"...ruins both reputation & fortune. To this we may add, that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes." - Alexander Hamilton, "A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress," 1774.
"The Premier [Lord North] has advanced too far to recede with safety...In common life, to retract an error, even in the beginning, is no easy task; perseverance confirms us in it, & rivets the difficulty. But in a public station, to have been in an error & to have persisted in it when it is detected
Historians: The Trump administration wants to issue oil and gas leases across the greater Chaco landscape. They've given the public ONE WEEK (till 4/7) to weigh in on the future of this immensely important place. Please tell them what you think: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Emilie Connolly and Miranda Melcher, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social host. They discuss the long history of Native land dispossession and unequal dividends of colonialism in the US.
Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Emilie Connolly and Miranda Melcher, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social host. They discuss the long history of Native land dispossession and unequal dividends of colonialism in the US.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-...
#history #podcast
Varieties of Democracy is out with its annual global report. Here's their index for "Liberal Democracy" in the United States, 1789-2025. (h/t Pippa Norris on Twitter). In 2025 the US is back to the liberal democracy score it had in 1963. That's what Trump meant by Make America Great Again.
The borderland arms dealer "scrolled through listings of weapons for sale on WhatsApp and fielded requests like a call-center operator, dispatching orders in real time: Kalashnikovs, AR-15-style rifles and lots of ammunition." He's a high-school student in Phoenix, handling around 20 gun orders/week
A total collapse.
The National Institutes of Health went from 756 funding announcements published to 14 in two years.
One example of the effects: emerging threats will become harder to address quickly. Response to future health emergencies (like Covid) will be slower and less coordinated.
"The footage appears to contradict US President Donald Trump’s claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28." - @bellingcat.com
For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
As a faculty member of UT's distinguished African and African Diaspora Studies Department, I am angry at the disingenuous way UT is characterzing us and our scholarship. But as an alum of UT (MA, JD, PhD) I am sad to see my alma mater debase itself to curry favor with the ignorance of the right.
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
It’s a great time to study the US from an ocean away.
So apply for the 3-year Mellon postdoc in American History at Cambridge. Closes March 1.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/mellon-...
In 1765, people across the 13 colonies (minus Georgia🙁) organized to prevent neighbors from working as collectors for Parliament's hated new Stamp Act. It worked. Today, people across the US are organizing to stop concentration camps going up in their backyards. It's....working?
@thetrace.org continues to do indispensable work on guns in America
THE RED MAN'S REBUKE. BY SIMON POKAGON Pottawattamie Chief.
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
Jimmy's new book MIXED-BLOOD HISTORIES is fantastic.
Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social!
Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The only founding father who has actually received far less attention than he merits
“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”
Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
"Ammunition dealers told undercover government investigators that the armor-piercing bullets could shoot down a helicopter or penetrate an armored limousine. In effect, 'the U.S. military is indirectly arming civilians with some of the most powerful and destructive ammunition currently available'"
Powerful essay by @jrakove.bsky.social "The idea that this is a time for uncritical celebration has become a historical absurdity. The real observances are occurring in the streets of every community where citizens mobilize spontaneously against the abusive acts of government..."
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Now enormously richer than he was in 2013, he's taken positive steps to tear down one of the two great newspapers in the country. That act of vandalism should become as synonymous with the Bezos brand as Amazon.
It wasn't a crazy idea at the time. Swooping in with enormous resources to save a vital American institution in crisis and insisting he wouldn't meddle in content? The acquisition and the discourse surrounding it enhanced his reputation.
When Bezos bought @washingtonpost.com commentators framed it as the civic-minded act of a billionaire concerned with his reputation; or maybe even someone who felt a sense of gratitude and obligation for the country that made him so rich.
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
Gun sales to the general public have been falling for years. In 2025, firearms companies found a lucrative new opportunity: arming the Trump administration’s deportation operation.
Read more: thetr.ac/dptey
Amplify Garrett's inspired reporting on decades of wrongdoing at CBP and ICE. Nearly 5000 officers & agents arrested over last 20 years. See his 50-page report documenting decades of criminality & corruption, & the threat these rotten institutions pose to democracy drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6...
