On the question of whether competence is the appropriate response to fascism, I’d say at least partly it’s ‘an’ appropriate response. While there are quite a few factors at play in Germany—you know, laws against fascism and its emblems also help— but Angela Merkel might be a good example of that.

🧾 Thank you so much for laying out the receipts each week on Brooks and Capehart. The both-sidesism is so infuriating. So grateful for your patient, measured shining a light on the history of why we’re here. ✨

Thank you, Professor Blight! #GLIMAQA2019

Now how do we get @newrepublic.com class sets donated for our history classes?

New! the @newrepublic.com's Sept issue features a great symposium "Trump vs. History," for which I asked the great @dblight.bsky.social to assemble colleagues to reflect on Trump's war on our history. We posted the first four (incl. David's) today; others coming soon! newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

Please explain your vote to allow weapons to continue to be sent where hunger is being used as a weapon, and people pay to watch. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Always filling potholes the last administrations left behind instead of being able to hit the gas on the road to help people.

This story is about DHS showing up at a Chicago museum. How can we prepare our cultural centers against illegal searches? www.instagram.com/p/DMA9hiuv5o...

Who would you want to be invited?

Heroes all.
It is a Herculean task to deploy to just any outing—this effort is superhuman. Thank you.

“California’s so-called sanctuary law does not apply to unauthorized immigrants convicted of serious crimes, and state prisons have handed over more than 9,000 people with those backgrounds to ICE since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, state data show.”

The Trump Immigration Round-Up Show🎪

WWII Old Liberator reunion with Holocaust Survivor at USC Shoah Foundation to record their experience