"The Constitution is Already Burning" - my convo with historian Tad Stoermer
Tad Stoermer is a public history lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Film and Digital Media Editor of The Public Historian. He caug...
20 Feb 202559min
SSA BS and a DOGE B-M that smells + GA Repubs work to not fix homelessness
MAGA may not care that their heroes, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, keep getting caught in lies, but for the sake of history, the rest of us will just have to keep chronicling it, anyway.The latest: clai...
19 Feb 202544min
Safe school zones or a cash grab? | Do Dems have a 'man' problem?
Another Republican-backed bill to get rid of school zone speeding ticket-generating cameras is having a better go of it in the Georgia General Assembly this session, and as someone who's been the reci...
18 Feb 202544min
NO J.D.; the actual "threat from within" is Elon Musk
Hearing J.D. Vance have the audacity to go not just to Europe but to Munich, GERMANY to finger-wag about a "threat from within" was just too stunning to let glide by.Today I started with my disdain (I...
17 Feb 202544min
Prioritizing Gun Love in Georgia | On Bolton, RFK & MAGA educator voter remorse
I've been tough on Georgia Democrats not doing better waging a proper offensive in the war for information over disinformation, but they've gotten way better at it in recent months. Between Sen. Jason...
16 Feb 202549min
Going easy on real "illegals" (employers) proves Repubs unserious & "Mitch, please!"
I've long said Republicans were unserious about addressing shortcomings in our immigration situation because they spend way more time seeking to demonize migrant (you know, "illegals") and not the rea...
13 Feb 202544min
'Fractured' Democrats actually win on issues but lose on messaging
Greg Bluestein's reporting thatDemocrats are "fracturing" over Trump's "hardline" immigration agenda (literally the headline) included a nugget that - to me -wasthe story."...a poll published this mon...
13 Feb 202544min
Kendrick, whiteness, anti-blackness & whitewashing history on purpose
Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance has certainly sparked a conversation, and honestly the timing couldn't be better considering conservatives' breathless zeal for suppressing a true reck...
11 Feb 202546min
