Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.

See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Important article from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social integrating research on how Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Check it out.

History Now! On Presentism and a Strange Online Debate in American Historiography (Part 1) Georg Gangl - James H. Sweet is the current president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the largest scholarly organization of historians worldwide, and he recently found himself in quite a situation. As part of his function as president of AHA, Sweet writes the monthly column From the President in the organization’s news magazine Perspectives on History. While I imagine the column is usually read with some interest by AHA members and other readers, the text in the September issue of this year entitled “IS HISTORY HISTORY? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present” garnered rather special and outsized attention.

Historical methodology reflections by @ggangl.bsky.social
gtw.hypotheses.org/9274 #presentism #historicism #anachronism #history #historiography

Eric Cartman, Welcome (for Now) to the Resistance

"It is still a free country. You can still say what you want. So why are so many powerful institutions behaving like it isn’t and they can’t? If a few bratty cartoon kids can peel off the emperor’s clothes, what are the grown-ups so afraid of?" [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/a...

Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance

Trump’s Treason Summit Backfires Spectacularly

His week of madness ends in rejection and resistance

zeus.atilf.fr/dmf/

Dictionnaire du Moyen Français has been down for a few days. 😒
I use this resource daily. I hope they get the site back up and running soon.

And importantly, he won the case in a landmark SCOTUS ruling that marked the start of the long erosion of affirmative action programs.

One mediocre white guy's self-delusion has brought generations of lasting damage.

There’s a tariff on root vegetables now?

Catholic Priests Barred From Ministering to Detained Migrants in Florida Miami Archbishop slams lack of access at so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz', calling it a denial of dignity and faith.

Florida’s Republican administration blocks Catholic priests from ministering to immigrants jailed at Everglades detention camp: migrantinsider.com/p/catholic-p...

Science and Democracy Under Siege Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.

Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

It’s not even good blasphemy

Utter corruption and malfeasance. It also opens them up to a potential lawsuit in the future.

😠

@saracharles.bsky.social Loving this

I'm sure a strongly-worded letter is in order.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

They always have :/

A boy sitting on a frog is shown. This is sixteenth-century printer Christoph Froschauer's trademark. The German word for frog is "Frosch", so Froschauer had his trademark decision done.

Riding the frog in 1545.

The Zurich-based printer Christoph Froschauer used this trademark frog on the title page of Conrad Gessner’s 'Bibliotheca Universalis'. #earlymodern #bookhistory

The trademark frog derives from a translation of the printer’s last name: frog is in German “Frosch”.

“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

The new one is even more so

@microsoft.com Who thought that new Outlook was a good idea? 🤮

Seems like breaking what works is your MO. I’ve been using MS software since DOS, and you never fail to disappoint.

Do better.

She’s one of my favorites

But they were driven not so much by their nature but because this was the only way to protect their power."

3/3

and why they inflame every king and prince to violence, except that they see that, as soon as Christ’s gospel prevails, their entire kingdom will topple and fall into ruin. Leo X was cruel; Clement VII was bloodthirsty, Paul III is ferocious.

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For #Calvin, the corruption of the medieval and early modern papacy was all about the lust for power. 4.7.24 #AmTranslating

"Nor is there any other reason why the Pontiffs vent so much rage against the renascent doctrine of the gospel and exert every muscle to oppress it

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That last statement is frighteningly relevant.