There’s nothing that can convince me that lining up in shotgun from the 1-yard line isn’t ridiculous.

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

After emancipation, Black schoolteacher & future Alabama state legislator William V. Turner reported to the Freedmen's Bureau that local officials were illegally withholding food assistance from Black mothers, telling them it "is not for negroes, but for the poor white women."

Every time they reach the goal line, they throw the ball instead of handing it to Marshawn Lynch. What was the point of any of this if they’re just going to fold like a damn lawn chair?

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025 We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds. Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

REMINDER: Our Postdoctoral Fellowship deadline is now extended to November 15! Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Dems in ARRAY

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

I can’t believe the Dodgers got out of that jam!

Obama: “as for the president, he’s been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes, & gold plating the Oval Office & building a $300M ballroom So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

It’s so funny how we killed cable tv and replaced it with…. cable tv.

Reposting this for folks who study the U.S. South to weigh in on this inquiry.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

I’ve sort of fallen behind with posting about books I’ve been reading, but I decided to get back to it. This is a great book about how politics and perceptions of the regular army shaped historical developments in both the South and West during the Civil War era. Highly recommend it!

“The concern is that teachers will avoid certain topics altogether, or just revert to boring pedagogy, like reading the textbook the district approved,” she said. “That is not a good way to teach. The kids deserve better than that, and our democracy deserves better.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Just in case it's not clear from the post or the headline, I'd like to point out they plan to accomplish this by diluting the voting power of Black people. Will potentially control 11 out of 14 seats in a swing state.

This is what happens when one company has a 30-percent share of the global cloud computing market. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

African American Military History Museum, alongside the Brown Family, honored the Life and Legacy of Hattiesburg Native Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the U.S. Navy’s first African American aviator and a true American hero. www.hubcityspokes.com/african-amer...

‘Untold stories’: Florida’s Black history museum to sit on old Florida Memorial University site www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

The AHA is compiling resources developed by historians in response to recent actions by the federal governments. We welcome submissions from our members about op-eds, media appearances, or other resources they've contributed offering historical context and insight to the public. 🗃️

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. www.wired.com/story/scott-...

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. My latest video for @propublica.org.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Always a good day when a new issue of the Western Historical Quarterly drops 🗃️ academic.oup.com/whq/issue/56/3

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We're looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for two years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links in the replies below.

Congratulations to our faculty affiliate Lucien Holness for his presentation of "Juneteenth: The Commemoration and Celebration of Emancipation and the Making of Freedom" at the Central Pennsylvania Civil War round table on Tuesday!

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the headline for this article should’ve been some version of this.

Sure would be nice to highlight Lost Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, too.

Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️

with @mjsdc.bsky.social and @imillhiser.bsky.social on the term ahead

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

‘Bodies of Labor,’ Hearts of Hope: A new Black History Museum exhibition at Richmond's Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia explores experience through toil richmondmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

“Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says” 10/3/25… 1/ www.reuters.com/business/aer...

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.