@kamalaharris.com claims that the 2024 pres. election was the "tightest" of the 21st century. She's not wrong, @arimelber.bsky.social is. The 2000 election was the last pres. election of the 20th cent. And in terms of the pop. vote, every other election's margin was wider than 2024's 1.5% margin!

Thanks to all the great @umd-arhu.bsky.social folks who showed up and spent the day introducing everyone to the joys of arts and humanities at #MarylandDay 2025! Go Terps! Go ARHU!

Also at #MarylandDay 2025--the #umdartsforall tent where anyone and everyone can get in on the action and contribute to the communal art project. Check it out! UMD Arts for All.

So much going on at #MarylandDay 2025 at the @umd-arhu.bsky.social tents--from Celebrating Communication to talking with Sasha's person (Madeline Hsu) at the Center for Global Migration Studies, from Asking a Philosopher to Guessing the Celebrity ARHU Major. There's a lot happening ARHU!

What a great group of folks to work with everyday...thanks especially to ARHU's coordinator for Faculty Affairs and Research, Sherita Huff, on this Administrative Professionals Day! And everyone in ARHU who do such great work for our students and our faculty!

Honestly, I simply will not listen to @arimelber.bsky.social opine on the weaknesses and problems of Kamala Harris! When will these MSM types recognize that Harris ran a near perfect campaign? The constant search for the one reason, the one mistake, that explains 2024 is a futile search!

Happy to celebrate the great research underway in ARHU at the annual Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. Glad to join with ARHU colleagues and Dean Stephanie Shonekan. Be sure to check out the great research from ARHU at arhu.umd.edu/research

And this..."Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit."

Words to remember, especially today! "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America...

America's future in one photo--

Ugh! Andy Borowitz got it right--no need to watch Morning Joe anymore!

Good for @radiofreetom.bsky.social for pushing back on the Morning Joe appeasement turn this morning on @msnbc.com.web.brid.gy! "Moving forward" and visiting Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring is not the answer. Thanks, Tom, for talking about the pending apocalypse as manifest in these appointments.

So sad to listen to all the appeasement on Morning Joe on @msnbc.com.web.brid.gy.