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Claire Bond Potter

@clairepotter.com
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Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | podcaster | clairepotter.substack.com | antifascist | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency

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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 26/08/2026
"Dolly and Carl’s long marriage, much like the decades-long partnership between Loretta Lynn and her husband Oliver (known as Doolittle, Doo or Mooney), may have exactly depended on allowing the non-performing, male, partner to have his own life." clairepotter.substack.com/p/in-dolly-w...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 19/08/2026
"Harp’s job is not only to make sure that Donald Trump is insulated from whatever remnants of dissent or debate might still exist in the executive branch, but also to amplify and fulfill his every need." clairepotter.substack.com/p/trumps-mos...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 13/08/2026
“At 26, Leavitt was the youngest PressSec in history, and if anyone had the stamina to simultaneously mother two children under two and Donald Trump, it was her.” clairepotter.substack.com/p/dont-let-t...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 24/07/2026
On this week's episode @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I discuss how the death of South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization creates potential Republican paralysis on Capitol Hill. clairepotter.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 15/06/2026
Have you heard of the New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Bucket List? Why don’t we do it together? Click on the link below to see what's on my list! clairepotter.substack.com/p/paradise-w...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 09/06/2026
The Platner crisis is also a perfect example of the Democrats wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Maybe regular guy experiences aren’t nice, particularly when they involve combat duty in a war fought for the benefit of Halliburton and Erik Prince. clairepotter.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 01/06/2026
The end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, "in which private, uncoerced, homosexual relationships became legal in the United States military, marked the end of an era–one that for me began when I was commissioned an Army second lieutenant in May 1984." clairepotter.substack.com/p/consensual...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 19/05/2026
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 12/05/2026
"I would say that the results of implementing technology 'solutions' have been mixed at best: they solve invented problems by destroying something else." #Canvas clairepotter.substack.com/p/kill-canva...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 05/05/2026
"#Botstein was exactly the sort of person that you would expect to find running a college whose name was synonymous with the arts, and who you would also expect to find orbiting a person like #Epstein." clairepotter.substack.com/p/leon-botst...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 09/04/2026
Sometimes it took a while for Susan Brownmiller to get her mail.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 30/03/2026
Says the man who sells citizenship to this country. Literally sells it.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 30/03/2026
As the party in power, no matter how much they blame Democrats, Republicans will take the hit for the failure to fund the #TSA last week, and #GOP party strategists know it. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-dangli...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 25/03/2026
Here is something Claude made for me, citing sources and explaining method (which we negotiated in relation to available data for a talk I am giving today: it shows the decline in legacy media vs. the acceleration of alternative media, 1990-2026. Would have taken a day to do this by hand.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 24/03/2026
Last week, The New York Times published an investigation into legendary labor organizer Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) and his decades of alleged criminal conduct. clairepotter.substack.com/p/shattering...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 24/03/2026
The terrible, horrible, no-good, Democratic security lines at my local airport this morning:
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 22/03/2026
Tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST, join historian @eladiobobadilla.com and I for a Substack live about the recent devastating revelations about Cesar Chavez: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 18/03/2026
"In the United States Air Force of the early 1970s, an officer’s wife was, functionally, an unpaid extension of her husband’s career....her world was bound by whatever the institution had decided women needed." clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-office...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 15/03/2026
On our most recent drop, Neil Young and I focused on right wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens: here, I talk about Owens's intrinsic relationship, as a Black woman, to conspiracy: clairepotter.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 10/03/2026
Before I tell you what it even means to grieve through your vagina, or why you would choose to do that (hint: there is penis involved), let’s review what Evie is. clairepotter.substack.com/p/all-about-...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 24/02/2026
Join me and @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social as we answer the question: how did the MAHA fitness message get so weird? clairepotter.substack.com/p/how-did-th...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 19/02/2026
What gave the Epstein network purpose was not the traffic in women, but the sale of valuable knowledge—within which women circulated as currency and party favors. clairepotter.substack.com/p/a-prince-a...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 18/02/2026
Watching the Wall Street Journal join the resistance has been the most interesting feature of the age of Trump
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 16/02/2026
“There is plenty of incompetence to go around in Donald Trump’s cabinet. But DOJ Barbie and ICE Barbie—Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem—are this month’s faces of failure.” clairepotter.substack.com/p/barbies-ma...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 10/02/2026
Is the foolish choice to "cancel" Bad Bunny a sign that MAGA is beginning to buckle? clairepotter.substack.com/p/magas-self...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 07/02/2026
You can see the whole story at clairepotter.substack.com
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 21/01/2026
"#MAGA has put numerous terms back in circulation on social media that properly belong on a playground or in the men’s room of a pole dancing club." clairepotter.substack.com/p/playground...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 17/01/2026
What can past peace movements teach us about the extremism and violence the Trump administration is wreaking on Democratic cities? Listen to me and The New School historian Jeremy Varon talk about the people who tried to stop the War on Terror. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-home-f...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 13/01/2026
It is worth noting that it was not long ago that when a citizen was killed by law enforcement, federal officials did not insist right off the bat that such a person was at fault for their own death and obviously a notorious criminal in their own right. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-cavalr...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 09/01/2026
On today's Political Junkie podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about what it means that Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent--and no one in the GOP spoke a word of regret, comfort or concern. clairepotter.substack.com/p/liddle-mar...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 05/01/2026
With journalist Luke Johnson on Substack: "I think the fear is in Venezuela that now Maduro has been ousted from power, who knows what the criminal gangs and paramilitaries will respond? Will they be okay with Trump just saying, We’re running the country? " clairepotter.substack.com/p/trump-goes...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 04/01/2026
Join me and analyst Luke Johnson tomorrow as we explore the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela. Just click the link tomorrow at 11:15. You don't have to be a subscriber--but you are always welcome to become one! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 03/01/2026
I had the pleasure of being in conversation with John Stoehr @editorialboard.bsky.social about the future of MAGA. Here's the first in a two part series, with short takes and cultural finds! clairepotter.substack.com/p/this-is-th...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 01/01/2026
So proud of my city today.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 01/01/2026
I am interested in the 1950s aesthetic that the Trump administration has adopted in all its advertising, in which everyone is as white as a Jim Crow public high school. Also, at the rate these thugs deported people this year, it would take about another 30 years to deport 100 million people.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 25/12/2025
A Merry Christmas Eve to all who celebrate the great miracle. Joy to the world!
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 15/12/2025
Quiet, Piggy.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 15/12/2025
Research shows that policies forcing individuals, and even employers, to self-insure are not business-friendly, something Republicans are supposed to care about. With @helaineolen.bsky.social, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Jared Bernstein. clairepotter.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 08/12/2025
In November, Samantha Fulnecky received a 0 out of 25 points for not addressing the assignment, has filed a complaint alleging religious discrimination with the university, and the graduate instructor who gave the grade has been suspended from the course. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-conser...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 01/12/2025
In my latest drop I explain why all Trump administration lying derives from the One Big Lie. clairepotter.substack.com/p/repeat-aft...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 28/11/2025
My terribly exciting life, as imagined by someone working in a spam farm:
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 26/11/2025
Today, on a Substack Live, historian Kevin Schultz and I talked about the opportunities for a renewed liberalism in this political moment. Here's a clip--and for the whole feature you can go to my Substack. clairepotter.substack.com/p/does-every...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 24/11/2025
He can’t let her go. clairepotter.substack.com/p/dont-you-w...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 22/11/2025
Filmed yesterday before #MTG resigned, I reflect on how the #Epstein scandal is slow rolling MAGA over a cliff. You can see the whole video on my Substack—link in bio!
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 21/11/2025
New pod drop: link in bio. #Epstein
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 05/11/2025
Dying to know who the other four he had in mind were.
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 03/11/2025
"The #Mamdani campaign’s strategy seems to combine vibrant personal appearances with a beautifully crafted social media campaign, one that meets young voters where they live but captures the hearts of their elders as well." #vote #Election2025 clairepotter.substack.com/p/a-democrat...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 31/10/2025
How William F. Buckley, Jr. decided to back Ronald Reagan for President--and what happened next. See the full video of my interview with journalist Sam Tenenhaus at Politicial Junkie. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 18/10/2025
Hands off our democracy, Donald Trump #NoKIngs #Northampton
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Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com · 17/10/2025
From our new episode dropping at clairepotter.Substack.com dropping 7:30 am Friday
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