My department is hiring an assistant professor of (post-1945) Korean history. Come work with me! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10290 Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions about the position. And I'd be ever so grateful if you could spread the word to potentially interested parties.

Assistant Professor of Korean History (post-1945)

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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WSJ’s Josh Dawsey got to see unreleased footage from years of a documentarian’s inside access to Lindsey Graham. It’s filled with giddy, war-hungry stuff like this: (Gift link below)

Trump has burned through around a third of US stockpiles of key precision munitions in his failed war in Iran, ABC reports.

forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

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Congrats to the White House Correspondents Dinner on making this speech possible!

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump announces he will run for a "fourth" term and dons a "Trump 2028" hat

Huh. The president thought this was of such significant importance as to hold a national televised address

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

REPORTER: Was there an agreement on election interference during your talk with the Chinese foreign minister? MARCO RUBIO: We didn't discuss that topic

If my child or parent was among the 18 dead, I would lose my mind over this

What it means is hegemonic suicide

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump's stewardship of US foreign and trade policy has produced a world in which just about everybody, including major US allies, is persuaded that China is a preferable trading partner and ally to the United States, says the polling. Ed Luce explains what that means for America over the long term.

ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data

NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.

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NEW H-Environment Roundtable Review on @andydenninghist.bsky.social's *Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa,* w/ commentaries by Marc Landry, Corey Ross, Stéphanie Ponsavady, Noelle Turtur. Please read/share! #envhist #envhum networks.h-net.org/denning-auto...

how'd these lines from my father's day card this year end up in an essay by Isaiah Berlin?

There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

The FDA now says that Taylor Farms finding is a false positive. What a mess.

how'd these lines from my father's day card this year end up in an essay by Isaiah Berlin?

It can simultaneously be true that the claims are a tired/incoherent rehash, AND it was newsworthy because he said he’s sending the administration in to “work with” states that got hacked. That’s basically announcing interference, or am I missing something?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

Hello! I wrote abt the Odyssey’s odyssey and the way no single version is “The Odyssey” any more than a photograph is a person. Underpinned by @drbibliomane.bsky.social’s “unfinished book” & a lot of love for Emily Wilson. Had to be a bit hasty about Homer to get to the good bit (Gadamer 😍)

Three thousand years old and Homer's Odyssey is still travelling

Christopher Nolan's film is the latest of countless retellings – in opera, poetry, comics and video games. And the epic's own history is as complicated as its hero's voyage, says a University of Melbo...

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instant classic, down to him concluding "It is literally a civil war" after a woman tells him she doesn't date MAGA Republicans. I'm assuming he wasn't a professor of English.

The Columbus Dispatch@dispatch.com · 3w ago

Opinion: A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It is insanely corrupt that Trump denied federal disaster relief funds to New Jersey and other blue states but approved them for Republican states. thedigestonline.com/news/new-jer...

White House Denies New Jersey's $84M Disaster Aid Request, Sen. Kim Calls It 'Political Retribution’

New Jersey's $84.4 million FEMA disaster aid request was denied, despite exceeding the state's damage threshold by more than four times.

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Damn between this and every other election-related action since January 2025 it's almost like they're clearly stating an intent.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

My favourite thing about Haaland is that he spent 1.3 million ​Norwegian kroner of his football money on a rare 1594 edition of Viking chronicles - a record book sale for Norway - and then donated it to his regional library. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ha...

Haaland trades goals for sagas with record-breaking Viking book

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has donated a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking ​sagas to his home municipality in ‌Norway.

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: “That’s a lie,” wrote one man arrested alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo about DHS account that officers were rammed. The men who witnessed the shooting dispute key elements of ICE version of events — from ICE detention. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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【重版】カルロ・ギンズブルグ『チーズとうじ虫』新装版（杉山光信 訳・上村忠男 解説）重版出来です。 異端審問記録ほか埋もれた史料を駆使し、イタリア地方農民のミクロコスモスを復元、民衆文化の深層に迫った現代歴史学の画期的名著。 www.msz.co.jp/book/detail/...

Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK

Mexican Man Fatally Shot by ICE Wasn’t the Intended Target

Officials say agents believed the driver resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.

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The US global dominance in higher ed & scientific innovation was based on strong govt investment and an ability to attract top international talent. Trump is weakening both: "In this century, overall, the émigré fraction for U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent."

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump-induced brain drain

a little bit redundant because he's already doing life in prison, but worth emphasizing that Yoon very much *risked a nuclear war* to try and stay in power. www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n...

Ousted South Korean President Yoon given prison term for drone flights over Pyongyang

South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighte...

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Susan Napier - Miyazaki and the Mouse Ghibli, Disney, and the Pursuit of Enchantment À paraître en avril aux Yale UP

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.