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“The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide, Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...

One of the commentators for the Clemson/LSU game mentioned how one of Dabo Swinney’s sons is on a football scholarship with Clemson. Swinney’s salary is over $11 million this year. The kid does not need a scholarship. Absolute clownery 🙄.

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”

“If you don’t let us steal your work, how are we supposed to make money?” Imagine a burglar rolling up in your house and complaining because you won’t let them steal.

I just received my first copy of the book!

I’d be really interested in seeing recruitment and retention data for the National Guard over the next couple of years.

>blurring faces of law enforcement officers in Instagram photos YOU ARE NOT JSOC YOU WILL NEVER BE JSOC STOP FUCKING LARPING

Charley Crockett Billy Strings Sturgill Dead and Co Billy Strings

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: • Thee Phantom and The Illharmonic Orchestra • Isley Brothers • Big KRIT • Janet Jackson feat Ludacris • Social Club Misfits

look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: Jeezy Kendrick Lamar/SZA Jagged Edge Usher Nas

Saw a post on IG where someone said people in the U.S. feel like Scar has taken over the Pride Lands. I really can’t think of a better analogy. Simba, where you at?

Company I of the 36th Colored Regiment served during the Civil War’s Battle of Chaffin’s Farm and New Market Heights. Henrico County, VA, envisions a new trail project that would commemorate the battle and the 14 Black soldiers who earned Medals of Honor in it. richmondfreepress.com/news/2025/au...

This just in…

- The humidity in August - Realizing the zoo is about to close, but you are all the way at Amazonia with two children and a stroller, and you took the metro here - Off-leash golden doodle at Petworth Farmers Market

24s Be Easy Asap

Historians @katemasur.bsky.social and Greg Downs write about their collaboration with the National Park Service to help establish Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. All of this good work is now under threat from the Trump administration. #NationalParks www.historians.org/perspectives...

I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’ve fully reckoned w/how much the Trump agenda is rooted in racial grievance. Every day, we’re seeing the full force of white identity politics in action. Wild how much of it is just taken for granted, at least from where I sit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

🗃️ Just finished doing this with @violaburlew.bsky.social, based on articles we wrote for the OAH magazine (link in thread). It was fun, and Vi’s portion on her lesson was great! Super proud of her. Recording will be available soon! Thanks to @oah.org and Jon Warner for having us!

Many units at the Smithsonian are understaffed and still waiting on final budget numbers which are probably going to require more cuts to staff and programs/exhibitions. Demanding all this information with full inventories completed as well would be challenging even in a time of better funding.

This is a mountain of materials they’ve demanded from these institutions. And the only reason they’re requiring these files is to analyze them with AI to cherry-pick phrases and words they don’t like. No one is going through this and reading it themselves.

#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ... That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

“Since taking office in January, the administration has fired nearly everyone who worked at the National Center for Education Statistics, the statistics branch within the Department of Education that would be responsible for the new data collection effort… Of about 100 employees…just four remain.”

It's taken the New York Times a decade to finally realize how the far right works. They amplify a handful of random posts by nobodies as a characterization of the entire left and then get outraged by it. That in turn drives media coverage and takes over the media cycle for weeks.

A lot of white people were flabbergasted when admission among Black and Latino students didn’t immediately nose dive everywhere in the wake of the SCOTUS decision in SFFA vs. Harvard and UNC. We all knew the colorblind stuff was nonsense, but that reaction gave the whole game away.

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

I'm teaching hip hop history again this semester! I've been trying to think of more ways to focus on albums rather than song playlists since the latter has become the primary way a lot of folks listen to music. So far, I'm thinking...

AI cannot do history work it has no capacity to do this work, at all, in any way this is like claiming a zebra can replace an airplane pilot

As we all stagger home from vacations & begin working on syllabi in earnest, I’d offer my semesterly recommendation that @wcaleb.org's generic syllabus maker can generate a list of days your class will meet—all you have to do is delete any holidays, etc. from the list wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Important to remember that the state was already heavily gerrymandered before this, but now they’re making it even worse.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier. The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events. Let's take a closer look.

If we’re counting cartoons in this, the opening theme of X-Men from the ‘90s. youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk?...

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

I want to see some evidence that the money is actually reaching states but this is very good news If you don't know what funding the AG is talking about, here you go: www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Most people are probably aware of this, but if you don’t want these awful AI summaries to even show up in your Google search results, type -ai after your search terms. Example: Battle of Anzio -ai

Book 9 of 2025. Been on my list for a long time, but I finally got around to it. A heavy read, but it was really great.

NEW: Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

I can’t remember who pointed out, but if all these AI tools were truly worth a damn, they wouldn’t be forcing this stuff down everyone’s throats for free.

The National Guard troopers confirming what everyone suspected; they don't want to be there.

When I was a museum curator, I remember a couple of occasions where managers floated ideas for STEM-centered museum programs for students. I would’ve been fine with it if there was also an effort to teach them about the historical discipline, the foundation of everything we did at the museum.

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.