Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

It also supports the idea that this is less about bravery and more about a desire to avoid pointless, bad-faith debate. Social influence or lack thereof is not a metric I use to determine the legitimacy of an identity, but it is for some people who would love using my "yes" as a cudgel.

This. If someone asked me if "Transgender identity is sometimes the product of social influence," I couldn't give a meaningful yes or no answer. All identities are to some extent a product of social influence and the possibilities open to people at a given time, in a given place?? What's the point?

What could a speaker even cost, Michael? $10??

I did the same! The more I pondered it, the more absurd it became. Just staggering levels of wrongness.

The two narratives about colleges right now are:

1.) College professors are so charismatic and convincing that students are completely hypnotized into doing whatever they want.

2.) Students are writing all their papers with AI because they don’t give a shit outside of a degree.

Indeed. The fact that some people see this as a reflection of strength to be celebrated rather than the absolute fragility and man-baby shit that it is remains beyond my ability to comprehend. How do we have authoritarians who are such obvious losers?

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

This guy got a job at Yale, and that seems like a much bigger indictment of the academy than the existence of humanities disciplines.

When did college-aged folks start describing everything as x-coded (e.g. "those pants are so millenial-coded")? Did this happen abruptly or am I just experiencing a frequency illusion?

all anyone needs to do is tell him he didn't do a very good job with the drawing

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

We are being held HOSTAGE by the Extreme MAGA Republicans...they will not let us leave until they can take away your #Healthcare

I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery

These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are *also* out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!

People need to understand, they are governing as if they're never going to give up power again.

Lots of them are appointment only, but a) this is a large and important branch for researchers, not your average small regional, and b) the other regionals do not restrict access only to those with “legitimate business purposes.” People have to make appointments, but the general public has access.

Fascists hate history.
They hate historians.
The also hate the tools, methods and sources that allow us to tell history.

Wow...as a former history teacher, all I can say is this is fascist bullshit. ANY restriction of what was once a public archive is completely unnecessary.

These records belong to us, not the con-toddler and his enablers and sycophants. Losing access is theft, plain and simple.

Class action? Current US population ~340 million.

The National Archives belong to the people. Full stop.

The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly

I’m so glad!

I KNOW. I feel like I will never be over it.