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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 4h

Meta doing some innovative, experimental tax avoidance

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An Egyptian revolutionary: (via Rachel Nolan's review of Vincent Bevins in @nybooks.com)

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! WORK, CAPITALISM, AND DEMOCRACY, edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, explores the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today—one of many great Penn Press titles grappling with the history of labor in America bit.ly/4r4YTjW

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Work, Capitalism, and Democracy – Penn Press

A collection of essays exploring the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts todayChanges to the meaning a...

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's hard to square "it's wasn't racist" with the breathtaking and distinct callousness that's everywhere in response to this death.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pass by this amazing building every morning. Sacred Heart Church in Waltham, designed by Aldo A. Minotti, 1964

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/08/2026

and I wrote about this: newrepublic.com/article/2143...

Each time the anti-woke crowd revive themselves, it is not because anything was stolen from them, but because they feel as if someone has challenged their presumed ownership. This is, as ever, an expression of white power, in particular an expression of its fears that it is losing its historical dominance. That is what happened in
2020. It is not complicated, even as it takes on other forms. It is MAGA crowds holding mass-produced signs reading "mass deportations now." It is endless iterations of the same conspiracy theories about non-white usurpers and invaders stealing elections. It is Southern white prosecutors in Scottsboro.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How much of the “woke 1 / woke 2” shift is the product of right-wing pseudo-intellectuals needing to sell a half-baked periodization for their next book? Or sell a new slogan for homeland empire? @alexbronzini.bsky.social

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Great essay from @vincentbevins.bsky.social on why the “vibe shift” toward anti-wokeness is mostly just ambient awareness of whatever right-wing bullshit Elon’s platforms are churning out.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Visited 19th-century landscape painter Frederic Church’s estate in Hudson NY, and learned his wife Isabel was caught up in the Victorian-era craze "pteridoma-nia" or fern-fever, an obsession with collecting, cultivating and decorating with ferns.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Finally someone is speaking up for vulnerable men living in their mom’s pied-à-terre because their girlfriends are too depressing

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Heaven help us. Over the past week I have received thirteen different AI-driven scamming emails from fictive people who say they want to feature one or another of my books in reading clubs. I hope no one out there is falling for this kind of thing.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Forget white boy summer it’s

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

Image of cover of the UK paperback edition of The AI Con. The background is a blue gradient, with the title in black and white letter press font: THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Blurb quotes: 'You need to read this book' -Brian Eno, 'A powerful antidote to the hype' -Grace Blakeley, 'Truly eye-opening ... indispensable' -Ha-Joon Chang, 'A book to inoculate your mind' -Yanis Varoufakis

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Which campus panic decade are you anti #MeToo/BLMer, 10s post-9/11 patriot, 00s anti PC future billionaire, 90s neocon, 80s anti affirmative action racist, 70s imperialist war hawk, 60s second red scare anticommunist, 50s libertarian, 40s patriotic mother, 30s fundamentalist, 20s >>

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Especially true of historians. Precious few willing to consider that the course of history was fiercely contested—and hardly inevitable.

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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Add this book to your wishlist, we will need it in the near future when we rebuild

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One possible cause of the cyclosporiasis outbreak from @prospect.org

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/07/2026

If any twins who play roller derby follow me, I think you should call yourselves Scary Kate and Slashley. Ok thank you for your consideration

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New dads often imagine that they are not biologically “wired” to care for their kids in the same way that moms are. In Dad Brain, @darbysaxbe.bsky.social shows nothing could be further from the truth. An amazing, necessary book!

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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Win Monroe @winmonroe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Against Money by @jwmason.bsky.social and Arjun Jayadev A few thoughts on completion: An interesting and provocative take on money and its role in society from a lefty and macro perspective...

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.

Abstract for Police Takeovers by Jonathon Booth

In 2025, after a dozen years of local control, Missouri took control of the St. Louis Police Department. This was the first time any state had taken permanent control of a municipal police force in nearly a century. The institutional takeover of the St. Louis police is similar to other measures by which Republican-led states have eliminated policies enacted by Democrat-led cities – a phenomenon scholars have labeled “hyper preemption” and which in recent years has targeted criminal justice policies. This Article argues, however, that the takeover in St. Louis is different in kind from most preemption legislation because the state has replaced the personnel selected by the city’s leaders, directly undermining the home rule right to local self-government. It is likely that states will continue to take increasingly aggressive actions, including institutional takeovers, to forestall local reforms to the criminal justice system.

St. Louis is now one of only two police forces in the country permanently controlled by the state, but state control used to be much more common. In the late nineteenth century, many states experimented with state control of municipal police forces, but almost all of those experiments were quickly abandoned as failures. State control did not solve the problems of police corruption and political influence that justified it but instead conflicted with the increasingly popular ideology of municipal home rule. This Article provides the first analysis in more than a century of the historical phenomenon of state control of municipal police. It then explores the history of state control of police in St. Louis from 1861 to the present to reveal the shared motivations of state control of police and hyper preemption and to illustrate the historical failures of state control. It finally proposes a litigation strategy that aims to fight institutional takeovers by distinguishing them from preemption

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Everyone is required to preorder Delio Vásquez's amazing new intellectual biography of Huey P. Newton, which works from dozens of unpublished manuscripts to establish Newton as a profound and original philosopher. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Huey P. Newton: I am We

Huey P. Newton: I am We, Huey P

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 03/07/2026

“Women also lost access to credit if they became estranged from their husbands, who ran ads in newspapers instructing tradesmen to cut them off.” www.ft.com/content/6bc0...

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What wealth meant to Americans in 1776

Land, credit and enslaved people made up people’s fortunes on the eve of revolution

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s quasi memoir of his parents time in the Weather Underground is fantastic—absolutely worth reading—but Emmett Rensin’s review in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social captures exactly what is wrong with it.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So proud to have edited this amazing book! With roving gangs of students terrorizing university towns, scholars accused of secretly baptizing cats, and hedges designed for spying administrators to peer over, it’s got something for every contemporary university creature

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