Glenn Kranking, PhD

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I’m hopeful for the Nobel to go to World Central Kitchen and José Andrés. So deserving for the humanitarian work they do.

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation.

This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region.

The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

Russia breaches Nato airspace in Estonia Italian F-35 jets intercept Russian MiG-31 fighters over Baltic country’s territory

Russia breaches Nato airspace in Estonia on.ft.com/3Ki6MAZ

What a time to be teaching a course on Propaganda… Seems like every day of class I need to rethink the lesson plan. But students themselves are making connections with the materials from the past that we are studying to what is happening currently.

Maybe he’ll write a strongly worded letter…

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’ The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a stunning statement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, declaring that “all of Ukraine is ours.” In his address, Putin described Ukrainians and Russians as “one nation,” reigniting global fears of a full-scale annexation

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Kremlin cites past wars as it threatens long conflict in Ukraine Russian peace negotiator invokes Peter the Great’s 21-year struggle to defeat Sweden, as Putin is fond of doing

It has been suggested to me several times, by a number of people, the Russia's invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with history. Further evidence that history is a vital framework for understanding the conflict. (And, yes there are other frameworks too.)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The benefit of the minerals deal between the US and Ukraine is that there is now an invested interest from the US in the success (and existence) of a free Ukraine. Horrible that this was a transactional arrangement, though.

I gave my presentation on propaganda stickers at the Scandinavian Study conference. Lots of interest in the theme, and a fun topic to delve into. I would love to find some way to expand on this topic, maybe toward an eventual book project.

Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.

The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is a crime. And once again, this is also NOT "deportation." Without due process, this is snatching people and sending them to foreign country they may have nothing to do with. For life. This is kidnapping.

Dick Leitsch (front) and Craig Rodwell at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza picket, April 18, 1965

The Plaza c. 2018

#OnThisDay 1965 the 4th-ever gay rights demo in the US (third in NYC) took place at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza across from the UN.

More: bit.ly/4th-gay-righ...

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

This is not about one man. MOST of the people Trump disappeared have NO criminal record. Yet they had no due process, and have no outside contact.

Merwil—reportedly grabbed by mistake.
Arturo—a musician.
Andry—a makeup artist.
No record, no explanation.

On the Old North church tonight

Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover.

Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

Heartening to see so many people all across the country stand up against the direction this country is heading

A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.

A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document proving that President Donald Trump is wrong about Greenland In a high-security storage facility at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) is a 100 year old sheet of paper with an American promise about Greenland. This is the fascinating story which Preside...

Don't mess with archivists. We keep receipts.
"The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document (...) With a single stroke of a pen, the USA accepted that the whole of Greenland was Danish territory".

jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...