And yes, I am having an exam on Halloween because that’s the scariest thing I can do as a teacher. 👩🏻‍🏫 💀 🎃

For Halloween, I’m gonna go as a showgirl to my class since I offered bonus points to anyone that shows up in full costume for the day of their test. #tloasg

One begins to suspect the speaker has not read or at the very least lacks. Common Sense

Watching The Sorrow and the Pity with my class and once again I am astonished that no-one has made a biopic about the extraordinary Denis Rake MC, the very openly gay SOE radio-operator who worked in drag as a cabaret singer in occupied Belgium while conducting an affair with a German officer.

‘He lied’: Fury grows over Trump’s White House demolition for $250 million ballroom “Donald Trump wants to be a king. That is the best explanation for everything he has been doing in recent days. Just look at what he is doing to the White House,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. WATCH:

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Wtf?

The White House heard the complaints Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage” And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

Excited to see that many of my students wanna do their current event/historical reflection paper on the “No Kings Day” protests and discuss the declaration of independence.

Historians

I’ve been MIA for a while because dissertation defense has been delayed twice for personal reasons along with *gestures to everything,* so I did want to share some good professional news that I’ve been reached out to about a project involving Madam Brillon. More details to come later! :)

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Public ridicule is an under-appreciated tactic.

Deep red Alabama is out for No Kings Day!

Over 100,000 in San Francisco

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

No King’s Day protest in Oxford, MS. 💪🏻

How you know you’re at a No Kings rally in Mississippi

More from the ongoing No Kings in Oxford, Mississippi. No one can tell me if I’m supposed to receive my George Soros money as a check or direct deposit, but otherwise great turnout.

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

The Benjamin Franklin Effect – the surprising psychology of how to handle haters www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/20/t...

From The New Yorker

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

MY TIME HAS COME

It’s very ironic that for the last five or years people have been very vocal telling me over & over again that doing any research with the “founders” is useless & irrelevant, but now those same people are constantly quoting & referencing those men to criticize the current administration.

Taylor’s new album is so much fun to vibe to. And honestly, I just love how she’s basically saying she’s happy about getting dicked down byTravis Kelce. #loasg

#tloasg ✌🏻

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

I hit retweet on this a few days ago but it didn’t go through apparently. Probably because I’m illicitly using Bluesky in Mississippi.

“It is…unreasonable what some assert, That Printers ought not to print any Thing but what they approve; since if all of that Business should make such a Resolution, and abide by it, an End would thereby be put to Free Writing, and the World would afterwards have nothing to read..” Benjamin Franklin

MAGA libertarians after an FCC threat turns into ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air hours later

For no particular reason, a documentary on the creation of the SABC, South Africa’s national broadcaster, and how the Apartheid government used the state to control messaging. https://youtu.be/DzyJgI-qA-s?si=_OAz6pDun8y-YHcE

New from me: it’s been hard to write anything about what’s going on in America this last week, but we’ve moved from “threat to free speech” to “a state that actively restricts political speech” very quickly. https://www.kevinyeaux.com/p/an-elephant-on-our-chest

As I launch into reviewing copy edits this morning, a quick reminder: I have a book coming out in the Spring that I’m very excited about.

Deleting the study doesn’t delete the truth.

Another conference in the books and my first CSPAN appearance! Thanks to the Jack Miller Center and the Society of Cincinnati for organizing this conference on the American Revolution!

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

That this list includes the President’s House site in Philadelphia where George Washington lived and enslaved other human beings as president is both tragic and predictable. For 250 years, Americans have claimed that mentioning Washington and slavery together “disparages” him and his legacy.

Hope I made you proud! ❤️

Students this semester are fucking wild. Do not call me by my first name. I’m your teacher!!!

🎧 Parents, beware: Sesame Street's "be kind to one another" messaging will soon be replaced with pro-slavery cartoons, courtesy of Prager University. This propaganda will roll out soon, starting with AZ, LA, MT, OK, TX, SC, ID, AK, NH, and FL. 🎥 Lauren_rockel (Insta)

I know I’m not on top of my game for teaching this semester because of stress with edits and other dissertation nonsense, but it’s still really cool when students talk to me after class asking if I’ve played Assassins’ Creed III and RDR2 when they learn that I play video games.

The longer I teach, the less patience I have for students whining about assignments.

Waking up to the words “I’M GOING TO PUNCH YOU” on my apple watch was something else. Love to see Politico embracing its Duolingo era.

Editing chapters to defend in October and preparing for two conferences in the same semester was a dumb idea.

Friends, sign up for my brilliant husband’s substack!

First week of the fall semester is off to a good start!