We've got a new edition of Sally Franklin's Bookshelf for you this Sunday, as Jordan Smith discusses his new book, The Invention of Rum. #VastEarlyAmerica www.cliodigital.media/sally/jordan... Sign up to receive the newsletter: benfranklinsworld.com/newsletter-s... @morganmccullough.bsky.social

Our military is fighting a war Americans don't want, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is trying to suppress the vote in the midterms. Silence isn't an option. Join us on Saturday to make No Kings Day big, loud, and inescapable: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Even Lobsters are protesting in Maine. Yarmouth ME. @pinetreeactivism.org

An especially attractive (I think) 1920s masthead slightly lifts my spirits on this grim morning. Especially appreciate the curly "C" and its invitation to think of "Cold Storage" as a sort of "Gold Standard"

Did you know there are (at least) 👉20👈 anti-fascist events going on today around the supposedly "ruby-red" state of #Indiana? 🗽🌊 Find out more in the big spreadsheet 'o #Hoosier Good Trouble produced by our esteemed colleagues @hoosiersrise.bsky.social www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

Please someone powerful elevate this campaign. Why are we talking about Platner and Mills when we have someone like this unafraid to speak her mind?

Have you found yourself looking at the current candidates for U.S. Senate in Maine and wondering if any of them show up for workers then they aren’t campaigning? I’m the only elected union officer in this race and I’ve been speaking up for workers for years. Check it out: www.andreaformaine.com/news

With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

Peter Binoit, Still Life with Letter Cookies, c. 1615 (Groninger Museum) #earlymodern #foodhistory

damn @economist.com is cooking @whitehouse-47.bsky.social

Rep Lieu (D-CA) with a brilliant breakdown of the SAVE Act. Trump and MAGA Republicans know their policies are crushing the working class but instead of changing those policies they want to disenfranchise voters. Americans say #NoPayToVoteSAVEAct Democrats need to hold the line.

A crumbling empire teams up with Israel to start a war in the Middle East and demonstrate its continued global power. Suez, 1956. How did that work out for the crumbling empire, I wonder.

Entertaining the Nazi leftist convo is a spectacular Own Goal for a party bound by rules of hypocrisy that their opponents aren't. It does Repubs' work for them. Allowing them to frame Dems as No Better. Outsmarted. Outwitted. Just like when they were tricked into handing TikTok to Larry Ellison.

When you buy gas today, when you buy groceries, when you mourn over your depleted 401(k), when you look at mortgage rates, when you think of all the shame brought on our country, most of all when you think of the bloodshed in our name, remember: It's all Trump's fault.

Helene Schjerfbeck, "The Door," 1884. The artist would have been just around 20 years old when she painted this picture; one of my favorite works in the show for its spareness & intense focus

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

Thanks to these researchers and 25 others for trusting us with their stories. We've published two initial pieces on the survey, with more coverage in the works. Links to our stories below. (Main story) www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n... (Accompanying piece) www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

Everything is weird and hard and we’re all doing our best even though we didn’t get high tech basket and caftan lifestyle we were implicitly promised.

Your daily reminder that not all bunnies are the DAILY bunny

This is why so many people have had their home insurance policies cancelled. But data centers…

The people of the Twin Cities have just been awarded the 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Using AI to study is like training for a marathon by driving 26 miles every day.

Build it

this is where all navel gazing about falling birth rates leads and you're deluding yourself if you think it's not fundamentally misogynistic

Golden hour light.

Wordle 1,733 2/6 I don’t normally post these but I just shocked myself 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

This is one of the best descriptions of the Ukrainian drone war, and its significance for all of us, that I have read www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The Pentagon is requesting the equivalent of $1,500 per American household to fund President Trump's unauthorized, unconstitutional, and unpopular war. Congress must say no.

Other headlines in newspapers in movies, #1 in a new feature.

Sen. Warnock: 8.2 million people registered to vote in Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State found 20 instances of noncitizens who were registered, and only 9 attempted to vote. The SAVE Act would disenfranchise 150,000 Georgians for every instance of a noncitizen voting in the last decade

Re Chavez: Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today. Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵

I both love the formulation “middle-school kid cast as Einstein” and HATE that it explains so much about the USA today

I've already blocked the men who think what Biss did was a-ok and a nothing burger. But here, from the Daily Kos, quoting Megan's substack: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s....

"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"

There was protein coffee at Kroger today!! Maybe it’s been there for years? (I almost never go to Kroger). But I kinda doubt it

@grahamformaine.bsky.social blamed women for sexual assault, saying they should "take some responsibility for themselves" and "act like an adult." Here's what Maine women had to say about his words.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

As I mentioned yesterday, it seems almost scandalously easy to do research about the USA c. 1870s-1920s. Nothings under copyright, so much has been digitized, there were SO MANY newspapers. The only hard part is remembering how much hasn't been digitized. And not getting distracted by ads

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

This is astonishing—a rhetoric steeped so deeply in New York's ethnic history, in grass-roots urban progressivism, in the immigrant experience in the United States. It's not "you should be in solidarity with others," it's "you always have been, we all always have been."

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

A charming little octopus from a #Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD 🐙❤️ Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

What’s the German for cringing-laughing-grinning?

Tally sticks are medieval credit instruments, and here's one I examined at the University of Toronto last year. Explanation in the next tweet...plus a gripe!

do i know anyone who works at the US mint? if so, msg me on signal! marisakabas.04

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

It is James Madison's birthday today, so I thought I would post a bank note with his portrait. Like Elvis on a stamp, Madison could appear in either his hip, young or grumpy, old versions depending on the bill. Bank of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, $5, 18-- and Wisconsin Bank of Madison, WI, $2, 18--. 🗃️