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Greg Wilson

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Professor of History. U.S. environmental, labor, public history. Ohio history.

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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c... This is not an Onion headline.
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Jerry was instrumental in keeping the history and memory of the Kent State shootings alive. www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/h...
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Professor Jerry M. Lewis, witness to Kent State shootings, dies at 88
Lewis helped disperse the crowd after National Guard opened fire May 4, 1970. He dedicated his life to researching and memorializing that day.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Powerful editorial. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
📆 Next week! Remember to sign up for our roundtable organized by the Deindustrialization and the Environment Working Group
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Roundtable - Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss ongoing research
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 03/09/2025
President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S. manufacturing lost 37,000 jobs over three straight months ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/t...
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Trump Promised to Revive Manufacturing. Will He Deliver? • Ohio Capital Journal
President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S.…
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Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
KSU Press joins the wider Kent State community in remembering the events of May 4, 1970. As part of our contribution to the commemoration, we’re sharing a list of titles on May 4 themes: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/
Stack of books on May 4 themes (linked in post) in a library setting.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A metaphor for our times. At least in Ohio. youtu.be/dqxSXB8dU1M?...
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JD Vance drops College Football Playoff trophy
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We all feel like this. youtu.be/du-TY1GUFGk?...
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It Is Wednesday My Dudes Vine
YouTube video by Jimmy Here
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A drumming inspiration to me and countless others. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies, aged 70
The musician, who had cancer, was the powerhouse behind hits like Atomic, Heart Of Glass and Call Me.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Over a hundred people showing up for democracy Zanesville today! I’d say the honks against fascism outnumbered the middle fingers for it about 3 to 1.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Vultures gathering to feast on the remains of my retirement plan.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
And then provide $600 million for the Cleveland Browns. And attack higher education.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A disaster. Taking Ohio backwards again. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/ohio-...
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Ohio Gov. DeWine signs higher ed bill regulating classroom discussion and banning diversity efforts • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a massive higher education bill that would ban diversity and equity and prohibit faculty from striking into law into law Friday afternoon. The bill will take effect in 90 ...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Happy to be part of this great collection of essays!
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Everything is fine. Everything is fine. No need to worry.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great piece from Martha Pallante’s talk at YSU. Ohio is purported to have had the largest number of KKK members in the 1920s.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2023 on Biden "handling classified documents... flippantly": "If at the very top there's no accountability," then we have "two tiers of justice."
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
No way this guy accidentally leaked war plans in a text message
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Censorship is a weapon of the totalitarians. Freedom of expression is the bulwark of democracy.”
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 18/03/2025
School vouchers were the most obvious scam in history.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 14/03/2025
On Monday, Speaker Huffman blamed expenditures on uneaten green beans for why Ohio wouldn’t fund free lunches for schoolchildren. Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season. www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...
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Won't somebody think of the disgustingly rich crackers?
Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is on the verge of co-opting our State Legislature at the cost of everyone else in Ohio who isn't a criminal billionaire.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How Ohio lawmakers are reacting to the Browns request for $600 million - Ohio Capital Journal. Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Opinion Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government. by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
March 7 1965. Bloody Sunday. Remember the struggle as voting rights are again under attack.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Newt just stop, please.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump is a God now, well almost. He awaits the unanimous decision of the Senate. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...
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Four Republican Justices “Stunned” Trump Isn’t a King Yet
The Court's decision in the USAID lawsuit reveals an institution perilously close to making Donald Trump a king.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Meanwhile in Congress…
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Dewine is trying to fool Ohioans by using outdated numbers… “If the legislature chooses not to fully fund public schools, Ohioans will face even higher property taxes, fewer opportunities for students, and long-term damage to Ohio’s economic future.” janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/d...
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DeWine’s Budget Includes Full Phase-In of OH Fair School Funding Plan. Why Will Majority of School Districts Lose Funding?
Here in Ohio in early February, Governor Mike DeWine proposed a new biennial state budget, which included the final phase-in of a new school funding formula, whose first two phases were completed i…
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Three cheers for this team of volunteers!
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alright folks…nothing to see here…no openly brazen corruption…move along please.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Making America great again like the Gilded Age and the Great Depression.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brutal.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
And we see schools gutting programs rather than fight.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Analysis: Red states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana could be hurt most by Trump's cuts."
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Analysis: Red states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana could be hurt most by Trump's cuts
The numbers clearly show how states like Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana won't be spared from the Trump/Musk budget-cuts.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Transgender references erased from Stonewall National Monument website - Out
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This has to be without a doubt the worst cabinet ever assembled in the history of the United States. Even Harding’s grifters and Nixon’s criminals are no match for Trump’s band of liars, cheaters, hacks, and duplicitous incompetents selling out the nation’s well-being and security.
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a man is holding a pencil to his nose and smelling it .
ALT: a man is holding a pencil to his nose and smelling it .
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
More than 800 people submit testimony against Ohio’s massive higher education overhaul bill Ohio Senate Bill 1 would ban diversity & inclusion efforts, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, and put diversity scholarships at risk ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/11/m...
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More than 800 people submit testimony against Ohio's massive higher education overhaul bill • Ohio Capital Journal
Hundreds of college students, university faculty and concerned citizens submitted testimony against a controversial bill that would overhaul higher education for Ohio’s public universities.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes?
There can be no appeasement. None.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
www.vox.com/politics/398... A good summary so far of the many ways Musk and Trump are breaking the law.
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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you're looking for help on what exactly to tell your member of Congress, this resource is quite useful: 5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
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Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 04/02/2025
In a survey released Monday, the overwhelming majority of economists said cuts to public education funding proposed by GOP Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman would dampen the state's future economic output and increase inequality in an already unequal state
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Economists: Ohio school funding cuts would hurt economy, increase inequality • Ohio Capital Journal
In a survey released Monday, the overwhelming majority of economists said cuts to public education funding proposed by Republican Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman would dampen the state's future…
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/02/2025
Trump and Musk's actions can overwhelm the reader. Important not to forget basic facts. If Musk illegally accessed federal employee records and tax and social security information and transferred them to a private device, he is vulnerable to prosecution and a multidecade sentence in federal prison.
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Greg Wilson @gswphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History - The Wall Street Journal Trump: the avocado nationalist.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is a purge. Full Stop. Women and minorities are being erased by Trump.
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