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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apple should sue Trump for stealing the “Big Brother” segment of their 1984 Macintosh ad.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

SCOTUS tells the 8th Circuit to f*ck off. :-)

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great news: the #AAS - NEH long term fellowship is being reinstated!!!! That's the fellowship that allowed me to do most of the work for "The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600-1870." It's also when I began to consider Worcester for our home after retiring from Truman.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also, he purged the Kennedy Center of a collection of African art that was given in tribute to JFK, but he installed this, from the Tony Montana Meets Saddam Hussein Collection.

Indescribably, almost parodistically ugly, vulgar, gold-foil relief art, straight out of a dictator's cocaine palace, of Trump raising his fist and saying "Fight! Fight! Fight!" after having his ear grazed by a bullet, and of RFK Jr. with some croaky quote next to him. The art pieces look like something you could unwrap to reveal artificially flavored chocolate from five Easters ago.

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Is not practicing Jewish" is an old antisemitic weapon; they get to decide who is & is not Jewish ~enough~ to count as Jewish; every other Jew is thus deserving of the smears & dehumanization. Left unsaid is that The Real Jews™ are also dehumanized but in a "so sad you're going to hell" way.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Must proceed” to make the Corrupt Jackass feel better about his tiny fingers. Hope those organizations tell the admins to fuck off into the sun. Also hope it’s easy to tear down in two years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say

National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Appropriate recognition" would be impeachment and removal.

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Susan Stone @susanjstone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Aaron, #ICYMI Judge Luttig warns that House Speaker Mike Johnson could help install a loyal clerk who refuses to place duly elected Democrats on the opening roll of the next Congress. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/the-writin...

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The Writing is Already on the Wall

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

THIS Washington? “Washington, Washington [thirty feet tall, weighs fifty tons] Opponents beware, opponents beware He's coming, he's coming, he's coming . . . Let me lay it on line, he had two on the vine I mean two sets of testicles, so divine . . . “

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great: SCOTUS slaps down the Missouri Sec of State and AG -- and the Trumpy fed district judge. A victory for Missouri voters and the (very) useful initiative process in that state.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So, let me get this straight, the US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion of their national assets, hails the billions it has already brought in and promises billions more...

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nice news: my “'Doctrines of Liberty and Equality'”: The Revolution and Indians in Southern New England," is in the NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY. Bridges the gap between BEHIND THE FRONTIER and TRIBE, RACE, HISTORY, with new research on Native service in the War for Independence. direct.mit.edu/tneq/issue

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Volume 99 Issue 3 | The New England Quarterly | MIT Press

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Unexpected: I'll be returning to the classroom for the fall to teach two sections of Native American history, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

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Al Pacino: Just When I Thought I Was Out

Alt: Al Pacino: Just When I Thought I Was Out

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Has anyone else noticed that #MOSecState #DennyHoskins looks a LOT like Mozzie, the “paranoid con artist” in the series WHITE COLLAR?

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Nice to see 80% of Missourians are rejecting the #MOLeg MAGA bombs.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Last time I checked that “voice” is supposed to be a vote by Congress (representing the people of the U.S.), not G-d and certainly not #CorruptDementedTrump

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/08/2026

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

Tweet from interior Secretary Doug Burgum * = @Sec...•1h
The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera. We also provided the U.S. Attorney's office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every piece of evidence they asked for in the requested time line detailing each area of damage at the pool.
The Reflecting Pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial and dates back to 1922.
@POTUS cares deeply about protecting our sacred national monuments and his leadership has led the restoration of our Nation's Capital by Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Again.
Intentional damage done to the Reflecting Pool is no different than defacing any one of our other national monuments.
We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Trump lethargically lumbering his way through what the teleprompter is telling him to say, trying to warn the audience that at the first event he had a really powerful strong speech that would've destroyed them. He sounds like he's been hit with a tranq dart.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Whatever else can be said about the United States, we had a higher education system that was truly the envy of the world. Now we're destroying it entirely for no reason other than racism. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump's pick for Attorney General all but promised to prosecute abortion providers who ship pills across state lines, agreeing to “ensure the faithful enforcement of the Comstock Act and other federal pro-life acts." That said, I’m not convinced the Trump administration wants that kind of heat

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Seems a simple choice: Trump could die before the coin is issued, or his toadies will be sued for breaking the law. Regardless, it’s more evidence that this Corrupt Demented Jackass thinks he’s above the law, and is the guy the Founders feared might rise with great wealth corrupting the republic.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“We disagree about many things, but agree that Todd Blanche is a waghid/schmuck who the Senate should reject.”

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Regretful that Lindsay Graham sold his soul to this corrupt demented devil.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

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Courses will be required at University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom

University of Iowa Students will now be required to take classes from the new Center for Intellectual Freedom in order to graduate.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

McCarthy trying hard to win this year’s “Oblivious Award.” I’m sure the gifs and jokes below that post will be (chef’s kiss).

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Janet Mills: tanned, rested, and ready. Wait, do Mainers have enough sun to tan? Well, two out of three is pretty good.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ganz superbly dissects the opinions in Trump v. Barbara, the 14th Amendment case, including the ethos and attitudes that underlie the minority opinions. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

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Our Revolutionary Birthright

Trump v. Barbara and its Meaning

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

An early American historian lives here.

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Such a Kevin @kevinkohler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

JD Vance puts the Christ in "Christ, what an asshole."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Spoke with a Guardian reporter yesterday about the #tax on #billionaires and related concerns about #excess #wealth. Link to article in 1st comment.

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