dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History
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birtherism was prologue
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both of those are great histories!
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60 votes/supermajority is not in the Constitution; that's a senate rules thing that can be undone. not saying it's easy, but this court's everlasting malevolence is clear, not to mention their corruption. expansion is the best route to remedy, though a narrow one. obv. they have to win the senate.
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as an instigator of J6, he should be wearing pin stripes going the other direction
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a majority can get it done.
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constitutionally expand the court, please. the first dem to pledge that has a leg up for 2028. we cannot abide this SCOTUS boot on our democracy and rights.
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coming to our f**king senses.
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Amputator: "The good news is that after this there will be no pain in your legs!"
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Because clearly you know what time it is, and you’re meeting the moment.
Probably some of that comes from history.
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But I’m glad you did History!
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Exactly. And the court is enabling Taneyism—the belief that non-white people, citizens and representatives have no rights that the Trump regime need respect.
Cf. Padilla, writing off the votes of non-whites as illegit (unless they vote for Trump)
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It's called the "spoiled system"
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When it's not clear what to do these days, I think about those Dunnes' Stores workers.
Solidarity, persistence, and an unwavering commitment to justice have toppled this shit before.
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Yet Mandela had been imprisoned for decades. What difference could these "girls" possibly make?
Then Desmond Tutu came to visit the strikers on his way to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, and told them their actions were giving courage where it was needed.
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And most successful pirate was a she.
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Russian joke:
Man buys newspaper every day. Looks at from page, tosses in trash.
Sellers asks him what he is doing.
“Looking for an obituary”
The section for that is inside…
“The one I’m looking for will be in the front page. Above the fold.”
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Beverly Hillbilly Elegy
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"Give them surplus canvas and some red paint—for a cross on top of makeshift tents"
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i was wondering about that
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Also, on env history of LA: in addition to Ecology of Fear and Orsi's Hazardous Metropolis, there's a Deverell/Hise edited volume, Land of Sunshine (part of a series of urban env histories from Pittsburgh edited by Tarr/Melosi)
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Beverly Hillbilly Elegy
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And definitely check out @elsadevienne.bsky.social's Sand Rush: it's terrific on LA's beaches, which are at once a history of the city, its environs, and its peoples...and more.
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all the one's i'd recommend are already listed, including Klingle. For fun along with the historiography, read Barry Lopez's short story The Mappist—with its fictional geographer who writes cities' environmental histories around the world
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Amazing. (And this one looks interesting: Oberg, Michael Leroy. “Vast Indigenous America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 82 (April 2025), 299-306—Congrats!)
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good luck. a little baltimore is in this, in case you didn't see it:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tatt...
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enough of us had had enough
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So since his adopted side—the slavers—lost, he doesn;t want us to celebrate and remember?
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I'm sure they'll send out AI bots for search and rescue...
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Chavez ravine #2
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It is so great that a widely read, and heard, pundit, reads real history (and not just "(white) dad books"). you've got a great shelf of books behind you, literally and figuratively, for your youtubes!
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their basic POV is the abjectification of all nonwhite Americans.
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There has to be a constant sense that we’re building momentum for those of us seeking wonderful things. Things like unrestricted medical transition, sex changes, surgery—”