Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.

Normal parties don't have an anti-Hitler wing. Being anti-Hitler is a default, assumed position in healthy spaces. Graham, you're so close, once again, to getting it.

“Don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense!”

I hope every executive affiliated with OpenAI loses everything.

Congratulations to Gavin McDowell on his new book The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity, which is available open access www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I am no fan of Ackman, but this is how to respond to loss with some level of grace and we should let him rather than constantly dunk

Whoa well. I like democrats being aggressive like this. And when there’s pearl clutching, shrug.

Chicago tomorrow!

honestly this is what the Impossible/Beyond Meat guys should be working on. passably-goat-tasting-but-plant-based birria should be treated like the fucking Space Race

this is one of the most viscerally satisfying reads I've ever had

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

If you proceed with aggressive partisan gerrymandering but also double down on being a bunch of absolute fascist freaks you may find that your expected 52-48 districts don’t pan out that way. But I’m not a six-figure beltway political consultant so keep doing what you’re doing, Republicans

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

once again, I can make this really easy for Democrats: "Trans Americans are Americans. They deserve the same rights as everyone else." That's it. That's all you need to say. (also people like it when you actually stand up for people)

this will likely get buried amid all the other good news from last night but even Mississippi is chipping away at the Good Ol Boy fascists who have strangled my beloved homestate for decades www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks

—Larry Krasner & Bragg win —Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once 'ground 0' of right-wing takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

—PA Dems 2 open statewide judge seats in PA —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, + defend swing counties —Dems flip NY's Onondaga & Dutchess counties, a first in decades, & PA's Luzerne County —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems defend swing leg seats in NY, WA

uk labour lost **half** their coalition playing to racist fears & attacking trans people us dems just won big without any of that

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

The lesson is that the GOP should jump in a lake and Democrats should fight back everywhere, every way, right?

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Pope Leo is not mincing words about the “grave crimes” being committed against migrants in certain places. It’s no wonder the Vatican took a full week to publish this speech in English. But now they have, and we can spread the message. (via @colleendulle on IG & the Inside the Vatican podcast)

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

It wasn't "tone deaf," it was a Tom Buchanan party.

One “act” we might consider is to throw all the robots into the lava pit (But seriously thank you Matt and others at the MLA for this important AI statement!!!)

the bleakest moment in this article is the point where a heritage staffer, horrified by fuentes, discovers that "a growing number" of heritage interns are groypers

The Thanksgiving sermons preached in 1761 to celebrate the fall of Quebec and Montreal have the same vibe as the crusade chronicles celebrating the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. In this essay I will...

He committed crimes. Actual crimes. And if we were into prosecuting politicians who did crimes anymore, he would be in jail.

IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.

Andrew Cuomo hardest hit.

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.

Here's a special message from Game Director Josh Sawyer, reflecting on what Turn-Based Mode means for Pillars of Eternity—and how community feedback helped shape it. youtu.be/_Mj6HObhD_8

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

if you're a historian, you should do this podcast! Claire is wonderful and it's a ton of fun!

Godzilla Minus One is legitimately one of the best films of the 21st Century. I am so excited for this.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Mine and @surajlakhani.bsky.social's book is now officially out, and there's a discount code! Available: academic.oup.com/book/60071