Today we launch Read More Books, a semi-regular Commonplace series featuring @kawulf.bsky.social asking authors five questions about their new book. We kick off with @johngmarks.com and his fascinating study of the long fight over Washington's legacy of slavery.🗄️
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#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Moving my newsletter off substack, and here's my first post in the new place--an amazing roundtable panel at the Organization of American Historians conference in Philly last week with @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @kcarterjackson.bsky.social and Jeff Cowie!
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Well *someone's* missing the revolutionary potential of AI in Canvas
"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."
"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."
Yeah, that's a good point
This seems like a pretty big deal!
The logic governing who resigns from this administration is baffling. The list of scandals reported here could be copy+pasted from any article on any cabinet official or senior aide.
Surely a book by an author named Pat Pype, or PP, would not include such scandalous material
Newsletter: As the president’s family’s shady dealings continue to mount, SEC enforcement actions have collapsed to twenty-year lows. The CFTC says it doesn’t need staff when it has AI.
www.citationneeded.news/issue-104/
Removing access to the banking system may also have the effect of driving more ppl at the margins into crypto, esp as crypto firms and exchanges come to be “domesticated” through patchwork state law and/or simply
continue to operate offshore entirely. Boom times for crime coin…
Absolutely wild that they’re doing this when they killed the beneficial owner regs for shell companies doing international money laundering and funding terrorism
There are lots of radical ideas in the 151 pages of regulations the Department of Education is proposing. This one involves a fundamental misunderstanding or misrepresentation of how academic life works. 🧵 (1/7)
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
Hey remember that crypto firm that used Wyoming's new state crypto banking laws* to gain access to the Fed's payment system?
They're being extorted by parties who gained access to their internal systems. (The company says not to worry tho.)
*laws Delaware Dems are *currently* trying to replicate
Trump proposing new ways to punish the humanities:
wild thread. There are no deals!!
I’m sure in either that same issue or one published immediately before or after there was a long consideration of education at Harvard
Also salutary to recall that amid an apocalyptic war, the leading magazine of the rising hegemon’s stubbornly middle-brow intelligentsia would look to fill its pages with such urgent material as a critique of the author of Winnie the Pooh’s locked room mystery novel from twenty years prior
Chandler’s “The Simple Art of Murder” is such a weird little essay, esp. when presented alone, out of context. Knowing that it appeared in the Atlantic in 1944 really does a lot to explain the voice, the constant tilting at wit, the delightful snideness, and the weird final wind up to hero worship.
I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people
can't emphasize enough that this is a terrible idea which is causing China's once-excellent financial regulation team to absolutely bleed talent to the private sector, not some heroic socialist enterprise.
www.caixinglobal.com/2026-03-16/c...
An attorney who represents several students who are arrested during pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan, and who was later detained at Detroit airport because he represented said students has been nominated by the Democratic Party to run for Regent at the University of Michigan.
Hallmark ventures into new frontiers of subtly revanchist politics w/ a movie featuring one lead who is an amateur historian affiliated with a DAR- and/or Moms4Liberty-like group and the head of NARA (i.e. in the real world both MAGA-coded, & opposed to honest history)
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.
Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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Grateful for this breakdown, bc what MD has been accomplishing isn’t known among legislators and public the next state over.
The revealed preference of financial markets in the 2020s appears to be for companies led by conspiracy-minded men who are - allegedly - heavy users of powerful controlled substances.
Behind every (alleged) great crime lies a Delaware business entity registration form, a continuing series…
Palantir Technologies Inc., the data collection & analytics firm supplying the the US’s secret police & military w/ target lists, is a DE corp and & a DE LLC, both using registered agent CTC.
On Sunday, April 19, 2026, Palantir Technologies posted a 22-point manifesto to the white supremacist-owned social media site “X.” The publicly-traded corporation described the conspiratorial, anti-pluralism post as a summary of the new book by the firm’s CEO’s & head lawyer.
Censorship regime at Texas Tech is too extreme for (checks notes) the American Enterprise Institute. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
