People should watch this: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

I am officially of the age where coughing cracks my back.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the 2nd sentence. "Go West, young man," advised Horace Greeley during the depression of the 1840s."

One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me & @profsaunders.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

From Kyiv in three days, to bleeding out in the field. Russia must be finished off open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The antisemitism problem is a political one, a generational one, and one of historical amnesia. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4sEwP76

People here are addicted to misreading things.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Today would be a great day to give Ukraine what they need to defend their power infrastructure and keep the heat on.

New York Jets...consider.

impossible to remember now, but for most of his career Aaron Rodgers' reputation was that he was thoughtful, likable, and enjoyed facts so much they let him host Jeopardy

eric adams has got to be one of the most batman the animated series politicians of all time

Chargers seem done.

In functioning democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

Fallout feels like AI's version of prestige television.

Jaxson Dart. Fun player.

this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top

Fallout isn't really doing it for me.

It’s not this coherent.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

I've mentioned this before, but one of the very few historical fiction series to really convey the bigotry of the past is Flashman, out of a strange mixture of diligent reading and the author's own racism. Most notable, it uses the n-word as much as the British actually did about India.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

My dad died last May. More than anything else, history was what we shared in common. As we have the first Christmas without him, I reflected on what that meant. open.substack.com/pub/patrickw...

"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.

The bloodiest day of the Civil War shows how risk, caution, and missed chances can decide wars.

One Battle After Another seems to have been PT Anderson giving himself the challenge of making a movie filled with nothing but unpleasant and pathetic characters but also Benicio del Toro being awesome on the side.

Oof. Yeah, @anamariecox.bsky.social and I talked about this film nearly five years ago, and it hit so much harder than it did when it was first released (and it hit pretty hard back then). shows.acast.com/spacethenati...

Good for Sam.

The Weimar Republic saw new musical developments - movie songs from "talkies" and innovative forms of musical theater (images from #Weimar @ulible.bsky.social). I've made a playlist of Weimar Republic music: cliosboardgames.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/i...

choosing to not understand the jewish, antisemitic twitch streamer. above my pay grade

My favourite moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCX...

The third season of The Bear seems fine?

New ERB dropped.

I am unimpressed by the math that says to go for two when an extra point would cut the lead to 7.

I'm late to it, but the new Superman is quite charming.

So much of navigating the internet is recognizing when people want your attention and then not rewarding them for it.

Understanding the concept of war is essential for understanding real war, but also for recognizing the cynical employment of it as a political trope.

This is so interesting! K-12 schools and youth sports leagues seen as most important institutions for improving civic engagement @carnegiecorp.bsky.social www.carnegie.org/our-work/art...

Analytics have jumped the shark.

"We take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. I don’t think people are ready for the world that we’re now moving into." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

From @theathletic.com: Laveranues Coles, who made $42 million during his NFL career, is paid $32.92 an hour working as a police officer. Even his closest friends didn't understand why he chose to become a cop at age 47. The reasons date back to his childhood.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o... Really good David French piece.

You don’t need a historian for facts, you need a stenographer. You need a historian to tell you what the facts MEAN.

Hey man why are the Chargers wearing their great mistake uniforms

really went dark for the sequel

The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!