Reposted by Felix Harcourtdame @dame.is · 26/09/2026I knew the second I saw that viral clip of the mom and dad at the baseball game that the internet’s insane parasocial contextless gut reaction to it was going to end up being wildly wrong. I really really hate how people just don’t give a shit about being kind or thoughtful anymore on the internet. 319329
Reposted by Felix Harcourtwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups 62428366
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great piece on a woefully underwatched film that rightfully ranks with the best of paranoid cinema 0134
Reposted by Felix Harcourtjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence! 793123380
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAndrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force. 243182684
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts 545038812
Reposted by Felix Harcourtmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god 3942341134
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAlison Preston @alisonserene.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Can't quite put words to how much I adored The Rivals of Amziah King. My favorite movie in many years. (Thank you @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social for the review that sent us to the theater!) 1114
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I feel like I’ve barely seen it promoted anywhere, but you - yes you - need to go and see The Rivals of Amziah King 121
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel 313512795
Reposted by Felix Harcourt👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/08/2026Yea you see, the problem here is that what historians actually do is construct the ‘well structured large historical dataset’.What you’re saying is that Claude can write an elementary school level paper on like the civil war 341299218
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky 000
Reposted by Felix HarcourtNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778512570
Reposted by Felix HarcourtCasey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/07/2026People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference 743679481
Reposted by Felix HarcourtRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In which Bo French, the openly racist candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, claims that his Jewish opponent has “much in common” with the Bolsheviks. 23616
Reposted by Felix HarcourtThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188834440
Reposted by Felix Harcourtbossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026gotta say... a lot of you are failing to live by the number one rule of dog park 332687
Reposted by Felix HarcourtWendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026They say: “American History is Worth Learning” [Posts picture from British history]. 501720378
Reposted by Felix HarcourtKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is the most powerful thing I've read in a good long while, and I urge all of you to read it too. I'm gonna be sitting with this one for some time. 66617
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Well, the introduction to my fall “WWII to Watergate” course is ready 010
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Was Fred Trump a Klansman? Maybe! (But probably not?). Happy to be featured in this article exploring the question talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-fre...talkingpointsmemo.comHow Fred Trump’s Mysterious KKK Riot Arrest Resonates Almost a Century LaterAntifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging... 000
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAriana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Sen. Rand Paul, chair of Senate Homeland, has used his opening statement to ask Sen. Markwayne Mullin to address his comments where he called Rand a "freaking snake” and addressed sympathy with a neighbor who assaulted Rand. 813823
Reposted by Felix HarcourtMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I loved writing this because I love this movie: Places in the Heart. And I love the illustration by @briannaduggan.bsky.social ! 46715
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026A far more entertaining journey than sitting through BOAN itself, if you ask me 0295
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Absolute chump move by Vulture. Really great stuff available to purchase in Matt’s online store though - lots of more off-beat, unusual, and signed finds. My friend still raves about the popcorn purse I gave her 020
Reposted by Felix HarcourtMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful! 28760793482
Reposted by Felix Harcourtmechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026No Kings includes Draft Kings 178258826020
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13 and that’s all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer 110
Reposted by Felix HarcourtKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them. 1890214
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Yes, the world is crumbling in various ways, but also I have a new article out - “The Klandidate: Senator Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan in Federal Politics.” escholarship.org/uc/jrws/3/2escholarship.orgJournal of Right-Wing Studies 100
Reposted by Felix HarcourtRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise 1742769974
Reposted by Felix Harcourtjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/12/2025bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it 1035033869
Reposted by Felix Harcourtlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2025i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes) 271394205
Reposted by Felix HarcourtKathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism. 9448168
Reposted by Felix HarcourtErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 27/09/2025One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨ 110731
Reposted by Felix Harcourtjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course. 13149311135
Reposted by Felix HarcourtJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over 13746444
Reposted by Felix HarcourtAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd 02511
Reposted by Felix HarcourtMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality." 371710560
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Come join me in the Austin College History department! Hiring a tenure-track Latin Americanist, so apply/spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/68903/a...networks.h-net.orgAustin College - Assistant Professor of History - Latin America and the World | H-Net 042
Reposted by Felix HarcourtMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/08/2025"General sense of doom."buff.lyFirst Faculty Meeting of the Year BingoFirst Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo 418248
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...nytimes.comThe Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There 020
Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster! 030