Thrilled and excited to dive into the new book as a Carnegie Fellow! @carnegie.org #CarnegieFellows

Kate Masur and Greg Downs break it down. A must-read. Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jan-6-a...

Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we...

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Being name-checked in a review of the great Eric Foner’s latest would be nicer if, you know, the reviewer didn’t wildly mischaracterize my view of Reconstruction.

A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone

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It is just too absolutely freaking on the nose that the newly elected member of the Harvard Corporation is a partner at (drumroll) Paul Weiss.

Breaking: NYU revokes Olmert's diploma.

Whatever hype you are reading now about powerful people will almost certainly turn out to be bullshit

Michael Bang Petersen@m-b-petersen.bsky.social · last yr.

In 2010, Mark Zuckberberg became Time's "Person of The Year". The article is surreal reading today. Here are just two quotes: "As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological" "Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"

A ray of light on the "kids these days" front: the students in my undergraduate course on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction liked the long, scholarly readings the best - Foner's short(est) Reconstruction, Taylor's Embattled Freedom.

"Science Fiction is for people who can't face reality."

geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · last yr.

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "no no, don't get the chicken thighs, what you want is skinless chicken breast"

Dept. of Joy: If you have the slightest fondness for Sharon Van Etten (or PJ Harvey or St Vincent or Patti herself) do yourself a favor and catch Sharon and her band on tour. My kid’s Xmas present to me and what a gift it was.

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

Can they not even hear themselves over the "both sides"?

"The Constitution, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, has words."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump: "The courts have all of the sudden, out of nowhere, they said, 'maybe you have to have trials.' Trials. We're gonna have 5 million trials? It doesn't work."

See also Yarvin, Curtis.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.

A reminder that debating Stephen Miller — who is not a lawyer and is not making legal arguments, he is spouting propaganda — is a win for him.

If by "holding power to account" you mean "killing the Pulitzer Prize-winner's cartoon because it criticized the paper's owner," sure.

Article II, Section 3: the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Oath of office: I "will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

This is exactly what my syllabus warning on LLMs says, quoting Frankfurt.

🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · last yr.

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · last yr.

That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear

UVA being number 1 on this "campus free speech" list, when you had a former board member successfully lobby to suspend campus tours that addresses UVA's history w slavery, is evidence of how idiosyncratic and right-wing-coded the cosponsoring organizations' definition of "free speech" really is.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · last yr.

This month's bonus episode is about how anti-woke pundits are responding to the crackdown on wokeness. www.patreon.com/posts/free-s...

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

"I am hereby reinstating" but it's Michael Scott yelling "bankruptcy!"

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · last yr.

Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback

Before this fraud is through, we're all going to miss Joe Manchin.

'Waste That S—t': In Interview With Free Beacon, Fetterman Tells Trump To Dump Iran Talks and Destroy Tehran's Nuclear Facilities

Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) says the Trump administration should drop nuclear negotiations with Iran and finish off the country's nuclear facilities with a military strike.

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"They don't know how the economy works, and they won't obey the law."

Ezra's opening started in on illiberalism and I thought "yeah fine, but maybe he should have Steve Hahn on to talk about this" so apologies to the dogwalkers terrified by my sudden cackle when he introduced his guest.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · last yr.

“Trump is not the first to name a domestic enemy, decide that their rights are no longer valid and turn the machinery of the state against them,” Ezra Klein says in this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” featuring the historian Steven Hahn.

Courage is contagious. Markey's not running for president, and he's not going to face a primary. This is because Van Hollen, Frost, et al. set a good example.

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · last yr.

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

passive voice, no less