I spoke with the Washington Post about why the Trump administration is so focused on US history: because authoritarian regimes rewrite history to legitimize their projects and normalize their chaotic, violent governance. Gift link: wapo.st/4cdjRFQ - ThreadSky

pastpunditry.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I spoke with the Washington Post about why the Trump administration is so focused on US history: because authoritarian regimes rewrite history to legitimize their projects and normalize their chaotic, violent governance. Gift link: https://wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

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idiokratie.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://youtu.be/1UkmhtoXCPA?si=Fuckuh3DESYYx9Kf

idiokratie.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://youtu.be/2YkNKh6XqhE?si=F2nw5txV7ivDtcWd

briangocial.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

jmgd2005.bsky.social•4 days ago

"The conquerors rewrite history and make themselves the heroes"
-2025 CBC #markcritch

midnightblue46.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

sniffit.bsky.social•4 days ago

WAPO is a fascist collaborator's dumpster fire of unjournalism now.

#BOYCOTTWAPO

lmerie.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

dmpro.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly.

rlab53.bsky.social•4 days ago

investtoelect.bsky.social•4 days ago

Whether you’re speaking out at a protest or in a student newspaper, doing important research, or writing history books, this regime is trying to erase the voices and accomplishments of any who disagree, and any who aren’t white, conservative, Christian men.

themillie.bsky.social•4 days ago

We need the kind of brave people who saved the art, historical documents and artifacts from the Nazis! I hope people are downloading content! We will not be erased!!!

The better question is when do we take our country back?! I’m thinking #July4th feels like the right date!

ivannevarez.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/joycewhitevance.bsky.social/post/3llfn2fxy2c2d

newbullmoose.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events."

faerywings.bsky.social•4 days ago

Need to read this with fresh eyes in the morning. Thanks for the gift link.

bruce-ter.bsky.social•4 days ago

In his book Erasing History, Jason Stanley argues that the administration is attempting to erase the history and contributions of nonwhite people, LGBTQ individuals, women, and others. They aim to make white men the primary heroes in the history of the U.S.

andyheppelle.bsky.social•3 days ago

Please preserve the Smithsonian Institution and It’s Museums? It is in the long term service of the nation. The National Museum of African American History and Culture in particular. Don’t cowe to the political agenda of a dishonorable POTUS🇺🇸

caborose.bsky.social•3 days ago

We can’t let them rewrite history, not this time!

pastpunditry.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s part of a larger story about a very cool project developed by historian Jason Chernesky in partnership with the Organization of American Historians, to collect oral histories from fired federal employees.

susangrigsby.bsky.social•4 days ago

The rewriting of history makes me think I should buy hard copies of some of the books that I now have in either digital or audible formats. Especially some of the many histories that I have purchased. (We already know that Amazon has modified content without notice. And Bezos is not to be trusted.)

zeeroth.bsky.social•4 days ago

Do it! I've been buying hard copies of media I'd previously owned, including extra copies to give out.

youngbloods.bsky.social•4 days ago

I had not heard about the modification of content!

doctorbluebird.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do it and be sure to buy from your local independent bookstore!

doctorbluebird.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's fantastic - so glad their stories will be told.

lindaisee.bsky.social•4 days ago

Destroy, delete.

remymonroe.bsky.social•4 days ago

We saw it when the GOP TRIED to rewrite JAN 6 still can't believe this

blobby72.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gift link takes you to a paywall!

pastpunditry.bsky.social•4 days ago

weird, see if this one works (i cancelled my subscription back when they pulled the harris endorsement but it should still be active for a few more weeks): https://wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

survivorcass.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks for trying. I may possibly still be able to access it through my library's subscriptions. I love my library.

meredith-keith.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ya' can't have a Fourth Reich without rewriting a little history, can ya'?

gedtophd.bsky.social•3 days ago

The WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION EO is coming.

marijocook.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well, also because of @nhannahjones.bsky.social

alleghenian.bsky.social•4 days ago

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. . . And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop."
Mario Savo