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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...

This book is a classic.

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...

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

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...

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

#noking

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.

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

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

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.

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-...

Governor Dakota Killdog said what??

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

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.

“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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

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.