Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

I thought this headline was fake but, nope, it's real.
Sorry, rest of the planet. We took him into the woods and left him there, but the bastard found his way home.

Joseph Akel in the Brooklyn Rail.

Narrative warfare is the use of lies, disinformation, and doublespeak to mentally manipulate and confuse the public, break trust in objective reality, and normalize authoritarian control by breaking people's brains.

An AP analysis of Trump's many methods for destroying records raises the possibility that the Trump admin could "leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any before it." It's useful for understanding how Trump conceals information to evade accountability and undermine democracy.

"Give the power to the states" was also the pro-slavery argument in the 1850s -- and the pro-segregation argument in the 1950s.

"The Oklahoma Board of Education has passed new curriculum standards that require educators to teach that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud or discrepancies — despite numerous judicial rulings and audits indicating that the election was legitimate."