Excited for upcoming world premiere concert, AMERICAN MARTYR, by composer C. Leonard Raybon and inspired by my book MURDER IN A MILL TOWN, at @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social on Friday, March 27 at 8pm. Sponsored by the William J. Cooper Foundation.
"While consumers dig deeper, the biggest winners of Trump’s war in Iran and invasion in Venezuela are the oil companies."
"The only true energy independence rests in freedom from oil."
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Meanwhile— elsewhere in the world, straight reporting about the chaos that the Trump administration’s attack has unleashed:
Congratulations to @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social and Emilie Connolly on winning the Bancroft Prize!
Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...
Congratulations to Emilie!
Need to repost this reminder from @billmckibben.bsky.social . No one is going to blockade, attack, blow up, or burn a tanker full of solar energy.
Historically, wars start with huge public support.
Trump couldn’t even clear half the country.
41%
That’s not “rally around the flag.” That’s America saying this war looks like a reckless stunt that’s going to cost us all.
3/10/2026- The Board of Peace www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ma...
Great point from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social: Trump's 38% support for Iran war rivals where he was after "very fine people," amid worst of his Covid debacle, and after Jan 6.
On the pod we dig into Karoline Leavitt's latest full cult display and its real purpose:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Sooooo when’s the next “Board of Peace” meeting?
Noem is gone, sort of, but there are lessons to be learned from her tenure, how she was fired, and why it didn’t happen earlier, why the Senate confirmed her in the first place, that we can”t afford to ignore joycevance.substack.com/p/fired-but-...
Kristi Noem is out.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...
Goodbye, puppy killer. #KristiNoem
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:
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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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.
« 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...
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-...
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.
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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"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.”"
whyy.org/articles/phi...
2/18/2026- Redactions www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/fe...
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
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
