Make everything 10x more queer.

(this is literally how soft power works, and we used to be really good at it)

i have read police reports where the investigator proudly explained how he used standard interrogation techniques on the survivor filing the report, got her to contradict herself, and then concluded that she was making it all up! the system does not work the way you want it to

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

“Why did they wait till now” Why was a married man sexually assaulting interns?????

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

Man, we have the same conversations every time a major story like this breaks. It’s exhausting. It is SO HARD to publish a story about gendered violence for a whole host of reasons, a main one being that victims (rightly so!) don’t want to talk.

Not just in the 1990s... muse.jhu.edu/article/871338

*whispers* history of science is good too, let's fund that as well *tinier whisper* we're cheap

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

men are so stupid bc "entire team of women plus their one special little guy" is a top tier coworker situation to be in

since it looks like it's getting relitigated yet again: Al Franken constituent here, glad he resigned, his behavior was foul, his replacement was fantastic, if you're defending him you're fortifying a stupid hill in the wrong battle

There's always some dude who is like "Well, the right got Kavanaugh so why can't we have--" BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT OUR OWN FUCKING KAVANAUGH, ZERO KAVANAUGHS IS ENOUGH KAVANAUGHS.

there's a real omelas vibe every time something like this happens. like there's a certain number of future women whose safety people are willing to trade away for whatever political security they think they'll get.

Maybe we should try only letting women be in charge of things, just as an experiment.

If I never have to read some person saying "what happened to innocent until proven guilty" about why some guy should still be elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country despite numerous sexual assault allegations it will be too soon

Nothing speaks to the fact that sexual abuse is so often about power that people who have, allegedly, done sexual abuse seek political power.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

Maybe one goal should be a hard reset of both houses of Congress. Just unbend a paper clip, stick it in the hole, and re-elect all of it from scratch.

Pretty shocking stat here.

Something I’ve picked up on in many years of reading statements of denial from people accused of sexual violence is that they often focus more on whether the victim is believable than whether the events occurred. Because those details tend to corroborate the allegations. So they attack credibility.

Four women “One member of Swalwell’s staff said they quit immediately after receiving CNN’s detailed list of questions about the allegations.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Finally took on a task that I have been avoiding. It took me less than a half hour and proved to be relatively painless once I sat down, removed distractions, and did it. I will learn nothing from this.

But is it a sandwich?

We should not move on from the President threatening to annihilate a civilization.

So much to do, so little will to do it.

I'd make a pretty good Anti-Pope, for the record.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation. These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

I've taught European history for thirty years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we Americans have front-row seats.

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

I have to TEACH tomorrow.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

When I was in high school, one of these fell over on top of a teacher and she had to be hospitalized due to head trauma and then we never had TV carts ever again. I'm just saying.

"I'm sorry I was late to the event, I was calling my senators about stopping nuclear war" is a sentence I may have to say shortly if I don't get a move on right fucking now

been wondering why i cant get any writing done all day and its taken me literally until now to realize "oh the potential death of millions might be slightly weighing on my mind"

The median wine mom voter wants hangings when this ends, just sharing what I hear in the sports stands from the parents

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now