Geoff Bowden

PunkFace!!!

Historian here, this was a long interview on how Trump is criminalizing political dissent, politicizing the armed forces and civil service, asserting unchecked executive power, as a path to create the dystopian world of Project 2025. A couple of sentences made it to the final clip!

Went to the grocery store tonight. It’s getting ex-pen-sive.

I have a student, who is now a junior, who is trying to let microsoft word assign names for all of his written assignments for his entire college career. I just graded "Document (137)" in the dropbox. I appreciate students like this.

Just spent 50 minutes trying to convince college freshmen that the university will take your money and give you a degree AND let you cross that stage completely unprepared for what is coming next. The learning and shaping who they want to be is really up to them. Professors are here to help.

My goodness. We are in a fight.

Are “religion” and “church” the same thing? One is fairly clearly identifiable. The problem is that the First Amendment is talking about the more opaque one.

A Gulfstream G600 airplane. Blue carpet in the foreground.

I’m proud of my wife. She makes these and others like it. But we (as a family) admit that it is weird to have a family day to show employees the products that they make.

Banana ball without the Bananas.

Yes

I’ve had to listen to way too many lectures by Harvey Mansfield on manliness to fall into the trap of believing that there are no conservative voices in academia.

My students read Noem v Vasquez Perdomo for today. What a stupid attempt at doing law.

So, I did our Constitution Day lecture last week and I did not hold back on what I thought (but I was professional about it), and now a couple of other profs are wanting to hold more events to have honest discussions on campus about what’s happening. Permission slips.

The Court of Blacky Whitey Appeals is in session. The judges are ready to hear opening arguments about more head rubs.

He’s talking about us. We are the enemies.

Are the fake Melania’s getting paid during the shutdown?

Cute animals killing pumpkins, yes. This is how we should begin October

A recall for the federal executive.

Complete lack of self-awareness.

This is actually what my research is about. Puritans are remembered for many things, but their contribution to the liberal society that would emerge later was the construction of a group that was a free association & had various non-violent mechanisms for managing its membership. Shame is important.

The sun rising over a river with clouds and some land around the river.

Hey! A sunrise over the Wilmington River in Savannah GA.

My goodness.

"deserve peace"?????

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

Canceling class just to be on the safe aide today.

Ruin a band with law:

New World Court Order

What has been crazy to learn over the last three weeks is how much Kirk had infiltrated the American Christian church. The hagiography is gross and deeply alarming.

Johnny Cash Bail

YouTube video by The Democratic Constitution Podcast Manisha Sinha on the Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Enjoyed doing this interview with Luke Pickrell from Berkeley on his podcast Democratic Constitution. Do support his podcast on Apple. youtu.be/nEb4izWdf8k?...

If Dems ever control things again, they should strip the Court’s jurisdiction in a lot of areas.