My neighbors’ landscapers have had gas-powered leaf blowers going for THREE HOURS STRAIGHT. 😱

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Holy crap the Dodgers-Giants all-time series is 1288 to 1288. Rubber game starting now.

Label for Uncle Sam's coffee, illustrated with Uncle Sam seated on cannon barrel, whittling, with foot on torn rebel flag; he is surrounded by an eagle shield, U.S. flag and cannon, ca. 1863

I take my coffee with milk and sugar and the defeat of the Confederacy.
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True story! Never enough ways to read books or read about books! 📚

So glad to start this off w @johngmarks.com insightful book on the history of focusing on Geo Washington and slavery.

We talked about George and Martha as products of 18th century Virginia elite, about what the textual and material record of their lives tells us, about how we understand her as someone who fully expected to own people, but not to be the First Lady of an unimaginable new nation. Hope you'll listen!

Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

Baltimore did right by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, marking her 200th! Thanks to Dr. Ida Jones, Dr. Lawrence Jackson, the team at Hard Histories, and the many others who made these celebrations possible.

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It’s been too long since I was on campus… where is this?

My "I'm winning a war, BY A LOT" t-shirt is raising ...

You know what I can't. You're right, everything is so goddamn stupid.

Worcester Revolutionary Walking Tour - April 20 & 25 | Museum of Worcester Worcester Revolutionary Walking Tour - Monday, April 20 and Saturday, April 25, 2026 Walk Main Street in the footsteps of Worcester's Revolutionaries as they walk a gauntlet of common men intent on ...

Central Mass folks, the Museum of Worcester is running their revolutionary Worcester walking tour again Saturday, and I recommend it! (Just went on today’s) www.worcesterhistory.org/events/oe5ey...

Which is to say, those would be my go-tos in the classroom.

Caveat: not teaching this semester

But would recommend either one of @johngmarks.com essays in TIME or perhaps a Jenny Schuessler piece from NYT

The very fact of litigation can have chilling effects: it's expensive, exhausting, and harrowing to have to defend yourself against a public official even if the merits are virtually certain to go your way. Carrying the promise of Sullivan forward requires a robust federal anti-SLAPP law.

Much of the reasoning in NY Times v. Sullivan turned on the insight that letting public officials sue for defamation on common law liability standards rhymed with seditious libel. The Court was right, but the insight carries further than requiring public officials to plead and prove actual malice.

It’s worth a reminder that one of the structural inequities in American journalism is that there’s every incentive for a well-resourced investigation target to file this type of lawsuit because it requires the resources of The Atlantic to defend oneself against a $250 million claim.

The text features dark text against a cream background. The text reads, "The Revolution Is News" and "Adam McNeil, Black Loyalism, April 21, 2026."

Join us TOMORROW, April 21 at 4 p.m. EST for a virtual conversation about Black Loyalism with Adam McNeil, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute.

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The full line-up for this series is listed below!

Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Clio Digital Media Scholars often work for years, or even decades, on their books. They sort through documents, organize reams of notes, and begin drafting chapters with copious footnotes. By the time a book has been pe...

New at Sally Franklin’s Bookshelf, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social stops by to preview her new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. #VastEarlyAmerica #history #newbooks #immigration www.cliodigital.media/sally/anna-o...

You don’t think Dan Quayle jokes are too small potato(e)s?

Actual Far Side comic from Dec 6 1987

It’s also poetry that is 100% Mets for the tying base hit and winning run to come from former Mets.

Craig Kimbrel has always killed the Mets.

The family group chat is not relaxed right now.

I'd love to have a relaxing Sunday afternoon but I'd also like to watch the Mets game.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The founding generation used the power of symbolic clothing. But they had a more powerful metaphor for the free press: it was a “bulwark of liberty,” a defensive wall to protect against tyrannical encroachments.

In other words you may be asking more of the pocket squares than they are capable of.

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

Learning a lot from this great article about Japanese railways.

For example, TIL Japan has privatized parking: “Before someone buys a car, they must prove that they have a reserved night-time space on private land, either owned or leased.”

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Editor’s Note | We Unknowingly Published an AI Column. The editorial team at the Mississippi Free Press discovered we published a column written by a fake author using artificial intelligence.

The editorial team at the Mississippi Free Press discovered we published a column written by a fake author using artificial intelligence.

Here’s what happened and what we're doing to prevent this from happening in the future.

www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

Hopkins press book exhibit.

Friends (and enemies, I guess) at #OAH26: I will be giving away the books on this table FOR FREE starting at noon tomorrow. First come first served, one per person, please form an orderly queue, don’t make me break up any day-after-Thanksgiving style brawls please.

The CIO just approvingly cited the American health care industry as part of an announcement about improving university data management and I want to scream.