Bill Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈

We are! We're looking to move this summer, if not sooner. It's all still very much a "wait, is Ashton Kutcher going to pop out and yell at me?" sort of feeling!

Looks like those pesky economic and legal experts, who have dedicated their nerdy little careers to the topics of economics and law, were right again >:(

Just for funsies, can we try believing experts for once? Maybe see how that turns out?

Boston College, History! I had an offer up in Wisconsin as well, and one pending in Minnesota that I withdrew. Excited for the new chapter and environment!

I have accepted a doctoral offer and received my university email, as well as access to the graduate student portal. It's real!

I'm not sure when I'm considered a PhD student, but today was the first day that I felt like one. I was never meant to make it this far, yet I have. I made it after all.

Pretty crazy to see my undergrad thesis "American Classicism: The Use and Abuse of Classical Antiquity by the US Far Right" (2024) be quite literally demonstrated and backed up by the US Department of State. Just crazy.

Maybe I should finally get around to revising and submit or release it?

71° down here in STL 😎

Republicans have had a supermajority for 22 years and some folks have the gall to call me “partisan.”

Lol. I just look around and report the truth.

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.

70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.

In this town, one school keeps kids divided.

(Published May 2024)

How delightful! I wonder if they got to keep the costume?

Thank you! And boo Patriots indeed; I don't even really follow football and could tell they weren't doing it well. Time zone disadvantage, perhaps?

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Turns out that my husband is a football afficionado — even though this is the first game in our ~10 years together that we've watched! — and he's graciously explaining it all to me.

As a former rugby player, therein lies my heart, but I'm grateful for the intel 🙏

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Just breaks my heart. These are policy decisions at work. The question is: who are these decisions working for? Not North St. Louis, that's for sure.

I hope I didn't strike a chord with the anthropologist who made the choice to punch-down on other generations. Perhaps it is you who needs to take an Internet break, dear elder?

Young Millennial here. Do you often punch-down on younger generations, Dr. Walters, or is this a little treat?

While I do like the Seahawks's colors better, I suppose I should cheer for the Patriots given that we're about to be New England residents for six years.

I just hope everyone has fun and that domestic violence cases don't skyrocket on account of the recent legalization of gambling in Missouri.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

New documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Of course it's racist, the whole thing is racist

So some random staffer is able to impersonate the President of the United States with zero approval to post?

However will he — the Cheerleader of the Birther Movement (BM) — spin it next? 🙄

My belief is that politicians should ignore polls all together.

They really aren’t that great and their obsession with them is obviously causing more harm than good.

FAS Announces New Endowment for Ph.D. Candidates | Harvard Magazine A $50 million gift from alumni donors aims to protect research opportunities amid political uncertainty

Many universities eager to cut PhD cohorts and programs will follow Harvard’s example and cut.

But they will not be able to rally donors and raise $50-$100 million to re-fund those PhD programs “in perpetuity” as Harvard is now doing

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Headlines are breaking (as always, it seems) with news that SCOTUS is allowing California's maps to proceed.

They are for now, first and foremost.

They're also signalling to every Red legislature to go ahead and do this. SCOTUS just told every Red-Leg to gerrymander their states to all hell.

Trak Suits | Amtrak Amtrak lets you ride in style – now, in more ways than one. With the launch of our all-new premium ride NextGen Acela and fashion excitement in the air, we partnered with students from New York School...

Amtrak has released a 'Trak Suit' and I cannot tell you how quickly I would rock one.

www.amtrak.com/trak-suit

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.

If not, why not?

Learning all sorts about feline anatomy these days! 🥲

That's a very good point!