Need a distraction from the Idiocracy tonight? Try all the amazing public scholarship in today’s 280th weekly #ScholarSunday thread! Share widely & enjoy, all! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Ben Railton
I think about "the Great Exception" SO much lately. The Cowie/Salvatore article it's based on is probably one of the most formative things I read in grad school (Thanks, Matt Lassiter.) Caught myself trying to explain it to my in-laws the other day.
Kacey Musgraves on the speakers in a coffee shop seems an appropriate soundtrack as I draft course materials for a writing seminar on Texas Revolution, U.S.-Mexican War, and memory thereof.
It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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What. did. I. just. watch.?! Congratulations Knicks, you deserve this. Dagger in the heart.
For all the talk of genocide elsewhere, this is going to end up as the largest scale mass killing event in modern history. A crime against humanity & the rule of law of almost unimaginable proportions for which Musk must be marched in chains to the courthouse & then to jail for the rest of his life.
