Historian, teacher, editor; Antifascist, book lover, 3-chord strummer; Fan of Americana, Blues, Country, Dylan, Earle, FCBarcelona; UCLA Ph.D.; Southwesterner in Midwestern Exile. Not here for day job or to promote career. Opinions mine; not employer’s. 🇨🇦
Larry J. Simon
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Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat.
The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
Who loves a press which is not afraid of appendices and tables?!
Latest volume, no 146, in our “Medieval Mediterranean” Series: George Terezakis, Thessaly in the Later Middle Ages: Social Composition and Spatial Distribution of Population (Leiden: Brill, 2026), 773 pp. #medieval #medievalsky
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”
David Rothkopf
Yes.
theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
“Trump began this war by promising the Iranian people that they would be able to seize their government from the theocratic tyrants who oppress them …. Instead, the US has been defeated, and this evening found Trump out on the lawn waiting for the rain to clear so he could begin his party.”
Who needs four goals?
Leo Messi, age 38, 39 in 8 days, playing in his 6th World Cup, for the defending World Cup champions, no doubt past his prime, scores a hat trick and gets subbed off in minute 80.
But for 1 offsides and 1 great save, he’d have five! And best of Messi was some of his passes.
Chris Hayes
Trump is clueless and a rapist at home & child murderer abroad; his scrapping of Obama’s Iran Deal and subsequent Iran War is an unmitigated disaster. He lied about and distorted Obama’s unfreezing of $1.7B of Iranian assets. Perhaps turnabout is fair play. But no the U.S. is not giving Iran $300B.
“Every team can have their people, so I don’t understand why people from Africa cannot.”
Senegal captain Koulibaly speaks out on travel bans limiting travel from his country for fans for World Cup.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
Zuckerberg is such disgusting toadie for Trump that he had his CHILD write a suck up letter www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Senegal, Ivory Coast, Iran and Haiti are the nations at the World Cup subject to travel bans imposed by the Trump administration.
