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Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford comma and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
“Pentagon officials said in recent closed-door briefings on Capitol Hill that the military used up $5.6 billion of munitions in the first two days of the war alone” 😳
For once measuring in skates isn’t a total lie!
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
YUP! This guy deserves to be hauled up on misconduct charges and disbarred
Aha
“He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.”
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
This whole thread, in which an AUSA repeatedly claims “AI did it” as a judge dog walks him through a parade of fabricated quotations in court filings. Ouf
Let me be clear. There will not be a budget with Glenn Youngkin’s Data Center tax breaks in it. Glenn drove up YOUR utility bills to give tax breaks to data centers. Strong as battleship steel, I will fight for affordability for the people and encourage Gov Spanberger to join me.
Why Voting YES on Virginia’s Redistricting Amendment Matters; The Trump White House's and national Republicans' attempts to rig the midterms have forced us to take a stand bluevirginia.us/2026/03/why-...
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In the OC, Ryan Atwood grew up to be a great architect.
In the real world, Ben McKenzie got an economics degree at UVA and has been hellbent on destroying crypto.
EAIAC continues undefeated
Meanwhile, professors’ syllabi are required to be publicly posted online in a searchable database. 🙃
I was interviewed by the French History Network blog about my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book, 'Make cheese not war'. It was an ace opportunity to reflect on the lifecycle of a book project, personal encounters, research-led teaching (& vice versa) & more
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6838/
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NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? Why did we sink them?' He said, 'it's more fun to sink them.'"
Oh, no biggie. Just the president of the United States out there boasting about the commission of war crimes, to the uproarious laughter of his Nazi cohort.
It was just godawful. So intrusive
I can't compete with this.
It took me 10 minutes this weekend to pay Ulta Beauty money for three items, because the cashier had to ask me for a dozen pieces of personal information I did not want to provide.
POS surveys are a time tax on the consumer
Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading
OMG, where the lawyer asks him to explain how he determined what counted as a “minority”
“The gender based, so female,” therefore “inherently discriminatory”
“It’s a Jewish, specifically focused on Jewish culture ….”
It does get so so so so so much worse
Dumb, but you can also see him realizing how it would look to say out loud, in a videotaped legal deposition what his understanding of DEI is, that saying “anything having to do with women, people of color, and LGBTQ+” would reveal him to be the bigot he is
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Annoying, yet totally necessary. Just underappreciated