Lou Roper

Start a war, make sure your family profits from it.

Alistair Campbell: "Trump’s little ambassadors. All day long. Standing up for the draft dodger who said our forces avoided the front line. Campaigning on grooming gangs while ignoring the rape claims against Trump. Taking top dollar to slag off the UK at every turn."

GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

"Muslims don't belong in American society," says Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

"The Chevy contract was given to a prominent Republican donor, Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina. "

Local opinion: Arizona Republicans want to make our children sick We have a vested interest in protecting our communities and everyone in them. “Medical freedom” is the antithesis of community.

The idea of “medical freedom” weighs one parent’s decision to refuse vaccines as more important than another’s decision to protect their own children from contagious, vaccine-preventable diseases”.

@jimalwine.bsky.social and I in a new OpEd about AZ trying to ban childhood vaccine requirements.

There Have Been No Approvals for New Transit Projects in the First Year of the Current Trump Administration

For the 1st time in the 1st year of a presidential administration since at least 1993, under Trump 2, the Federal Transit Administration signed 0 new contracts for major transit projects, like subways or light rail.

The US is facing a crisis of rail transit investment: www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

I can't believe I feel the need to go to Costco and stress-purchase bulk items again due to a possibly historic energy crisis after doing this last year due to tariffs (and before many staples went up in price as predicted)

Black and white portrait of Katharina, wearing a cap and a high collar.

For International Women's Day, here is Katharina Schütz Zell of Strasbourg (1497-1562), the first known female Protestant reformer. She wrote a number of evangelical pamphlets calling for the reform of the church, despite the disapproval of her male colleagues, with whom she occasionally clashed.

Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

The APS Museum is gearing up for a new and exciting exhibition, opening April 10. In this week's Meeting Monday, historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses how historians and museums use objects to keep history alive.

Watch the full talk here: https://bit.ly/4crTtKq

Reminder that applications for this workshop on Teaching the History of Guns in World Historical context are due on March 27th! #earlymodern #historyeducation #TeacherEducation @historyed.bsky.social #TeacherMentoring @catherinefletcher.info @pernilleblues.bsky.social @worldhistoryassn.bsky.social

Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Some are: actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

CBS News Correspondent Announces Sudden Departure From Network: ‘My Work Will Soon No Longer Appear’ CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane announced his departure from the network, telling colleagues he was looking "forward to some independence." The post CBS News Correspondent Announces Sudden Departure From Network: ‘My Work Will Soon No Longer Appear’ first appeared on Mediaite.

CBS News Correspondent Announces Sudden Departure From Network: ‘My Work Will Soon No Longer Appear’

The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

Jeffrey Goldberg: Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I was part of a grant on this list. ChatGPT said it did not have a DEI component but it was terminated anyway.

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England | Jennifer Heller | Taylor Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice

Does anyone have a pdf of Heller's The Mother's Legacy in #EarlyModern England? #CanIHazPdf #HistGender #SkyStorians www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

What would the cost be if Rick Scott was a suicide bomber intent on destroying the US Capitol? That question, like Rick Scott's question here is not only dumb, but massively irresponsible to put forth as a justification for war and murder.

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

City officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to airports, hike gas prices “and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent.”
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

it pays to have mapmaking friends!

They must know some people. 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

@johngillibrand.bsky.social

Great minds thinking alike, if I may observe! 😁

TONIGHT! Join us for some exciting #HistMed discussion! #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Why did clergymen marry? What did a wife offer them in serving their parishes? Why on earth would Charlotte Lucas marry Mr Collins? Answers to these questions, & much more, at this talk using the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social collections with curator Paul Carlyle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clerical-c...

incessant *scheming* 🙃

Usual reminder that the modal REFUK voter is an old, poor, badly-educated racist, and that reshaping our national politics around people like that is an act of grotesque self-harm, and harm to others.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...