Nicholas Toloudis

NTT CFP. This looks like fun, actually.

‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting The last-minute gathering featured hundreds of senior military officials, who swear an oath to the Constitution, attending something more akin to a campaign rally.

"Could have been e-mail."...."'It‘s a waste of time for a lot of people who emphatically had better things they could and should be doing'".... Wait, was this an all-school meeting at my college?

This occupational frustration, that occupational frustration...so different, yet so the same.

Trump speaking at UN, dark speech with banner reading "Trump to European Leaders: 'Your countries are going to hell.'"

Donald Trump's speech at the UN was full of falsehoods and dangerous comments calling for nativism, exclusivist nationalism around the world, and trying to impose his ideology transnationally. Some of his statements are paraphrased below:

Turns out that it's also expensive.

When I was at the book expo at APSA 2025 a couple of weeks ago in Vancouver, I couldn't stop thinking this.

Yes. The word "leadership" comes to mind.

This makes me feel seen.

Young, politicised, far left: Who are France's ‘Block Everything’ protesters? Supporters of France's “Block everything” (“Bloquons tout”) movement have been preparing for their day of action on September 10, vowing to shut down the country. While their online call to protest ec...

Who wants to block everything in France on September 10th? Hint: it's not like the yellow vests.

Trump’s tougher immigration policy, coupled with the effects of societal aging, are reducing potential monthly job growth by more than 100,000 hires, according to Barclays. Total federal government employment had also declined by 97,000 workers this year, as Trump embraced the U.S. DOGE Service’s efforts to shrink public agencies. State government employment, which dropped by 12,000 jobs in August, also is likely to remain under pressure. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill seeks to shift financial responsibility for social programs such as Medicaid to already cash-strapped state governments. “It’s a pretty wide range of states facing a budget squeeze, even before Trump’s fiscal legislation,” Dutta said. “It was already bad. Now it’s getting worse.”

As I have been saying for over a year. Mass deportations + decreased migration + tarrifs + less government investments in people & social programs = economic contraction + inflation.
"The U.S. could tumble into recession..." and never see golden age
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In the words of David St. Hubbins, too much fucking perspective.

These ICE recruitment commercials are repulsive.

Yes. Yes you may as well.

I love this guy.

I'd like to see some of the details, but on the face of it, this seems pretty cool!

I'd like to see some of the details, but on the face of it, this seems pretty cool!

Among other things, AI destroys much of what makes students students.

This is maddening. And if you haven't seen the piece from @theatlantic.com, written by a student, who sees how counterproductive AI in the classroom really is, seek it out. I'll share it after I post this.

Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights

The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maybe the right point of comparison is the Prohibition era.
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Outstanding thread. Please read.

This is good advice. Very good advice. So good that I am shifting uncomfortably in my chair as I realize how far I am from acting on it.

Higher Prices Are Coming for Household Staples Companies from Hormel to Ace Hardware are forecasting rising prices as the costs of President Trump’s tariffs are passed on to consumers.

“I couldn’t believe how fast it went up,” Paternoster said. “I’m not buying this little piece of meat for this.”

In other news, Kyle Schwarber hit 4 home runs in this evening's game.

Did you know that John Fogerty is 80 years old? I would not have guessed it from listening to his re-recordings of Creedence songs. Because with a few exceptions he hasn't lost a step.

Tfw you bump into the grandson of one of your research subjects at the baseball game. 😯

Well done, Jack White.

Oh no! I'm so sorry this happened to you. These scams are becoming awfully sophisticated. 😕

It's true. He did. And he's dead.

The Chips Fall as Rivals Fry the Mayor The jokes and jabs are flying as Eric Adams’ closest aides was slapped with new criminal charges the day after another of his longtime allies offered a reporter cash inside a potato chip bag.

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press.

“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.

www.archives.gov/files/colleg...