma...

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

1. reported this earlier today 2. pale horse www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never....

Everyone knows it sucks

Despicable. This should trigger more resignations. apnews.com/article/prou...

Make sure you put this on your reading list. Forthcoming from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social

Episode 25 of Dan Flores’s American West podcast is an excellent deep history of the High Plains.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

Modern liberalism, being that it emerged out of turn-of-the-century progressivism, began as thinking of itself as global. FDR's politics were deeply tied to the world's problems, like the rise of authoritarianism. Indeed, the liberal Cold War was exactly that global project.

As far as I'm aware, no Portland area media have written about this death besides @thewesternedge.bsky.social, even as national outlets are picking it up. Bizarre!

The push for institutional neutrality, like the so-called “free-speech crisis,” was always a right wing ploy to get universities to stop pointing out obvious things like “fascists are ascendant” and “racism is bad.” It is sad that so many university “leaders” took the bait.

App-based gambling is turning us into a nation of degenerates:

How 3 Trump-appointed judges have prevented Judge Boasberg from probing top DHS & DOJ officials (including a now fourth Trump-appointed judge, Emil Bove) for possible criminal contempt for 363 days.

My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A quick historical context for the whole "WEAK on Crime" thing. Ever since the 1960s, conservatives and moderates have always been able to paint their opponents as weak on crime by simply saying it. Voters always buy it. Journalists cover it as true. He's simply doing what always works.

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to [email protected] 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies docs.google.com/document/d/1...

burn it all down.

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.