Congratulations, @adamrothman.bsky.social, on the publication of your article about abolitionists' use of irony and humor to clarify the hypocrisy of slaveholders. It's fantastic. Everyone should read it!
What is the German word for when all three of these women cabinet secretaries absolutely deserved to get fired and yet pretty much all the men cabinet secretaries and FBI director drunks do too. And yet .... 🤔
Philanthropy radio is not public radio.
When and how are we going to have a robust public media system that's *actually* funded by the public? One that is secure from autocratic meddling and destruction?
What if public media didn't have to regularly beg for support?
If I represented the Atlantic, I’d lock in the earliest deposition date on the calendar. Call Patel’s bluff. He has zero interest in putting any of this under oath.
in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer
Can he do that bit about throwing the money lenders out of the temple?
Donated a whole eighty million dollars and they still couldn't say her name. We would've seen it plastered EVERYWHERE if Steve himself gave a $500 tip and they found out.
I had no idea Steve was the wife of the LA clippers owner
Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"
Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.
She has a name and it is Connie Ballmer.
Cruise ship blasting Hormuzak will end this crisis.
Life imitating art.
When a place like @hampshirecollege.bsky.social gets crushed by corporatization, it's not just students who suffer. Faculty & staff who worked hard to provide an alternative to the banality of higher ed are left high & dry. Here's an account in case you can help. www.instagram.com/hampshirewor...
I'm not going to let the situation get that far!
Coworker who uses "hey, team" & "we're on the same team" seems always the one who ignores the amount of work they're asking of you. Makes it easy for director to ignore the disparity in work & pay, too.
See my forthcoming treatise "Why I, a historian and not a development director, works weekends."
No introducktion.
Be honest: would you rather have a cure for cancer? Or a machine that can’t add and gets recipes wrong?
Money quote
This is amazing.
The duo known as Obamamdani.
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
'In the tumultuous years since the creation of the Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, three memorial committee members have stepped down and researchers have been fired largely over disputes related to engaging descendant communities.'
Really really really small lassos.
Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.
If this thing ever does get built, here’s hoping it’s knocked down shortly after. But a few stones should remain, as a bitter monument to Trump’s Fallen Arch.
closeup of the bottom of the document, showing corrections like swapping out "his Majesty's name" for "the name of the Government & people of said state" and scratching out "in the year of his Majesty's reign."
It was 1783, so the magistrates still had a supply of old legal forms from before the Revolution.
Everywhere this document refers to the authority of the King, they have scratched it out and replaced it with the authority and laws of the new State of New Hampshire.
"We'll always have Paris."
Follow the buzz.
I'm in with foods beginning with "pie." Writing a book on the history of pie in America and I make great pierogi from several generations of my Polish family.
