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Author of THE LOST TRADITION OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN AMERICA, 1600-1870, and many works on Native peoples in New England 1600-1900. Emeritus prof of history, Truman State University, now happy to be in Worcester Mass., aka Nipmuc homelands. He/him/FDJT
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Did someone tell the truth? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

This book is a classic.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Now on sale only $10, 50% off! My first book, and still the only book on Native communities in Massachusetts during the century between King Philip’s War and the American Revolution. Use 6SUMM25 discount code at check out, good until July 31. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska-pap...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 3 days ago • 2177 comments

1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

submitted 3 days ago • 174 comments

More people showed up for his impeachments. Plural. Only official ever to be so corrupt that he was impeached twice.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#noking

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the video of the conversation Jill Lepore and I had with Jon Stewart about Trump's abuse of "emergency powers" and his push for confrontation in California. We recorded this yesterday, though, so my comments have a lot less profanity than they would've today.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

explaining #gavinnewsom to non-californians (via nathanramospark on insta)

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

Reuters: JUDGE ORDERS CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD RETURNED TO GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S CONTROL - COURT RULING

submitted 5 days ago • 178 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 5 days ago • 256 comments

The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.   The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Governor Dakota Killdog said what??

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

In fact I WAS born in east LA. youtube.com/shorts/RANY7.... A few days ago I was like "meh, yeh," whenever someone asked me about it. But now hell yes I'm proud to be from LA. Chalk one up to the fascist demented #IgnorantJackass.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“He wrongly said”?!?!? Clearly he LIED, @nytimes.com; I’m just not sure why you refuse to print what’s obvious. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 61 days ago • 31 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 9 days ago • 898 comments

Trump is saving Los Angeles from big scary **checks notes** dancing flash mobs

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

The men with their faces covered, refusing to identify themselves, with guns and army gear are HUMAN BEINGS. Please let them kidnap mothers and fathers from their workplaces in PEACE.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 10 days ago • 102 comments

There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of *that* state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.

submitted 10 days ago • 181 comments