Better to remain silent and be thought a psychopath than to post and to remove all doubt

good thing Nixon didn't have his own social media platform

this is the most any president has talked about ballroom since LBJ ordered pants over the white house telephone

5. These people are not very smart

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939 The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

a fascinating 4-year PhD vacancy on the interwar history of blockade & sanctions

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

IT’S A REAL BOOK!!! My copy of ENTANGLED ALLIANCES arrived from @cornellupress.bsky.social! 📚

Closing at 3

Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.

www.archives.gov/files/colleg...

A New Era of Foreign Policy. Damnit. We can now mark the end of a period. Welcome to a new world.

Paul Musgrave on the end of an era in U.S. foreign policy: “After Trump, U.S. commitments can no longer be relied upon to be structural; they will be viewed as individual.” musgrave.substack.com/p/a-new-era-...

Everything’s about cover ups these days

It’s not impossible that they completed the bulk of the ms before the article came out and missed seeing it while they were doing the revisions. Or maybe they are just petty

If you aren’t already there, terminal A is the best place to hang out. Less crowded than the others. Plus there’s a weird little mezzanine level

We're excited to welcome our exhibitors to #SHAFR2025 next week! Be on the lookout for old friends, familiar faces, and some new kids on the block.

@danmargolies.bsky.social

Tariff hero William McKinley, the day before he was assassinated: "We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.... Commercial wars are unprofitable."
millercenter.org/the-presiden...

“Wrote”

Party City is going out of business | CNN Business Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business, CNN has learned.

Party City was already dead. Now others are likely to follow. www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

Vacancy — PhD Position: Blockades and the Second World War in Asia (4 years) The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded postdoctoral researcher position (3 years, 0.8ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research pr...

excellent opportunity for aspiring historians of Japan - focusing on blockade and WWII.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

In preparation for our glorious return to the McKinley era I am loading up on telegraph stocks and laudanum

Is he actually praising Trump or just suggesting greater coherence than is warranted?

Absolutely. What is there to stop them?

that's like 15% of the fellowship of the ring right there

Pimps (Free Stylin At The Fortune 500 Club) YouTube video by The Coup - Topic

ahead of its time, but The Coup's take on Donald Trump holds up pretty well: youtu.be/z6Homo_amHQ?...

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Continues the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy ELIMINATING WASTE AND REDUCING GOVERNMENT OVERREACH: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order continuing the reduction of the Federal

Trump just signed an executive order ordering the closure and elimination of the world renowned Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, created by an act of Congress in 1968. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov

‘We are not the 51st anything’: viral Canada ad gets Trump-inspired update Remake of 2000 Molson beer ad has the same message as Trump threatens tariffs: Canada will not cower to the US

OK hot cheesy poutine vs. hot cheesy Putin is pretty good.

Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America People in China are expressing alarm at what seems to be an authoritarian turn in the United States, long their role model of democracy, that feels familiar.

MAGA as Cultural Revolution

I for one am excited about our new avocado factories

Obituary for Frank Wisner, son of the CIA plotter of the same name. Toward the end of his life he "voiced concern about the way the United States had exercised its global power, starting with the Vietnam War in the 1960s and through to the decades of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan"

Image from Harper's Monthly Magazine, June 1, 1864 showing a group of "Coolies Embarking at Macao."

🗃️February 19, 1862: Congress passed the Coolie Trade Prohibition Act outlawing involvement by US vessels in the transportation of unfree Chinese workers to foreign ports—an important but indirect step on the road to Chinese Exclusion. 🧵1/4 @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social