Rob Haug

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Job Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Department: Urban Studies Job Description: The Religious Studies Department and Africana Studies Program at Rhodes Col...

My department is hiring a 2-year VAP in Religious Studies & Africana Studies (cross-appointed in both programs). Interdisciplinary teaching is a huge plus!

rhodes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Rhodes...

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
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At the same time, we should have a conversation about what happened to the people living in the half of Mexico the US annexed in 1848 and the origins of the border patrol.

Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism.

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

But that's because conspiracy theories like Jade Helm, Obama wanting a third term, Pizzagate are all about getting people to think Democrats wanted to do X to justify Republicans actually doing it.

While @repgreglandsman.bsky.social is sending campaign emails bragging that he brought some chump change to the district, we all remember him voting to thank ICE for assaulting a US citizen for the crime of having brown skin.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe.

“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”

Fuck off.

Yeah, it was one of the toughest classes to get into at DePaul so even without such restrictions, it usually filled before juniors could even register.

Yes it did... And a lot of it. Each week the prof made sure we tasted one bottle under $10 & one over $100 (90s prices) so we learned how to impress on a student budget. It was also one of the hardest classes I took. Exams covered everything from laws about labelling to soil chemistry to marketing.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. German (for two years)
2. World War 2 on the Homefront
3. Politics of the Catholic Church
4. History of the Balkans
5. World of Wine

Billy Bragg - City Of Heroes Listen to City Of Heroes by Billy Bragg.

My song of resistance for the people of Minneapolis - St Paul is now available to stream on these platforms

bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities.

EXCLUSIVE: These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents

We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities

theintercept.com/2026/01/28/i...

My rep @repgreglandsman.bsky.social voted to thank ICE for crushing teenage boys' testicles.

Charlie Hebdo cover shows the US flag with a pile of dead bodies for the stars and an ice agent dragging a bleeding person to make the stripes

#FuckIce #3E #EndImpunity

Have you ever wondered what a Sasanian city sounded like? We can imagine the sounds of the past if we pay close attention to material, historical, & archaeological sources. Check out this new article on the soundscapes of Eranshahr-- & be sure to download the sound file for an immersive experience

Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.

As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

Yes. They Just Didn’t Think Those Americans Would Be White

It clearly said don't tread on ME. It didn't say anything about YOU. The people who fly those flags very much like to see other people tread upon.

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

This would obviously be the outcome from the start. But university admins capitulated because they agree with Trump more than they disagree with him and he just gave them cover to do the thing they wanted to do but couldn't.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

This is the problem with votes like @repgreglandsman.bsky.social vote to thank ICE agents and his promotion of bipartisanship with fascists. It paves the way for other Dems to vote for funding ICE when it could have been blocked by normalizing the idea that ICE is normal law enforcement.

Can anyone point me to a single serious study or news report which offers unambiguous evidence that genAI/LLMs have contributed anything non-harmfully useful, anything that has contributed to actual human flourishing and the common good? Anything that has actually “enhanced” educational outcomes?

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Lengthy Twitter exchange that ends with John Ganz calling Richard Hanania a total piece of shit

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