Incredible feeling to be listening to @npr.org while driving my son to daycare and hear my interview with @amartinezla.bsky.social about "EVERYBODY LOSES: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling," out tomorrow! Here's a link if you're interested: www.npr.org/2026/01/19/n...

Folks, “Moses and the Doctor” has finally arrived.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

Our 2025 Editors’ Picks are here! Lit in Translation & Sports co-editor @becquer.bsky.social recommends Luis Martín-Santos's "Time of Silence" (trans. Peter Bush) & @johnnysmith135.bsky.social & Randy Roberts's "The Fight of His Life."

Exactly right. The book was released because Democrats on the House Oversight Committee kept up the pressure on Jim Comer and forced a subpoena. Even in the minority, congressional Democrats can still make an impact.

You deserve a break on Sundays that doesn’t break the bank.

Live footage of historians these days

It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?

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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Peyton Manning for the academic win. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This is the headline I show my students when we talk about Alabama adopting its current state constitution in 1901. I teach in Alabama

The History of Sports in America course I took at Georgia Tech with @johnnysmith135.bsky.social is so foundational to my work now, even I'm in the environmental journalism space. These odd courses are where students are really pushed beyond their comfort zones intellectually without them knowing it

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

I like this concise explanation for how Germany fell into line behind the Nazis, written by a journalist in 1939 and quoted in Richard J. Evans's 'The Coming of the Third Reich' (2003). (2/6)

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

New in PN: The sordid origin of 'America First,' explained by a historian “Mainstream opinion in the '30s wasn't pro-Nazi but it wasn't anti-Nazi in any meaningful way either. People would say, ‘Germany for the Germans — what’s offensive about that?’ Nationalism has a certain accepted sensibility."

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

@pablo.show Pablo, I thoroughly enjoyed the Jesse Owens episode. Question: can you please follow me back so I can send you a DM or email me at [email protected]?

This is awful

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Gee. What will he do with election results he doesn’t like?

“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The common thread across these bills is to disempower faculty, staff and students who live on campus and subject them to the whims of politicians pen.org/with-a-wave-...

In my view @johnnysmith135.bsky.social is one of the best sports historians in the game. If he writes something, I'm going to read it. I just pre-ordered his latest, co-authored with Randy Roberts, and can't wait to check it out. www.amazon.com/Fight-His-Li...

Don't worry. They're going to take care of Cletus and make sure his rural hospital doesn't go belly-up when Medicaid money dries up. But for um, more "urban" Medicaid populations? lol

🚨 NEWS: Stephen Miller's group has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers and their principal owner Guggenheim Partners accusing them of engaging in "unlawful discrimination under the guise of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' (DEI)."

Rarely has MAGA policy been so clearly articulated. Denying sick Americans healthcare doesn’t matter as long as their masked, racist security force gets funding - By Order of the Vice President.

Decimating the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in critical areas at one of the great and unique public university systems for purely ideological reasons will surely go down as one of the great disasters in the history of higher education in the United States.

I desperately wish the media paid more attention to this heinous act of political violence in my home state of Minnesota.

“For a country supposedly locked in an existential competition with China, it is bizarre to eviscerate the fastest growing source of energy supposedly to save money while simultaneously providing tax breaks to, of all things, metallurgical coal miners.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

We are disinvesting in science, and education, but there is always money for MAGA worship

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

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I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

Torres: "In 2024, 90% of new electricity generation in the US was clean energy. 60% of it is solar. And Republicans are proposing to defund solar and battery storage and wind, which are the leading sources of new electricity generations in the US. It is an act of strategic self-sabotage."

Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

Jan 6 prosecutors were fired because they upheld rule of law, securing convictions in court with beyond-a-reasonable-doubt proof of crimes against America, and that’s not the job anymore.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

I dissent.

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." -- Sotomayor dissent

“This is likely the largest child abduction in war since world war two – comparable to the Germanification of Polish children by the Nazis.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION. $793 BILLION. It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage. Just wild.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k8PL8s