David M. Perry

good. if there's one thing I hate it's having qualified doctors.

going to sell “all my homies hate jacob frey” shirts as a rent fundraiser

Eating With My Daughter and My Zepbound My food anxiety is inherited. Now that I’m on a GLP-1, I’m changing that for the both of us.

I have a column at @thecut.com now where I’ll be writing about fatherhood, and I figured I’d kick it off by talking about how I decided to start taking Zepbound because I want to do everything possible to be able to annoy my daughter for at least another 50 years. www.thecut.com/article/figu...

oh they got that too

I mostly track "feudalism" specifically in secondary ed in the US, but another common feature in red states is making sure everyone knows there was slavery in the ancient world, especially the premodern Islamic world.

I've been waiting to see what Iowa does, as their standards for European history are under revision too I believe.

I was just teaching about medieval europe in social studies standards in florida. Their big goal: Make sure people know about the development of private property as a core feature of western civilization.

it's how I feel as a higher ed writer when NYT reports on Columbia (35K students) but not CUNY (275K students)

I'm a freelancer mostly, though I do now have a regular gig at my local paper, and I also wonder about editorial impact here. Does no one ever say, "so, do you have any other ideas?"

Even this list of Mamdani-focused articles doesn't give a real perspective. 7 of this guy's last 11 pieces are about the mayor.

Which raises a question: what's the editorial decision making here?

Did an editor decide they needed a "Mamdani might be bad, actually" column?

Bit of a call out to fellow historians!

Anyone with suitable interest/expertise available on Monday and up for recording a podcast with me on "Rat Lines" - the post-war efforts to help Nazi's escape to South America and elsewhere?

Unfortunately my planned guest had to drop out #skystorians

Yep

Maybe stock photos are now all fouled by AI. Dunno.

It’s not just stock?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tinkerbell effect I guess everyone clap your hands

I admit I laughed.

I argued with her about disability but felt they were productive arguments. I was clearly wrong.

I am proud to stand up and represent as a Subaru-driving, traffic blocking ICE-hating harpy with mental illness who does take her meds thankyouverymuch.

I don't know who that dude is. he doesn't follow me. I've blocked him.

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10.

stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For an upcoming story, I'd like to hear from people who have had an encounter with a stranger recording them on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. If that's you or you can pass along this request to someone else who has experienced this, I'm at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal. Thanks!

they ain't allegations once proven in[the basketball] court

wise

we don't have to be credulous enablers of this bad faith project

but ... surely you can see the REALLY BLATANT PLAY here. He's not subtle. He likes to say "I'm going to call everything CRT" and then "I'm going to call everything DEI" and now ...

he has a new poll out that equates holocaust denial with saying Israel is a colonial power in order to say the left is more antisemitic. I do believe there are more people on the left willing to say Israel is a colonial power than there are republicans willing to admit to holocaust denial to a poll.

If Christopher Rufo's outfit says something that makes sense to you, that confirms your biases, that maybe shifts you a little anti-left in some way because he's showing how the left is bad ...

... you should assume you are being manipulated. But usually he's not that subtle.

fair

Perry, no.

yep. true now at the atlantic too.