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Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
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That’s fair enough, though I doubt any minister could do what I am continually asking my Congressional delegation to do, viz. “stop voting for legislation that enables the Trump family to enrich itself through financial crime”

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

All for a Home Depot.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Lost in the fray about the Clash of Agency Males and Medicaid is another gut-punch to higher ed and students in the OBBB. Eg ending fed loan subsidies, chopping Pell grants, eliminating forbearance, inviting Wall Street into the loan biz, and forcing schools to pay back loans themselves

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 47 days ago • 91 comments

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Idk gang seems like neighborhoods are in fact perfectly equipped to protect themselves without the need for the people with 40-60% of everyone's budget who are actually the ones they must protect themselves from

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Me, a squishy New Deal liberal, watching this shit

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

No but seriously, we can only advance with deliberation, and respect—a meeting of minds, if you will. I suggest these two leaders spend some quiet, uninterrupted time together in a calm space such as a cutting-edge carbon-fiber submersible. 🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Delighted to share that - with less than 9 working days left in the session - the Delaware General Assembly *finally* has its first bill (re)defining corporate voting rights this year with SB 171. (The bill is a major revision of the town of Houston, DE's charter; corp voting is a small part)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is all well and good today as bluster, during breaks promoting nazi influencers on his podcast, but it’s 2025, not 1865, and afaik the state and the people of California no longer have control over the financial infrastructure necessary to arrest the flow of payments to the federal government.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The first scene of Black Bag: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But with trained assassins for whom therapy never worked.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Adding a new article to this thread

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Historians Council member Alex Keyssar and fellow voting rights historians Carol Anderson, Vernon Burton, and Morgan Kousser urge the full 8th Cir. to reverse a ruling that private litigants can't sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Full brief here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I now recall that there are *two* leopards available to eat faces

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