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Felix Harcourt

@felixh.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History. English transplant to Texas.

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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026
I 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.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great piece on a woefully underwatched film that rightfully ranks with the best of paranoid cinema
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jamelle @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!
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Andrew @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.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
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Alison Preston @alisonserene.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Can'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!)
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I feel like I’ve barely seen it promoted anywhere, but you - yes you - need to go and see The Rivals of Amziah King
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
welcome 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
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/08/2026
Yea 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
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
Screenshot of Cousin Greg from Succession lying shirtless on a beach holding a glass of champagne. He’s saying “It’s fine. I’ll drink it. It’s just not my favorite.”
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This 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
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/07/2026
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In which Bo French, the openly racist candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, claims that his Jewish opponent has “much in common” with the Bolsheviks.
Email: Today marks the 108th anniversary of the execution of the Romanov family by the Bolsheviks.
My opponent, Radical Rosenthal, has much in common with the Marxist revolutionaries who brutally executed the Romanov family and ushered in total Communist control of Russia.My opponent has spent his time in office mocking Christianity, the Virgin Birth, and Christian Communion, while voting against religious liberty and for the spread of Islam.
This is who Radical Rosenthal is.
Many are saying he is Radical Revolutionary Rosenthal.
His buddy Vegan Talafreako is on record HATING Christianity.
The communist playbook these two despicable psychos are running is over a hundred years old.
If we don't stand up for Texas now, they will have their full-scale communist revolution.
Radical Rosenthal will destroy Texas Oil and Gas and unleash his infernal revolution on our State.
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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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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
gotta say... a lot of you are failing to live by the number one rule of dog park
Sign reading 

DOG PARK RULES

NUMBER ONE RULE: BE COOL AND HAVE FUN!
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I feel horribly seen
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
They say: “American History is Worth Learning” [Posts picture from British history].
Facebook post from the US Department of Education with an image of British suffagettes that ironically says “American history is worth learning.”
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This 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.
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Well, the introduction to my fall “WWII to Watergate” course is ready
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Screenshot of ABC News coverage of the 1994 car chase involving OJ Simpson's white Bronco.
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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Top frame: Screencap from Fox News; Brian Kilmeade: This makes no sense. 

Middle frame: Screencap from “The Good Place”; Michael: [shocked] Kilmeade figured it out? Kilmeade?!?

Bottom frame: Michael: This is is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Was Fred Trump a Klansman? Maybe! (But probably not?). Happy to be featured in this article exploring the question talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-fre...
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How Fred Trump’s Mysterious KKK Riot Arrest Resonates Almost a Century Later
Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging...
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Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Sen. 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.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I loved writing this because I love this movie: Places in the Heart. And I love the illustration by @briannaduggan.bsky.social !
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A far more entertaining journey than sitting through BOAN itself, if you ask me
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Absolute 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
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: 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!
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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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
Cover of Justice League International by Giffen and DeMatteis, with the greatest (or at least most bwah-ha-ha-iest) Justice League lineup
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The 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.
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Yes, 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/3/2
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Journal of Right-Wing Studies
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Ryan 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...
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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
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BáiYù 🏳️‍⚧️ he/they | TMPJ!!! @baiyu.tofu.rocks · 03/01/2026
A meme of Captain Haddock from Tinton saying, "What a year huh?" Tinton replies, "Captain, It's January 3rd."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/12/2025
bad 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
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2025
i 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)
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Kathleen 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.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
One 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✨
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025
the 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.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
CHOTINER: 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
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This 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."
Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Come 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...
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Austin College - Assistant Professor of History - Latin America and the World | H-Net
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/08/2025
"General sense of doom."
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First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
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The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There
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Felix Harcourt @felixh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
Bespectacled cat in a classic academic sweater and shirt combo with a mug of tea (never coffee) and a document, saying “These primary sources are very revealing,” and overall making for an uncomfortably strong resemblance
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