Absolute chump move by Vulture. Really great stuff available to purchase in Matt’s online store though - lots of more off-beat, unusual, and signed finds. My friend still raves about the popcorn purse I gave her
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
No Kings includes Draft Kings
“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13 and that’s all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
After all, what better way to ring in the New Year (especially this year) than with a special issue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies on “The Far Right in US History”?
Yes, the world is crumbling in various ways, but also I have a new article out - “The Klandidate: Senator Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan in Federal Politics.”
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"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors."
NYT Editorial Board
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
A meme of Captain Haddock from Tinton saying, "What a year huh?" Tinton replies, "Captain, It's January 3rd."
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
I haven’t read it yet, but Guy Gugliotta’s “Grant’s Enforcer” might fit the bill (or at least point towards something suitable)
i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)
"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.
One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨
the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.
CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me?
ME: A lot of people have, so
CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement?
ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess
CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get?
ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over
Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd
Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
Come join me in the Austin College History department! Hiring a tenure-track Latin Americanist, so apply/spread the word!
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We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
Mac from Always Sunny posing with the caption “It’s not a jacket, it’s a duster”
Bespectacled cat in a classic academic sweater and shirt combo with a mug of tea (never coffee) and a document, saying “These primary sources are very revealing,” and overall making for an uncomfortably strong resemblance
Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
The guy who wrote this has written for Quillette and The American Spectator and, if you google his name, you won't be surprised by any of it.
I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.
Anyone have any recommendations for longform pieces on Alex Jones and/or Sandy Hook truthers?
In Washington, Lehrer was supposed to be engaged in top-secret work, but he doesn't remember doing any. His sole contribution to our nation's defense, he claims, was the invention of vodka Jell-O. "They didn't allow alcoholic beverages on the base," he recalls, "and we were planning a Christmas party, which presented a problem: how to have alcohol without it being a beverage. So a friend and I went to her apartment and spent a very happy evening trying various proportions of alcohol and Jell-O. We tried replacing the water with alcohol, but as you can imagine, that was a waste, because you have to boil it and it all evaporates. So you start with hot wat-
-ter, but instead of adding cold water later on, you add vodka. And orange turned out to be the best flavor. She later told me that lime Jell-O is very good with daiquiris."
Since there seems to be some confusion, Tom Lehrer discussed his invention of the Jello shot in a January 1, 1984 interview with the Boston Globe:
Adjunct professors face low pay and few benefits even though they play an invaluable role at colleges and universities.
Today, I led my colleagues in reintroducing legislation that would make it easier for adjunct faculty to qualify for PSLF and the debt relief they deserve.
Good news - Austin College is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of History - Latin America and the World. Apply, spread the word, and reach out if you have any questions!
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Also contains an absolutely dead-on Alex Jones crying impression
