Historian here if you are attending the Southern Historical Association conference hope to see you today afternoon for my panel marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of my first book! Grateful to Madam President Lorri Glover.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

Prices since Trump took office: -Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7% -Utilities: ⬆️ 11% -ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26% -Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3% Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”

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At the Southern Historical Association conference in St Pete Beach, FL? Check out sessions with our authors @profmsinha.bsky.social, Matthew Lockwood, Michael Honey, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Deborah Gray White. And stop by our booth #19 to pick up beach reading! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social #2025SHA

Historian here if you are attending the Southern Historical Association conference hope to see you today afternoon for my panel marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of my first book! Grateful to Madam President Lorri Glover.

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

hear hear www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals. n.pr/47uKYeQ

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Historian here, as an immigrant and naturalized citizen I love the American republic and it’s constitutional order with the passion of a new convert. It’s really not been easy this year to keep the faith but if Zohran Mamdani wins today, I will find the 21 year old me again.

Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Democrats flipped the Mayor's office in Lyman, SC in conservative Upstate Spartanburg County. In 2024, the county went for Trump by 66%-33%.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

All in all, a good showing for the out-of-touch party.

hell yeah eugene debs

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.

Hell Yea @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the next projected mayor of NYC

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

JUST IN: And, a closer race, but a huge result: Decision Desk HQ has called Virginia AG for Jones, the Democrat. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

I understand the "those GOP fuckers tried to illegally fire us" county shifts, but all of them? Better work harder to cancel those midterms, fascists.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger projected to become Virginia's first female governor, NBC News projects. Read more here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

even if it's a hoax, I feel like the mere threat of bombing a polling place is political violence

My take on where we are www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Which photo editor at the New York Times decided to go with this glamour shot?

Historian here, as an immigrant and naturalized citizen I love the American republic and it’s constitutional order with the passion of a new convert. It’s really not been easy this year to keep the faith but if Zohran Mamdani wins today, I will find the 21 year old me again.

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

Every last one of these ICE officers belongs in prison for this. Hold them accountable!

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

I don’t disagree that Ben Shapiro is trying to kick Carlson out. But I still think the analogy here is fights between White Citizen’s Councils and the Klan. On most points, these folks agree. But the establishment prefers their bigotry thinly veiled and this is harder to maintain in the Trump era.

They’ve all gone mad. Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

This historian flew around the world for the Chinese book launch of #theslavescause and is happy to be back home!

The Husband, who regularly does Wallace Shawn impersonations around the house: Imagine Wallace Shawn knocking on your door to talk to you about Zohran in that Wallace Shawn voice

Running gag goes meta as Johnson says he knows nothing about Trump knowing nothing

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.