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liketexas.bsky.social
historian (holocaust/axis war crimes/modern romania), author, auburn and central michigan alumnus, cat dad, weather weenie, birder, mediocre golfer. a doctor, but not the useful kind. "like playing golf with an encyclopedia"
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I'm sure all of the campus speech warriors will be chiming in to condemn this at any moment, because they're all good-faith actors who sincerely care about free speech, of course.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

@capitalweather.bsky.social view from Crystal City

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Genuinely surprised our trees and that construction scaffolding survived this gust front.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

#shelfie

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

It's way down on the list of horrors, but National Parks having to post signs asking visitors to report anything there that provides "information that [is] negative about either past or living Americans" is utterly pathetic. The past isn't all positive, kids. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Many liberals and progressives understand the Supreme Court to be a bastion of rights and a bulwark against the excesses of an oppressive majority. But, for most of its history outside the Warren Court, the Supreme Court has been a bastion of oligarchy and white supremacy. This is its normal.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Baby jail

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

again, we don't have actual police. we have varieties of rogue paramilitary/criminal gangs

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 2 days ago • 553 comments

15 June 1906 | Tichon Mucha was born. A Soviet army soldier. In #Auschwitz from October 1941. No. R-8078 (Soviet prisoner of war) He perished in the camp on 28 November 1941.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

"manuscript under review"

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Pilger. A name every weather enthusiast knows. On June 16, 2014, a Nebraska supercell produced 5 tornadoes—4 rated EF-4. Pilger was devastated. Two of the EF-4s became rare twins, rotating around each other in a stunning display. buff.ly/lS9a8bS #newx #OTD #tornadohistory

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ugh how did they get my number to send me a political text, I specifically avoid ever letting these people get my phone number

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians. Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office. Hacks. They should be ashamed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Everybody is over par

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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

submitted 5 days ago • 456 comments