Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Check out this great AMA today with @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Saving to show my DH students when I explain that WiFi isn't the determining factor for shitty AI responses

I love the questions I'm getting from the AskHistorians community on Reddit! It's been so much fun that I have to drag myself away to get other things done.

Come check out this fantastic AMA with @kweingarten.bsky.social we have going on today! (One of several @nursingclio.bsky.social appearances on @askhistorians.bsky.social in the near future!) www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

Come check out @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social's fantastic AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social for Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

folks, I've never lived through years of mass political violence but I do study it for a living: you don't want to live through years of political violence.

Political violence is bad.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

We have an AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social with @bachynski.bsky.social discussing the history of youth football and public health! Be sure to check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

As a historian of American religion, I really hate this: "Organize the time of prayer by different subjects, such as prayer for government leaders, cultural renewal, protection of freedom, families, individuals, etc."

Absolutely go take a look at this AMA! There are also some great examples of users bringing their personal experiences and identity to their questions which is always wonderful to see!

I wrote this. Every journalist, social media producer and news influencer in Aus should read it & memorise @whiterosesociety.bsky.social principles of reporting. Huge thank you to @kurtsengul.bsky.social for invaluable expertise, I was very tempted to publish all your answers verbatim. #auspol

For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

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I'm so excited for AskHistorians to have @lzreis23.bsky.social for a fantastic AMA today on her book Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

🧵 Today, a student in office hours asked me about history he sees online and revision to historical figures. The way he phrased it, my spidey senses went off, and sure enough, he was encountering Holocaust denial Here's the article on @askhistorians.bsky.social I gave him slate.com/technology/2...

We've got a great AMA today on @askhistorians.bsky.social with John Kegel discussing the Rwandan Civil War www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

The thing about AI is that it is designed to be agreeable. It feels nice when someone listens to you, especially when people don’t. I can understand why that is attractive, but the reason we interact as different kinds of people is to pull each other back from the abyss instead of pushing someone in

AskHistorians is 14 today! It's reassuring to know that our collective angst and anxiety has a biological basis. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.

This is exactly why that story of ChatGPT coaching Adam Raine on how to die by suicide has disturbed me beyond words. I was a deeply depressed adolescent, trying and often failing to cope with childhood epilepsy in a society that stigmatized it. I don't think I would have made it.

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

WaPo/NYT Headline: Trump and Priztker Share Skepticism of "Fake," "Pretend" Media

But if you use flag to beat up a policeman at the US Capital, you get a job in the Justice Department.

So many fun anecdotes in todays AMA! Check it out!

To quote a sort of former President, is there an epidemic of flag burning going on that I’m not aware of?

Police agencies are monitoring the site to ensure the public does not restore a monument to a massacre defaced by the state.

A 14-ton, mine-resistant armored vehicle ran a red light and t-boned a SUV, trapping the person inside. That's an Oshkosh M-ATV, procured specifically for Afghanistan and now rolling through DC. They're meant for battlefield not city streets. Trump now ordering them to be armed.

Come check out this great AMA we have going on today!

The hot summer trend continues @Skystorians, with yet more fantastic Ask Me Anything's on AskHistorians! Tomorrow August 23rd we have an #AMA with Dr. Mohammad Salama, author of God's Other Book: The Qur'an between History and Ideology! Get your questions ready!

If any historians of topics being censored by the Trump administration want to come do an Ask Me Anything on @askhistorians.bsky.social, feel free to reach out!

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

If any historians of topics being censored by the Trump administration want to come do an Ask Me Anything on @askhistorians.bsky.social, feel free to reach out!

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorian... I was honoured to appear on the AskHistorians podcast this week... To talk about London (well, if you have a niche I say lean into it). An overview of London up to the Norman invasion with some great questions and I hope interesting answers.

Come check out this very cool AMA today!