History Prof Brad

Sean Duffy Moves Jesus Painting Amid Another Safety Crisis Air traffic controllers in Colorado lost contact with more than a dozen aircraft on Monday—but the transportation secretary seemed to have other concerns.

Air traffic controllers in Colorado lost contact with more than a dozen aircraft this week—but the transportation secretary seems to have other concerns.

Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.

LOVE this Pope. A real mensch. www.thedailybeast.com/pope-snubs-v...

Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump (Gift Article) The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.

I stand with Harvard. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court’s Increasingly Shady Moves The justice wrote a scathing dissent of the court’s latest decision to back Donald Trump.

In a scathing dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the court's ruling made under the “shadows of our emergency docket."

“Make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it,” she wrote.

May I introduce you to the financial panic of 1873? 1893? 1907?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?

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Our Semi-Authoritarian State Are we a democracy or a dictatorship? No one knows.

"The strategic ambiguity about whether or not we live in an autocracy is designed to preserve maximum maneuverability for the regime until such time as they have full control and no longer need to maneuver."

I spent 14 years in opioid hell. Many friends and acquaintances have lost their lives.

It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.

Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.

As a Christian, let me just say this isn’t even in the ballpark of “persecution.”

My religion’s holy days are federal holidays and my co-religionists are the dominant force in society.

If someone is “skeptical” of my faith … who cares?

Trump Takes Canada Trade War to Next Level in Rage Post The president said he wants to destroy the Canadian auto industry.

A livid Donald Trump took America’s trade war against Canada to the next level in a new social media temper tantrum.

Doug Ford: "We will never become the 51st state. Canada is not for sale ... he's taking more money out of Americans' pockets, and for what reason? We're still trying to figure this out."

How Did America Not See This Apocalypse Coming? Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. More than half of voters chose him anyway.

We all have to face the reality that this is happening right now, and that it is all going to get much worse.

History may not repeat, but dang does it rhyme

In all our winning, we have lost Jesus. In all our self-congratulations, we have lost our souls.

Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Kim Jong-un wants House Republicans to tone it down some. A little too cringe for him.