data visualization is my passion.

Available later this year: Armitage, Bejan, and Waldmann, eds., The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives (OUP, 2026).

When will the 21st century start?

GOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL

Haley Stevens voted to:

The red card was invented after the Battle of Chile between Chile and Italy in men’s World Cup 1962- premiered in 1970.

Finally it happened in real life

Development economists’ use of long-range population estimates from the past creates “an ouroboros of misestimation.” longnow.org/ideas/world-...

ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.

Celebrating the nation's 250th birthday in the way that would befuddle the founders: Watching a South American nation (!) Play France (!!) In a sport that wouldn't be invented by the British for another 90 years (!!!) All telecast in Spanish (!!!!)

Teams are getting chippy. I like it.

Reported for what? Accuracy?

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

The thing about the asinine hate of Mamdani is that this has always been evident. Think of El Sayed's run in 2018. Or how they squad has been treated since its inception. The most clear throated abd morally grounded actors get shouted down for saying stuff bog standard from the 1980s.

To international historians in the 2050s, the major geopolitical story of our time will be entirely obvious: the oligarchic and institutional self-destruction of the United States and its displacement by China as the global number one.

This isn’t about efficiency — it’s about clearing out analysts who might resist Trump's lies about past and future domestic elections. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

More news about lawsuits: court sides with fired professor on free speech grounds. Dr. Shirinian will not be reinstated, but she is closer to getting paid for her trouble (State officials must now approve the settlement). www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

There's a lot of bad things in this world, dude. Like fucking skunks, dude?! Hell no. Scratching your eye but it's still fucking itchy, dude?! Hell no. Like getting paid not a lot of money, dude For fucking working?! Hell no. But Cape Verde at the fucking World Cup dude?! Hell yeah, hell yeah bro

It just astonishes me how scared they are of even the most muted expressions of the reality of our shared past. 🗃️

DEVELOPING: It does appear that DOJ and DOI might be working overtime to be able to take action against the slavery materials at the President's House in Philadelphia before July 4. Information follows ...

Me being taught about videogames in the 1990s: Okay, so you out the cartridge in, and if it doesn't work, smack it or blow on the cartridge. Me to myself kids: So you're going to get the old discs and the USB-C disc drive to rip the game file. Then you're going to download the emulator...

Ok I’ve solved the Bluesky US flag argument this is what we’re gonna fly from now on so you know We Don’t Mean It That Way

Portugal looks like they're on the heels the whole match. I missed their goal. But Croatia is getting chance after chance.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

I have half a mind to go to the Areo screening in Santa Monica this weekend.

The star of Croatia reminds me of this actor from Inbetweeners

More to my fields - I want the college presidents who have gone all in on AI to lose their jobs and never work in higher ed again.

Am I going to become Presbyterian again?

angle, with different context or new supporting sources, and write an original interpretation of the diary. That’s because historians’ work is fundamentally about analysis and interpretation. Historians write original books, but too many people mistake them for lists of free-floating facts.

Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup

I got angrier and angrier as I wrote this for @damemagazine.bsky.social. The collapse of this country’s civic morality dovetails with the cruelty and corruption that dominates policy. The rest of our institutions are being dragged down by or are abetting it. That’s the thing on my mind this 4th.

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Your reminder that Joshua Chamberlain thought it was a moral imperative to fight the Confederacy but he didn't have any background as an Army officer, so he was like, "Hmm, I should study Casey's Infantry Tactics and Duparcq's Elements of Military Art and History", and that's how he beat Longstreet.

LMAO -- Acting AG Todd Blanche struggles to deliver a speech to National Guard members in DC over the noise being made by protesters

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

Micro budget is a must watch comedy. It's on Tubi. Go watch it.

ah ah ah, only one of them is an Arab

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

Clippers finalize deal to trade Kawhi Leonard to Toronto

#SCOTUS has upheld birthright citizenship, striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to end it. Thirty-two other countries around the world have birthright citizenship laws that are similar to the U.S.

I see this as part of the Thiel et al plan to capture government for corporate control. And I don't mean that in a "lobbying is outta hand" way. I mean they literally want to dissolve government and make the world of Cyberpunk 2077 real...by 2077.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

El "periodista" ultraderechista Albert Castillón fue la persona encargada de leer el manifiesto del Trifachito de PP, VOX y Ciudadanos en Colón. Hoy aparece en la lista de morosos a Hacienda con una deuda de más de. 700.000 euros. Todo un "patriota".

As always, the only freedom that is real is the freedom to spend money to get the political outcomes you want.

me, intelligent, savvy: let's do the last thing Starmer did before he had to resign