@dhistoryman
Author of THE LOST TRADITION OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN AMERICA, 1600-1870, and many works on Native peoples in New England 1600-1900. Emeritus prof of history, Truman State University, now happy to be in Worcester Mass., aka Nipmuc homelands. He/him/FDJT
Country Joe died yesterday. Boy-howdy do we need to remember his most famous moment.
Updated: "And it's 1, 2, 3
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn
Next stop is Teh-e-ran"
youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk
But Obama wore a tan suit!
It’s increasingly obvious that our President is rapidly spiralling into dementia, making the corruption, ignorance, and narcissism even more of a problem. And now he is using the U.S. military as his toy in this war of his whim.
Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
Jeez, it’s a Friday night news dump.
Frankly, the term “genocide” is similarly overused. In fact, it seems to me that “genocide” is now being used instead of “war crimes.”
When my son was in Keene for two years he warned me about the libertarian extremists.
Wow.
I saw “The Taking of Pelham 123” on an El Al flight in summer 1975 — back when airline hijacking were often news. Weirdest programming choice ever.
It’s regime change AND a desert topping!
In the last week several blue whales have been spotted off the Massachusetts coast. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...
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Different kinds: the pompous jackass sold anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, but the current kerfuffle is over mid- and long-range ballistic missiles. That being said, North should have been cashiered and relegated to the garbage heap a long time ago.
Trying to imagine a sacrificial lamb with botoxed lips. Does Oklahoma law give the governor the power to immediately appoint a successor, or do they need to await a special election?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u... Noem is OUT. Trying to imagine a sacrificial lamb with botoxed lips. One result: the GOP’s narrow Senate majority is down by one. Does Oklahoma law give the governor the power to immediately appoint a successor, or do they need to await a special election?
Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying 'War' as Iran Conflict Widens
Do not call Ukraine invasion a 'war', Russia tells media, schools
The GOP continues to follow Putin’s lead.
One more way that the GOP follows Putin’s lead.
“Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.”
White House web site calling for a national day of prayer.
This year the Corrupt Jackass wants a whole week. If he had any sense of morality, I’d be wondering if he feels particularly guilty about some things.
Barf wagon effect.
It’s like a Ray Bradbury dystopia. I will scream if some AI tries to “resurrect” him.
Sweeping away all doubt?
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
Agora sim é oficial
I hope @nypd.bsky.social officers are very very pissed at DHS.
Rescheduled due to le blizzard. All are invited. Will not be broadcast live, but probably will be recorded for Vimeo. www.assumption.edu/news-and-eve...
