Take JD too please

I just tried to type “unitary executive” but it auto-corrected to “urinary executive” and I think I should copyright that

"We’re also seeing this alongside incredibly risky sourcing, teens posting about wanting to grow an extra few inches. And then we’re seeing AI manipulation from vendors trying to promote these peptides.” www.404media.co/companies-ar...

I mean between her votes on SCOTUS justices who scrapped Roe and her rubber-stamping DOGE cuts to USAID as appropriations chair, Collins has a pretty strong record of misogyny too

I appreciate all the discourse on Platner, but do you expect me, a Maine voter, to vote for Susan &@&!?’ing Collins?

“It’s all legit,” says new SEC Commissioner and Chair, Elon Musk

This seems like a confession re 2024

I think for my next academic conference, I’m gonna steal some nfl-players’ shtick. For affiliation, I’m gonna go with Robinwood Lane Elementary or maybe Guilford Middle School

It’s amazing to me how Alito et al know which way to vote given White House comms these days

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

Book authors: As you are choosing a press, speak to recent authors who published with that press *within the last year* first! Talking to someone who published 3 years ago is not going to work. Several academic presses are in turmoil/transition right now.

Let me get this right. If a university administration cannot balance the books, it actually increases its own power because it can then bypass regular forms of shared governance in the name of “fiscal exigencies”? I can’t imagine how this might be an issue.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

As a historian, I initially thought to myself, “I never imagined Herbert Gutman to be a giggler. Who knew!?”

Spotted in the NYT book review 👀 @gauthamrao.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

A hero for our times

Mr. Bunch said he was resolute in the belief that the full scope of American history must be told. “I’m never going to run from race,” he said, “I mean, I’m just never going to do that. These are important issues.” 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Miller is so charming and charismatic. I mean who doesn’t love this guy?

I think Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida are the ones squaring off in the White House Octagon.

After a long discussion with my older kid about some of the 250 stuff, he said that, in math terms, Dec of Ind > Constitution Exhibit A in my application for Parent of the Year. I will start writing my acceptance speech now

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

Since I’m on a Maine suffrage kick, here is Lucy Nicolar Poolaw, voting for the first time in 1954 when Maine finally allowed Native Americans to vote. She was a member of the Penobscot nation and active in the suffrage movement. Suffs leaves this part out. #hatm

The way Ron DeSantis has turned Florida’s previously top-notch university system into a lavish slush fund for his friends and co-segregationists needs to be the subject of a withering political campaign. Everyone who touched this process should be made radioactive in polite society.

Wow pitchfork Ben Tillman looks like shit

I mean do Republican congressmen just sit around and try to figure out new ways to criminalize compassion? Or make teachers’ lives more challenging?

No surprise here for anyone who spends any time on college campuses (beyond admin buildings)

Excellent news. Let’s hope UMaine System follows suit

What if we take all of it?

the fuck it will

Eat the rich

Maybe ol’ Willy was on to something with that whole “covenant with death” thing.

You should check out a Sumner letter I discovered in the Winthrop papers at the @mhs1791.bsky.social. Sumner laid out birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants born here. In 1843!!!

Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

My campus is on the verge of cutting programs. When they say there is no money, they mean there is no money for you. Budget = priorities

The therapeutic qualities of loud music cannot be underestimated.

I wrote a quick blog post for the Beehive/ @mhs1791.bsky.social. If you are interested in the historical understanding of birthright citizenship, give it a read. It’s short, I promise! @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

Your colleagues at UMF share your contempt, er, concerns

Just got this from our system office

If you are a contingent scholar (broadly construed) and would like a copy of my new book, please DM and I'll send you one from my stash! Offer for the first five (US based, sorry abroad friends!) to get in touch. uncpress.org/978146969484...

More like this guy…

I love my small town cafe with all that is in me. orangecatcafe.com

This is the correct take

Only four days left to enter for a chance to win a copy of WHITE POWER: Policing American Slavery by @gauthamrao.bsky.social on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

“Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes!!! …the union won with almost 75% of the vote!!”

Glad to see Made by History in its new home www.inquirer.com/politics/geo...

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Me and Winnie (super floof) can confirm