Jeff Ostler

No because they didn't get much attention. I posted on x where more people were intetested.

“Zohran. Boy, another fantasy that’s not reality,” he said. “Eugene, Oregon — have you ever been to Eugene? I’ve been to, I’ve been to Eugene. Come on. This is New York City.”

Eugene caught a stray at last night's NYC mayoral debate, so now I'm forced to imagine Curtis Silwa wandering the Saturday Market

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170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska 170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

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What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Great news! Congratulations.

I was one of the 12,000. Had to avoid antifa terrorists at aid stations, but made it.

How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

“The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth.” —Trevor Jackson

Plan seems to be purge the military of people unwilling to go along with fascism. Same with FBI.

I'm running a half marathon in war-ravaged Portland Oregon next Sunday. I have been so afraid that I would be attacked by Antifa that I almost cancelled. So grateful that our wonderful President, a model of Christ-like behavior, is sending the troops.

BlackPast.org Announces with Profound Sadness the Passing of Founder Dr. Quintard Taylor It is with deep sorrow that BlackPast.org announces the passing of its founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, who died peacefully on September 21, 2025 at the age of 76 in Houston, Texas.

RIP Quintard Taylor. Honored to have been his colleague when he was in the History Department at the University of Oregon 1990-1999. @uoregon.bsky.social

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The great Dakota artist Oscar Howe's 1959 painting of Wounded Knee. No matter what Whiskey Pete says, it was a massacre not a battle.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

This man is ignorant. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle.

A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide? As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

Love how the New York Times fact checker always says Trump's blatant lies lack evidence as if some evidence might eventually be found.

The Autumn of Charlie Kirk What does it mean to turn a far-right activist into a national martyr?

I have a new piece about the memorialization of Charlie Kirk, American identity, and the coming storm.

A good example is a Prager video by Jeff Fynn-Paul, author of the ridiculously bad book NOT STOLEN, which tries to argue that the United States did not steal Indigenous lands, as though Native Nations somehow just gave it all away willingly.

Or the Constitution.

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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Donate to Urgent: Help Mohammad and Tasneem Evacuate Gaza, organized by Kaleigh Bronson Two students, Mohammad and Tasneem, have been awarded the Internationa… Kaleigh Bronson needs your support for Urgent: Help Mohammad and Tasneem Evacuate Gaza

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History on the Lost Coast: Locating Wiyot Stories of Resilience in Nancy and Matilda Spear Abstract. This essay is a response to an AHR call for works on resilience: “how to revive,” as it’s framed, “after things fall apart.” It would be hard to

In “History on the Lost Coast,” Kathleen C. Whiteley shows how historians can use a resilience framework to highlight Indigenous agency, spotlighting the Wiyot Nation’s reclamation in 2019 of over 200 acres on Northern California’s Tuluwat Island, the site of an 1860 catastrophic massacre. 🗃️

A very informative book. Well-deserved recognition.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of Muir Woods National Monument An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.

SCOOP: The Trump Administration directed the Muir Woods National Monument to remove language it had added to its interpretative signs detailing women's contributions to the monument and the racist ideologies of some of its founders.

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On Myths and Monuments – AHA How do you tell the story of Mount Rushmore? The answer has changed over time.

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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Powerful essay by genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov.

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E&E News: Texas failed to spend federal aid for disaster protection States across the country have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other disasters.

"In the past decade, as extreme weather killed nearly 700 people in Texas, the state relinquished $225 million in federal grant money that it was supposed to spend on protecting residents from disasters, federal records show."

Including floods.

via @eenews.bsky.social

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

This is an excellent dissection of the NYT / Mamdani / "Ugandan-American" fiasco, by @donmoyn.bsky.social

h/t @resnikoff.bsky.social

The episode looks worse, the more we hear about it. Worse because of the patterns it illustrates. Worth reading.

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Debate over 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center a personal one for members of Miccosukee and Seminole tribes The homes of Miccosukee and Seminole people, as well as their ceremonial sites, surround the detention center on three sides.

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