@maxperrymueller
Professor of history and religious studies. Author of “Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West” (Basic Books, fall 2025). https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/max-perry-mueller/wakaras-america/9781541602595/
This is a budget story and I will forever be mad at our elected officials and SCOTUS justices who allowed Musk to seize control of our treasury and our data.
DOGE cut agency budgets, killed our scientific research while Congress gave tens of billions to DoD and ICE choosing death over life.
This is clearly fine with the GOP.
The Republican House majority right now is literally based on two bigoted Islamophobes (Randy Fine & Andy Ogles) and a man who so tormented one of his staffers that she killed herself by setting herself on fire (Tony Gonzales).
I can’t wait for Trump to start calling FOX News, ‘fake news’ 🙄
Fox & Friends was forced to apologize after misleading viewers by presenting an old clip of Donald Trump attending a dignified transfer without his campaign baseball cap on.
Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
These are not things that happen at camps which are not designed to kill the people they incarcerate. ICE centers are concentration camps.
There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.
He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.
Wakara's America has been out for four months! It's on sale for 25% off here: www.amazon.com/Wakaras-Amer...
💯. Our faculty, staff, and students prop up our failing college sport team (the big one, which serves as a de facto state religion) not the other way around.
Change Iranian for American.
Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Repost far and wide if this happens.
Radiohead just randomly started streaming live performances and random songs from their catalogue yesterday, and it's still going.....................
👀👀👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ga...
Is this bad? It seems bad.
Religious fascism, whether Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist (yes, the Buddhists have them, too), always sound the same.
The Ayatollahs say they are defending Islam against "the Great Satan."
The Trumpists here say that they are trying to bring about Armageddon.
Both are death cults.
Wakara's America has been out for four months! It's on sale for 25% off here: www.amazon.com/Wakaras-Amer...
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A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'
Name names :)
THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️
A poster showing an AI-generated heroic Trump with text: President Trump is ending the forever way that Iran has waged against America for the last 47 years."
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"
We are living in Oceania.
"The Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature." — James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1798
"A part of me wonders what would have happened if Lincoln had gone through Congress to do it, like he was supposed to under the Constitution."
--from a student reflection on Lincoln's decision to suspend Habeas Corpus.
Alas, I fear that your red-headed step-sibling to your west (I can say that as one!) are not too far behind.
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
I'm amazed at the number of folks who **still** don't know Wheatley.
@adamrothman.bsky.social, @kawulf.bsky.social. Sincerely asking: How am I doing here? I'm not claiming these are "hidden heroes," or that discovering them... moreamerica.substack.com
