Doug Thompson

Opinion: ‘Ted Lasso’ is not about what you think | CNN Although the main focus of “Ted Lasso” over the first two seasons has been on Ted as a “nice guy,” that’s not really what the show is about, write historians David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele. “Ted ...

just sharing this piece I wrote with @lollardfish.bsky.social because it's really fucking good and i want you all to understand the power of "caritas" - love

www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/o...

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Been saying this for fifteen years. The fixation of parents on employable degrees meant they cheated their children the ability to get good paying jobs. Need more administrators to say this out loud to parents at recruitment events.

"We need people who majored in history."

This is at least the third time this week that top Trump officials have launched personal attacks on Senators while testifying (after RFK Jr. attacking Murray and Rubio attacking Van Hollen).

This is very unusual and likely a deliberate strategy rather than individuals just losing their cool.

This post helps explain why I don’t post frequently. I write up to eight skeets a day. . . . Then discard without posting.

I love Bruce Springsteen with my heart and osu and have seen him in concert and written essays about him. AND if you think I haven’t been thinking about how people have reacted to him versus the Chicks, ur incorrect.

We've reached the "criminal charges against congresspeople" stage of the proceedings.

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

And must assume a story is about to break against him.

This person is fiction.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

One of the dark secrets of the tenure process is that it locks non-“rockstar” academics to their place of tenure. Few will have that options and will suffer consequences those rockstars will not by just teaching content some students don’t like.

At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight

i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

Sweeping private school voucher program tucked inside U.S. House GOP tax bill • Ohio Capital Journal A national school voucher program got a step closer to becoming law Wednesday. The proposal in the U.S. House would allocate $5 billion a year in tax credits for people donating to organizations that…

A national school voucher program got a step closer to becoming law Wednesday. The proposal in the U.S. House would allocate $5 billion a year in tax credits for people donating to organizations that provide private and religious school scholarships.

Needs to appear to have more money so doofuses like Hawley say dumb things like this. Wealth is his language because it has bought him celebrity.

When they are honest, they realize that critical reflection on a subject that reads them is valuable. But some resist.

It is emotionally tough on them as they sometimes see that superstructure and start to talk to their families. I continue to do it as an act of hope.

Dear Reader, many students at our institution drive high-end vehicles as the family’s second or third car.

Smart thread about social class and Americans inability to understand its dynamics.

Teach a course every fall where I get students to talk about class structures, and they struggle to see themselves as anything other than lower middle class . . . because their parents discuss money issues at home.

Because the constitution says you can’t

Seems to me Rose should have had to wait as long as Jackson.

Roberts thought he was playing 3-D chess with the Constitution when the lackeys can’t even play checkers . . . And they didn’t even care about the Constitution or the Rule of Law

Tried to do some work on it while researching to Richmond book. Folks in Prince Edward County won’t talk. Friends who live and work there now have had a similar problem.

Ha! Part of TAPS was filmed at the boarding school I worked at in Charlottesville while working on PhD

What part of the “pro-life” position does the California Raisin comments fall under?

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

While I still think Leo will continue the work of Francis concerning Vatican reform, the choice of the name in light of the second Gilded Age suggests pressing even where Francis did less so.

Rachel in a black dress and red lipstick eating a birthday sprinkle cookie. Text says: Join me on my Birthday Friday, May 9 at 7pm CST on Blue Ský to live-post the 1st hour of my Great Courses series using #HAGG Historians at the Great Courses."

If you're up for supporting me & watching some cool history, join me on my birthday, Friday May 9 at 7pm CST, as we live-post the 1st two lectures of my new series with The Great Courses, “Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation"
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Mine five and eight years ago gave me grief over the amount of time I talked about slavery given the exam ignored completely.