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Professor of History, Lover of Justice
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The GOP Built a Propaganda Empire. Democrats Built a Consultancy Firm. hartmannreport.com/p/one-partys...

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

He’s already unpopular but it feels like there will be a reckoning this summer. The impact of tariffs and tourist boycotts will be felt in full, plus farm costs from drawback of foreign aid. Add in mounting disruptions in govt service and natural disasters with inept federal response…

submitted 25 days ago • 49 comments

Heritage president Kevin Roberts, in a truly revealing passage of his Foreword to the Project 2025 policy agenda, states that the project of “dismantling the administrative state” is not about the actual size of government at all. The goal is to cut “the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening.”

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

Historians at the University of Columbia are warning that Trump seeks to destroy the independence of higher education, as reports emerged that the university may give in to Trump's demands — including a crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters — in exchange for $400 million in federal funding.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

submitted 28 days ago • 66 comments

“In effect, his politics reprise apartheid’s economic principles on a global scale: maintaining zones of privilege under the guise of free enterprise while resisting any moves toward redistribution as threats.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

'The Right Indoctrinated People We Love Into a Hate Cult—and We're Probably Not Getting Them Back' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...

submitted 36 days ago • 45 comments

ESPN has basically traded an entire investigative journalism dept for Stephen A. Smith. ESPN’s IJs used to uncover stories that all sports radio & podcasters would yap about. Invaluable to the brand. The sportsworld spun on it. Now ESPN is just the worst YouTube sports show ever with better graphics

submitted 38 days ago • 73 comments

Teachers, educators, and students. I’m begging you to get prepared for the elimination of the Department of Education and funding being used as blackmail for ideological collaboration. This needs to be a red line moment. Talk with your colleagues. Find solidarity. Please.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

What else is there to say about Donald Trump’s speech last night? The lies speak for themselves. He doesn’t give a damn about you.

submitted 42 days ago • 94 comments

Helpful ICE Information from JB Pritzger of Chicago, IL. Please share!

submitted 88 days ago • 87 comments

Steve Harvey is aghast

submitted 97 days ago • 36 comments

Today I learned that since 1874 the US has been a meritocracy. Elon has clearly been doing his own historical research I see.

submitted 108 days ago • 50 comments

This is the real story of the destruction of American democracy.

submitted 118 days ago • 19 comments

Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

submitted 122 days ago • 80 comments

Indeed...and I'd add the friendly amendment that this has been a *multi-generational* ref working effort on the part of the American right.

submitted 138 days ago • 28 comments