Erik Conway

What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance? We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and @oah.org president David Blight offers a rousing call to fight the administration's war on history: "Now we have to mobilize to defend our profession not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion. And we cannot surrender!"

to what extent does the administration intend to use this money to fund things that congress won't, and also, treating states like conquered territories to be dominated is one of those things that really makes you think the goal of these people is to dissolve the union

You gotta fight…for your right…to party

There was a post-Cold War utopian vision? I recall fukayama’s ridiculous “end of history” …but not an actual utopia. I guess I missed all the fun.

this oped is a beautiful jewel of wrongness. so many facets of wrong that glitter and shine in the light as you rotate it in your mind. (what about sinners? what about kpop demon hunters, which is so popular that netflix is giving it a theatrical release?)

I can’t quite believe I live in an era in which measles is being brought back so that capitalists can profit from it.

Sue them.

ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.

Here is a link to Mark Peterson's Portfolio.

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Let's have a moment of silence for this long-serving airplane 🥳🍻🎉

White supremacy is a powerful drug

I guess $$=speech only applies to republicans

“Intimate” is a very interesting choice of words

I only “liked” this because I live in christofascist, hellla-gerrymandered-to-hell Indiana.

I guess money ain’t speech after all.

And he should!

This is just incredible. Trumpists are as bad as the Stalinists.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

This is a shocking executive order that undermines the very idea of open inquiry. It turns federal grants into dispensations, subject to arbitrary and capricious withdrawal should the recipient say or believe the wrong things.

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Study attributes 440 'excess deaths' to January's Los Angeles wildfires Wildfires that devastated parts of the Los Angeles area in January indirectly led to hundreds of deaths in the ensuing weeks, far exceeding the official toll of 31 fatalities, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Study attributes 440 'excess deaths' to January's Los Angeles wildfires reut.rs/45BKsdM

Blurred world I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...

I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...

This is the reality that @rweingarten.bsky.social and @historians.org ignore when they push "A.i." on teachers & historians.

LLMs are owned by billionaires who can control the outputs. Grok went Nazi. ChatGPT is about to serve the fascist Trump Administration.

This trash has NO PLACE in education.

Opinion | This frontal attack on farmers must end — The Washington Post Farmers don’t need a bailout. They need relief from overregulation and excessive immigration enforcement.

Farmers voted for this “excessive immigration enforcement.” I’ll consider having some sympathy once I’ve seen a few violently stripped of their rights and deported to Sudan or Rawanda apple.news/AOZsy4_8UQmm...

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m guessing European pharma most benefits from this act of self-harm.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

Amazing how easy it was for Silicon Valley propaganda to erase this fact from collective memory.

The books arrived!

The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Science Funding, Watchdog Finds It’s the fifth time this year that the Government Accountability Office has determined the administration defied Congress on spending.

It’s the fifth time this year that the Government Accountability Office has determined the administration defied Congress on spending.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Feasible but a good deal more work to develop and maintain. Ease and convenience is part of the trap.