Historian | writer | podcaster | antifascist | Political Junkies (Basic Books, 2020) | Rep: Roz Foster, Frances Goldin Lit
New York, NY
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My piece on the 50th anniversary of The Hite Report, published with all the dirty words intact:
newrepublic.com/article/2106…
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BREAKING NEWS: I have been feeling unwell the last two days - tired, headache, foggy brain. I have been concerned about COVID infection, but it was hard to imagine how: we have been so careful.
I just discovered 5 minutes ago that I HAVE BEEN MAKING DECAF COFFEE FOR 2 DAYS.
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Anyone wondering why the keynotes are so late, I have an idea for you: it’s prime time in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.
You’re welcome.
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I am shocked and angry at how quickly the liberal media establishment has abandoned Joe Biden for what has happened in Afghanistan--I guess now we know why it took 20 years to get the US out of a losing war. I am with you, @JoeBiden
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Does anyone but me think that @MollyJongFast should be more famous than she is? I just heard her on @BulwarkOnline podcast talking about the personal damage Trumpism does, and she is *really* good.
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I asked this very question, and apparently, it was because my wife aspired to have a dinner party before the plague struck and as she pointed out "some people" like decaf after dinner.
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140 Capitol police were injured on July 6; one will lose an eye; two have committed suicide; one was murdered. How is it that there are people still in Congress who are supporting the conspiracy theories that caused this?
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Yesterday. I finished @DrIbram’s How to Be an Antiracist, and I can completely guarantee you that 95% of his critics have not read it.
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I think we need to get @PeteButtigieg out there more. IN 2016, when I was canvassing for Warren in New Hampshire, voters there LOVED him. And he's growing on me.
I know I’m a broken record on this, but @PeteButtigieg is consistently impressive.
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Dear ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BROWN JACKSON: nobody's going to steal my joy.
We love you. You are walking into this job at the most difficult time in American history since the Civil War, and we've got your back.
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Costa Rica. They were once a dictatorship and are now the best functioning democracy in the hemisphere. Also—maybe Argentina?
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It is beyond me why any American politician thinks that a public investment in children is a bad idea in a country that has a shortage of teachers, doctors, nurses, plumbers--in short, we seem to have a shortage of everything but lawyers, lobbyists and political consultants.
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And yet, just yesterday a US-Guatemalan strike team broke up a human smuggling and Visa counterfeiting team in Guatemala. So maybe doing things is better than visiting things.
Reminder: Joe Biden has never visited the border. #BidenBorderCrisis
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Has anyone noticed that each Democratic woman candidate has been “assigned” a fatal flaw, and not a single male Democratic candidate has? Women, think for yourselves, and do not label any of these female candidates “unelectable.”
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Brian Williams of @MSNBC says that policemen all come from the same families as if that is an accident--it's the union that gives preference to the children of police officers and firefighters, which is why racial integration has been so hard.
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But “adolescent top surgeries were less frequent than cosmetic breast procedures performed on teenagers who were not transgender. Around 3,200 girls aged 13 to 19 received cosmetic breast implants in 2020.” Funny how the right does not oppose this. nytimes.com/2022/09/26/healt…
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Republicans now learning what women always knew: sexual harassers are untrustworthy and unreliable
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"Now, the New York State Board of Elections has invalidated nearly 13,000 signatures on petitions for Zeldin to appear on the Independence Party line... some 11,000 of Zeldin's signatures were merely copies of other pages."
msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…
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It is a truth universally known that when the @chronicle sends out your sexual harassment piece as the lead article in the morning newsletter and you hear from your dean before 8 a.m. a difficult encounter may be imminent.
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Keep your eyes on your feed. This will completely destabilize Russia if it happens—and as a not insignificant feature, will cause a run on Russian banks if the message penetrates censorship.
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In the community garden this morning, it came out that I am a historian, something that I often hide because the next line is usually: "I love the Civil War/WWII!!!" Instead, my neighbor said: "Do you know @HC_Richardson?" She was very impressed that I did.
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I have accepted a job as head coach of the University of Austin football team. True, I have never coached football, but we will triumph over “woke” schools that spend practice reading critical race theory, shaming the white quarterback, and canceling the philosophy department.
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Biden just announced that restaurants will be employed by the government to make meals for the poor.
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OK, Time to help each other out. Will make 30-minute appearances in your newly online class, no $$. Specialties: 20th c political history, political media, politics of gender/sexuality. Teaching the Hamilton book? Can do that too. Add your name/specialties below if you are in.
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Extensive and graphic evidence of the thousands of death threats aimed at ordinary citizens just doing their jobs because of Donald Trump's lies, and those who enabled those lives. This is a national shame. #January6thCommitteeHearings
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14 children and an elementary school teacher dead today in Texas. 28 parents with an empty chair tonigiht. Eight elderly people dead in Buffalo last week, Are you happy yet, @NRA?
Please, @TheDemocrats: have some courage. Do something. Please. Our country is a slaughterhouse.
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Putin says he will stop targeting civilians, an admission that he has been deliberately targeting civilians.
LATEST: abcn.ws/3C84Hj6
- Putin tells Macron he'll stop strikes against civilian targets
- U.S. banning Russia's central bank from accessing reserves in U.S.
- IOC recommends no participation of athletes from Russia, Belarus
- Neutral Switzerland adopts EU sanctions
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Is he counting the Spanish Inquisition, the Black Death, the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, the Battle of the Somme, the Chicago fire, Chernobyl, King Philip's War in this calculation? I THINK NOT.
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
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You can practically see @KellyannePolls soul leaking out of her ears as she lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies and lies
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Dear faculty colleagues: As you prepare for the semester, make time to pick up your own dry cleaning, do your own personal chores, and find a date outside the university. The graduate students are not available for that. This is a public service announcement from your lawyer.
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Will #Trump take credit for this?: “Dow plummets 666 points, capping worst week in 2 years” apple.news/Ac6fz1qUeQh-Sjr4H…
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Just finished teaching my last class as a college professor, and I am so excited about the up-and-coming generation. I pass the baton, young folk. God bless you and Godspeed.
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“QAnon is essentially a millenarian movement, with Trump taking the place of Jesus.” nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opini…
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Oh look: voter fraud. nytimes.com/2022/07/22/us/po…
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I have exactly four hours left in my life as a tenured professor in the classroom. Actually, 3 hours and 40 minutes. After that, you can call me a writer.
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I think you are right. I think the internal polling is very different from what we are seeing. On the phones for Harris in Georgia tonight.
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Finding people on Post and Mastodon is a lot like moving to another town and finding out that you have friends, after all. New people show up every day, and it feels less lonely.
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From Arizona to Texas, as infection rates soared and hospital beds filled up, Republican governors stood in the way of local governments that wanted to do more. They overruled city mask mandates, arguing that it amounted to a form of government overreach. nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/po…
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I think Tish James should subpoena the box where the @NRA is keeping Mitch McConnell’s soul.
nytimes.com/2019/08/06/us/nr… via @NYTimes
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Saw the Mr. Rogers documentary last night, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" and found myself deeply touched, often to the point of tears, by Fred Rogers' deep and profound commitment to the well-being of children. THREAD
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I got home from knocking 44 doors for @ewarren in Northampton an hour ago, and am still high from democracy. Whomever your candidate is, DO NOT sit home being bummed by Trump. Phonebank, walk precincts, #DreamBig, #FightHard. #MAforWarren
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I am shocked, shocked, that Jared filed false documents and evicted people illegally. apnews.com/002703e70347481cb…
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"Union officials believe that Manchin’s silence can be traced to the fact that his daughter Heather Bresch, the former CEO of Mylan, walked away with a $30.8 million golden parachute from the Mylan-Upjohn merger." Not a good look.
vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/…
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It seems increasingly the case that the @GOP is a magnet for the criminally inclined. nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/po…
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That was a hateful “joke” Ryan. Ask the Puerto Ricans in my family. And Puerto Ricans are Americans, not garbage. Do not make excuses for these people. You are not that person.
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I opposed George W. Bush in all things for eight years. Now, all I can think about is that he has lost both parents in one year, and I just want to hug him.
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Here you go, you self-centered lying piece of crap.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Over the course of my lifetime, I have seen Black Georgians overcome unconstitutional barriers to voting, defeat mobs, segregation, and beatings to claim full citizenship, and today they are on track to give Joe Biden the tools to overcome Trumpism. My eyes have seen the glory.
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I have always known that universities don't love you back. But this week is the first time I have felt genuinely betrayed by my employer. I cannot tell you how very sad the FTF are that our solidarity with PTF colleagues has caused @TheNewSchool to show their contempt for us.
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Did you know:
That arch-segregationist Jesse Helms was a Democrat until 1970, when the party's efforts to support people of color, feminists, and gays drove him into the welcoming, almost lily-white, arms of the @GOP? You could have learned this on @Wikipedia.
Did you know:
A member of the KKK once sat on the Supreme Court of the United States. His name was Hugo Black
He wasn’t a Republican.
He was a radical Democrat appointed by "Progressive" hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
These are facts they do not teach in schools
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Which ones, Matt? Because Linda Colley, @KevinMKruse's colleague at Princeton, wrote a whole book about it called "Captives." It was even published by a commercial press so mugs like you could read it.
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We know it wasn't Putin because the guy didn't fall out a window.
JUST IN: A prominent Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russian state media reports. cnn.it/3ZC0fmT
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Although it is not over, @TheNewSchool has lost this PTF strike. The administration has lost the comms, and they have lost the faculty. What remains to be seen is the terms of the retreat/surrender and how catastrophically handled it will be. (THREAD)
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My dislike of Beto is visceral. It’s like being the woman associate professor who has worked her a$$ off for years, in a hiring meeting where all the guyz are praising a wet behind the ears ABD from Yale as the next [Famous Dude].
nytimes.com/2019/03/16/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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Maybe those 15 Senators are also tired of getting death threats from the 2A crazies.
🚨 Senate votes 65-33 to pass the most significant gun violence prevention bill in decades, marking a victory for the gun-safety movement and a rare defeat for the NRA on the Hill. The bill now goes to the House, which is expected to pass it. President Biden says he will sign it.
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Rep. Jim Clyburn, when asked whether the country has ever been so divided: "This country has been divided since 1619. Donald Trump just exploited it."
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“Elizabeth Warren is running the most impressive presidential campaign in ages, certainly the most impressive campaign within my lifetime.” Yes.
nytimes.com/2019/06/05/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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As an addendum, one criticism of my @chronicle piece by a colleague has been that I failed to include "the other side" of the Comaroff case.
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I do here declare that all Twitter feminists with a Ph.D. use the term "Dr." in solidarity with Jill Biden to tell her critics they can just eff off.
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@nytimes: "The Russian government was unambiguously responsible for the attack on our election." nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opini…
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It's official: @TheNewSchool is online in the fall. And I am just telling you: my courses will be great. Come back, students.
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I read a Twitter thread @ students complaining they have more work online. Faculty say they aren't assigning more; they set up exercises in the online environment based on the reading. To students, this = more work because normally they don't do the reading. Thoughts?
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@Edsall thinks @ewarren is extreme because she wants to decriminalize border crossing, but fails to tell readers that taxpayers spent over $150 BILLION incarcerating migrants in private prisons last year.
nytimes.com/2019/11/20/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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It’s odd how not funny the Republican Party of Puerto Rico found it. Why? Because it is profoundly racist to call a place where Americans live an island of garbage. It doesn’t matter if you have heard other Latinos say worse. It was said on behalf of a presidential candidate, who routinely insults people he considers foreign, in front of a national audience. Everyone on the campaign should be drowning in shame and anxiety.
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I am absurdly happy about this piece in tomorrow's @nytimes Sunday Review. For those of you who get it in print it's on the cover. And yes, they put @SenWarren in the link. @NSSRNews @EugeneLang nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opini…
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Now that it is circulating on the interwebs, I want to say how humbled I am to have been elected to the Society of American Historians in a group that includes @KeeangaYamahtta @malindalowery @cfeimster @megankatenelson @DrIbram and others. Truly humbled.
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I think a lot of faculty are freaked out and some are responding by insisting on their authority. Also administrators, who are also traumatized, send emails about mainataining learning outcomes etc. and are not helping.
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@michelleinbklyn: “What has strengthened Trump has not been prosecution but impunity, an impunity that some of those who stormed the Capitol thought, erroneously, applied to them as well.” nytimes.com/2022/08/11/opini…
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An evening celebrating "Lady Justice" with (l-r) author @Dahlialithwick's @ejeancarroll and @kaplanrobbie, three genuine American heroes. This photo gives you a sense of how much fun it was.
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Anybody but me at the stage where you would rather not socialize at all than do it on zoom?
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“Or let’s say Jenna has a 470 verbal score, but she needs a 730 to get into Yale,” DeVos said. “How much will she have to pay to get her score changed?”
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