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Joe Stieb

@joestieb.bsky.social
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Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill. Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels. Political liberal, hoop reactionary. Posting goodreads reviews regularly.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h
This guy is gonna run the most juiceless & off-putting presidential campaign of our lifetimes in 2028
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 6h
Cringe death of the universe
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 6h
The military doesn’t decide who we go to war with kthxbye
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
Occam’s razor: he is a Nazi.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/10/2026
Every time I open twitter I’m hit with absolutely rank antisemitism *from the left*. This guy is a correspondent for the fucking Nation.
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I challenge you to show me material proof of systemic/procedural antisemitism in New York.
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It's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani's antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC o...
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A reminder that she’s still an insane anti semitic conspiracy theorist
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.usatoday.com/story/sports... A giant King
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Victor Wembanyama takes strong stand against promoting sports betting
San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama has spoken out about a number of cultural issues. His latest was about the sports gambling industry.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is evil
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He got an unbelievably good deal, actually
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reading this and again thinking to myself about how Sam Moyn and Trita Parsi found their own ways to becoming the stupidest fucking people on the face of the planet www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.
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It's a beautiful sight.
This and 250,000 visa revocations.
U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And people say christian nationalism isn’t a thing
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pic unrelated
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
spare me
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The omission of confederates and fascists is key because that’s who they admire
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is genuinely chilling how quickly antisemitism in leftist and entertainer spaces is accelerating. All they need to do is cite Palestine and suddenly everyone forgets everything they've been told in favor of defending blatant antisemitism from has-beens and mediocrities.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Total death penalty abolition is the only acceptable thing
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A free press is of course great, but I hate hate hate their filthy traitor guts.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, no I don’t think I will
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
F—king idiot
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, what could our military leaders learn from a bunch of civilians anyway? It's not like they're supposed to be citizen-soldiers with a well-rounded education.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm a normal person. literacy is important. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The reason writing is important is that it puts you on record with the claims you’re making and other people can check to see whether or not you’re spewing bs
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now listening to ‘The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living’ by Dara Horn.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am in italy and there are still eagles fans here😑
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Quincy types are big mad that biden averted war with iran.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a really insightful, somewhat revisionist account of HW Bush as a pragmatic liberal internationalist as well as a compelling look at how the ‘Bush the Realist’ was concocted after his presidency.
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Texas National Security Review @tnsr.org · 28/09/2026
Was George H. W. Bush truly a foreign policy realist? In our latest article, Samuel Helfont challenges this myth. He argues that Bush 41 practiced a disciplined liberal internationalism, from the Gulf War to Somalia. Read more at tnsr.org/2026/09/libe... @samuelhelfont.bsky.social
Scholar | "Liberal Internationalism Forgotten: Myth and Memory in the Legacy of George H. W. Bush" by Samuel Helfont
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Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest for TNSR on how George HW Bush’s foreign policy legacy has been used and abused by all sides.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Calling it the JCPOA
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every time I see a picture of Peter Thiel he looks like a different type of rotting cheese.
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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
80% of the time when people like him leave a network and strike out on their own, you realize the only reason they didn’t come across as a kook the entire time is that the network has a bunch of resources that constrained them to prevent that
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think @mehdirhasan.bsky.social still parrots discredited hacks like Matty Taibbi in this and in that is part of the problem.
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cancel culture was mostly just people who had never faced consequences before occasionally facing consequences for their shitty behavior. And for the powerful, that state of affairs could not stand
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now reading "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Michael Chabon.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing that I do is forgetting those that is behind and reaching forward to what’s ahead.
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