Historian of abolition here that’s what a good abolitionist college does, Oberlin living up to its abolitionist origins! #theslavescause

Happy to have done this great podacst on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic with Dr. Chelsea Gibson of #SHGAPE pod.link/1584947419

My latest for @dissentmag.bsky.social:

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) is out with a press release calling for "shared sacrifice" and ensuring "senators feel the consequences of a government shutdown," saying he'll go without his Senate paycheck until DHS is funded. Kennedy's net worth is like ~$20M.

"Among various staffers and officials working within the august confines of the Pentagon and Department of Defense, the former ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host...is known as “Dumb McNamara.”" Pete Hegseth's new nickname, among his colleagues, per reporting for Zeteo's First Draft this morning:

A whopping 71% of young voters oppose Trump's war on Iran, while only 21% support it, and a solid majority of young voters say Trump's war is making America weaker, per Quinnipiac data provided to me: newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Happy to have done this great podacst on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic with Dr. Chelsea Gibson of #SHGAPE pod.link/1584947419

Historian of abolition here that’s what a good abolitionist college does, Oberlin living up to its abolitionist origins! #theslavescause

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own." (Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Pleas ask them to switch stations. I have done that a million times while traveling especially in the south.

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

Historian of the Civil War and I approve of this message. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

“The resolution - proposed by Ghana - was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina. Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

OMG my husband and I shared a delicious “Dubai” chocolate cookie stuffed with pistachios today and it was a clue on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social !

It's honestly impressive how every new Mac OS update these days only makes everything I want to do slower and shittier.

“The Oval Office.” Paul Conrad, 1974.

This day is a lot in NC. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Republicans only have a three point edge with men. Total disaster.

Even dogs don’t like ICE: “BREAKING: Two police dogs at two separate airports have reportedly bitten ICE agents today.”

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers.

Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake. snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

"The best example of the news media deciding somebody is unfit for office, because of their mental fitness or unfitness, is how they treated Biden in 2024. Biden was old and rational. Right now, Trump is old and irrational, but he’s not getting the same kind of treatment." — @markjacob.bsky.social

have fun, Vance

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

It was about upholding white supremacy and power.

excited to see @profmsinha.bsky.social on the opening panel this morning!

Historian here join us tomorrow at NYU law school for this important conversation sponsored by the Brennan center. brennan.swoogo.com/thecauseofam...

The vibes are increasingly like a mixture between “Veep” and “The death of Stalin”

ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) manhandling a woman are getting called what they are: “Assholes.”

ICE at the Atlanta airport:

If I were Secretary of Transportation, I would spend every waking moment recruiting air-traffic controllers, increasing their pay and benefits, getting them in-house massage therapists, forcing airlines to stop increasing flight traffic. Sean Duffy, however:

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Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium. Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists.

GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."

That’s where this is headed

The investigation into the deadly collision between a plane and fire truck at LaGuardia was initially slowed because the specialists traveling to New York were delayed by long security lines at other airports. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Military historians who specialize in the Civil War have to be among the most resilient humans out there because every time the weather heats up, cools down, or stays the same too long, some jackass pops up to talk about how great a strategist Lee was and they have to patiently explain, again: NO

Historian of the Civil War and I approve of this message. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Honored to be participating in the LSE's Ralph Miliband Programme this coming Wednesday with a lecture on Capitalism: A Global History www.lse.ac.uk/events/capit...

Historian here join us tomorrow at NYU law school for this important conversation sponsored by the Brennan center. brennan.swoogo.com/thecauseofam...

Good morning UConns men basketball team defeated UCLA! I watched the whole damn thing, exciting game.

This is like me starting a fight and redefining victory as “getting my shoes back.”

True that “The irony here is the fact that ICE agents would never pass TSA background check.”

The Moldovan Parliament has approved the permanent withdrawal of the Republic of Moldova from the statutory bodies of the Russian led "Commonwealth of Independent States."

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

This is why the mainstream press mouths the GOP narrative and misinforms. Watching This Week on ABC and not a single question on the 7 attempts to fund TSA BY Dems. You would think they are just blocking stuff!