Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/10/2026No one is allowed to send anymore emails until 2027 We have enough 821934
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakRyan P. Madden @rpmadmsu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here in Michigan we teach our children how to remember the names of the Great Lakes with the acronym HOMES (Huron/Ontario/Michigan/Erie/Superior). If Ontario is suddenly recognized as Lake America, the new Acronym would be SHAME 051
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/08/2026NEWSNATION: New polling shows over 60% of Americans disapprove of the economy under President Trump and puts his approval rating on 33%, the lowest it has ever been. How do you convince people you're the right choice? GRUTERS: The president is still dealing with the Biden issues that were left over 285935216
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakRacheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The fucking literacy crisis is also a political crisis - if you can’t retain information and can’t see themes in what you read you also can’t retain information about your life or see themes in it - which is convenient for fascists and oligarchs both. You know you’re miserable and you don’t know why 8240110
Reposted by Lauren K. Michalak250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 07/06/2026June 7, 1776: “Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” Richard Henry Lee offers to the Continental Congress his resolution to declare independence, take measures for forming foreign alliance and unite the colonies into a confederation. 1/7 11810
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck 9875921931
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakLauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”theslowai.substack.comThe Humanities Are the MoatTwenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong. 23691226
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakAbby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert. 12064831988
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 30/03/2026Wrote this with @lollardfish.bsky.social about arrogant econo bros buttondown.com/ModernMediev...buttondown.comYou Gotta Do the Reading, ManWhy does the idea of the "Dark Ages" mean so much to econobros? 16715
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Putting the current leader’s name and image on everything is an authoritarian move, designed to make them seem more present, more powerful, more invincible than they are. It is a betrayal of American democracy, where power belongs to the people. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comEverything With Trump’s Signature, Name and Likeness: Currency, Buildings and More (Gift Article)Since the start of his second term, there have been more than a dozen instances of his name, image or signature emblazoned on a variety of American initiatives and institutions. 1182397836
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/03/2026Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary. 1185461942
Reposted by Lauren K. Michalaklaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Is it a giant wooden horse 943231706
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026One of the valuable things about historical thinking is that it fights against the compression of time that social media insists upon. It vaccinates you against the hubris that permits you to declare that you understand major world events and all their consequences perfectly clearly within 48 hours 071
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary. 8852269
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Iran is an evil regime and deserves to fall. But that's not a good argument for launching a war of regime change without Congress and against the will of the American people. 701705308
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/02/2026"A lot of you are probably wondering what the new strategic initiative is. Well, it’s complicated and hard to explain. It moves in mysterious ways. We’re building this plane as we fly it, as they say in the new strategic initiative biz."buff.lyIntroducing Our Lord and Savior, the College’s New Strategic InitiativeHigher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t... 03411
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The Revolution is not over! Ok then. Let’s fight tyranny. 418722
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Oh no. The history portion of the speech. 81309
Reposted by Lauren K. Michalakjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026really remarkable how trump seems to relish sharing this lurid stories about the terrible pain people have experienced, and he does it exclusively to score some partisan points 1243874476
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakTerry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Warrantless searches sparked the American Revolution. In the 1760s, Britain made complaints similar to this about policing American merchants & resorted to issuing blanket "writs of assistance" to customs officers to enter ships, businesses, and homes without a specific warrant or even any evidence. 54331
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 09/02/2026What can you do with a history degree? 121460328
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/20261. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable. 425274468039
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change. 262206388515
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant. 10869321766
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026One thing I’m thinking about today is the hollowness of all the “Don’t Tread on Me” extremists, who turn out to be just far-right extremists. Dems should retake the Gadsden flag. Is there a good blue maker of Gadsden flags that doesn’t support far-right causes? 70909142
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026We will bring the King's soldiers back to London for a fair trial because you can't trust those wily colonists 33711
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officialsSuperintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas 27165573292
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This kind of "criticism" is straight out of 16th-18th C. England and European monarchies, where criticizing the king directly could be prosecuted: "Of course, I would never criticize the King. I'm merely critical of the King's corrupt and faithless ministers and advisors." 44916
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/01/2026Today is very bad and we should all be very angry but I am here to remind us that the birthday we are celebrating this year is not for the Constitution but for our rebellion against monarchy. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation. 121401326
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.” 190120203045
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025“In America, the law is king.” -Thomas Paine 832671744
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2025LET THE GOURDS HEAL YOUR PAIN.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... 28320
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakNicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 26/09/2025An old-school teach-in in the nation’s backyard. Come join us!! 021254
Lauren K. Michalak @laurenkmichalak.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice Blackmun Sabbath 000
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/09/2025In the lead-up to the American Revolution, throughout the colonies, people understood that the punishments Britain waged against Boston were against ALL of them. Chicago is all of us. 391573491
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 27/08/2025National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 30341182041
Lauren K. Michalak @laurenkmichalak.bsky.social · 28/07/2025American Studies course on superheroes as American mythology. I reference this course often when talking to students about the joy of doing electives outside your major. 001
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025We have entered the "caning of Charles Sumner" stage of historical parallels. 515926
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakGautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end. Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers. 12266134
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken 893426926
Lauren K. Michalak @laurenkmichalak.bsky.social · 12/05/2025In Econ 201 we learned there was no such thing as a free lunch… 020
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I wish every day didn't remind me of some book I read in grad school. 2566360
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥 9736361114387
Reposted by Lauren K. MichalakJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 28/03/2025As we all think about how we’ll respond to this—in op-eds, advocacy, statements—please remember there’s some really good research about how we can communicate to most effectively build support for thoughtful, inclusive history. Some links ⬇️ 41815