All of the Commission's recommendations would enshrine as tax-payer funded and federal government staffed and enforced white Christian Nationalism's (mainstream Evangelical, Pentecostal, Eastern Orthodox, etc) goals as successfully pursued via the courts and SCOTUS www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

guys the IL-9 primary was three months ago, if you're obsessing about Kat Abu now it's getting a little weird tbh.

US Army gives chaplains 90 days to remove rank insignia www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Today was the last day of my summer class so I'm declaring it the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. Two deaths in the family and a divorce, so, glad this year is done? Will not claim to be ready for the next. Here's hoping it chooses to be less fucking eventful.

So much wrong in this post. The Washington prayer story is fake & originally pushed religious bigotry against Quakers (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-trump-...). Also, "under God" in Pledge doesn't go back to beginning but just 72 years ago (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/70-years-u...).

Universal Studios apparently believes it doesn't need advance praise from fawning influencers for 'The Odyssey,' opting out of access screenings that have become the norm in Hollywood. Nobody is happier about it than professional film critics:

Good morning all! I did my first Daily Brief for @bradleyonishi.bsky.social 's Axis Mundi Network, on Florida's new far right AP exam replacement. Give it a listen, and happy Friday! substack.com/@axismundime...

@tlecaque.bsky.social explains how Christian nationalists are rewriting American history courses in Florida with the help of Christopher Rufo and Hillsdale College:

Much like every TPUSA Women's Speaker, it's just big Serena Joy vibes, from The Handmaid's Tale, all the way down.-

its crazy how one of the only jobs where you can openly espouse the most disgusting gutter racism on-the-clock is “person who makes laws and is in charge of everything”

@tlecaque.bsky.social with a devastating analysis of Florida's attempt to rewrite history through its high school curriculum: open.substack.com/pub/axismund...

Good morning all! I did my first Daily Brief for @bradleyonishi.bsky.social 's Axis Mundi Network, on Florida's new far right AP exam replacement. Give it a listen, and happy Friday! substack.com/@axismundime...

a rep from the classic learning test was there testifying in favor of the reading list, what he said in some ways matters less than the fact of his presence—his testimony wasn’t hateful, but it’s worth noting the company’s stance on the policy

him being the world's first trillionaire is depressing, but him being the world's first ex-trillionaire is very very funny

I bet @indyfromspace.bsky.social has. Maybe only in the internet, "I'd like to report a murder" sense, but I wouldn't cross her.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

Send Megyn Kelly back to Atlanta in May 1864 and bring more Haitians to America. Fuck these white supremacists.

Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019. Historic is an understatement.

That’d be Tom Suozzi, who, as @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social reports, lives at the subsidized C St prayer house of The Family, a mostly GOP organization committed to “biblical capitalism” & “infiltrating” Jesus—manly variety—into govt.

In 2025, Sen Tina Smith, a leading advocate for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Northern Minnesota, introduced the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act to put permanent protections in place, in this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/zTV2XIks7z0?...

The Society of St Pius X comes up constantly in my research on fascist paramilitaries in South America.

My article “The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Early Modern Atlantic World” is open access thanks to funding from Swarthmore. I’m very excited this is now out in the world! doi.org/10.1093/past...

oUr pAsToRs SHoOt GuNs!!! This is the right-wing MAGA church in Salem, OR. They keep promising to start a church in Portland but it hasn't happened.

Counterpoint: soft no.

I have now used a podcast mic and I can never go back to a lesser version.

Announcing a new book series with DeGruyter Brill / @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Connected Worlds in Early Modernity Series Editors: Christina Lee & Julia Schleck brill.com/page/518510 Pls contact me - [email protected] - with questions &/or book proposals!

The next 13 primaries to target. This is the dumbest shit imaginable, drive these fucks from office.

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

I've been remiss in helping to publicize this wonderful @nichecanada.bsky.social series, which I am co-editing with Jessica and Sarah York-Bertram. It is really worth your time. Some excellent, critical, and generative pieces on what queer joy looks like and could mean to #envhist and #envhum!

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

What a genuinely Grade A stupid fuck he is.

"we do six Watergates before lunch every day"

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

"I assimilated all the way to Congress" is a hell of a line.

Much like 2025, 2026 can suck eggs.

My uncle passed away this afternoon. The most consistent person in my life who forced me to check in with myself, think about and prioritize my emotional and mental well being, who taught me that real men embraces therapy, conversation, opening up about their feelings and struggles. I will miss him.

there's plenty to say about what's missing, of course, but the absence of the old testament in particular doesn't make me angry, it doesn't make me wonder what the logic is, it doesn't lead me to theorize, it makes me dismiss the project entirely as unserious

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Some days I wonder why I bother showing up to work.

Three people ousted incumbents in the NYC election (some only winning by very small margins and all with complexities). THREE. ONLY THREEEEEE PEOPLEEEE And the Dem establishment has lost its entire fucking mind. OVER THREE PEOPLE

The way people are talking about the NYC elections is some of the dumbest fucking shit I've ever heard and I study the far right as a hobby. Get a fucking grip, holy shit.

Hey @brettrushforth.bsky.social? Your book is really, really, really good.

Working on a video script for the first time and feeling absurdly nervous about it. Partially because I have a face made for radio, partially the new medium. It's an interesting feeling.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

there is no ideological equivalent on the left to the tea party, wanting universal healthcare is not the same as wanting a nation of sovereign citizens

Extremism is when politicians care about the working class

Exciting news! To fête Les Bleus at FIFA World Cup, Bloomsbury is offering a sweet 35% discount on my first book, The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010, which examines the French football & youth systems. Use code GLR AT8 through June 30 www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-of...

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

"TRUMP/VANCE 2024"