These people are heroes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

I rolled my eyes when madison cawthorn started his term in congress with hiring only comms, but sadly it was a prophecy of exactly where all of politics was headed

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

this post is so bad I first saw it getting dragged over on instagram

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Pennsylvania, if you want more rulings like this one, register to vote by October 20th and vote to retain Justices Kevin Dougherty, David Wecht, and Christine Donohue on November 4th to maintain the 5-2 Democratic majority. (Mail-in ballots must be requested by October 28th)

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

I think any fair reading of the polls at this point, particularly among the electorate he’s trying to win, would have to conclude that this, in fact, popularism.

Oh man I love teaching the Haitian Revolution in my intro world history class.

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

In this world of cowards, toadies, and quislings, take some Bill Baxley energy with you instead

in Greenland, the government owns a bunch of businesses--a fishing company that is the largest single employer, a shipping company, a ferry company, several retail and logistics companies, etc, and it all works pretty well?? I traveled there to investigate: prospect.org/world/2025-0...

Change over time is just something they made up to sell more history

this morning my students asked how much money scholars get paid for publishing journal articles and I got to laugh and laugh

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

got mine this morning (along with flu) out of concern about this

The inexperienced, questionably qualified group that has espoused anti-vaccine rhetoric started its second day of deliberations by reversing a vote taken the previous day on federal coverage for the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Taught the slave trade in World History this week. Pairing the Slave Voyages site with @jamellebouie.net's piece on it, plus excerpts from Equiano/Vassa's Narrative works very well every time. Just in case anyone's thinking about syllabi rn 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/o...

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

Left: new study of the effects of AI Right: Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations

Progressive federalism being born

Some levity for my Thursday morning

"All of this underwrought bombast and frantic bullying is doing real and unjust damage in actual people's lives, but it is also slick with the sort of flopsweat that adheres to the phrase 'like and subscribe.'"

This rules lmao

Imagine spending money on a democratic think tank so it can be to the right of Bill Kristol.

Set aside any personnel disputes The big stakes behind today’s CDC hearing: the fate of the childhood vaccine schedule — Monarez says RFK Jr told her the schedule would change asap and she had to be “onboard” — She says RFK Jr told her he talks “every day” with Trump about changing the schedule

To be clear I sympathize with the value of having dissenting voices on campus. But for the last few years the straightforward message for campuses is the college Presidents would be fired and students punished for the wrong sort of dissent.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

They will gaslight with misinformation and phrases like "gold standard science," but the reality is since the vaccine was introduced in 1982, cases of HBV in the US have plummeted. Importantly, perinatal infections have been virtually eliminated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.

transit is great! you get to be around people in the community, you get to relax on the way to work instead of it being a mad rush to get off the road as quickly as possible. also, yknow, the environment and environment and supporting communal public goods and all that jazz

This will literally kill babies. Surely Democrats could make firing RFK Jr. a shutdown demand. The public would love it.

I am very proud to know one of the new directors at the Mutter and very bummed to miss what sounds like an incredible party: Choreomania! www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-...

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

Conservative notions of free speech boil down to “*I* get to say what I want, and *you* get to shut up, or be persecuted by the state.” prospect.org/education/20...

a reckoning coming for the AI users who have made the grading portion of this to do list very unpleasant.

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

glad I already emphasize Paul Robeson in my modern US survey...

the Monday to-do list after spending the weekend traveling....

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

@goingmedieval.bsky.social It's that time! My world history students read your Women have always worked article in TIME, and one student just told me she loved it so much she read it five times; another said it made him call his mom to say thank you!

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.