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every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Taught survey students all semester that using a narrow piece of evidence to make a sweeping claim is not part of the historian’s craft. They got it.

My title for that day in all classes is Course Wrap up. I give exam or final assignment announcements, ask them what they learned that surprised them or thought we would cover, and then say “Go in peace and have a good life.”

Many faculty at places like Yale, especially ones who like to pontificate about the state of higher ed, have never stepped foot on a non-fancy small liberal arts campus, a state school, or a community college. Which is the majority of higher ed.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

M*A*S*H (1972-1983)

I have this same thought every time I see a story of tens of thousands. I also think swarms are cool.

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

There is an Ezekiel 25:17, but it ain't what was in the movie. It's this.

"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."

That's it.

You'd think a devout Christian would know that.

He taps the plate over the tag not on the backside of the plate. That is an incredible move.

Or they haven’t done the reading but talk too much anyway

It is weird that their de facto response is Just War theory.

The first element of a “just war” is that one does it in defense and proportional. Nothing in this war fits Just War theory.

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
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Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

I thought for some time that the civil religion moment was the argument that the better parts of Protestant dominance would create a better civil order than sectarian Protestantism. It was always American Protestantism.

I also think this is the thing MLK was most critical of at the end of his life

Part of this - a large part of - is Americanists who don’t share their subjects’ theology (either because the scholar is secular, or because they’re of a different tradition) and so say anything they see as “weird” as not “real” Christianity

Virginia Was the Lost Cause's Sacred Ground. Then It Wasn't The Uneven Reckoning That Emptied Monument Avenue and Killed the Confederate License Plate

Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army #OTD in 1865 at Appomattox Court House. His defeats have only continued in recent years, the most recent occurring just this week. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I get that the acceptable line about 9/11 was that they attacked us because they "hate our freedoms" or whatever, but that's always been BS. It's how you'd explain 9/11 to a kindergartner. But 9/11 was the unintended consequence of decades of U.S. foreign policy. To pretend it's not true is insane.

someone should write this essay (and cite Karl) or commission Karl to write it.

Best. Unboxing. Ever. “Hey, a book,” he says. #ThePublicScholar from @hopkinspress.bsky.social coming this month.

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This is:

1. Deeply moving.

2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV.

Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

"Moon's haunted"

Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.

i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”

In my observation, this is the modal Christian right defense of Trump's deranged statements. It's not "Hell yeah! Get 'em Trump!" More often it's an attempt to ease their consciences by framing it as a false choice: "It's either Trump or [imagined persecution of Christianity]. What else could I do?"

Same. And mostly already retired. Practiced Lenten social media silence for several years. Was easy to walk away for a bit. Happy to do it again

Sure, the most influential accounts on X are all right-wing influencers who spew a steady stream of misinformation and hatred, but I'm sure you're not feeling any downstream effects from all of that.

You're just too smart and savvy to be influenced by propaganda, not like literally everyone else.

He’s quite mad in every sense of the word.

The flip side of this: I also appreciate it when people decide to be vulnerable and share when they lost a job, endured an illness, lost a loved one, or didn't get that promotion. It allows us to get to know you more and makes visible that not everybody's life is a curated collection of good things

Sunday Inspiration: Kindness

Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in this world. —A. A. Malee