Hey folks: Many of you have been asking for a syllabus for "America at 250" -- the lecture course I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go (scroll down to the bottom): president.yale.edu/committees-p...

1) the science doesn’t back this up in the slightest. 2) always, ALWAYS follow the money.

New: A&M officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for Melissa McCoul's termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. But faculty say the real issue was political pressure over her inclusion of LGBTQ+ themes. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

We’re cooked chat. It’s been real. Got fun there at the end there. #Rangers

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

My Gen Z brothers, we gotta move on from these creepy pedo ‘staches.

How big are these casings that he can put a whole ass novel on there?

It’s worth noting, some evangelicals and admirers have called Charlie Kirk the MLK of our time. If this is true, then Charlie Kirk was undoubtably right about MLK.

Someone is shot once every 4 minutes and 24 seconds in the U.S. Common sense gun safety laws would save lives.

The irony of my fellow believers decrying the assassination of CK as a sign of the hatred the world has for them is that CK was a prime advocate of that very Us vs. Them thinking that got them here in the first place. #weareallus #thereisnothem

Imagine the screaming in the WH is louder than normal today. Longer the FBI fails to find the shooter, the more Q’s start and the less control they have over the narrative. Conspiracy theories are gaining speed.

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

I’m serious, Christian explain yourself and your love for this man. Is it only bc he vocally called himself a Christian? Bc rn, his cup appears minuscule.

Spending your professional career arguing for dominion, belittling minority groups, and promoting white christian nationalism is not the definition of “good and faithful servant.” It’s the exact opposite of John 13:35.

I attended a talk from a museum professional last night who praised librarians for their organized systems of mentorship for new members of the profession. RBMS is in need of new mentors! THAT MEANS YOU. Invest the time to make that praise true! 📜 rbms.info/committees/m...

I don’t understand why the evangelical church is holding CK up so much. I’ve seen so much footage of his hate, his mocking, his poisoned fruit. I’ve lost respect for so many good, faithful, and kind old friends today calling him a saint and “good and faithful servant.”

When finally happens, I’m eating a whole bunch of asparagus before we ‘pay our respects.’

Banning books instead of guns is exactly what radicalized me.

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

Watching 2A’ers be stone silent as a wanna be dictator and a militant evangelical influenced administration increases its federal presence tells you it was never about “defending ourselves from a tyrannical government” after all.

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Astronomer skyrocketed into public attention after the viral Coldplay “kiss cam” moment. To handle the sudden attention, they hired a “temporary spokesperson” with experience in Coldplay internet fame: Gwyneth Paltrow.

Why is the Grim Reaper teasing us so blatantly? Do it already.

AIRDROPS??!? You’re next damn door! Just drive dammit. You already bulldozed everything flat.

Idk what you’re talking about, it’s totally normal to play the MI: Fallout soundtrack on repeat all day. 😅

ADHD tax #3297: two nights in a row now, I’ve gone to the garage fridge and found someone has forgotten a drink in the freezer.

NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.

So the Robert’s court really going out of its way to give Taney’s court a run for its money.

Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Southwest advertising assigned seating like it’s this amazing thing… holy f*ing airball.

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I have to say I do not love the idea of throwing $40 billion at an agency that's clearly making it up as it goes along and staffed entirely by law enforcement flotsam that couldn't get hired as prison guards. I bet a lot of people wouldn't, but I understand there's a new mayoral nominee to denounce.

Karma. She's quick. Here's looking at you, Murkowski.

Our president has launched an illegal and unprovoked attack on a foreign country to aid another foreign country supplementing their genocide with wagging the dog. Cool. Bright side, I went to a peach orchard today so there’s that. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Seems important.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump admin broke the law when it withheld funding for the nation's libraries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

Just like in the parks, safety comes first. - Stay with your group - Follow the signs (or in this case, the facts) - Leave no one behind - Document everything - Don’t engage alone