Chris Daly
profdaly.bsky.social
Chris Daly
@profdaly.bsky.social
Journalist, historian.
Bostonian.
Birder. 🦉
Keep in mind: by definition, AI cannot be creative or original. It is a bland synthesis of things that other people have already said and written. BE YOU!
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Being conservative will never be cool.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Move to vacate the chair!
Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Slotkin: I’m not going to be dissuaded from standing up for the Constitution just because he threatens us. I’m not going to let him intimidate us out of speaking our minds.
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
WTF???
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Chris Daly
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.

At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Shame on ICE.
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Ja.
We should call these what they are: the Days of Broken Glass.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Quiet piggy!
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reposted by Chris Daly
I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.
Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.

newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Lots of good points here.

CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
Take this grift and shove it.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey, MBS didn’t wear a tie today in the Oval Office. Why didn’t Trump bawl him out, (as he did Zelensky)?

Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Trump Praises Saudi Prince and Dismisses Question About Killing of Journalist
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“Things happen.”
Remember that.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Here’s the latest.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As a Crimson alum, I’m proud of them!
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One reaction to the first part of Ken Burns' documentary on the American Revolution:
One thing that really antagonized the people of Boston in the run-up to the Revolution was the occupation of the city by Redcoats dispatched by London. Having a standing army in their midst infuriated Bostonians.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Chris Daly
'Company employees have also “spent hundreds & hundreds and hundreds of hours counter-sourcing product, pausing production, restarting production, rushing production, running price analysis, cost analysis, shipping analysis,” Abel said. “I spent zero minutes on tariffs before this administration”'
Trump's tariffs are costing companies. Keeping up with them may cost even more.
The proliferation of trade regulations and threat of intensified enforcement have driven many companies to spend what could add up to tens of millions of dollars.
www.politico.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Cogent, well-written piece by @willbunch.bsky.social Could this be the beginning of the end of the slimy, testosterone-driven patriarchy? Pray for it.
The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)

Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Trump and Pete Hegseth just killed three more people in another bombing, this time in the Pacific. The dead were said to be part of a "designated terrorist organization," which is itself utterly absurd. No evidence provided.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!

It gets even darker than that. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Reposted by Chris Daly
Thinking of how hard they went after Hunter Biden for something something using his family name to set up some meetings.
Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.

"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Shame,
TW: violence by federal agents

Video posted by @ Durham Downtown on IG. Shows border patrol operations in Charlotte. Bovino is seen on one of the clips.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM