joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Nice again, a student has chosen a document from the primary source reader that I explicitly warned against using - and provided a startlingly original interpretation of the document, and a completely new way of responding to the prompt. 200 2
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...madison.comRecords: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal. 5284152 284
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.captimes.comUW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professorDietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one. 281104370 1.1K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social𝕄𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕪 | ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 🌹 @mistermercury.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This attitude is exactly what pro-tobacco, acid rain deniers, ozone hole deniers, and climate deniers used. Continue to question the fundamentals over and over until everyone forgets what is being discussed 1183 18
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Just has to edit a sentence where the first time through I used “oft.” Might have to stop for the day soon. 000 0
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Just saw an ad for a tenure track assistant professor position - at a Texas State U that is part of the Texas Tech system. Salary is $53k. Cost of living might be low there but that is not good. They’ll still probably get someone great. 000 0
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026RIP Totó La Momposina. elpais.com/america-colo...elpais.comMuere Totó La Momposina, la voz de la cumbia colombianaEl Ministerio de las Culturas confirma la muerte de Sonia Bazanta Vides, quien anunció su retiro en 2022 después de una larga carrera internacional representando los ritmos colombianos de la costa Car... 000 0
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories. 17993011603 9.3K
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Today is the 172nd anniversary of the Golpe de Melo in Bogotá for all those who celebrate such occasions. 100 1
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 10/04/2026Gordon Gano c. 1985 would have been an outstanding replacement for Jim Morrison in a touring revival of The Doors 362 6
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026If I keep avoiding every bit of AI I can, how long is it before I can start saying I do “artisanal history?” And should I start wearing a leather apron bartenders have now? 000 0
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Started reading Alma Guillermoprieto’s latest collection - The Years of Blood - of pieces from the last 20 years on Friday. Feels like it was written 50 years ago. 000 0
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“I do think that Maga is a fascist movement, I do think that the intent of the administration is to destroy opposition and protest and is to create an authoritarian system”theguardian.comDeath threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far rightMark Bray has become one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target Antifa 1021186 211
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Do republicans think they control the media to the point where disrupting air traffic isn’t political suicide? Or is it just that they wield all this power but nobody’s actually in charge? 010 1
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Can't afford insurance? Republicans did that. 1173 17
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025“The Yankees will end up building the last great empire of a single race, the final empire of White Supremacy.” José Vasconcelos, 1929 000 0
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Trump Administration and Hegseth honoring the MASSACRE of 300 Sioux Indians. apnews.com/article/woun...apnews.comHegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of HonorDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards. 43306123 306
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades. Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve? 801793525 1.8K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2025IT IS TIME.buff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFirst published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th... 201632582 1.6K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2025Where @kashana.blacksky.app absolutely obliterates a certain kind of media profile...buff.lyThe Friendly Nazis Next DoorEveryone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w... 332697 326
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them." 7349199559489 20K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light. 0173 17
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/08/2025People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25 7332135810378 21.4K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biographydefector.comWilliam F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | DefectorPerhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio... 86923163 923
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19/07/2025NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding. Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year. Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t. 391736819 1.7K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/06/2025While vaccine policy is being unraveled at ACIP, let’s not lose sight of what vaccines have already done. ✨Millions of lives saved. ✨Diseases wiped out. ✨Generations protected. We made an infographic to show just how much the world owes to vaccines. #VaccinesSaveLives 323981 239
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Trump replaced the physical bribery palace of the Trump hotel with a virtual one and it’s doing orders of magnitude more business. 23932871230 3.3K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/04/2025I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.youtu.beDid Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren 812154733924 15.5K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant 157102343446 10.2K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025One of the most disgusting historical analogies I’ve ever seen. Yalta didn’t include the aggressor and it didn’t exclude the US’s longtime ally in the war. 1513276768 3.3K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025No NYT, a Trump-Putin meeting isn’t like the Yalta Conference. Yalta 1945 was allies who fought for years against aggression planning for after Germany’s defeat. This is the US—which didn’t fight in the war—trying to help Russian aggression, pretending Ukraine lost in the field and has no agency. 571126276 1.1K
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Students, if you use AI to write a paper, at least review it to make sure the document cited from the assigned edited collection exists. Because I keep looking and, well, I can’t find it. 000 0
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social😾😼😼 @rocky2026.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This president wears a suit.🤵 79121 91
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2025America’s Jews are safest when America’s Nazis are kept inside the White House. by Bari Weiss 1580673 806
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Just totally unnecessary carnage at the hands of this conspiratorial narcissist 191150258 1.2K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025RFK Jr isn’t a kook. He’s a liar, an opportunist, and, in the words of his own kin, a predator. His actions aren’t crazy. They are evil. 311847297 1.8K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialAlan Howe, Democracy promoter, anti-fascist, Cassandra @alanhowe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The only way to be sure that Musk does not have illegally gained federal funds mixed in with his personal wealth after the past three weeks is to confiscate ALL his wealth and secure it in the US Treasury for the American taxpayers. Make him forfeit every penny. #StopMusk 1287 28
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...youtube.com 4819991836 2K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialRabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Yep. That’s what we are doing. Please join us and repost 16233 62
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025We spent the last four years writing about the high price of eggs under Biden. Now that they’ve reached an all-time high under Trump we’ve moved on to other topics. 8662071164 6.2K
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialNomad Matt @nomadmatt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025For those saying it wasn't a Nazi salute. Keep posting it. Keep sharing it. 612115308189 11.5K
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 14/12/2024La tierra es redonda como una naranja … Si has de volverte loco, vuélvete tú solo, gritó. Pero no trates de inculcar a los niños … 000 0
joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024So now I’m happy to read a student essay with some grammar errors, typos, and bad editing as it is less likely to be AI? Yep, that’s where I’m at. 002 2
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialLiam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Eric Williams: “British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.” 325751 257
Reposted by @joshuamrosenthal.bsky.socialLiam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2024I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...limerick1914.medium.com“Customs vary wi’ the times, At Hallowe’en”Customs, Myths and Messiness 13324178 324
