"Electoral Geology" study of support for AfD in parts of the Ruhr where coal is deeper and industrialization was therefore later. This is really fascinating. Reminds me of work on the southern "Black Belt" in the USA

While working from home during her fellowship year, 2024 ACLS Fellow Daniella Santoro uncovered a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman grave marker buried in her New Orleans backyard. Read more in the New York Times: https://nyti.ms/42Wy1ru

Halloween is in two days, so I am continuing to look back on spooky early American history articles in Commonplace. Today we see Nicole Belolan's account of a 1786 gravestone in Newport that commemorated Desire Tripp’s amputated arm. Check it out here: 🪦🗃️ commonplace.online/article/obje...

You can see why Putin loves Trump’s return to “spheres of influence” thinking.

An anatomy of an old-fashioned scam to fleece South African pensioners with fake mining investments in 'Acacia Gold': www.boom2dust.nl/blog/acacia-...

This is a really good piece. I will just add that oyster farmer is an out-of-stater’s caricature of “Maine working class.” Yes, there are fishing villages along the coast but way more “ordinary” Mainers work in low paid jobs in education, healthcare, retail, tourism.

Service aloft and aboard!

“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither…” —Declaration of Independence, 1776

I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)

This Reuters chart is pretty remarkable and I think it reveals Trump's true agenda, which is really all about just cashing in on his presidency.

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

Coming up next week in #Indy. Another chance to stand up for a more representative democracy in #Indiana. Or at least, a LESS un-representative democracy.

The nice (?) thing about writing a brilliant history book is that it takes SO LONG that even today in the midst of [rolls eyes, looks around, collapses in a faint], great new works are finally making their way into print. Including Rob Priest's Obberamergau book! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Without pennies, businesses will have to decide whether to round prices to the nearest nickel or even dollar when it comes to cash transactions.

“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million .. “.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.” @reuters.com $WLFI www.reuters.com/investigatio...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMCB9FUM/ Like we didn’t know the entire TACO tenure is a Ponzi scheme and grift to make rich people richer

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Really enjoyed chatting with @llassabe.bsky.social about how the manufactured college free speech crisis paved the way for the assault on universities today: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

That is the most terrifying storm I have ever seen

Your regular reminder that NSF is required by US law to support increasing the participation of historically less represented groups in science and technology fields

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

Donald Trump is the first president in US history to deny food to citizens.

This is a very good infographic. Would be even better with information about child labor and greater attention to unpaid labor (including within the household). Says everything about how we understand "work" that neither of those categories (other than slavery) register. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Indiana: good things happen here too!!

Remember how 20-year-olds barged into federal buildings and stole our most sensitive data? Shortly after, a masked army kidnapped hundreds of people and trafficked them to a concentration camp overseas. That secret police—along with the military—now occupies our cities. This is an attack on the U.S.

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

Last week’s news was he didn’t have the votes. But that was LAST week. Ugh.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

We’re always in the middle of the story!

”The troops in this town are in high spirits,” reads an account from Hampton. “Lord Dunmore may now see he has not cowards to deal with.” The British governor’s campaign to retake Virginia is hardly over, however. 9/9

Good night, bunny! Good night, stars!!

They aren’t hiding the totalitarianism, folks.

teaching kids about reading and writing is too important to outsource to corporations

Now here's an EXCELLENT suggestion!

Interesting @gregolear.bsky.social on Shelley's 'England in 1819' inter alia: "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know..." open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

If current forecasts hold, Melissa will be the most powerful hurricane ever to strike Jamaica. Sustained winds at landfall may top 140 mph, along with localized rains of 40"+ and major storm surge. Here's my latest update with @drjeffmasters.bsky.social: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/meli...

Found another candidate for trade/airport biography. Like yesterday's figure, he went from small-town US to the USSR in the 1920s, then to company towns in North/Central America. Maybe the two (and several other characters) could be a group biography? www.nytimes.com/1951/11/29/a...

The vintage movie venue was destroyed this week as part of the Trump administration's plan to build a new $300 million ballroom. Former President Bill Clinton called it the office's "best perk."

This is how much Cal State is paying. If it’s on a per head basis, IU’s bill should be smaller. But not small.

It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic

New Deal murals by Ben Shan and Philip Guston are threatened with destruction, courtesy the barbarians currently squatting in the White House. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/14/n...

For the second time tonight I say: Maybe this is what it means to say the USA is not Weimar Germany. People are USED TO the rule of law, they find tyranny “weird,” and they act accordingly.

A bit like how identifying as a “freeborn Englishman” made the tyrannical actions of the 1770s utterly unacceptable. We really may be due for another revolution!

I said y'day that I think it's important in times like these to differentiate (where possible) betw people who are rightly angry about extreme inequality and the corrupt, malevolent, racist, sexist destruction of the USA _and_ people who (therapist voice) "have a lot of anger." Platner is the latter

A friend helps run a large food bank serving our state. Asked her how things look. For every 1 meal provided by a food bank, SNAP provides 9. They’re looking at a tenfold increase in need within days. There hasn’t been a threat of mass hunger in America like this in living memory. Help if you can 🍽️

52. This poster, which I bought when I was in junior high school, and which I recently put up on a wall again after multiple decades.

How to draw a cat, a lion and an antelope. Egypt, c. 500 BC.

I don't write trade/airport biographies, but if I were going to, I think I would write about this guy. Reported on American "soft empire" in Nicaragua and on show trials in USSR [during which he married an American he met there]. Tortured by Gestapo, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_...