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I truly can't imagine getting any of my adult self esteem or ideology from a weird test most people take in grade school.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

The nativists of the 1840s thought immigrants formed a vast conspiracy to undermine American democracy. They promoted far-fetched misinformation about immigrants. They believed that immigrant men preyed on American women. They believed that immigrants were poisoning the blood of America. 🧵🗃️

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

"Let's go back to the period when the nation retreated from democracy and equal rights and suffered two massive, crushing depressions because tariffs"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A poodle belonging to Empress Eugenie of France (Napoleon III’s wife), 1850s.🗃️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 3 days ago • 288 comments

If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

The “cardiac serpent” (or maybe a really weird blood clot) found in John Pennant’s heart, 1637. publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... 🗃️

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I'm happy to let the RW have Sparta -- a miserable society mostly famous for losing a battle and who's only major victory happened to be against a nation-state badly weakened by a RW tyrant who'd hollowed out the treasury and coalition.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Ever notice how a certain Type of Guy is really into ancient Sparta? I looked at how the Spartans have been interpreted — and misinterpreted — throughout history, including how they became role models for some of the worst political movements in history. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/worldhis...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 726 comments

An early medieval Anglo-Saxon alphabet, from an 1843 French collection of alphabets. 🗃️

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is how almost everyone who works on climate feels almost all the time. 🤷‍♀️

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Might I just say: Djed Motherfucking Spence

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

In the late 1800s, a remarkable development promised to liberate women around the world. One suffragist said that “I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.” 🗃️🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 8 days ago • 257 comments

Ensign Semicolon, from a 1824 children’s book on punctuation. It’s a sign of the times that there was no entry for the clear leader of today’s punctuation army, King Em Dash…. 🗃️

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5664 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 545 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

I don't even really know how to put this in words but one of the signal experiences of the last decade is being confronted, over and over again, with how weak this country is. How hollow. There was so much less substance to it, to its leaders & institutions, than anyone thought.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 12 days ago • 1185 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 13 days ago • 3911 comments

President Executive Time shares some thoughts from his house/office in between his golfing outings.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

If you're looking for an insight into how things are going at NASA since Trump's regime started attacking it, here's astronomer & NASA employee Rose Ferreira on Threads. (Her now-removed interview is archived here at the Wayback Machine and it's well worth a read: web.archive.org/web/20231206... )

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Love history and I love biking on my old lady bike. Yup I have a basket

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Annie Londonderry wanted to travel around the world on a bike. She didn't quite succeed (it’s more accurate to say she traveled around the world with a bike), but in the process, she became a sensation and a bit of a folk hero. 🗃️🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

These so-called "geniuses" don't seem to understand what it means to be intelligent... medium.com/@worldhistor...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

submitted 17 days ago • 362 comments

Cc @anthonymkreis.bsky.social and all fellow political scientists

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

You may have missed it, but Donald Trump recently announced that he wants to use Guantanamo as a detention camp. It’s fitting, really — Guantanamo has long been an avatar of American imperialism and impunity. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/worldhis...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

this is very clear and very straightforward about what's happening and at some point we also have to start pointing the finger at major news organizations who are flatly - out of bias, out of fear, out of incompetence, whatever - refusing to treat this as the emergency it is do your jobs

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Five years ago today, I was in Belarus, where I saw shiny malls, trendy bars, and a growing tech industry—and heard many stories about the broken political system, jailed dissidents, and deeply corrupt, unpopular dictator. These things can and do coexist. Randomly thinking about that today.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Am I having a stroke or did Trump just talk about the US “owning” Gaza? And maybe sending US troops?

submitted 18 days ago • 1073 comments

People are getting up off the mat.

submitted 20 days ago • 932 comments

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 20 days ago • 2171 comments

look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls

submitted 21 days ago • 80 comments

1/I understand legit debate re: #DEI & whether pendulum swung too far, too quickly. But what happened today at @NSAGov's @NatCryptoMuseum is unacceptable. Trump Admin new DEI policy disgraces cryptological historical trailblazers & icons in community. See two covered areas? https://

submitted 21 days ago • 49 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 21 days ago • 730 comments