Marcy Sacks

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.

Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Every Angle of President Trump, 79, Falling Asleep During Press Conference The aging president just couldn’t stay awake during a press conference about drug prices.

Un montage d’épuisement orangé

It’s truly poetic that the man gutting health care and social programs can barely stay awake to announce it, a perfect metaphor for his negligent governance.

Gross.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Gross.

I care! Fabulous news.

Glimmers of hope all over the country.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

Not very convincing.

The potential for thousands of bird strikes against that glass… :(

PLEASE tell me that all of that glass is being designed to prevent bird strikes.

Hell yes.

That’s the point, of course.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I can’t stop thinking about all the hoopla over removing confederate statues and the phony appeals to “heritage.” But this is done without discussion. It was always about displays of dominance.

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Albion’s #NoKings gathering today:

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Image of the painting, we owe no allegiance to no crown, by John Woodside, c. 1814. In the foreground, an American sailor holds the US flag. Lady Liberty hovers over him holding a laurel wreath in one hand, and a hole with a liberty cap in the other. In the background is a sailing ship.

"We owe allegiance to no crown," John Woodside, c. 1814

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Well, that was a bummer.

He had more than 2:30 and didn’t use one.

Marcy S. Sacks awarded the 2025 John T. Hubbell Prize Marcy S. Sacks, Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History at Albion College, has been honored with the 2025 John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Co…

Big news! Marcy S. Sacks has received the John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive." KSUP annually presents the award for the best article published in the journal "Civil War History."

Absolutely.

I have an excellent treadmill at home.

May I recommend an airplane?

17th-century laws from VA that show the evolution of slavery from a religious-based to a race-based institution over time.