Mike O'Malley

My most recent book centers on the fact that two ancestors--one born in Ireland--were declared "colored" by the state of VA. Had they stayed in Virginia, my father couldn't have married my mother. Record keeping reinforced and sometimes simply invented permanent racial identities.

Ossoff spitting fire

Watch the whole thing. El-Sayed schools the guy, who bsky.app/profile/mari... discovered is a christian nationalist activist and former Hawley staffer. El-Sayed actually knows what he's talking about and lays it out brilliantly

So happy I can vote against Collins now

The people who LITERALLY tried to prosecute a guy for creating "8647" with seashells are big mad that people don't know "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" was just a 'joke'. 🖕🖕🤡🖕🖕

Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/susan-c...

This

Most liberal politicians spend all their time telling the voters why they can’t have nice things. Mamdani makes actually nice things happen. Unlike other mayors, he doesn’t hate his voters

The mainstream media are trying to force-feed us Rahm Emanuel as If they’re parents who cooked a bunch of cauliflower and are pissed that their kids won’t eat it.

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

This was settled by Annette Gordon-Reed in 1997.

Jefferson and Hemmings: historians always welcome new evidence, but Annette Gordon-Reed settled this question over two decades ago, through impeccable research and careful analysis. Jefferson was the father.

This is great work. Collins has to go.

Trump banning some media outlets is bad, but the White House Press Corps is mostly bullshit, asking superficial questions and serving as a megaphone for Trumps inanities. And holding a chummy, clubby annual dinner with the guy. It's just performative pseudo journalism

This whole thing is made up. Remember when their were consequences for doing stuff like this?

Very much enjoyed this book, and interesting and useful take on the relationship between political, social, and physical reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I guess now we will have to rename "New York" as "New America" and people can live in "New America, New America, America," and right across the river will be "America City" also in a different "New America," but in that one people will go the "the America shore"

Amazingly well done

No one hates higher education more than the people who churn out the Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com

Most similar city: Philly. Not a surprise

The oft-maligned sewer socialists of early 20th-century Milwaukee were in fact strategic champions of working-class interests, combining a pragmatic legislative strategy with efforts to organize workers outside the state.

This is a pretty diabolical scam.

I don't know enough to judge how unusual this is after 9 continuous months at sea, but it looks really bad

I was interviewed pretty extensively for this BBC podcast on the history of the punch clock 99percentinvisible.org/episode/100-...

All of this from Robin Kelley: robindgkelley.substack.com/p/the-crimes...

These are astonishing and really disturbing

1. The Washington press corps is Donald Trump's true constituency. He speaks for them, brings attention to them, enlarges their standing, enriches their bosses, even when, or especially when, he attacks them.

This strikes me--a white guy, admittedly--as an accurate depiction the things Harper claimed

one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here

It Takes A Nation of Millions To Form A Subcommittee To Look Into The Possibility Of Determining The Feasibility Of Holding Us Back

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

Heed the warning.

Of course nobody in the press questioned Trump or suggested the deal was not what he said it.

Aside for the cost, imagine each escalade has a driver and two people in it. That means Trump travels in a motorcade with at least 750 toadies and fluffers

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Musk is a dangerous maniac, now encouraging his followers to kill a journalist who dared to ask him questions.

Not only does Trump have no idea what he's doing in Iran: he also has no idea what he's trying to do

If you read the article, you'll see that the attacker also stabbed an Asian man before stabbing the Jewish man. Why is the focus on criticism of Israel. Note: Stabbing is of course deplorable and unacceptable.

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Tomorrow, July 21 at 2 pm eastern time I'm giving a talk to Northern Ireland libraries about the meaning of "Irish" in the colonial US. Making use of ads for runaway indentured servants

This piece in the New Yorker is really extraordinary, excellent work, and documents the extent of the Tate brother's depravity

ICE hired a man with a history of mental illness and violent, abusive behavior.