Mike O'Malley
@mikeomalley
US history Prof. at GMU. Author most recently of The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry See
If you read the article, you'll see that the attacker also stabbed an Asian man before stabbing the Jewish man. Why is the focus on criticism of Israel. Note: Stabbing is of course deplorable and unacceptable.
Tomorrow, July 21 at 2 pm eastern time I'm giving a talk to Northern Ireland libraries about the meaning of "Irish" in the colonial US. Making use of ads for runaway indentured servants
The father south you live in the US, the less difference it makes, while Northern states will experience more extreme differences. But the key is where you are in relation to the meridian line of you standard time zone. Look, for example, at Detroit: the latest sunrise would be 9AM
2/ Now look at closeups of the photos. Why does his finger have a halo around it, and what happened to the text? Could be jpeg artifacts, maybe?
1/ Is the Mitch McConnell proof of life photo a fake? Let's pause to thank our tech bro overlords for creating an awful world where this a real question. The photo shows McConnell with his right hand resting on a copy of the sports page of the Wash post
Giving a talk to Northern Ireland Libraries on how people understood "Irish" in the colonial era. Talking a lot about ads for runaway indentured servants, like this interesting fellow
The book I did was my own effort to take genealogy seriously as a critical tool. From the book:
I made the case in a book, heavily documented, based on the 200+ years of history that went into the development of the documents genealogists use. I can't really condense it into series of short posts, which don't include that context
So in the book I give examples of public records which are no longer physically available but are only available through ancestry.com, which is a subscription service and which has monetized them by charging subscriptions
You could read the book--it's in some libraries. Not trying to be a jerk but it's hard to explain in short chunks. I use it: I think it's problematic in important ways.
Just seeing this but it can't be repeated enough. Genealogical services like ancestry.com or family search reduce family to "blood:" I'm not related at all to the most important person in my life, my wife. I write this about it:
From my book, writing about Roberts's decision on Affirmative Action in the Harvard College case
Navy Sec. fired for failing to pull Trump's vanity battleship from a hat. More spectacular flailing ineptitude from the Trump Administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...
4. He used his position to acquire tunes, and applied techniques being developed in tracking suspects to catalogue and classifying tunes. He used colonial metaphors like mining or extraction or cultivation, and lamented that the people he got tunes from were disorderly and unreliable .
3. My book about O’Neill argues that as a product of a colonized country he was compelled to use the tools colonialism provided. To collect tunes, he deputized police officers to track down “fugitive, elusive tunes” and pin them in place.
2. Colonialism brought Francis O’Neill to the US in 1865, where he wound up by 1901 as Chicago’s Police Chief. He's famous for making the largest collection of Irish folk music ever assembled: a hero of Irish cultural nationalism, wanting to make a record of Irish cultural distinctiveness.
1. Like many historians I think a lot colonialism. Colonialism and slavery; colonialism and the subjugation of Native people. Colonialism is why I live in the US, and speak English instead of Irish. Colonialism requires people to adopt the language and tools of the colonizer.
"Nice religion ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it." Trump's people trying to shake down the Vatican. They should be shunned from public life by all decent people
If the SC eliminates birthright citizenship, partially nullifying the 14th amendment, how will people become citizens? Likely be some sort of test, loaded down with demands for ideological purity, graded at the whims of local officials: an 1890s-style literacy test, more or less. #2ndgildedage
2. This radical symbol was of course used by people who enslaved millions, which make it complicated to use. So maybe we could restore some of the transgressive impact. With some prompting, ChatGPT came up with this:
1. My wife and I marched yesterday with the VA state motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis," which is on the state seal, quite an interesting piece of iconography, with its amazonian woman and remarkably phallic sword
The Trump administration are just looters and vandals, wrecking things, grabbing treasure moving on. He makes a shambles and then walks away calling himself a hero
3/ In the 20th century priorities shifted, so the clock became the arbiter of time, rather than the sun, and we try to convince ourselves think it's 7 am when it's actually 6. It was pitched as a patriotic act for WWI
2/ In the 19th century schools, businesses, rail lines, city offices all changed their hours of business to suit the available daylight. As you'd expect, it varied with where you were on the globe.