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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
On Tuesday, I told my students that one benefit of studying history is that you can not just understand the historical analogies that fill our public discourse but you can also determine who's butchering the comparisons.

Anyway, I think I need to Irish up this coffee.
I mean ... Nope. Jesus Christ, no. No? Completely wrong.
We already had "medical Jim Crow" in this country and it looked nothing like this and, no, this is not remotely like segregation, and Jesus Tapdancing Christ, please read a book by someone who's never been on Tucker Carlson's show.
An excellent point, of course:

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1 Sep
(whispers into the void) please stop telling undergrads who are applying to grad school to email prospective advisers and ask for a Zoom meeting before they've even applied, please, I'm begging you, this helps no one in the process
Look, I get the instinct behind it, but I must've gotten close to a hundred emails last fall -- one Monday in October, I got four -- with a few dozen asking for Zoom chats (several straight up asking *when* we would chat) and ... I just can't do it. Wish I could, but I can't.
Even if I could do these calls, they're not as important as the people pushing them believe.

We make admits as a field (20th c US), so I'm one of 9-12 profs making the decision. Even if I have my heart set on someone, I'm one voice on the jury.

And we admit maybe 2-3 a year?
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2 Aug
Good morning to everyone who’s up for the @uswnt game.
Ugh, that looked awful. Hope Naeher is all right.
We wouldn’t be here without Naeher.
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30 Jul
Away from home this morning, so just frantically refreshing Twitter for updates on USWNT vs Netherlands
Twitter thinks the Dutch team is flopping for fouls, it seems. Fun to read about.
I tried to find updates on the game on the radio but WFAN is discussing how one of the co-hosts is gassy from lobster bisque he ate last night, thanks for the sports news
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30 Jul
This is an important topic that most graduate programs tend to ignore, so let's chat.
As most of the replies and QTs here suggest -- no, most programs don't offer classes or even workshops on how to write lectures for undergrad classes.

Which is *deeply* bizarre, given the assumption many have that that's where a lot of our grads will wind up.
I did my doctoral work at Cornell, and while there wasn't any formal instruction on lecturing, I TA'd for a lot of big lecture courses.

And in two of them (taught by the terrific lecturer Glenn Altschuler) I got a chance to give guest lectures each semester.
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27 Jul
It was the police officers who testified about the assault on the Capitol who linked the atrocities to the Republican Party, @SenJohnKennedy, and you’d know that if you gave a single damn about them.
Here's one of the police officers, @SenJohnKennedy:

Here's what another one of the police officers said, @SenJohnKennedy. (He's a Republican himself.)

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21 Jul
It's a good thing there aren't reporters who are just lazily going to parrot his framing of it as partisan and political.
Sure, Pelosi put Liz Cheney on the committee, and sure she was even going to let one of McCarthy's picks who voted to overturn the election on, but she didn't let *all* of the picks who voted to overturn the election on there, so clearly, *she* is being partisan and political.
If you're a reporter or pundit saying "actually, this was a gift to McCarthy," well, congratulations on picking up the "actually, this was good news ... for John McCain" torch from Mark Halperin.

Just terminal Beltway Brain Syndrome.
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