Jeff Ostler
@jostler.bsky.social
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d agoInterior Secretary Doug Burgum says they're starting excavation work on Trump's arch
Since Vance works for the Antichrist, he's in a good position to know.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d agoVance: I'd be not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But I try not to focus too much on it
1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the U.S. and Six Nations recognizes Seneca territory as bounded by Lake Ontario.
One of the greatest GOP scams of all time, tax cuts will pay for themselves, and they gave the guy a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer from Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
theguardian.com
The Trump regime's 160-page attack on the National Museum of American History has a brief section on U.S. and Native Nations with a laughable assertion that Native Nations gave up their land voluntarily.
‘It’s just so wrong’: Haitians in Ohio reel from supreme court TPS ruling After outrageous insults from Donald Trump, Haitians have helped to revive Springfield – now their future is uncertain www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘It’s just so wrong’: Haitians in Ohio reel from supreme court TPS ruling
After outrageous insults from Donald Trump, Haitians have helped to revive Springfield – now their future is uncertain
theguardian.com
Failing to recognize blatant racism is itself racism. Conclusion: 6 Supreme Court justices are racists.
Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2mo agoCompare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
OTD 1876 Lakotas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes destroyed Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn. News arrived on the East Coast on July 5-6 just in time to dampen U.S. celebration of the 100th anniversary of independence.
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
theguardian.com
Again, need to say it - if Biden, Obama or any other Democratic President publicly endorsed Iran having ballistic missiles after launching an ill advised war to essentially eliminate Iran's missile launching capabilities - Congress (even a Dem led one) would launch impeachment proceedings next day.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump endorses Iran having ballistic missiles: "I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little unfair for them not to have some"
The Department of Defense just removed "Native American Religion" as a distinct category. Native spiritual practices are grouped as "other. ictnews.org/news/departm...
Department of Defense removes Native American Religion distinction, groups as ‘other’ - ICT
A list of recognized religion codes used by military chaplains to aid service members has been reduced from over 200 to just 31
ictnews.org
All nine tribes in South Dakota have put out a unified call to Congress to return public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...
LAND BACK: All Nine South Dakota Tribes Support Black Hills Land Return
Historic show of unity advances proposal to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation In a historic demonstration of unity, all nine federally recognized Tribal nations in Sout...
nativenewsonline.net
And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...
How Gordon S. Wood Shaped the Idea of America
The acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States.
newrepublic.com
Just finished Keith Richotte's brilliant and hilarious book THE WORST TRICKSTER STORY EVER TOLD. If you want an entertaining and enlightening read about Native America, the Supreme Court, and U.S. Constitution, this is the one.
Bob Packwood is dead. He was a scumbag personally, but he was also basically the last liberal Republican in American politics and a fascinating guy to consider what a complete shitshow the Republican Party has become. Here's my obituary. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/pack...
Packwood - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bob Packwood is dead. While his name became a joke of 1990s politics due to his serial sexual harassment and his resignation from the Senate due to that behavior, he is actually a far more interesting...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
In the mail today: Tiffany Hale's brilliant new book FUGITIVE RELIGION. The cover references a monarch butterfly poised on the brim of Sitting Bull's hat. Phil Deloria says the book "reimagines the 19th c. as reservoir of spiritual possibilities easily misread or ignored."
Called "meticulously researched and readable" by the "Library Journal," Kevin Kokomoor's "The Cherokee War of 1776" uncovers the forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee during the early days of American independence. https://tr.ee/AcOUaH
A massive data center is the planned recipient of green energy generated by a $3.3 billion project long opposed by Yakama Nation.
'It's not built yet': Yakama Nation fights $3.3B energy project and data center development on sacred site
Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data center
streetroots.org
Suddenly lots of book groups from San Francisco to the Bronx are incredibly interested in reading an obscure monograph I wrote seven years ago that currently ranks about 1 million on Amazon.
If all you saw was this headline you'd think the Strait was reopened, but no such thing. WTF @nytimes.com?
Fifty years from now, historians will have to write sentences beginning with "As the president's dementia worsened"
My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
A despicable decision by the University of Utah. University administrators caving to fascism.
Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4mo ago"The University of Utah required a student to remove the phrases 'environmental justice' and 'communities disproportionately affected by climate change' from advertisements for a school-sponsored Earth Day event." www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.
Review of Omer Bartov's new book, Israel: What Went Wrong? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’
In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza
theguardian.com
More ridiculous framing from @nytimes. How does Trump threatening to do a completely stupid thing put pressure on Iran? Now they're going to cave?
