If you want to engage in the academic work instead of just trolling, maybe start here: Caitlin Rosenthal, "Seeking a Quantitative Middle Ground: Reflections on Methods and Opportunities in Economic History," Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2016)
I'm sure a poll would be so useful when I'm researching 1820s diplomatic records. Purely quantitative research, as others have pointed out, has its limits; dismissing anything beyond it is to choose ignorance of a huge swath of the human experience.
I figure as much, wanted to say it anyway
By that logic, about all of the humanities and a good chunk of the "soft" sciences aren't valid academic subject--which is ridiculous
The day isn't exclusively communist, it's Labor Day in most of the world, with even a Catholic saint-day feast for the patron of workers
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
I think the Episcopalian K-On meme both wins the internet and tells me, personally, I've had enough internet for the day
Cowboy Bebop, Girls Last Tour, Vivy: Fluorite Eyes, and maybe 86,
And Orb
Heike Monogatari/The Heike Story; Sword of the Stranger; Samurai Champloo; Dororo; Apothecary Diaries; maybe Bungo Stray Dogs?
For space opera, Legend of the Galactic Heroes (the original series, idk about the reboot)? And always Cowboy Bebop. For more down to earth sci-fi, Girls Last Tour is great post-apocalypse world building; also Scavengers Reign for western animation.
Kimi ni Todoke had similar vibes
Sonny Boy and OddTaxi might be up your alley
Naoko Yamads's Heike Monogatari is incredible (fantasy, history); also, Girls' Last Tour (apocalypse scifi), Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! (comedy), Frieren (fantasy), She and her Cat (short, cozy), Kimi ni Todoke (romance), Wotakoi ((romance), Bocchi the Rock (comedy)
Second Frieren; also maybe Mushi Shi for Shinto-Ghibli vibes?
In a similar vein I have to recommend the Naoko Yamada-directed, Science SARU-produced Heike Monogatari; feudal Japan's foundational epic poem retold through the eyes of the story's women characters and non-characters; it's incredible
A black-and-white photograph of the Pantego Rosenwald School in Beaufort County, North Carolina, around 1927. The image shows a large brick school building with a central entrance, symmetrical windows, and dormer windows on the roof. In front of the building, a very large group of Black students and several adults are arranged in rows, stretching across the width of the image. The students wear early 20th-century clothing, including dresses, collared shirts, and jackets. Some adults, likely teachers or staff, stand among them. The group is posed outdoors on a wide, open dirt area, facing the camera.
Posting this during Passover feels fitting. Julius Rosenwald connected awareness of anti-Jewish pogroms to the Black experience in America and partnered with Booker T. Washington in one of the most consequential interracial collaborations in the fight from slavery to freedom. /fin
Those new settlers were mostly up around Natchez, not as much near New Orleans; the map's key conflates colonial control with colonist descent, examples appear not just in Louisiana, but it appears to in New Mexico, too
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas.
These euphemisms have to die.
Yup
I think it boils down to a certain form of calvinism popularized by many evangelicals--grace by election because God likes you, not grace that entails being called out, and then acknowledging the wrongdoing, repenting, and doing better
"Was UATX a hard-right project from the start? Based on my reporting, I don’t think it was... from so many of the people with whom I spoke"; that means nothing if the capital & ultimate leadership, none of which talked to the author, had a particular project from the start
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Screenshot from the New York Times homepage, January 8, 2025. Headlines: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis: An analysis of footage from three camera angels shows that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire. What Trump Said About the ICE Shooting When Pressed Plus a photo of the officer at the side of the car he shot into, not in front of it.
Top of the New York Times homepage, January 8, 2026. Headlines: Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years: In a wide-ranging interview with The Times, President Trump said "only time will tell" when it comes to how long the U.S. aims to control the country. Trump Sits Down With Times for Nearly Two-Hour Interview: Speaking with four reporters, the president discussed the Minneapolis ICE shooting, immigration and plans for more White House renovations. Plus a picture of Trump in the Oval Office
Best and worst of The NY Times on display.
Detailed analysis of ICE killing Renee Good in Minneapolis. Headline directly states that the evidence shows Trump officials are lying.
But that's not the top story. Top is Trump spoke to the Times! And said completely empty things! We're special, see?
"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence."
Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
as an undergrad, I stumbled into a document signed by an ancestor while working on the research paper that eventually became a dissertation; also, I have a colleague who apparently found a first draft of a Stoppard play, which he thought he had destroyed and was irritated to find otherwise
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.