How on earth did I ever become a Spurs fan? Good lord.

[It was Paul Gascoigne... his fault]

The NYT gives us this masterful example of enabling fascism

About time the Premier League had a club for people who love soccer, MS Word clip art and confusing Pokemon evolutions

The Warden: A Novel A Novel

This is doing numbers and escaping containment; please consider buying my books, or at least reposting the link to them!
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Just a completely pointless signing

There's a lot to hate about this Spurs season, but I think I hate Conor Gallagher the most.

“She’s the one that keeps the dream alive
From the morning, past the evening
To the end of the light”

Imma repost this again because I'll never get off my high horse on this.

I was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer at 48. If you think you're too young to get it, you are not.

Get your colonoscopies done, people. They're not that bad and it's much, MUCH better than colon cancer. Trust me.

My letter to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

#NoToDeZerbi

Some computer geek that knows nothing about baseball STILL KNOWS THIS IS FAN INTERFERENCE, RICHIE

(Published 2020)

Johan Cruyff died 10 years ago today. I idolized him as a kid, and one of my first truly long, obsessive pieces was a definitive history of his time in DC, which @paultenorio.bsky.social encouraged me to write. I’m still proud of it to this day. www.nytimes.com/athletic/184...

Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History – AHA This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with...

Applications are open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, the signal prize in the field. Due May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

I'd appreciate a boost from all my Early America friends:
The 2nd volume of "Remembering the Revolution at 250" has published! 🥳

It features a great article by Chris Minty and Nadine Delia exploring the near absence of the Loyalists from British public memory.
journals.h-net.org/America250/i...

there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read

New Directions in Quaker Literary History, a special issue of Early American Literature that I was honored to co-edit, is currently accessible for free!

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

And on and on

it would be a very funny bit if The Onion added straight DC metro and sports coverage

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.

We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.

Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.

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Is this what they call soft power?

This is a really powerful piece, all the better for not being hyperbolic—it captures the tremendous loss that this represents with context and empathy

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

The Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post, both the papers I grew up reading, have been hollowed out and gutted by sad old men who think that firing people is innovation.

This is such fucking bullshit. How much do you have to suck at running a newspaper to not make money off sports coverage? And how do you "restructure" a metro section that's already been strangled into near-irrelevance? Just a complete betrayal of the Graham family's trust in Jeff Bezos.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Everybody hates you

RIP to lovely colleague and co-author Susan Klepp. Susan's brilliant scholarship, foregrounding women and the material realities of their lives including their reproductive bodies in revolution, is an enduring inspiration. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

The Twin Cities aren’t playing when they say Abolish ICE.

Here’s another graphic for our Minnesota friends.