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Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/587bfhcy). Other projects in the works, probably
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WEB DuBois, 91 years ago, on the futility of trying to get racists to understand US History.

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Everyone--from Democrats to University admin--who helped perpetuate the lie that critique or protest of Israel was inherently antisemitic or constituted harassment of Jewish students, you handed the University to the Right on a golden platter.

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Years ago I jokingly told one of my classes that Elon Musk was only a volcano lair away from becoming a comic-book supervillain. Everyone understood what I meant.

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And I don't mean to sound hyperbolic or overly important, but increasingly historians, archivists, librarians, teachers, etc. are the keepers of the knowledge our government is trying to erase.

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I don't know if I have many followers in the University of South Alabama area, but next week Matthew Lassiter will be delivering the History Department's annual Mahan Lecture. Details below. If you're nearby, it's going to be a great event!

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The Great Leap Boerward is it

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We need to dramatically reimagine journalism.

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In 2009, I interviewed David Johansen for The A.V. Club's Random Rules column. I asked if he'd given any thought to reviving Buster Poindexter. "I have no plans to. We’re hardly even speaking." www.avclub.com/david-johans...

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RIP. I just might have to watch this performance a couple dozen times today. Feel free to do the same youtu.be/-EvaRpxf2vc?...

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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Great read about one of my all-time favorite bands medium.com/@punkncoffee...

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I told OPM what I did last week

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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

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"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." — Benito Mussolini

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So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say Tell them that the Nazis Never really went away They're out there burning houses down And peddling racist lies And we'll never rest again... Until every Nazi dies...

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The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat They're making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureaucrats They're taking over the boardrooms and they're fat and full of pride

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The greatest scam of the last half century has been the fever dream that the only way to manage debt is to cut spending. We’ve been told for decades that cutting taxes for bazillionaires will fix everything, a claim so demonstrably false I can’t believe they still say it with a straight face.

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The history of punk is so important right now

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I don’t know all of the details about why he was there, but somehow one of my students was working a camera at the Super Bowl. He just brought me back some confetti!!

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"Lisa, a guy who has lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low."

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In light of Musk saying that Social Security "might be the biggest fraud in human history," here is a paragraph of my book FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, about how such view are a legacy of decades of conservative discourse that made anti-statism seem like commons sense.

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Trump and Musk are currently dismantling wide swaths of the federal government, in flagrant violation of the Constitution. The New York Times is asking the tough questions.

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How many articles and think pieces of this sort did the New York Times run throughout the 2024 campaign? It was very clear from Trump's first term--remember Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor?; the tax cut for the rich?; the effort to take away health care from millions--that this was a pipe dream.

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SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

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The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions!!!

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Bummer

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At this point I’m going to be disappointed if this isn’t a shut out

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Folks sitting on the street lights? Kendrick says Go Birds.

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Bleeding Kansas City.

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This defense!!

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!!!!!

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When you can’t go home for the game, so your dad comes to Alabama to watch the Super Bowl with you! Go Birds!

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Heading out to my watch party with tears in my eyes. I love this team and my home with my whole heart. Let’s win this whole thing. Fly Eagles Fly.

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