this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

It is really sad to see how many US schools are eliminating visual art programs. It is worth a detailed report on the students, staff and faculty affected, but I don't know how many media outlets are interested in features on that.

while browsing the competitive pokemon subreddit, got served a targeted ad for a book that's a "bold, dialectic engagement with fredric jameson." i'm afraid the algorithm has me nearly figured out

there is no reward or recognition offered at the high school level for trying to stay engaged with your academic field at all. it's a damn shame. Lots of talented folks say "that's because teaching kids is the job, not being a subject matter expert." Hard at times to do one well without the other!

ELBRIDGE COLBY, waking up in the Emperor Palpatine Medical center, wheezing: "where... is the pivot to asia. is she... safe? is she alright?"

Good luck to our NASA siblings tonight who are making the Artemis II launch to the moon happen!  They’re leading the charge in scientific research and discovery on Earth AND in orbit – and their @ifpte.bsky.social and AFGE union contracts should be restored. 🚀

some of the reasons i'm excited despite everything to see big ticket government as oposed to private sector space efforts jacobin.com/2023/08/spac...

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

this cover goes so hard

Hollow chocolate bunnies are a disgrace. Solid chocolate or fight me.

“In the face of this sudden burst of revisionism [scholars] on both the left and right have stood up to defend the traditional view and bring the weight of generations of scholarship to bear on the question. Their conclusion is the same as those who came before them.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Socialist Majority is proud to sponsor the NYC-DSA for AOC petition. @socialists.nyc must grow and strengthen the socialists bloc in Congress by deepening our partnership with AOC and supporting her re-election.

the smile I give students when they ask me what I'm teaching next semester

for a low low think tank salary I'll deliver wise advice based on years of deep naval history research, including insights like "don't build decorative vessels on the sovereign's whim" and "the melian dialogue is not an endorsement of a strategy that worked." taking offers now

A year ago today I took a look at the first novel in E.R. Eddison's divisive Zimiamvia trilogy: MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES. It's a fascinating and frustrating read and works best in the context of the whole, strange, frustrating trilogy.

one problem of AI is the way it seems to make a lot of casual critics post like sephiroth

Americans, this is going to sound like a meme, but please get the Dems to explicitly announce that Alberta will not get any deal from the US should they seperate and/or be annexed

feels appropriate given the destruction of freedom of navigation that the current issue of the Mariner's Mirror (the only journal I get in the mail on paper) is delayed

Extremely satisfying and comprehensive pan of a guy I have disliked for a long time, here. Simply no feeling like it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

good stuff here

I'm starting to think that a lot of our society's problems are downstream from the fact that theories of the user have displaced theories of the political subject in much of political life. And our mainline theories of the computer user are truly, truly awful.

Take that, Grotius!

Retired Orioles star Adam Jones talked about this a lot — he was from a single-parent household and only able to play baseball as a kid because of community and school groups, which are in danger of disappearing today because of competition from travel leagues bsky.app/profile/goth...

I fear the answer is no

Sorry but it’s weird to me that so much rhetoric from pundits and even actual Dem politicians concedes that even if the citizenship of all Americans technically formally equal, it is not morally equal. “Coastal women are lesser Americans than southern/midwest men” No they’re not. That’s not true.

Sign a letter to your senators today about blocking 27,000 bombs to Israel

A lot of people on here still don't seem to get that those polls that you see where a supermajority of Democratic voters sympathize with Palestinians and distrust Israel and think Israel committed genocide are actually reflective of reality and that reality reflects the polls.

“In only a few volumes Alan Allport has become the historian of Britain at war. This is no light accomplishment, since many very good volumes have already told this story. But I think this one is the best.” ☺️ Paul Kennedy on #AdvanceBritannia in the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

this is why the present moment demands intellectual and political history written partly through the biographies and machinations of "a few rich evil guys". i may have written just such a book www.versobooks.com/products/312...

me looking up at the clock as 4 approaches

it is also -indicative- of bad motivations, because it suggests the decision is being made because of edtech marketing (Google already has Google classroom) and VCs (magic school) rather than any serious careful consideration

while I think the rapid adoption of AI in k-12 schools (every educator I know is having incessant PD where they're told to use it for everything) is bad in and of itself, I think it's also particularly bad that Gemini and ChatGPT seem to be the models of choice there

mare clausum is back baby

friend offered me his old DDR4 RAM and with current prices it feels like a rich uncle gifting me his summer home

The executive has already completely overthrown large portions of the Constitution. If the judiciary finds that there’s no birthright citizenship, the beating heart of the post-Civil War era will have been overthrown.

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

way too many alarmed wry asides in my mercantilism lecture today

Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval, whose new book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, has been awarded the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for First Book!

Hi (again) early America crew: I'm a little stuck on an idea and would love some suggestions. I want to read more about extended kinship networks in the colonies. How did relatives provide for orphaned and fatherless the children of brothers/sisters/cousins/etc.? As always, thanks!!

actually pretend I didn't say that. maybe if we invent "quantum macroeconomics" we can get a few more years of ZIRP and actually invest the money in something worthwhile this time

I reviewed Matt Goodwin’s new book for the New Statesman. Spoiler: it’s worse than you could ever imagine

Look, sometimes when people say they hate “liberals,” they mean “women.”

"repeatedly suggests that quantum entanglement could be used for faster-than-light communication, an infamous canard among physics students" look I love science fiction but this one's a real scourge from the genre

got a 3ds streetpass connection today somehow 😭

YOU CANNOT BE A UNITED STATES SENATOR IN PRIVATE

a little over two months to go. purchase the hardcover, let the fluorescent yellow attract eyeballs as you read it on the train, and then tell everyone disturbing truths about General Electric

If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org

1- rahm emanuel lol come on 2- how about a ban on prediction markets existing