I’m not sure when it became socially acceptable (in real life OR online) for people to tell you that they don’t like the thing you happily do for work. Maybe if it’s something that actively harms people? But otherwise, you really don’t have to respond saying “You do [x]? I can’t stand [x]!”

I am never leaving this app.

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans. This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

I keep coming back in my head to the guy who burnt down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus -with sanctuary-seekers & sick folks inside - in 356 BCE "because he wanted his name to be remembered forever." The Ephesians responded by striking his name from all records. Don't feed trolls - or murderers.

BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.) www.koco.com/article/ryan...

As a scholarly historian of sex work with a husband who makes amazing smoked brisket...my main contribution here is to note that everyone should watch John Ford's 1942 "Sex Hygiene" training video for U.S. WWII soldiers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG77...

It is possible we accidentally adopted a fox.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I've been using the term "Fox News Cinematic Universe" for several years to describe the self-reinforcing mythology information bubble the right-wing inhabits. Nice to see others, like @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social here, using "FNCU" in the same way.

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

Puppy picture of the day: Oh for expressive ears!

So Trump and Thune want to bail out Argentina but not low income Americans who need health insurance? 😒🤔🧐

We are hiring a Professor of Practice (PoP) in Games & Interactive Media. We are looking for an experienced game maker with a compelling portfolio and experience in game programming. PoP at MSU are unionized and have opportunity for advacement. bit.ly/MediaInfoJob...

“If a teacher feels this emboldened online, imagine what they’re saying in class.” This total lack of faith in teachers' professionalism is astounding; we say things online so we won't at work. I don't curse or discuss hot movie stars with students either. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/p...

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Kimmel not only being back but giving a monologue that will get rave reviews in the same papers panning the UN disaster speech is going to chew at Trump’s ego like a wolverine.

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

I love it

New year, new puppy. Name TBD but the frontrunners are Maxima* and Crepe. (After the horse in Tangled, not Gladiator) though I'm still wistfully holding out for Minerva or Athena given the eyes. My family says 3 syllables is too many, though.

My great-great-aunt & namesake, Anna Louise Strong, was the journalist to whom Mao Zedong gave the famous quote "Reactionaries are just a paper tiger," because, like Hitler they were unable to withstand the wind, rain, or criticism. Anna Louise became known as the "Paper Tiger Lady" in China.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

10 days left to apply for our job in African-American History! We are planning to offer generous startup support to help our new faculty succeed on the path to tenure. Also, Kalamazoo is a fun town: this weekend is a multicultural music festival, a mac&cheese bakeoff, Emanuel Ax, & Come from Away.

On the plus side, if we ever do get a Democratic POTUS again they're going to get the Nobel Peace Prize just for walking into the UN and saying that war is generally bad.

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

Looks up JN Darby...well, this sentence goes straight into my "let's talk about Wikipedia's endemic biases" lecture: "Darby became a curate in the Church of Ireland parish of Delgany & distinguished himself by persuading Roman Catholic peasants in the Calary district to abandon the Catholic Church."

How it started // How it’s going

In retrospect, this was a bad day to teach students about spurious correlations while trying to stay apolitical.

Some people have the exceptional business ability to be born to extremely wealthy parents!

Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover

I have many great examples for my class today on "How to Lie With Graphs," but I think this is still probably my favorite because it is bad on multiple different axes, both literally and figuratively.

In + uses for LLMs, for my Historian's Craft course students do a daily 1-minute oral presentation of a historical newspaper, e.g. 9/23/1875 or 1950. Previously, most students used NYT/Times/Detroit papers. Now, many are researching Spanish/French/Portuguese news, using LLMs to help translate.

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

How many associates of the Trump crime family have been shorting Kenvue, which makes #Tylenol? The stock fell 7.5% on Monday, reducing the company's market value by about $2.6 billion. There's a lot of money to be made from criminal idiocy & medical disinformation.

L'shana tovah to those who celebrate, happy fall equinox to all, and ritual presentation of the most popular recipe in the NYT archives.

Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil? Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked

He has no real concept of the amount of "liquid" that goes in and out of a human baby in a day, does he? I used to drink 3-4 liters of water daily just to keep up with the 1 liter or more of liquid I was producing for a baby each day without getting dehydrated.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Easy enough to fact-check. Cuba’s rate of autism is 690 cases in every 100k.

This is one of those articles where you start off thinking of Noem as an amoral ambitious politician, wander through her petty corruption and incompetence, and wind up back at sociopath. I care less about her dating habits & more about her vicious cruelty & malicious destruction of our nation.

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

My grey hair of the day was caused by hearing Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" in Trader Joe's and thinking, "No, no, that's not _grocery store music_! That's a pretty recent banger! I danced with my kids to "Take Me Out" & heard it at younger cousins' weddings!" As it turns out, it came out in 2004.

Well, we sure as heck can't have any confused women!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling. These are human beings.

Not exactly new for anyone who has read "Jesus and John Wayne" (2020) but it is striking how the project here uses Christian language and imagery in service of a religion of father-lordship rather than chastity, charity, prudent, temperance, kindness, diligence, etc.