June has been quite a month but do join us for this fantastic Reconstruction conference at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston this weekend featuring cutting edge scholarship. School teachers can register for teacher development and get credit for it. www.masshist.org/research/con...

Hmm historian here I wonder who else attacked disabled people in the recent past?

Correct

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Sorry Scotland Boston liked you even though you drank up all the beer! #worldcup

Jeff Cowie goes big in calling for structural changes to build democracy. In the process, he reminds us of some painful history, including how tantalizingly close we came to getting rid of the Electoral College in 1969, when the House voted 338-70 to do so. democracyjournal.org/magazine/81/...

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

"They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

one of the most heinous atrocities of the last 150 years. up there with the worst dictators in history

Those candidates are to my left on a number of issues. But if you conflate victories by a few lefty candidates with an entire party being taken over by people with open contempt for multiracial democracy and the rule of law, then you have entirely missed the boat.

🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

June has been quite a month but do join us for this fantastic Reconstruction conference at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston this weekend featuring cutting edge scholarship. School teachers can register for teacher development and get credit for it. www.masshist.org/research/con...

Hmm historian here I wonder who else attacked disabled people in the recent past?

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

Historian here, you want to celebrate the 250th without dealing with the hot mess at DC? Check out a new museum dedicated to a founder of the second American Republic, Thaddeus Stevens and his partner Lydia Hamilton Smith in Lancaster PA. I am a talking head.

Lander is just running for Congress and he wasn't trying to make a video about a positive vision of masculinity but guys if you want to see a positive vision of what it means to be a man here you go.

I’ve always been amazed at how the Manhattan Institute gets taken so seriously by so many when it hires people like this. I mean, this is pretty shockingly vile racism for a someone at a “respectable” think tank to spew.

I mean this is just straight up a cocaine conversation right

It's important we keep teaching reading and critical thinking so that Americans of the future may fully appreciate the metaphor here

Historian here, you want to celebrate the 250th without dealing with the hot mess at DC? Check out a new museum dedicated to a founder of the second American Republic, Thaddeus Stevens and his partner Lydia Hamilton Smith in Lancaster PA. I am a talking head.

Your periodic reminder that the holding in Biden v. Nebraska was that the statutory power to “waive or modify” student loan payments did not entail the power to modify student loan payments

Also, not a single man, woman or 168 children lost their lives.

“Not my fault”: The slogan of the Trump presidency. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/u...

Mbappe!

Nothing annoys me more than walking into a bookstore at the airport and seeing “Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary pirates” by Brian Kilmeade front and center in the history section

Susan Collins is on Fox News but notably, the interview was pre-taped. She seems to be struggling her way through it. I wonder how heavily it's been edited.

Suraj has a point.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Here’s a man who is waging a full out war against black and women officers in the United States defense forces while losing a war to Iran. When you don’t believe in American democracy or even hegemony around the world, you are the worst kind of traitor to the republic.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

So many great points in this piece. One thread to pull out is role of X in "developed countries." Understudied is Musk's role in Global South (see stats). He's hit strongest resistance in BRICS countries but also sees potential growth and dominance in Asia. Something to be watched closely.

Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the threat to mail-in voting this fall does not stop at the White House.

On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.

Happy Fathers Day to my German husband! youtu.be/I20l28CnNaU?is…

an ellipse without grass, a drained reflecting pool, the east wing in shambles, construction on the mall: shaping up for a can’t miss 4th of July metaphor

🇨🇻 Cape Verdean club in Bridgeport, Connecticut erupts after second World Cup goal vs. Uruguay.

MAYBE STOP FUCKING WITH HISTORY TEACHING THEN

The poll of 3,000 adults nationwide found that 80% think the United States puts too little emphasis on civic education, or the teaching of government and democracy. A majority (51%) said the country’s focus on civic education is much too little.

Nikki Haley’s son is a massive douche

The Iranian Foreign Minister makes Vance wait, then when he arrives he refuses to shake Vance’s hand or greet him. The US has never looked smaller or weaker on the world stage.

Pretty rich stuff from Rep. Brandon Gill considering he’s a carpetbagger in his district — which he oddly never seems to find time to talk about — and only has that congressional seat because his father in law is Dinesh D’Souza, a first generation immigrant.

Historian here @gregsargent.bsky.social quotes Lincoln beautifully: That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

Thanks @profmsinha.bsky.social! Make sure to read her great book "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic"! www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Se...

Happy Fathers Day to my German husband! youtu.be/I20l28CnNaU?is…

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting