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Robert Paulett

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Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.

The US should normalize letting shitty presidents quit and go home.

YouGov

Which political party is currently doing the most to set the political agenda? Labour: 33% (+19 from 28-29 Aug 2025) Reform UK: 16% (-28) Conservative: 7% (+4) Greens: 4% (+3) Lib Dems: 1% (=) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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For the record, I want more Odyssey discourse. I want more legions uncurling themselves from their years-long fetal crouch and yelling passionately because THIS SHIT MATTERS!

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There’s also just the brass-tacks issue that these people are stealing our time as well as our energy and money.

Faine Greenwood

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

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They are also working to discredit the idea of public hearings in general prior to the next Congress.

Don Moynihan

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

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I mean my grandparents were barely teenagers at that point but either a) good student about to give up and go live in poverty on his parent’s dirt farm or b) bipolar depressive on his way to being a lifetime alcoholic ne’er-do-well.

Revan

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

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Evangelicals are, after all, a bunch of people forgiving each other for the heinous sh*t they do.

emptywheel

Particularly given that Trump has done so much of this or similar, I'm a bit sad they didn't include "defraud MAGAts at scale." The support numbers would still be sky-high. But it would be a useful demonstrative. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

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Was just thinking the other day how insane it will seem even for this insane age that there was briefly this wildly popular thing where corpses were turned into plastic and displayed at, like, the mall. What a ghoul.

The New York Times

Gunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the popular and polarizing traveling exhibitions of human corpses, has died at 81.

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“Students have been unenrolled because they were inconvenient to our student support services” really sums up the current tail-wags-dog approach to higher ed decision making.

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Oof, too much vernacular historiography today.

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Jesus Christ, how many giant busts of Warren G Harding does one country need?

Presidents Park - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgThe Baffler

For our latest issue, Andrew Norman Wilson photographs the two-ton, eighteen-to-twenty-foot presidential busts of sculptor David Adickes. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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My “No, we are not trying to censor the student newspaper” email has raised a lot of questions answered by the email.

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Goodnight to all of you blissfully unaware of what “corn sweat” is.

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Media coverage of higher ed makes more sense though if you think of it as “shrinking industry tries to eliminate nearest competitor in Explainer Economy” rather than “reporting.”

Mark Copelovitch

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

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Functionally, the core purpose of Heritage, FedSoc, AEI, etc. is to financially incentivize people to not learn anything about law, history, basic science, etc. while still moving them to credentials. Fill a whole admin with people like that and you get the dumbest regime money could buy.

Aaron Rupar

Trump: "I think we'll put a major tariffs on Texas-- on Mexico because of the lettuce. And we'll put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke."

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Cara Spencer and Donald Trump reading from same script again.

Spencer: Data center criticism is valid, but St. Louis shouldn’t be ‘NIMBY city’Mayor Cara Spencer said that data center opponents have valid concerns about the developments, but that newly proposed zoning rules would help protect St. Louisans while weighing economic growth.www.stlpr.orgAaron Rupar

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

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Current course-planning mood.

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