"What if Hitler was right but we still hated him" is NOT a good start.
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. He/him.
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"What if Hitler was right but we still hated him" is NOT a good start.
YEP. I start talking about it the first day they play. It's bad. It's nightmare fodder.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
Before you get too excited it also has the core premise that the Nazis won WW2 because--and this is where I ask myself all the time where the adults were in the writers room--they broke into a storehouse bunker of the secret worldwide underground Jewish organization and stole their advanced tech.
Mmmm that sounds DELICIOUS. (I was very pleased with my steak and onions)
In all fairness my expectation is I'll get beaten by whatever fuckweasels they send to guarantee it as I burst into song, so, yes.
Academic Goals for September: 1. Survive 2. Finish a piece I pitched to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in March and share the process with my History 111 students as I go, as part of helping them write their first primary source analysis 3. Kill so many Nazis in Wolfenstein. So many.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Yuuuuuuuum
At @bencollins.bsky.social 's suggestion, my Gaming and History class is reading Jedediah Purdy's "What I Had Lost Was A Country" for class tomorrow, to start talking about contemporary fascism alongside the Spanish Civil War. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Rewarding my labor with cooking things that bring me joy. Happy Labor Day indeed.
Caramelizing onions, going to roast some broccoli and cook some steaks in the cast iron later.
God @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should be both Mayor of NYC and the head of the Democratic Party's comms and I'm so glad we get to watch him cook.
It's like I pinned a tweet specifically because of this. Le sigh.
Oh my God yes this.
The bar! So low!
Somewhere in the last six years of writing publicly how I feel about Trump and MAGA, you'd think, maybe, people would assume I don't mean voluntarily and joyfully.
YES. God I miss Abita.
I think there'd be an attempt to force it. I'm pretty sure I've been more than clear on my feelings about him, his administration, his movement, etc, here and elsewhere and in print. *shrugs*
It's so good!
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
I am aware.
Absolutely, but they aren't local, and I like a local beer when I can.
I think most will but we're going to get a couple more horrific assassination attempts in the aftermath.
Hot dogs because that's what the birthday grill wanted, steaks for later for the adults.
This evenings grilling is made possible by Big Grove Brewery. Not financially, just, you know, you sometimes need a beer while grilling.
Yep. Hate it.
Yes.
No news. Just a thought.
I also think people like RFK Jr. should be worried about that because the conspiracy militia leopard eats all faces, not just the ones Republicans want.
When Trump dies, I unfortunately think there's a strong likelihood of political violence.
I have some alternate headlines in mind.
The Milice, I assumed.
I hope the stress of the possibility gives Stephen Miller an ulcer that turns septic and it kills him.
Strong possibility of a medical emergency, because it's now been long enough that it'a definitely weird, but.
If he died we'd be having the worst dictator's grand funeral ever. All work stopped, forced moments of silence, etc. etc.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
God that sounds AMAZING. I need to up my meat game for toppings.
Yay! Tell me what you think! I also usually try to do a meat with it. It's often a soy basted crispy bacon for texture, and I usually have seaweed crisps to go with it too. Had a lack of some supplies this time.
Yes. www.damemagazine.com/2025/08/21/the-history-of-slavery-cannot-be-erased/
A correction to the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social newsletter notice that came out this morning about the Black Death teaching module. Two links were supposed to be provided, but only the one for the module itself was. The one for the blogpost is: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07.... Queries welcome.
it is underdiscussed how "learning loss" can also be attributed to the fact that millions of people were dying and the kids were fucking terrified all the time - not just that they were on Zoom
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
I really think a lot of people with big Twitter platforms are just mad that there’s a viable competitor where they’re not as popular
I love this movie. We watched it 5 times last weekend, and this is what Sophie wanted for her birthday.
I love this movie. We watched it 5 times last weekend, and this is what Sophie wanted for her birthday.
The broth is a masterpiece--added finely chopped mushroom stems--and now eating while watching K Pop Demon Hunters. Happy Labor Day y'all.
I have eggs marinating in the fridge and red onions pickling.
Thank you!!! Whatever I have--today is Shin ramen packets, sometimes specialty ones.
Mushrooms frying with onion, garlic, spring onion, bacon feat, will add soy sauce and sesame oil soon. Broth is chicken stock with black peppercorns, onion, garlic, ginger, spring onion, mushroom stems. We'll do some sauces later.
Meh? I infuse chicken stock, basically.
Back on my bullshit (making ramen)
What is the Macron administration bowed to the voters who wanted a socialist government?
Adding it to my watchlist, immediately.
Life is short and precious and it moves so quickly, but the moments you get with your kids make it all worth it.
My daughter turned 6 today, and I am treasuring these moments, because they will not come again.
Trump looks like the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future visited him over the weekend and when he asked if it could be changed they laughed and beat him with a stick.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
Twitter is a vale of Nazis, and Bluesky should be more welcoming? I will ride this ship to the bottom of the deep.
No one has threatened to kill me on Bluesky so if you think this place is too hostile maybe you're the problem.
The days can be long but the years fly by.
Watching Zombieland with my firstborn, who is in high school. My youngest turns 6 tomorrow. I don't know where the time has gone.
I keep doing it as democratic France, so there are structural slow downs, but it is VERY satisfying for General de Gaulle leading the armored 1st Army into Berlin and/or Rome.
It’s funny that the thing that FINALLY got the press to talk about Donald Trump’s failing health was not: 1) His obviously failing health, or 2) bullying from Bluesky, but rather 3) right-wing media responding hyper defensively to the jokes. The press didn’t care until the right cared.
Trump isn't dying and no one is going to Weekend at Bernie's him and the speculation was kind of annoying... until it breached containment and far right fucknozzles startes to feel compelled to discuss it, and now I hope it keeps going and they get ulcers and shit blood.
Human rights are either universal or you don't believe in them. This is one of the few places in our reality that actually is a binary.
If that characterization makes you mad, you're one of the people I'm talking about.
If you're willing to throw the trans population to the wolves you're willing to throw every other group that's not you to the wolves too, they just aren't howling loudly enough for them yet.
The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what “we” need, you’re telling trans people that you’re willing to throw them under the bus You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
MLK wrote about people like you
...I don't know how much more weirdness I can give, tbf, but I'll try.
I do have a class playing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus this semester. There's a theme here.
YES. YES. I WANT IT.
My escapist fantasy is that it works every time and everyone seems to join in if I play my cards right.
My only political commentary left is that I'm spending a lot of time playing Hearts of Iron 4 seeing how quickly I can get Mussolini and Hitler killed and eradicate fascism from the planet by force.
Course prep for this week:
Yes. Yes very much this.
my historian of christianity bad take is that i truly don’t think we’d have had so many debates about christology if paul hadn’t wrecked the gospel.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
One time they ate a curry and their friends laughed when their mouth was on fire for ordering too hot a spice level and now they want concentration camps and no seasoning.
Admittedly somewhere Stephen Miller just came in his pants and doesn't know why, so, there's a demographic for it.
A tradwife so trad she serves you WonderBread and store bought basic mayo and calls it a little treat.
A new level of personal failure, for all the internet to see!
imagine if trad wife content was just them making bologna sandwiches on wonder bread and whipping up TV dinners ideologically it would make more sense, I guess
These people are such fucking losers, it really adds to the embarassment that they're winning.
Imagine being bad at making sourdough and deciding to post your Ls by saying it's woke.
This point 💯 If you want to know more about the Ahnenerbe (the Nazi "heritage" research institute conducting archaeological work, incl. Atlantis stuff), read Pringle's book. If you want to know more about pseudoarch in among the more contemporary far-right, I wrote a little something about it. 🏺
Which is a public service!
Au contraire, I'm pretty sure it is established in the brilliant theological text Human by the Killers that Jesus was the only one who was both human AND dancer.
It's sometimes me tbf.
Jesus fucking tap dancing Christ on a cracker. That's. God damn it.
