Colin Woodard

Oh, absolutely. End game is: we all die with an unnecessarily nuclear exchange that makes the planet uninhabitable for us. (Mutually Assured Destruction theorists assumed rational actors.)

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

This.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

The “Jeffries” part isn’t as exciting.

The diversion tactics are kicking into very high gear.

Technically we elected him, then elected someone else, he staged a coup, the coup failed, he faced no consequences, then we elected him again after he vowed revenge on us.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

The family and subsistence farms that still exist, all over the place. I grew up in one, surrounded by others.

2/ A pardoned terrorist and the Secretary of State walk into a bar... bsky.app/profile/domi...

The people who stole my books and those of tens of thousands of others? Yeah, they’re very principled.

Yeah, but it's not ultimately a chicken and egg problem. Farms and attendant food surpluses came first. Cities - which couldn't feed themselves - were only possible thereafter.

Okey-dokey, then.

Speaking as a historian who dabbles in geography: in the really big picture, cities are downstream from rural. If we’re bombed back to the stone (or bronze) age or, heck, even the Early US Republic, we’ll be living as rural people.

I think he's crossed this particular line several dozen times.

Damn.

Added to the growing list of institutions that will never receive a tuition check from my family.

Coming soon to a You near You.

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

They will just make stuff up. The bot won’t care.

The Dumb Bro Doctrine.

Midcoast Maine: someone snuck into the Barnes & Noble in Brunswick and signed these books. Might have been me. Maybe I wasn’t sneaking. They’re here, though.

Opinion | Opponents of JD Vance’s Story of America Need to Speak Up

As Vance is, for some reason, part of today’s discourse, I’d add his explicit blood-and-soil ethnonationalism, as I wrote about in @nytimesoped.bsky.social (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Rhode Islanders: get your American politics and history fix in convenient, portable, fashionable book form, signed by the author no less, at your Warwick B&N:

Metro Boston West-ish: these fine, newly signed works of staggering genius await you at the B&N in Burlington. And Lobster Coasts too (not pictured.)

Hey Seacoast, NH: these signed books await you at the Newington B&N. Be the envy of your friends,
co-workers, and enemies alike.

The Antebellum South’s public intellectuals VERY MUCH gave them credit in their championing of a slaveholder’s republic.

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Idaho is latest red state to reject DOJ voter roll grab The refusal places Idaho alongside a growing number of red states pushing back against the department’s campaign.

Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...