Toiling away in the history mines. Public history professional. Board & tabletop gaming enthusiast. MA in Public History, American University 2020. BA in History, Beloit College 2016. Pronouns are he/him/his.
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So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
Doctors say medical journals, not TikTok, are the appropriate place to research vaccines. But this Florida Surgeon General isn't so sure.
not that long ago we set some very notable and firm precedents about how “just following orders” is not exculpatory
The Trump administration in a nutshell (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...)
i would like to know the specific orders that were given here
The thing about ‘national conservatism’ is that it accurately diagnoses a lot of pathologies and then proposes: let’s make all of them worse.
okay, let's focus on the REAL issue: this fucked up map from the 2008 tactical RTS video game TOM CLANCY'S ENDWAR showing the formation of the European Federation in 2018
the successful completion of top surgery is accompanied by the “How ‘bout those Rocket Pods!” soundbite from Command and Conquer Generals
it is genuinely wild that Trump’s top domestic policy guy is basically a monarchist who has all but written that he thinks Trump should rule as a dictator
I mean Harmon Rabb got more combat flight time as a JAG man than he did as an actual Navy flyboy
“could estrogen have saved her” question has been conclusively answered yes. “could estrogen achieve the political/carceral ends of the truth and reconciliation commission” study still in grant writing phase
and those janes had better be eyred
It’s imo one of the reasons presidents usually win reelection (their party has a leader; the other one doesn’t) and one of the reasons Donald Trump was able to return to power (not being term-limited, he remained the de facto leader of the party and was able to marshal its resources accordingly)
“I would rather move for a Law to compel the Masters of Families to inoculate every Child born within a certain limitted time under severe Penalties.” —George Washington to his brother John Augustine Washington, 1 June 1777
Genuinely impressed to which this government is committed to alienating every constituency in America while also remaining laser focused on increasing the cost of living
well this should silence the accusations that he's in Trump's pocket www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
Report: U.S. Foreign Policy Hurting American Students' Chances Of Getting Laid Abroad https://theonion.com/report-u-s-foreign-policy-hurting-american-students-c-1819567836/
If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
Salary cap circumvention is the one thing you can consistently count on leagues to punish because not only is it cheating, it clearly demonstrates that the owners should be spending more money on players but artificially agreed on a limit well below the players’ actual market value
>HEY THEY DON’T HAVE AN AUMF FOR THAT
mister electric send him to a primary challenge and have him expelled
they’re number i-one in my book!
@markherman54.bsky.social Churchill has been my go-to “I want to teach board game newbies a GMT game” game for years now. Everyone I’ve played it with says how easy it is to grasp the rules after going through just a single Conference. It’s an amazing design!
over the Labor Day weekend I got to referee/Game Master a game of @gmtgames.bsky.social CHURCHILL by @markherman54.bsky.social using the Training Scenario (3 Conferences) The Allies conquered Germany but were unable to meet the conditions for Japanese surrender. US ultimately emerged the winner
Its super telling that "bluesky libs are mean to me but nazis arent so im going to hang out with the nazis" doesnt merit more introspection from shor et al
DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)
malortotov cocktail, is that anything?
jeppesen’s has the greatest marketing team of the entire 21st century
American white supremacists have been looking for the button that turns off wokeness for no less than 168 years
you could probably get the plans for an invasion of mexico out of someone in this admin for a fifth of johnny walker and an eight ball
Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now
an immensely frustrating part of Biden's grotesque approach to Gaza was that it gravely discredited an otherwise a fairly solid foreign policy approach. arming Ukraine, ending the Afghan war, stopping a coup in Brazil, patching things up with the EU, etc, and then he impaled that for Bibi
The dirty little secret is there has been zero American casualties and thus the public doesn’t care and won’t punish Trump politically
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
i do think people — national security reporters in particular — should think a little bit about what it means that pritzker apparently already knows what the plan for the texas national guard in chicago is, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.
"i thought we liked abundance narratives!" clearly you have not been studying this week's posts by the Posters Collective, a team of edgy leftist accounts with around 15k followers each who determine our positions each week
would be cool if there was a single paper of record that was anti-fascist
Everyone believed there was suddenly an ideological majority for Trumpism because the people who follow politics are all very unusual. What actually happened is the dumbest people in America decided they were mad and hit the "I'm Mad" button without knowing or caring what it would do.
British soldier comes back on leave, gathers his middle class London family around the phonograph, and puts on a record he snuck home from the front: 🎵 The ting go skrrra! Pop pop pop pop pop! 🎵
“we are going to pull you from your job and home to send you to conduct an illegal invasion of Chicago - by the way some of your families and homes are still underwater, and we staunchly and visibly Do Not Give A Shit” is the most blatant whistle past the graveyard of Soldier Mutiny so far
BE LOUD FOR AMERICA
Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
excited for all the Very Serious Thinkers who worked themselves into a lather over “how expensive are the interceptors we’re using against the Houthis” stories to be all over the bonkers ratio of munition to effect on display here, right? right? guys?
yeah he’s partnering with Snyder to do Rebel Moon Part 3
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
several consecutive multi hour brainstorm sessions as the Cert leadership works through how to thread the needle of “dealing with the actual real Soviet infiltration issue” and “avoiding the Second Red Scare”
Taylor Swift Spoils Travis Kelce For Anniversary By Cracking Egg Over His Kibble
I'm at the White House for the big announcement and we can hear someone in the back room yelling "CLEAR!" Not sure what that's about
they’re sticking him with that green power up potion that Pattinson used at the climax of The Batman
Frankentrump confirmed
Enchantment under the sea-ass press conference.
George III has already issued his proclamation declaring the American Patriots to be in rebellion, so it is unsurprising that he has rejected the Continental Congress’s call for him to end the war and broker peace between the colonies and the imperial Parliament.
Bill Belichick's disastrous coaching debut raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.
#OTD 1752, Britain went to bed like usual. But when they awoke, it was ‘eleven days later’ on Thursday 14 September. Find out why...👇 @georgianlords.bsky.social
That was the most terrifying performance by frogs since the second plague
Honestly, there is sort of a morose humor to the authoritarian backsliding. Imagine getting sent to Gitmo, your cell mate is like “watcha in for, bub?” and when you’re like “chalk,” he’s like “no shit? I did 9/11.”
Lets get a headset on Jordon and see if she can do any better
“Now I can save tomorrow for something that I really want to do.” “What is that?” asked Frog. “Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.”
some coaches are capable of assembling an entirely new roster and beating TCU in Week 1 in their first year as head coach. but i guess this new guy is no Deion Sanders
“You know people have been saying there’s lots of gods, you hear people talk about how many gods there are, but it turns out - and I just learned this recently - it turns out there’s only god, not many people know that, there’s only one god, and they call him Al-lah, which is a beautiful word”
I'm sure this "Bill Belichick" character impressed in interviews, but UNC should have hired a coach with a better understanding of defensive fundamentals
what if he just says the Shahada and refuses to elaborate
He admits he’s in a Brewster’s Millions type situation where he has to be impeached to win fifty billion dollars but gives up because he’s out of ideas.
you have absolutely gotta be kidding me
Today is Sextidi the 16th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate lemons. #JacobinDay More information on lemons
the next guy should be even older
In keeping with today's national holiday, Astoria the Wild Turkey enjoys some peaceful rest in her favorite garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️
Somehow our diseased information environment has produced the net outcome that *the pandemic is considered a political problem for Dems*, not the party that lied about it & got people killed at every juncture. The party that tried, but not perfectly, to save lives, is being forced to apologize.
hey man I don't give a shit what Nate Silver says
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
I’ve been through the desert with a [link to Wookieepedia Unnamed Desert Horse entry]
oh no we’re doing the joke fan theory “no one in Star Wars can read because all information is presented via holograms” in real life
when Congress voted to ratify the treaty returning the Panama Canal to Panama, one Senator joked to his family that they should “come and watch me lose my job” by still voting in favor despite conservatives whipping up a jingoistic frenzy over the issue. sometimes that’s what it takes.
I think there should be unlimited years of eligibility, but rigorous academic standards involved if you want to go beyond 4 years. I want to see 35 year old college QB’s out here working on their third PhD
one billion joke posts all straining against the Drafts folder like a terrier pointed like an arrow towards a squirrel and pulling the leash taut
The Tea Party was covered in the press like it was a spontaneous eruption of populist anger, but those protests drew far fewer people than the recent protests against Trump's administration. The "Tea Party" was just a well-funded organized, right wing movement promoted by friendly media outlets.
Not electing the emails lady to end up with a guy whose bathroom is full of intel was also a funny prank from the median voter
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
I like the pregame tidbit that Notre Dame has been "focused on hydration for weeks." they haven't even been practicing, just guzzling h20 non-stop
happy labor day to all you workers and parasites
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
that lead up to that chase was where I honestly was starting to feel my attention wander, I wasn’t really feeling invested in Grace’s chemistry with Ethan, and then here comes Paris cackling while drifting through a plaza cafe and I was Back In
it is actually so damaging for them that "when it happens" is such a meme all over the internet now though I just feel like "grassroots conviction that you're about to fucking die any day now" isn't really conducive to projecting an aura of fascist inevitability
she’s the best part of Dead Reckoning because for everyone else it’s the worst day of their lives but for Paris it’s the best because she Loves Murder
The Khan calls for strength
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
scully: mulder you can't seriously believe in this mulder: I'm telling you, glonzo is more than just stories.
It's not really a coincidence that Trump is panicking and signing an executive order to try and do stuff with voting right after the GOP got creamed in another special election and another one of their incumbents decided to not run again.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Salt has to be one of the absolute worst things your wife could be turned into a pillar of
