Feeling weirded out and a bit haunted after digging into newspapers a bit. Looking at May 1975 this morning, I came across as story about an army officer on trial for SA on some teen girls. He was found not guilty despite the testimony of the victims.

Picked up something over the weekend. Thanks to the Florida Book Awards for recognizing my work.

Just saw an excellent show with the Violent Femmes and the Tallahassee Orchestra at the Word of South Festival. I have to say, though, some of Gen X men suck at concerts. Just talk, talk, talk. Shut up already.

Just finished this. Powerful work. Suggest it for all.

Feels like yet another thing we’re losing because a few greedy people won’t be happy until they vacuum up every last dollar.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

In case it needs to be said baldly..don't expect the university to protect you.

The Tampa Bay History Center posted my talk from the Florida Conversations series. Had a great time back in September. youtu.be/sjUK1DAPdZw?...

I saw a video on a Windows 98 machine booting the other day and that scan of the A: floppy drive in the boot sequence flooded my mind with memories of my corporate job.

For a little sweetness in your feed: getting ready for the school dance.

Some in Florida are floating the idea of getting rid of property taxes, the main source of revenue for localities. I’m no fan of high taxes, but I think we need some slogans explaining why these are needed. I’ll start. Property Taxes: Because garden hoses aren’t good for fighting fires.

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

I’m traveling, but other than food and gas, I’m buying nothing.

Got to see the SS United States as it was towed past Boca Raton today on its way to be sunk off the coast near Destin. Like watching a ghost go by.

I would trust all the promises of AI more if the Facebook account for my book didn’t get the same spam message every day. Seriously, you guys can’t even develop a workable spam blocker for the exact same email? I report it every time.

Had a great time talking about Tampa’s African American Labor History for students at HCC today. Always honored to be asked to Black History Month events.

This hockey face-off tournament is good, but we have to admit it needs an asterisk until without being able (understandably) to have a Russian team.

I was already rooting for Canada because I love Jon Cooper, Anthony Cirelli, Brandon Hagel, and Brayden Point, but ESPN’s coverage has made me more sure of my choice.

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

We all know no one goes to work in some high rise to vacation at the Gulf of America.

I wore a sport coat to work today and I’ve been feeling more focused and productive than normal. Could it really be something or just my imagination?

I finished building my new shed over the weekend and I had the best time piddling around in it this evening. Now I need to find a hobby that will allow me to do that more often.

Every union should be echoing this statement.

Apparently he’s British. But one would think any self-respecting Briton would know about know about the guy who made sure he didn’t grow up speaking German.

I don’t want AI to ever write my grad students’ theses, but I wouldn’t complain if there was a tool to do the title and signature page formatting the grad college is so picky about.

Ahem.

This Day in Labor History: February 16, 1931. The Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association reduced wages for miners in that part of eastern Kentucky by 10 percent. In response, the United Mine Workers of America attempted to organize the miners. This started the Harlan County Coal War for 8 years!

Connor McDavid is a wonder to watch. So fast.

Sure, your job is stressful. But have you ever considered being a sample person at Costco when a line of people are waiting for you to cut up the food?

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

How long until he says he is the arbiter of what is degenerate art? And how long after that will Spotify and Pandora and Google music and Apple take to fall in line?

Anyhow just saw a full time ntt job for a Lecturer with a salary of $36,300 a year advertised. I made 38,000 as a first year public high school teacher in 2005. But please everyone remember that professors are far removed from the concerns of the working class.

“Not Like Us” is a sonic masterpiece and would still be if he replaced every lyric with nonsense words.

Of course, the talk will include this great Ralph Ellison quote @drderrickewhite.bsky.social pointed me to:

We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

Doing a Black History Month talk tomorrow night. Talking about Black Floridians. Went through some notes from when I taught History of Black Florida and found this gem from the first day, explaining why I was offering this course. (Can’t remember what kind of mood I was in when I made this.)

This is a place where faculty unions have real capacity to do some good: teach everyone in the bargaining unit what everyone else in the unit does and how our labors are all similar.

It is bleakly comic that the DOGE-bros were all “We’re gonna slash the woke billions” and then immediately had to go after cancer research because the Dems already gutted arts and humanities funding years ago.

This morning, I sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) regarding Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest. Within minutes, the White House confirmed receipt. By noon, President Trump fired the Director of OGE. I want to know: Was this to prevent his answer?

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

Does anyone else get a thrill when you delete/file a bunch of emails on your desktop app and then watch them all disappear again when you open the phone app?

This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.

Good morning.

Two weeks ago Chris Rufo responded to a tweet by Will Stancil confirming that, indeed, his anti-DEI work is not about corporate DEI trainings, but about undoing the Civil Rights movement. Just putting this here for the record in case there's any doubt about that.

This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The Dawes Act created a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers.

Hard to overstate how important open access to government archives are in a democracy--it is how we hold those in power accountable for their acts. Trump fires head of National Archives www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...