Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird. https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
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Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
*Entangled Alliances* is available for PRE-ORDER from @cornellupress.bsky.social 📚 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Last week marked a shift. Is it because governors from blue states, CDC staff, and Lisa Cook spoke out against the Trump regime? His rumored death drew mockery. Momentum is building, but we must keep fighting: rally, speak out, call your MoC, volunteer, and defend our freedoms because it’s working!
I’m trying.
James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees, put on leave after signing a letter criticizing Trump’s disaster preparedness, discusses the culture of fear within the agency. “One thing that is underreported is the day to day agony and humiliation we’ve been suffering this whole time.”
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
This is a well needed reminder for me that sometimes Justice is done.
Yup. Sigh.
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
They are eternal victims. A handy stance when you’re trying to oppress people.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Do they have editorial meetings where they plan out how to pretend Trump has more power than he actually has in an attempt to manifest that into being, or do they just do it by instinct, misleading readers because they’ve fully internalized the idea that distorting reality is how to be “unbiased”?
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Guess what. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Problem solved. Sheesh.
It may be helping….
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I slept!
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Wow. Thanks for telling me! Glad they helped!
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
This. Truly. They’re scared.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
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For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here: oyc.yale.edu/history/hist...
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She was so thankful to me, but I was so thankful to her!
Let's do this Gratitude to history teachers who taught us to love history I'll start. Mrs. Paul. 8th grade history teacher Made us write re: Hamilton & child labor. Got my attention! MANY years later I got to thank her for helping me learn to love history Getting to thank your teachers? The best!
Thank you for saying so! The woman at the farmer's market really surprised me! It made my day!
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This is for all the teachers out there. This AM at the farmers market, a stranger recognized me from my online American Revolution lecture course. Apparently, the lectures got her thru an illness when she was stuck in bed. Teaching matters. In so many more ways than we know.
There's a shift in the air. Demonstrating the standing up for change with "joyful abandon" @jbf1755.bsky.social "They're losing their grip on the American people" @hcrichardson.bsky.social We're defining who we are and what we care about, right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2-I...
Cool color. True.
I was going to guess Chekov.
Not my favorite. I like Tanqueray and Aviation. I particularly love McQueen and the Violet Fog gin -- but it's hard to find!
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
Who said that on Star Trek?
Correct.
these people are the weakest fuckin weaklings in all US history
Permanently exhausted pigeon puts it perfectly. Tho I’m long past menopause…
"What the Heck Just Happened" with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social This talk felt empowering & positive, which is such a relief after so much doom. There has been a shift. They discuss when shifts in history have made a difference in the past. www.youtube.com/live/L2-IA04...
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
She was supposed to lose a little weight!
I have no great knowledge on this count. One tablet at bedtime—100mg.
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Rosie the Peep had her last antibiotics shot today. And she’s a less pudgy budgie, due to a slight decrease in the good millet. So….knocking wood!
A sleep experiment that I’m sharing with my fellow 3AM Club members. Trying Magnesium Glycinate. My doctor said it was ok to try. And I slept well last night. Let’s see how this goes….
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I am having my Friday martini. And I am happy. This was a VERY bad week in a major way, though positive in other ways. This weekend: work AND self-care. Take care of your health, peeps. You’re needed.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
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What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
A slavery-defending traitor. Listen when they say who they are.
I have a column on this going up in the morning, but I'm telling you folks, there's an immediate need for people to light up lawmakers' phones and clang pots and pans and protest and do whatever the hell can be done to get RFK Jr. booted, or at least constrained. This is a five-alarm fire.
more of this tbh
This is an absolute slap in the face to every single serviceperson who has protected this country and the Constitution. Ashli Babbitt was a traitor who deserves no recognizance whatsoever. Every person involved in this decision deserves the same.
It is. And it will be available free online, with a two week lag after we give the lectures. On Yale’s YouTube channel.
You’ll be able to see it at that URL after; it will be archived there.
Beyond cringy. Truly. So humiliating—for him, and for us.
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Joy is really good. Especially now.
Tomorrow morning on my live podcast, “History Matters:” Standing Up Matters! We’ve seen a lot of push back this week from people in high places. And it matters—more than you might think. Join us for some reckoning. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations
Good for them. Stand up and push back, especially if you’re being pushed out.
Battell Chapel!
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Some highlights of my mega-lecture-course -- "America at 250" -- at Yale this morning.
Yale’s YouTube channel.
This course isn’t open to the public beyond people who’ve already signed up. We don’t have enough room! But this course—and my American Revolution course—are or will be online.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
People are standing up. Talking back. In some cases, refusing to resign. Keep. Going. Good trouble. Loud trouble. Inspiration and education.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
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A high ranking power-that-is told us that—even when we mentioned her! We’ll have to check.
We actually thought she had the largest. But according to the powers that be, 900 beats it.
It’s an entire course—and lectures will be posted online with a two week delay, after given. Free on Yale’s YouTube channel.
That’s one of my themes!
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Aww. Thank you!
Thank you, folks. You’re the best.
I WAS bleeped on PBS! Which amused the heck out of me.
Ha!
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Welp. Going to stand up in front of 900 people today at the start of my mega-lecture-course with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Several hundred people are from the local community. Including them, this is the largest class in the history of Yale. Man, oh man.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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