There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Me, minding my own business, getting ready to go to Wisconsin tomorrow for a wedding. Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan. Jersey Jones, *exists* 🤦🏽‍♂️

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

I wrote an essay a few years ago about a U.S. soldier during the Civil War who visited the plantation where Solomon Northup (of 12 Years A Slave fame) was enslaved. The soldier wrote in his diary that the horror of slavery was even worse than what Northup had written. web.archive.org/web/20140120...

I can't believe how many tall people shop at CostCo

I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.

25 for me

This fucking corn sweat

It's me. I'm people.

Oh no Terminator is to me what No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are to the y0uths

Oh god

Kansas City is still the frontier and I am living in it. Behold, my near death experience

He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.

Damn.

Oh to achieve the melodrama of revolutionary actors in their correspondence. I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."

The savage round-up and deportation of immigrant Jews in August and September 1942 provoked impassioned objections from individuals, and gave a new moral urgency to Resistance…The deportation of Jews revealed the essence of Nazism and the moral degradation of Vichy...

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

Damn this Halfrican gonna get up to some nonsense

Always wonder if I've ingested the same atom twice. Would be crazy

I will never lose faith in America so long as drivers continue to flash their lights to warn oncoming cars about nearby cops

Hell yeah let's go Beloit

For those asking, Yale recorded a lot of their popular lecture courses and put them online for free. Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom. In front of students. You can find them here: oyc.yale.edu/courses

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

There's a lot of history being suppressed lately, from a profound desire to say that American history has rarely or never been racist. So how about we show some receipts.

Air Force Academy had 10% of its civilians take deferred resignation apparently, but aims to cut 20-30% of its civilians! That's of all civ staff, not faculty, but faculty will be hit hard. AFA acknowledges they'll go to accreditation minimums and likely eliminate some majors altogether

I have actually been telling this to students for the past decade to try to get them to stop apologizing and getting all anxious when they bomb an exam or turn in work late. It sounds awful but it's freeing to realize you are no one else's main character.

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...

It's only been two months😮‍💨

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

The Army erased her. History will not.

Thread on a forgotten yet critically important historian, Dr. Erna Risch, who helped us make better sense of logistics

170 miles to Laramie. Or a snake bite

I think this is a real problem. It isn't that military history is 'dead' - it isn't - but that it is so uneven in its distribution in the broader field. Some departments have a lot; many have nothing. Some grad students get a background in it; many get nothing.

Military history as a *research* field I think has perhaps never been more vibrant. There's a lot of great work going on and the social and institutional turns have enabled us to ask much broader questions about who wins and what peace results than before.

But as a *teaching* field, there are problems and it is a particular problem that military history basically does not exist at most of the very elite universities that train much of America's political class.

Cool!

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

This is the Atatiana Jefferson killing in Fort Worth, when a cop her in the night when she looked out the window of her home to see who was rooting around in her yard

Feels like the government is getting Paul Bremered

The city where I live. Not good

Mon grand-père maternel, français sur tout son arbre généalogique, a été envoyé dans un camp de travail en Allemagne pendant l'occupation. Pas juif. Pas résistant. Mais dénoncé sous faux prétexte par sa femme qui voulait se débarrasser de lui. Les régimes fachistes c'est aussi ça : 1/2

American Primeval is the 19th century version of Crash

Happy New Year, everyone.