Today isn't Presidents Day.
Today is Lundi Gras.
Today is Lundi Gras.
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Today isn't Presidents Day.
Today is Lundi Gras.
Today is Lundi Gras.
a single "like" on the video of the year is proof of concept ⬇️
February 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
a single "like" on the video of the year is proof of concept ⬇️
blueskies y'all need to chill out a minute...
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
blueskies y'all need to chill out a minute...
Peeps in New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Louisiana.... I'm giving a talk at Beanlandia, the Krewe of Red Beans den next Friday, Feb. 20! Free and open to the public!
Hyping this before we hit Deep Gras, so put it in your calendar!
Hyping this before we hit Deep Gras, so put it in your calendar!
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Peeps in New Orleans/Baton Rouge/Louisiana.... I'm giving a talk at Beanlandia, the Krewe of Red Beans den next Friday, Feb. 20! Free and open to the public!
Hyping this before we hit Deep Gras, so put it in your calendar!
Hyping this before we hit Deep Gras, so put it in your calendar!
(endorsement of hemispheric solidarity)
God Bless "America"
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
(endorsement of hemispheric solidarity)
God Bless "America"
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
God Bless "America"
Love it when I read an article "to make sure the author gets it right" and end up learning something new myself!
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Love it when I read an article "to make sure the author gets it right" and end up learning something new myself!
Why tf do we need any sort of injunction against behavior everyone knows is already illegal??
But let's make it work for us... no judge has issued an injunction barring people from kicking the president in the nuts, so have at it, folks.
But let's make it work for us... no judge has issued an injunction barring people from kicking the president in the nuts, so have at it, folks.
Oregon's U.S. District Court Judge, Mustafa Kasubhai, granted a preliminary injunction in a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting the DHS' practice of "arrest first, justify later."
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g...
www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g...
ICE can't make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there's risk of escape, judge rules
U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there's a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Why tf do we need any sort of injunction against behavior everyone knows is already illegal??
But let's make it work for us... no judge has issued an injunction barring people from kicking the president in the nuts, so have at it, folks.
But let's make it work for us... no judge has issued an injunction barring people from kicking the president in the nuts, so have at it, folks.
Definitely putting the Luther Insult Generator on my syllabus next semester
Did my duty as #Reformazing lecturer and introduced the First Years to the Luther Insult Generator.
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
Lutheran Insulter
Insults by Martin Luther
ergofabulous.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Definitely putting the Luther Insult Generator on my syllabus next semester
Reposted by Greg A. Beaman
Someone wrote the lyrics to Tyler Childers' song Long Violent History in chalk on my campus.
"It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened
It's happening again right in front of our eyes
There's updated footage, wild speculation
Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies"
"It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened
It's happening again right in front of our eyes
There's updated footage, wild speculation
Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies"
February 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Someone wrote the lyrics to Tyler Childers' song Long Violent History in chalk on my campus.
"It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened
It's happening again right in front of our eyes
There's updated footage, wild speculation
Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies"
"It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened
It's happening again right in front of our eyes
There's updated footage, wild speculation
Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies"
It would be a shame if all of these concentration camps accidentally burned down before they could be used.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
It would be a shame if all of these concentration camps accidentally burned down before they could be used.
We aren't even close to telling the full history of slavery in the United States but feats of research like this one help tremendously. 🗃️
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 AM
We aren't even close to telling the full history of slavery in the United States but feats of research like this one help tremendously. 🗃️
Reposted by Greg A. Beaman
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
Trying to mute this stupid "you don't protest right" conversation but it won't go away
February 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Trying to mute this stupid "you don't protest right" conversation but it won't go away
Vindication after a semester where many students criticized the "heavy" reading load in my freshman Atlantic World survey.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Vindication after a semester where many students criticized the "heavy" reading load in my freshman Atlantic World survey.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Requiring NDAs is a normal step all legitimate institutions take, especially when they definitely aren't planning to collude with an allegedly co-equal partner to subvert the institution and defeat the very cause that led to its creation in the first place.
Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Requiring NDAs is a normal step all legitimate institutions take, especially when they definitely aren't planning to collude with an allegedly co-equal partner to subvert the institution and defeat the very cause that led to its creation in the first place.
Reposted by Greg A. Beaman
"I only add that every case of this kind only tends to make me abhor my (no!) *this* country more and more. It is the Devil's Government, and God will destroy it.
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
February 1, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"I only add that every case of this kind only tends to make me abhor my (no!) *this* country more and more. It is the Devil's Government, and God will destroy it.
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Reposted by Greg A. Beaman
More echoes of the Underground Railroad: after slave catchers caught Seth Concklin, a Conductor, Concklin "was found drowned, with his hands and feet in chains and his skull fractured. And in irons, upon this riverbank, there is no doubt he was buried."
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
apnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
More echoes of the Underground Railroad: after slave catchers caught Seth Concklin, a Conductor, Concklin "was found drowned, with his hands and feet in chains and his skull fractured. And in irons, upon this riverbank, there is no doubt he was buried."
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
More echoes of the Underground Railroad: after slave catchers caught Seth Concklin, a Conductor, Concklin "was found drowned, with his hands and feet in chains and his skull fractured. And in irons, upon this riverbank, there is no doubt he was buried."
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
apnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
More echoes of the Underground Railroad: after slave catchers caught Seth Concklin, a Conductor, Concklin "was found drowned, with his hands and feet in chains and his skull fractured. And in irons, upon this riverbank, there is no doubt he was buried."
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
"I only add that every case of this kind only tends to make me abhor my (no!) *this* country more and more. It is the Devil's Government, and God will destroy it.
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
February 1, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"I only add that every case of this kind only tends to make me abhor my (no!) *this* country more and more. It is the Devil's Government, and God will destroy it.
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Yours for the slave, N.R. Johnston."
Throw away the laws and throw away all our rights, too. Go home, write a letter in praise of the god-emperor, stamp it and beg to live another day. This is your only choice now.
Are we, as a country, throwing away *all* of our laws? What exactly can the rest of get away with, given the blatant lawlessness existing all over the place?
February 1, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Throw away the laws and throw away all our rights, too. Go home, write a letter in praise of the god-emperor, stamp it and beg to live another day. This is your only choice now.
"You're not allowed to have rights or you'll be killed."
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"You're not allowed to have rights or you'll be killed."