Dan Holt
@danielsholt.bsky.social
Historian of one half of the legislative branch. All opinions are mine alone, of course.
You will be visited by three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
Um, pretty sure that's not how a ceasefire works.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Um, pretty sure that's not how a ceasefire works.
Similar scenario playing out here.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Similar scenario playing out here.
Keeping cool, deterring crime at the hellhole that is the Georgetown waterfront.
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Keeping cool, deterring crime at the hellhole that is the Georgetown waterfront.
Been a long time since I bought sports merch, and I've read a lot about how crappy Fanatics, but still surprised that $175 for a jersey gets you iron on letters with fake stitching.
September 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Been a long time since I bought sports merch, and I've read a lot about how crappy Fanatics, but still surprised that $175 for a jersey gets you iron on letters with fake stitching.
"Trump says crime is spiralling but statistics show he's lying." No need to shoehorn in a line about "youth crime" to give him cover. Journalism is broken.
August 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Trump says crime is spiralling but statistics show he's lying." No need to shoehorn in a line about "youth crime" to give him cover. Journalism is broken.
Proud to have contributed an essay on the Senate Chaplaincy to a newly published collection on Religion and Congress. I learned a ton in researching this, including how much abolitionism effected the chaplain elections in the mid-19th century.
July 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Proud to have contributed an essay on the Senate Chaplaincy to a newly published collection on Religion and Congress. I learned a ton in researching this, including how much abolitionism effected the chaplain elections in the mid-19th century.
They are lining every available inch of DC to prepare for the tanks.
June 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
They are lining every available inch of DC to prepare for the tanks.
Helping my 4th grader study for her history test. I told her to write on her test that this is nonsense whether it gets marked wrong or not.
April 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Helping my 4th grader study for her history test. I told her to write on her test that this is nonsense whether it gets marked wrong or not.
Just throwing out another example of how AI has broken Google search. Symmes was definitely not a member of the Senate, but Google's AI apparently can't make sense out of a page that mentions him and identifies a different guy as serving in the Senate.
January 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just throwing out another example of how AI has broken Google search. Symmes was definitely not a member of the Senate, but Google's AI apparently can't make sense out of a page that mentions him and identifies a different guy as serving in the Senate.
I love the completely random stuff I come across when researching something of substance in the Senate. While looking into Theodore Roosevelt's recess appointments in 1903, I found this story:
November 12, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I love the completely random stuff I come across when researching something of substance in the Senate. While looking into Theodore Roosevelt's recess appointments in 1903, I found this story:
Straight up rock album with no need for modifiers ("grunge rock," "punk rock" etc.):
November 8, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Straight up rock album with no need for modifiers ("grunge rock," "punk rock" etc.):
So this happened. Also, would be cool if any of us in the buildings learned about it before it went up on Xitter.
November 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
So this happened. Also, would be cool if any of us in the buildings learned about it before it went up on Xitter.
I'd never bothered to look and was surprised to learn that a Stranger Things actor went to my high school...many years after I did, of course.
September 10, 2024 at 3:04 AM
I'd never bothered to look and was surprised to learn that a Stranger Things actor went to my high school...many years after I did, of course.
Anyone else get a bum copy of When the Clock Broke? Mine is missing pages 279 to 310, with pages 311 to 343 printed twice
September 5, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Anyone else get a bum copy of When the Clock Broke? Mine is missing pages 279 to 310, with pages 311 to 343 printed twice
There is not an economic story that mainstream papers won't cast in a negative light. When job growth is high, it's a harbinger of inflation. When it is low, it's a looming recession. Even when unemployment is still at historic lows.
August 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
There is not an economic story that mainstream papers won't cast in a negative light. When job growth is high, it's a harbinger of inflation. When it is low, it's a looming recession. Even when unemployment is still at historic lows.
Have to go with Jerry Caeser, purveyor of Bait magazine, in Dragnet, as my favorite Dabney Coleman character. RIP
May 18, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Have to go with Jerry Caeser, purveyor of Bait magazine, in Dragnet, as my favorite Dabney Coleman character. RIP