The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com

They really stuck the landing on this one.

The 2025 writers are trolling us.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Alan Taylor: "By turns tragic, picaresque, & inspiring, The Escapes of David George illuminates the daunting chains of American slavery and the resolve of courageous people to break them. O'Malley deftly explores the interplay of freedom and slavery in a time of revolution." 5/

@wcaleb.org: "Where on earth, could a Black man in eighteenth-century America go to be free? With his award-winning ability to narrate histories of slavery, between the local & the global, ... the material & the spiritual, Greg O’Malley is an expert guide through George’s Atlantic world.” 4/

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard/PBS: "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution." 3/

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Jennifer L. Morgan, NYU: "If you read only one book on the American Revolution--this should be it. O'Malley's riveting history reframes the concepts of liberty & freedom in ways that are profoundly important as we mark the 250th anniversary of the War for American Independence." 2/

Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong. #Mariners | #TridentsUp

Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong. #Mariners | #TridentsUp

We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars. 1/ The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Really looking forward to this

We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars. 1/ The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

to paraphrase Tyrion, "we aren't challenging your integrity, Madam Attorney General, we are denying its existence"

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

If I had a penny for every time some idiot claimed that Russia must be allowed to do whatever it wants or else World War III will erupt, I’d be swimming in wealth. Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

Yup. Key point.

Now say it publicly.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

War-ravaged Portland

War-ravaged Portland

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

Stephen King against book bans. Read!

The @mariners.com announcers are really counting chickens before they’ve hatched tonight with all this talk of when the Mariners will celebrate clinching the playoffs vs clinching the division. Maybe clinch something before planning the celebration? #Mariners

“I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses… been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Sen. Alex Padilla: "This isn't about one comedian or one television personality or any one network. It's about whether we as Americans still have the freedom to laugh at those in power, to question authority, and to tell the truth without fear of retribution."

Fifteen Democratic New York elected officials were arrested at a federal building in Manhattan while seeking access to an ICE holding facility — the latest clash between Democratic officials and immigration authorities.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

I was going to watch the new season of #OMITB. But yup - it must be done. Free speech is more important. Cancel Hulu and Disney+!

Fight censorship, people.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

free speech for me, but not for thee

Will ICE send guys to Boston looking for red hair and listening for brogues? Or stake out delis in Chicago to see who buys a kielbasa? No. This is about profiling people by skin color and language. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Since we’re not really doing democracy anymore, I’m curious who succeeds to the Golden Throne if Trump died, especially since no one likes JD. Is it RFK Jr. as the next least qualified cabinet member? Is it a Kardashian as the next best reality TV star? Is it Hegseth’s belt buckle? A Jan. 6th felon?

Schrödinger’s President