Bruce Dorsey

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

"this is a war of choice with no strategic endgame” - Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. @jahimes.bsky.social

How fitting that this illegal war was launched from the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, named for the man who launched the travesty that American presidents are above the law

Still up on the official White House website:

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Columbia’s President licked the boots of the authoritarian thugs and they just kicked her institution in the face, as anyone who knows anything about authoritarian thugs was trying to tell her they would do.

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Opinion | Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality

Frank Bruni on Trump's SOTU: "preposterously self-satisfied, preternaturally nasty and profoundly delusional. Most of what he boasted about was hallucinatory." So immersed in fantasy, "I kept thinking I should have worn 3-D glasses."

Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...

"Who cares that he managed to say almost nothing with all those words? He made history." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Library Company names its new chief, the first-ever woman to lead the group in 295 years Jessica Chopin Roney will take over after the Library Company of Philadelphia merges with Temple University. She has existing ties to both institutions.

Swarthmore College's History Department is proud of our former student and distinguished colleague, Jessica Roney, who will become the first woman to be director of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
#history #vastearlyamerica

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Philadelphia’s slavery exhibit is restored at President’s House Site “This is the American people fighting back and saying we will not accept this,” said one Independence Mall visitor. “Will not allow history to be rewritten.”

"Amid occasional applause from passersby, as National Parks workers restored the panels, an unnamed employee said, “It’s our honor.”

Mayor Cherelle Parker: ...“today, we celebrate the return of our history to the President’s House exhibit.”"

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Judge Orders Slavery Displays Restored at George Washington’s Philadelphia Home

Grateful for all those who refused to accept this erasure of history:

“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

👇 Joan Scott connecting the canceling of gender studies and the Epstein files:

"Gender studies is not an “ideology”, but a critical tool for examining – in the case of Trump and Epstein – the predations of toxic masculinity."

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I dunno guys. I’m starting to think that this Noem person who auditioned for her tough guy/border enforcer job with the Trump administration by bragging in her memoir about shooting the family dog in a gravel pit, might not be a good person.

Yes! Although there has been very little written ABOUT the history of masculinity during the 80s and 90s, that was the moment when pioneering work OF histories of masculinities were being written -- think Gail Bederman, George Chauncey, Anthony Rotundo, et al (for US history).

On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.

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Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will ...

I just learned the sad news that Chip Berlet has passed away. If you're up on the study of the religious right in America you know who he is. If you don't please read this obituary. He was on this before all of the rest of us. It's a sad loss

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In fairness, he’s no more racist than the guy who was president before Biden.

Turns out Republicans have expanded their standard “I didn’t see the video” story to include videos they watched and posted.

So easy to forget how joyful it can be to witness simply humane (human) acts of governing. "A woo woo woo!"

Michael de Adder

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.