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!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

More well-reported local #journalism from @sahanjournal.bsky.social "Minnesota Republicans lose ground with voters of color ahead of gubernatorial primary" sahanjournal.com/democracy-po...

Minnesota GOP loses voters of color ahead of gubernatorial primary

The Minnesota Republican party lost voters of color in the governor’s primary election due to Operation Metro Surge and Trump’s anti-Somali rhetoric.

sahanjournal.com

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/03/o...

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

minnesotareformer.com

Oh, and a reminder: if you teach the Mansa Musa story about the price of gold in Cairo, be sure you pull out Warren Schultz's deconstruction of that story, just to get the facts straight: www.academia.edu/81562385/Man... #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #AfricanHistory 🗃️

Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote

Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdote

academia.edu

Please share far and wide. NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group’s Know Your Rights comic is available FREE digitally and has been translated into 14 languages. Also, for educators, there is a resource guide and lesson plan in the collection available here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...

Alex Segura@alexsegura.com · 2d ago

We are seeing an increased ICE presence in NYC - making it imperative that NYers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I wrote a comic with @mayor.nyc.gov @nycimmigrants.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social to do that! DOWNLOAD: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...

I wish people would stop trying to dunk on Gaines & Cunningham for being less-than-superlative athletes & spend more time highlighting that these two support state-mandated genital inspections of our children. That's evil in any league, and regardless of the their athletics histories.

There's a fully solar train in Argentina that connects high Andean communities to the lowlands along a UNESCO-recognized trade route that's been in use for 10,000 years. electrek.co/2026/08/03/a...

Argentina's solar train brings zero-emission travel to an ancient trade route

Latin America's first solar-powered passenger train is carrying tens of thousands of travelers through a UNESCO World Heritage trail.

electrek.co

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

In Minnesota, we don’t care what’s in your pants. (That obsession is weird!) You wanna support women’s sports for real? #MovetotheCities

@makeherway@makeherway.bsky.social · 2d ago

In addition to stating the obvious, that trans people should be welcomed into sports, Cheryl goes on to say that the men who hold girls and women down are the cis men in charge. Even a shout out to the lack of the ERA 🔥 #loslynx #wnba

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

New blog post: two strategies for helping underprepared students improve their reading skills over the trimester. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

minnesotareformer.com

Why would a woman try to appease a scary man whom she is legally bound to for many years to come, by virtue of a helpless child whom he has access to and could harm in retribution at any time? Why would she offer empanadas to such a man? Truly perplexing.

ICE is still kidnapping and killing people.

Tom Emmer did this

Jacob Soboroff@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d ago

Minnesota’s Superior National Forest received a $10 million grant in 2024 to cover wildfire prevention efforts, then DOGE delayed funding. now, parts of that area are burning. I spoke with a former wildland firefighter who says the cuts made the fire worse. youtu.be/0cbI9_CNZmM?...

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Time for a new post! How can we teach Russian history from a more global perspective? Let's start with the fur trade. I'll also be writing a few more posts on teaching Russia in world history. 🗺️🗃️ #Histodons

“Sables, Ermines, and Squirrel Skins”: Teaching the Fur Trade and Russia in World History

Teaching Russian history and the fur trade

liberatingnarratives.com

Match preview? Match preview. Take a gander at this before you head out to Midway today!

Northland Soccer Journal@northlandsoccer.com · 4d ago

Match Preview: #MINvSD #MNUFC host a rebounding #SanDiegoFC side tonight in St. Paul in one last match before Leagues Cup play starts on Tuesday night.

GET A MAP.

I read the whole thing and I’m quite stunned how NYT focused on Trump, rumors, his desires and completely misrepresented the facts. So let’s do a factcheck, shall we? 🧵 Biden-Harris admin created ICE (Icebreaker Collaboration Effort) Pact partnership in July 2024 alongside Canada and Finland.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

nytimes.com

SpaceX-owned xAI suit is still moving ahead in MN but a judge denied Musk's company request to stop the law going into effect on an "emergency" basis. The next hearing is in mid-August. Judge could still side with xAI, say the MN statute banning nudify apps & AI deepfake porn is overly broad etc.

Erin Maye Quade@erinmayequade.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!

Hey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!

ICE agents are untrained, unqualified, and killing people on the streets. Oversight Dems will investigate every failure that led to these tragedies and hold agents and their leadership accountable.

ICE Air flight coming to MSP, Fri July 31, estimated arrival: 12:40 PM. Shackled detainees will board the plane at Signature Aviation. Since January 1, MN50501 has tracked 119 ICE Air flights through MSP, carrying 4,184 people. 📑 ottergoose.net/ice-flights-... 📡 adsb.lol/?icao=a82a75

War Profiteers Don’t End Wars

How do you teach the Russo-Japanese War? 🗺️🗃️ #histodons

I've seen several tech industry "think tanks" (lobbying operations) try to claim to outlets like the Atlantic (unchallenged) that having a data center results in innovators flocking to your podunk town because of the low latency and it's just a really embarrassing lie

The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers

Unregulated AI data centers will not, surprisingly, turn your struggling rural West Virginia town into a modern techno-Utopia.

karlbode.com

one of the downsides of stocking U.S. media with affluent nepobabies and brunchlords is class bias erodes stakes and urgency from the coverage since most of their lived experience involves being shielded from the worst outcomes

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?