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I agree. Nothing is inevitable. But the slide is never abrupt. It's gradual. Some of the deference to the president and reluctance to hold him accountable is part of the post-9/11 story.

Numbered Days - Yale University Press London As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them.  Some w...

This week I get to teach Ali Garbarini's Numbered Days, one of the books that lastingly inspire me to be intellectually curious
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

I'd date it to Sept 11, when everyone uncritically lined up behind the president, who failed to keep the country safe.

Great 🧵. Great books!

Christian Supremacy A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

I discuss similar imagery in my "Christian Supremacy" press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Blood Libels, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives As a minority group for most of their history, Jews were often marginalized and persecuted. Traces of their lives can be found in the archives of the dominant societies, but only as they intersected w...

And the latest, a meditation on archives, lives, and memory www.routledge.com/Blood-Libels...

Winner of the George Mosse Prize from AHA, Bainton Prize from SCS, and NJBA
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Christian Supremacy A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

Available in hbk, pbk, and as an audiobook
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Supreme Court seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members The Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members.

If the media reported news as relating to the presidency rather than Trump maybe people would see it differently? Maybe they would see it as system changing with implications for future presidents?
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Two things: Trump should be ashamed for trying to play Catholic identity politics when so many of his policies are directly counter to Catholic teaching. Second, someone should ask him whose Immaculate Conception the Feast Day is about. I guarantee you he doesn’t know.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.

Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

The current Supreme Court of the Unites States isn’t just “partisan.”

SCOTUS has been captured.

It is no longer adhering to the Constitution or the rule of law.

Another Trump terrorist.

Kamala warned us, Hillary warned us. Here we are.

Ha! Finally, there's something he said I agree with. Football ⚽. Tuck-and-run Ball 🏈 (technically prolate spheroid).

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Maria Bartiromo, proud user of a livestock dewormer.

When Roberts said in Shelby County that the country had ended race discrimination in elections what he really meant was he was ending protections against race discrimination in elections

TX voters it's up to you to show them district lines do not matter. You stand up and vote for leaders who support democracy, freedom, and the rule of law. That means elect Democrats on your ballot. Show them your vote counts more than theirs!

The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law.

Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Trump ended USAID and the result is a rise in child morality for the first time this century.

Pro life 🙄

nice to hear this expressed so clearly and passionately — as a former astronaut he knows firsthand what NASA and other US science agencies have done: make the ‘impossible’ not just possible but scalable, safe, and successful

This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time (Published 2023)

In this context, I recommend Georgi Gospodinov's book "Time Shelter"
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/b...

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Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel In attempting to call off his corruption trial, Netanyahu didn’t incriminate himself, but he did something just as damning.

I wrote about Benjamin Netanyahu's attempt to call off his own corruption trial, which is really the story of how one incredibly compromised man has repeatedly sacrificed his country's national interest and its people's preferences rather than cede power. Gift link:

This is too much.

Infectitious Disease Histories - CSMBR In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...

Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking

Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.