Sen. Tim Scott co-sponsored a “No Ransom Payments” Act bill with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to ban any future payments to state sponsors of terrorism, calling the details about the Obama administration’s actions “just unreal and completely unacceptable.” Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article100714657.html#storylink=cpy

And if you had to guess, who do you think Senator Tim Scott co-sponsored this "No Ransom Payments Act" with?

That's right. Current Trump Secretary of State MARCO RUBIO.

This concludes my thread. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2026 NBA playoffs: Why the youthful Rockets' hopes rest on Kevin Durant, the oldest man in the room The Rockets' season has been centered on a legend yet to slow down and an organization that made the biggest offseason move just for the privilege of greatness.

I think there's some AI slop in this article, but what has me up in arms is the bracket that erases the Sonics, clearly the writer's fault, not Durant's:

"I feel like it was good for me to come in at a slower pace — from early [Oklahoma City days] until...."

sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

The one I worked with is not on there, so either he left or there are other editors at another level, or free lance.

I wrote a piece this year, & was happy to have it on this platform and get some reads. But I agree with David: it would be nice to get paid. I had no idea they have an 8 million dollar revenue stream, which I know sounds more than it is, but next to a token 100 it's quite a lot (80k times more).

Wonderful news! News is history, with a future!

MAHAspital www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBV...

I'll say this for AI: it makes me much happier as I read papers written by students with very undeveloped writing skills, and as I put together the comments that I hope they will be able to use to become stronger writers.

I'm so, so happy you wrote this yourselves, students!

they can only allegorize their coverage of Trump, because of course they see it but they are instructed to see no oligarchy, hear no oligarchy, speak no oligarchy.

We are all Hungary for Democracy.

Exactly what I was thinking. (I guess the national Review used to be called the Democratic Review)

"Genesis Razer" dismantling the east wing: the whole oxymoronic admin in one image, to go along with Solnit's one-story map of the pervasive destruction, and hope for fulsome reconstruction to come

"the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality."

Pic shows east wing dismantling by something called "genesis razor"

We can still win the peace—if Mike Pence has the courage.

chyron should be: "VP Vance Gives Up..."

We can still win the war with Iran—if Mike Pence has the courage.

we just need 1 in 100 in the house and then 1 in 3 republicans in the senate...

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?

I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)

I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Because a profit cannot be taken from an orange, the grapes of wrath are growing…

Geez, I just opened up a hard copy of this magazine from my mailbox, saw that headline in it, then shit it anx tossed it. And here it is again, 10 minutes later.

No nuclear holocaust, goddammit!

metaphors we die by

it was always about the farmworkers, like "Raul"

And to stop Trump.

Crowded moda center in Portland, for the boss, pictured playing guitar (from nose bleed seats)

Saw Springsteen perform Tom Joad in my alt hometown of Portland, where I started the Steinbeck inspired study that became my first book.

Wherever there’s a cop beating a guy, Springsteen/Steinbeck/Joad shows up. Let’s all show up to stop ICE.

Poster for Ramona Bennett Bill talk, featuring pictures of her and of her memoir, Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe. Free tickets at link in main post.

Puyallup legendary leader Ramona Bennett Bill to speak at the University of Puget Sound, April 8, 5pm. Get free tickets here:

ups.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx...

Considering History: Reframing Cesar Chavez Day to Focus on the Collective Farm Worker Movement | The Saturday Evening Post When it comes to Cesar Chavez Day, we have an opportunity to move away from tributes to a single figure and toward memories of the farm worker movement as a whole.

But as I write in my new Considering History column, this painful moment also opens up space for us to reframe the holiday as something different & more meaningful: a commemoration & celebration of the more than a century-long movement for farm & migrant worikers' rights. @kimkelly.bsky.social 🗃️

Poster for Ramona Bennett Bill talk, featuring pictures of her and of her memoir, Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe. Free tickets at link in main post.

Puyallup legendary leader Ramona Bennett Bill to speak at the University of Puget Sound, April 8, 5pm. Get free tickets here:

ups.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx...

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Looking forward to seeing your talk at PLU (coming down from another cross-town college, UPS...)