Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

The only Trump renaming that makes sense.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Historian here, glad to be quoted on Trump’s criminal, illegal and unconstitutional actions. To be read alongside @jamellebouie.net ‘s brilliant the White House is a Lost Cause published last Sunday. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The vandalism continues www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

Another thing about Bari killing the 60 Minutes CECOT piece. Remember how she wrong a book about antisemitism? Right? Surely she's heard the words "never again?" So killing a piece about a concentration camp says quite a lot about her, beyond just not knowing anything about journalism.

On Sunday, @60minutes.bsky.social pulled a segment on torture against US deportees in CECOT, El Salvador's mega prison. Curious what the story said? Read HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social's report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

THIS. This is why the AI bros telling historians what is acceptable and normal for us to do and use in teaching and research all fucking weekend has bothered me so much. Underneath it all is a blazing contempt for our field, and we CAN ALL SEE IT fellas

Our own Manisha Sinha recently featured in The NY Times! Check it out here:

Historian here, glad to be quoted on Trump’s criminal, illegal and unconstitutional actions. To be read alongside @jamellebouie.net ‘s brilliant the White House is a Lost Cause published last Sunday. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

You do everything in your power to get every relevant voice in a story. But as one of my former colleagues told a local official who thought his silence would kill a piece: “I’d like to have you. But the story is being written with or without you.”

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration 60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Earlier I bleeted about how AI cannot do historical research for you. There's something else it can't do: write. Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.* An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.

A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

Historian here Ron DeSantis thinks the Great Depression brought on by miserable Republican Presidents in the 1920s, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, was A okay

A historian of China makes a point about Trump's assault on the Smithsonian. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.

My essay on this whole deal.....

Here’s an article that I wrote five years ago in which I call MYSELF Cassandra. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center? Anne Frank

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

TAPPER: “This is one of the documents Trump’s DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. ALL BLACK. That’s the ‘transparency’ we’re getting.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Oh my god I was right

The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.

So the Epstein Files are: –not complete –comically redacted –not in a “searchable” format The Trump-Vance administration had months to recover from the embarrassing influencer binder photo-op and this is what they came up with. This is what they think of you

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

Breaking: Rep. Ro Khanna says the Trump DOJ's production "does not comply with" the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie "are exploring all options" — including impeachment of DOJ officials, inherent contempt, or referring individuals for obstruction of justice.

It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

In Washington these days, the word often whispered by Republicans and shouted by Democrats and Never Trumpers is “unhinged.” Trump's own top aide calls it an "alcoholic's personality." This was a week that Trump's uninhibited second term was on display. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

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