Watch til the end. youtube.com/shorts/1rM1D...

Oh yeah, there is this too... www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Brutal thread on heat illness. Take care of yourself and each other, no matter what the boss says. Donate to UFW at ufw.org/sparechange

Book cover artists, QRP with your cover art 🖤

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

Due to licensing, the film you bought is no longer available. Me:

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

The racism is a feature, not a bug.

Have you seen the HUD logo? All it's missing is the swastika.

NOPE! For real.

tacky and fashy

Since we're talking about the difference between 1976 and today here's a link to a piece about Jesse Lemisch's amazing collection of "bicentennial schlock," currently housed at the Beinecke. (gift link) 🗃️

A reminder that submissions for @ncph.bsky.social's April 2027 conference in St. Louis are due Wednesday! The theme asks how our field has, currently is, or should "Hold the Line" at a time when history is under attack. Please share widely! 🗃️ ncph.org/conference/n...

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

Further evidence of the need to preserve the printed scientific record. The digital version is far too easy to manipulate or erase... #histsci #histSTM 🗃️📜

So for the first post in my AmericanStudying the 250th blog series, takeaways from three of those 1776 state constitutions: New Hampshire (model for the future federal govt), Delaware (kept elitist voting reqs but ended the slave trade), & New Jersey (gave women the right to vote!).

Indeed, Morocco offered the first recognition of an independent United States by any nation in the world, when its progressive Sultan Sidi Muhammad Ibn Adballah wrote to European leaders in December 1777 formally opening Morocco's ports to American ships.

Thread! 🗃️

We're almost at 100 signatures! The more alumni who sign this, the more pressure it puts on the university to reverse course. Please continue to share widely! 🗃️

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

One of my favorite quotes of all time is from Rev. Shuttlesworth who dryly stated in an “Eyes on the Prize” episode: “You cannot ‘shame’ segregation. Rattlesnakes don’t commit suicide.” 🗃️

"Only 41% of ethnic minority young people aged 18–24 say they are aware of the Windrush story, while awareness falls to just 31% among white young people in the same age group." www.britishfuture.org/windrush-day...

"Although the Africa Forward Summit in Kenya was framed as a partnership, it was actually France desperately looking for a new door into a continent that wants to throw it out. " africasacountry.com/2026/06/rebr...

Very telling that AI companies went after this guy most people don't know due to his stance on regulation. wapo.st/4eMNvTT

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Tonight Asheville city council will vote on a data center moratorium. It has widespread public support, and anything that stems the tide of a deeply evil industry is obviously good. But how city hall used the last major moratorium to do corporate bidding does offer some cause for concern. So🧵...

TIL

On this day—June 21, 1832—marks trailblazer Joseph Hayne Rainey was born in Georgetown, South Carolina. He was the first African American, and Gullah Geechee, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 . He served five consecutive terms during the Reconstruction era.

Nothing like re-enacting a parable from two hundred years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable...

If you have Prime, they are doing that Prime Day thing of offering other streaming services deeply discounted for 2 months, there are a bunch for $1/mo (Britbox. Acorn, Starz, PBS Masterpiece, Hallmark+) and Apple+ for $6/mo

@reuters.com: UK PM Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit, Observer newspaper reports

Guardian: Trump Treasury chief Bessent called Ukrainian leader fighting existential war against Russians "a 'little f**ker', a 'special-needs child' and 'Mr Bean on crack.'"

Man. This is as Trump-MAGA stupid as it gets! The Reflecting Pool is now a strategic military risk for attack AND needs armed soldiers to protect?! Arresting cyclists now are they?!

I will never understand the pathological lies spread by, not just the President but, those who work for him. Sorry for no alt text. Couldn't get the text copied for some reason.

I picked up some fruit and yogurt to continue our European breakfast from the trip. Got a couple of this brand and they come with reusable jars. www.lafermiere.us/posts/5-ways...

#birdbot

An “anti-universal suffrage” conservative influencer is now an election clerk in Utah, KSL dot com reports:

Francie and the Marcels stole the only minivan in Potato Bay to hit the road in search of donations for shelter kitties. Please consider donating before the mayor reports the vehicle stolen! 🥔 givebutter.com/mollys-birth...

Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

How it's going (gift link)

The reporters even included the gift was "unconditional" but didn't explore it further. Qatar wanted to include the condition that the plane remain the property of the US in perpetuity; Trump's people refused, requiring it be unconditional—so that he could take it personally. It's an emolument. 2/2

Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

This is absurd

CA's billionaires have already raised $107m to defeat a one-time tax that would only affect 200 people—and they put a deceptive countermeasure on the ballot ('retirement protection') that would cancel it out. We are going to be INUNDATED in political advertising about this.

The story of this entire administration... if they just listened to the experts....

"Paxton is perhaps the purest distillation of the modern Republican philosophy that the law is a tool, shame is for losers, and the only thing that matters is using the machinery of your office to hurt your enemies and dominate the news cycle." Not, you know, to help residents of the country.