Mark L. Thompson

I thought the illustration was a joke ... The Bizarro States of America

They have an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign & domestic

This map looks like the chart of the travels of some obsessive explorer ... a new Crusoe or a mad Magellan for 2025

That's awesome

Student-directed work, clinical and research areas are not affected ***at this time.***

The fine print: "Student-directed work, clinical and research areas are not affected ***at this time.***"

"Freedom is your ticket to sensational events. Gain access to unique Freedom experiences that take you way beyond cashbacking."
-- my credit card, getting into the Revolutionary Spirit of 2026

Satellite image of Hurricane Katrina making landfall on the morning of August 29th, 2005

Hard to believe it, but next week is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It became a named storm on the 24th and hit Louisiana on the morning of the 29th. It was really quick. www.weather.gov/lix/katrina_....

aka @rug.nl

cc: University of Groningen

Rad dad

😂

These are three quite smart people ... I'll definitely be checking it out

A great accompaniment to Robin Blackburn's "An Unfinished Revolution," too ... !

"U CAN'T TOUCH THIS"

Made it into the reference room collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I guess my job is done

I'm sure there are a few disused ones lying around that they could repurpose

James Osterberg aka Iggy Pop = 78 🎂

Total (full, non-EU) cost for tuition for three years: about $45k, which is a few thousand less than you would pay for four years of in-state tuition at LSU, where I used to work

Leaving the U.S. for College or Grad School? Tell Us More. The New York Times is looking to hear from students who are considering attending schools abroad because of Trump administration policies.

In three years you could get a BA (or one for an MA) from a top-rated American Studies program at a four-century-old Dutch university in the compact, safe international city of Groningen.
(Just saying) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Nothing to lose but your chains!

Lou can't retire! Just more time to research, write, and edit!

These guys are so tough

He just needs a chance to mansplain himself

An image of several ITPS archive items, including pamphlets glasses a trunk and a pitcher on display on a glass table with brown bookshelves behind it.

Hello BlueSky! The #ITPS has been a quiet on social media for a while as we focused our efforts on our newsletter, Page of Reason, and other projects. We’re excited to reconnect here, so please look out for some updates over the next few weeks, and we’d be grateful if you’d share the word too!

In 2004 I wrote a review of the late geographer Carville Earle's "The American Way." According to his cyclical theory of US history, we're now in the depths of an era of "Bad Times." But that also means that the age of "Third Democracy" & "Good Times" are on their way! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

I've bought two Epson "EcoTanks" in the last two years (because it makes sense to double down on a failed product once you've already invested so much in it). Eco, indeed

more like gangrene

I was just teaching the Alien & Sedition Acts two months ago

If you can be patient, it will be on sale sometime this summer ... But that's a long time from now in baseball time

I love his old school style ... but it's also an effect of being ... old 🙊