Rob Haug

Surprise... The child rapist came out in favor of child rapists.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”—John Adams.

"In the future, everyone will be a Trump Press Secretary for 15 minutes."

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Liberals say that public executions have no place in our democracy. They’re wrong—public executions have no place in our republic.

Reminiscing on all the paperwork I had to fill out just to take the History Club to the Renaissance Festival.

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.

And we wonder how the entire tech industry got sucked up into an apocalyptic sex cult based on Harry Potter fan fic.

Not bad for my first try at MapTap. www.maptap.gg September 17 96🏅 95🏅 96🔥 91👑 97🔥 Final score: 947

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

📢 Reminder: The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies will hold its Eleventh Biennial Convention in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Abstracts due 30 September 2026. For more details and abstract submission, see here🔗: www.persianatesocieties.org/convention/e...

"The party I lead, for instance -- sure has a lot of pedophiles and rapists and sex traffickers in it. Makes you wonder about the rest of us, right? It should. It should."

Make a band edible: A Sound Garden

Looking forward to hosting @tlecaque.bsky.social tomorrow at UC. He will be giving a talk on "Holy War in Colonial America" at 3:30pm in DAAP 5401 as well as talking with my Crusades course.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

Scott Bessent is the living proof of the old joke that the easiest way to become a millionaire is to start with $2M and lose half of it. He turned a $5.7B fund into $537M of value before he transitioned to a job on the government dime.

Why young people hate AI even more?

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

In the context of the Trump regime’s assaults on academic freedom and free speech, this means official U.S. policy is that race science is one of the very few things it’s acceptable to do at a university, and must be promoted by the state, while most other pursuits should be crushed by the state.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there

oh god the "Robin Hood" thing seems to be a dipshit American marketing decision that wasn't vetted or approved by the makers of the film #medievalsky metro.co.uk/2026/08/26/a...

Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me