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you can watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump talks about tariffs

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New podcast out now! The Madison Barbershop Controversy explores the pro-integration protests at Madison, NJ barber shops in 1964 and the state Supreme Court’s ultimate ruling that, as places of public accommodation, barber shops could not discriminate. Check it out wherever you get podcasts.

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COMING SOON! A new local history podcast reported by my students at Drew University. The Madison Barbershop Controversy explores the pro-integration protests outside several local barbershops in Madison, NJ in the spring of 1964.

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The final episode of The Fourteen is here. Join student reporter John Lewis as the investigates Drew University’s history of championing social justice causes. Check it out wherever you get podcasts.

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Had a blast talking about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on the Abraham Lincoln Cottage’s “Q and Abe” podcast. Check it out www.lincolncottage.org/learn/podcast/

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It truly is something to be studying one of the ways that liberal internationalism was sold to the American public after the war, and then to see this 1930s-era “two oceans” argument used today in 2025.

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The penultimate episode of The Fourteen is out now. Join Cat Maida as she talks to Kenisha Tucker, co-founder of the Madison (NJ) Hidden Figures Project and learns about local African Americans who contributed to the history of the community and the nation. Available wherever you get #podcasts

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Remember when all he seemed to do was play golf the first time around?

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Seven hells.

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Defund SpaceX. It should survive on its own.

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Episode 5 of The Fourteen is out now. Join Cat Maida and Janelle Campos as they tour the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison, NJ and find out what working life was like in the area in the 1830s and 40s Check it out wherever you get #podcasts

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Supporting Canada today.

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BuT tHE pRiCe oF EgGs!

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In this week’s episode of The Fourteen, join student reporters Elizabeth Caccavo and Janelle Campos as they investigate the history of Bottle Hill, now Madison, NJ, including the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the land, and early practices of enslavement.

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You have to get a selfie while you’re crowd surfing. Otherwise what’s the point?

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New episode of The Fourteen is out today. Join my student, Cat Maida, as she talks to PhD candidate Geneva Smith about the legal history of enslavement in New Jersey. Check us out wherever you get podcasts.

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Another reminder of how uniquely dumb the next four years will be.

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An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars

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"Zuckerberg has been done with the criticism and threats to his power for a while; he’s just been looking for the right path to rid himself of it... His social position has made an embrace of the political right personally and commercially advantageous..." Great piece by @parismarx.com

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Tired of seeing words like “accused,” “apparently,” “seems” in regards to Elon’s sieg heil. If we can’t call something out for being what it is, we are in deep shit.

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I open up FB and the first thing I see is JDs portrait. No thank you.

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At this hour my feed is just @theguardian.com and @iwriteok.bsky.social #nightshift

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Episode 2 of The Fourteen is available now! Join my students as they investigate the history of Mead Hall, the current administration building on campus that was the former owner’s “plantation house” in the north. Check it out wherever you get podcasts.

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I sometimes wonder how the tour of Willy Wonka’s factory would have been different if the Paraguayan multimillionaire had gone along instead of Charlie.

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New #podcast episode out now! The Fourteen is a podcast created by my students at Drew University, which investigates the ties that the family who originally owned the land the school now sits on had to enslavement. Check it out wherever you get podcasts.

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“Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It's time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking.”

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Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

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I put at least 4 car lengths between me and a cybertuck today, because I have no idea what those things are going to do in the snow.

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Season Finale! Andrew Salvati @asalvati.bsky.social returns as we wrap up our 10th year of Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast. Thank you to everyone who joined us this season, particularly our listeners! www.tvhistorypod.com?p=2241

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Why are toy packages so complicated these days?

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Happy Festivus to all who celebrate!

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I was just interviewed by the Abraham Lincoln Cottage podcast about my essay on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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My podcasting students have their final editing session today. Wish them luck!

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I can get everything I need done over winter break. It’s fine. All of this is fine.

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Nothing like waking up to a flat tire.

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Another year of waiting patiently to see if Santa’s pants fall down at the end of the Macy’s parade like they did in ‘78.

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