Schadenfreude

Looking forward to this event next week!

Glad to be of service, Strudel.

Such a vile person. What a disgrace.

I’ve missed baking sourdough. Good to be back.

“If it fits, I sits.”

My amazing friend and colleague just finished a portrait of Waffles and Strudel. I love it! 🙂

“What are we going to co-author today?!”

Happy #Caturday

“I had a hard day.”

Book proposal submitted 🙂

In the words of Jed Bartlet, my actual president, “what’s next?”

Article submitted.

I am more productive when my editor lets me write in peace 🐈‍⬛

“Surely no one will find me on the basement steps.”

"[He] was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his 'ideas' almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. …"

For anyone who has lived through syllabus wars over whether Western Civ should exist in a history department:

My editors and I are working overtime.

"If a list of the 'achievements' of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus is compiled early in our legislative budget session, it would read as a litany of failure, embarrassment, venality, hubris, deceit, greed, shame, and outright idiocy."

First she came for the puppy dogs, and I did not speak out, because I was not a puppy dog.

"If there be nothing new ..."

**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!

No better way to spend a Friday.

The scholar at work.

An exceptional piece by my good friend @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social "The failure of Western leaders to recognize and address sources of humiliation a century ago led to global cataclysm. Without a plan to address the grievances festering today, the world could be headed down a similar path."

Proud of Minnesota!

"Nothing is more dishonorable for a civilized people than to let itself be 'governed' without resistance by an irresponsible clique of rulers devoted to dark instincts...."

My editors patiently await my pending draft.

Now: With double digit windchill, thousands marching in Downtown Minneapolis during a general strike. Marching and protest against the actions of ICE. Prince dance party outside First Avenue and the Prince mural - where there’s been many Prince dance parties before. Minneapolis January 23, 2026

Historian Thomas Nipperdey on Kaiser Wilhelm II: "... superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, ..."

"Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable."

"Hass auf Juden, Linke, Homosexuelle – Stolz auf Volk, Nation und Tradition. Nationalsozialistische Ideologie wird bei jungen Männern populärer. Wieso radikalisieren sie sich, und wie reagiert der Staat?" Sehenswert & eindrücklich: www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

""Fascist violence was neither random nor indiscriminate."

Angry, disgusted, and embarrassed. #FCKFASCISTS

❤️❤️

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."

A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.

Just launched: @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social's new blog featuring the projects of recipients of its annual research & travel grants. Check it out: tinyurl.com/2afay4ct . PS: Applications for the 2026 grants are still being accepted until January 15 (tinyurl.com/695jr4cm). Apply now!

A beautiful escape from the world.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

“We can have conversations about what made the Holocaust a possibility, and what made the Nazis a possibility, and how they rose to power. But you cannot have a legitimate conversation about whether or not it happened. That’s just unacceptable, and that has no place at a university.”

Back where it all makes sense 🙂

Today, our group of alumni from the University of Wyoming visited @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social. I continue to believe that education provides the best way for us to combat racism, misogyny, and antisemitism.

Morgen wird im @brandenburg-museum.bsky.social die Ausstellung »Das Weite suchen« eröffnet. Sie zeigt Bilder von zwölf Fotograf*innen, die in den 1980er und frühen 1990er-Jahren entstanden sind. In der an ein ZZF-Projekt anknüpfenden Ausstellung kommt eine Gesellschaft im Umbruch ins Bild.

coming your way in January 2026! perversely proud that, as far as I can tell, this will be only the *second* article in JHistSex primarily about bisexuality.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Exciting news for the new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution. @lizcovart.bsky.social @michaelhattem.bsky.social & Historians At The Movies are partnering to bring you a first of its kind watch party next Sunday. Detail below. Share widely. #HATM open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...