I fucking hate Stephen Miller so much I could write a musical about it.

Happy Stephen Miller tantrum after having his ass handed to him day to all who celebrate

Metaphor alert

Majoring in serfdom and minoring in dying of radiation poisoning

"The first written mention of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day comes from 1935, when, according to The New York Times, a man named Eng Shee Chuck brought chow mein and toys to a New Jersey Jewish orphanage." fortune.com/2025/12/24/w...

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

This quote will be used in The Trials. And we will ask all our children to read it in school to Never Forget.

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

there's just a point where you realize these people have no capacity for actual joy or human kindness, and so perform this abuse theater because they have nothing else

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

To accompany this latest absurdity, let me introduce you to an article on the ontological security of US naval ship museums by me and Brent Steele, which can perhaps shed light a bit on why this pathetic obsession with big things that shoot guns. Open access here: academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

Cannot think of a better metaphor for America than this crane dangling two portapotties from hundreds of feet up. One door has already opened and I am waiting for all that shit to come crashing on my house.

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

I tell my students explicitly to NOT do this and then I explain why - full of hallucinations, stolen material, mischaracterizations.

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

I wake up in the morning, scream about this until the end of the day, then start again the following day. This is my life now. We have to make this stop.

nothing but respect

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

Season 4 of THE WHITE LOTUS

It's going to feel so good "renaming" the Kennedy Center and demolishing the "ballroom" when he's gone.

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

does she not know that president Kennedy is dead and cannot be on a team in the future

This is unconscionable. I have worked with UNC's Center for European Studies for years. I cannot believe this. What a way to destroy a university.

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

"[Elon probably] knew it would be horrifying to others. But he decided that it was a better approach to shut it down, fire everybody, shut them out, and then go rebuild." A test of whether the U.S. can recover its moral health after all this is whether we hold Elon Musk, genocidaire, accountable.

Vanity Fair just dropped these and I think they setting them up and will use these when all of them go to jail. www.instagram.com/vanityfair?i...

Oh I like this game!

Ah yes it is awkward when your anticommunist zeal forgets who were the OG anticommunists.

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Same! Because of my son's love of theater, I go to every play, musical, act under the sun. Broadway, smaller cities, everywhere. Tonight I'm going to a musical at a small community theater in Florida. It's so life affirming, slop-free and genuinely makes me happy to see artists trying their best.

It seems to me pretty obvious that she gave this interview to say "I didn't agree with any of this" when the prosecutions come.

This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Had the best conference speaking appearance ever last week at @wimbledonltc.bsky.social with Kristin Eggeling. Bringing sociological institutionalism to the study of tennis. Just absolute blast at the History of Tennis conference at Wimbledon.

look it's very simple we have this antisemitism problem because our society is too cosmopolitan and lacks proper roots

Would 💯 watch this

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

It's my son's 19th birthday today and he was drawn to comedy writing by his love of Jewish comedy and especially Mel Brooks. It is very very difficult to come to terms with this horrible day.

This seems like quite an extraordinary anti-regime move by the special prosecutor in Serbia.

please make this be true. the last trifecta of news this weekend had me completely defeated.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

"A.i." is a product of and for fascists.

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

This entire weekend

yes! 💯