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John Craig Hammond

@johncraighammond.bsky.social
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Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 Avid Footballer www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the… sites.psu.edu/jch24

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt:
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still questing ALL ....
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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 20/09/2026
Lawrenceville. Butler Street. Caller says some guy is offering food and a good time for anyone who joins him in his U-Haul.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@dael.bsky.social What's up with this?
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/09/2026
trump and putin are both very alike in that they inherited huge material stocks from their strategic forebears in preparation for a major calamity and decided to take that and go to the casino, put it all on red, and now have no idea what to do since that didn't work
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/09/2026
Disregard that it is Fox News for a minute as it is a report from USS Washington. Watch and then ask yourself - is this a war or not? youtu.be/xCEz9TnqAY0?...
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Trey Yingst: Tension is SKYROCKETING
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh yeah.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump and Vance have always telegraphed that they've never thrown a punch -- like made a fist and been in a *fight* -- in their lives. Trump has slapped and grabbed his share of women, sure, probably harmed a few small animals. Never punched another man. That's a different ballgame in the wild.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 25/08/2026
It is not up to the president what the Kennedy Center is called. It is not up to the president what the Department of Defense is called. It is not up to the president what the Gulf of Mexico is called. It is not up to the president what Lake Ontario is called.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We're doing this Canada stuff again? Here's fIREHOSE doing a blistering cover of "The Red and the Black," Blue Oyster Cult's take on the Canadian Mounties. "Canadian Mounted, baby Police force at work Red and Black It's their color scheme Get their man In the end" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeu...
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fIREHOSE - The Red And The Black
YouTube video by The Void
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motorcycleman.bsky.social @motorcycleman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Biden could actually ride a bike. Poor bike would disappear up trumps ass.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ken Paxton stole someone’s $1,000 pen. He’ll steal your tax dollars. He’ll steal your healthcare. He’ll even steal your pen. I'll be a Senator who puts money in your pocket — and I’ll never put your pen in mine.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's acceptable to use the term "learned" three times in an article, correct?
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Jeff Carlson @jeffcarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Joe Biden took an hours-long secret train ride into war-torn Ukraine, and Trump got hustled away in a catering truck to get out of a friendly nation. OK.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Easy. Like my dad and his dad before him, Steamfitters Local 420, Philadelphia www.lu420.com
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UA Local 420
UA Local 420
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
what needs -- other than hunger for profit and hubris -- does AI promise to meet?
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@dael.bsky.social It's not a state; it's just the three lower counties.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They were totally mocking you.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Whenever I get a royalty check, I feel like Steve Martin in the Jerk when the phone book arrives. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3344/ www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3917/
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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West - UVA Press
Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The View They Don't Want You to See #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The View They Don't Want You to See
The Reflecting Pool is hidden behind fencing. The stories we tell this week won't be.
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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14/07/2026
Thomas Paine quote from the last letter of his life, addressed to Thomas Jefferson. See more at thomaspaine.org
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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
On this day: July 13, 1987. The Descendents show happened at First Avenue that would become the “Liveage” LP on SST Records.
DESCENDENTS “LIVEAGE!” album cover with image of band playing at First Avenue. Back off album cover with image of a van. 

SIDE ALL
ALL
I'M NOT A LOSER
SILLY GIRL
I WANNA BE A BEAR
COOLIDGE
WEINERSCHNITZEL
I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP
KIDS
WENDY
GET THE TIME DESCENDENTS
 
SIDE ALL!!
ALL-O-GISTICS
MYAGE
MY DAD SUCKS
VAN
SUBURBAN HOME
HOPE
CLEAN SHEETS

BASS: KARL ALVAREZ
GUITAR: STEPHEN EGERTON
DRUMS: BILL STEVENSON
VOCALS: MILO AUKERMANProduced by Bill Stevenson
Recorded July 13, 1987, at First Avenue in Minneapolis Engineered live by Matt Rector
Mixed at 3rd Wave Studio, Torrance, CA
Engineered by Richard Andrews
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"America is not built for the beautiful game." ... As Emma and the USWNT are gearing up for their fifth star.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What's the Islamic Republic of Japan's FIFA ranking?
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
All these things can be true: 1) The U.S. gov (esp. Trump) intervening is and looks bad. 2) FIFA has a history of corruption and selectively applying rules. 3) Lack of transparency makes FIFA look worse. 4) Balogun’s red was given due to the ref misapplying VAR rules and should have been overturned.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wish I could share an example of an AI-generated paper we receive all the time because they are *weird*. Mechanical manucripts that tick the boxes as academic content but really contribute nothing to knowledge. If AI has benefits for research, we're not seeing it. Just seeing shoddy autoscholarship.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Look who's at the game tonight! Our 48th President @kamalaharris.com & first First Gentleman @douglasemhoff.bsky.social!
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@steelarmy.bsky.social 3 players who played at Highmark are starting for USMNT.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I admit, I loled at “leak in the back”
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Trump’s New Leak in the Back Reflecting Pool Legend
You’re no doubt seeing the now endless run of stories about the...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My post of this column on X, urging others to join me, is going to be my last post before deleting my account after 17 or so years I can't have that association with the world's highest-profile hatemonger. I hope everyone who's left on X will join me in saying no to hate, and no to trillionaires
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
While everyone is celebrating NYC and the Knicks, just a reminder that USMNT & NYCFC GK Matt Friese is a Philly boy and Union academy product
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A drunk South Philly guy would've shimmied up there and crowbarred it off in like 10 minutes
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Liberate the tarp, good people. Liberate it!
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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Dan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Pope called it soccer, game set match.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What's happening in middle America, 1720 - 1820? LIsten to this to find out, and then get a substantial discount on the book from the @pennpress.bsky.social shsmo.org/our-missouri...
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Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammonds (Origins, Part 8)
In this episode of the "Origins" series, John Craig Hammond joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, The Centrality of Slavery:Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri. Episode Im...
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What's happening in middle America, 1720 - 1820? LIsten to this to find out, and then get a substantial discount on the book from the @pennpress.bsky.social shsmo.org/our-missouri...
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Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammonds (Origins, Part 8)
In this episode of the "Origins" series, John Craig Hammond joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, The Centrality of Slavery:Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri. Episode Im...
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Article on anti- and pro-slavery politics on the 1810s and 1820s submitted today. Podcast on enslavement and empire in the 1700s and 1800s, out now, shsmo.org/our-missouri... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammond (Origins, Part 8) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
In this episode of the "Origins" series, John Craig Hammond joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, The Centrality of Slavery:Empire and Enslavement in
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Article on anti- and pro-slavery politics on the 1810s and 1820s submitted today. Podcast on enslavement and empire in the 1700s and 1800s, out now, shsmo.org/our-missouri... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammond (Origins, Part 8) | The State Historical Society of Missouri
In this episode of the "Origins" series, John Craig Hammond joins host Sean Rost to discuss his new book, The Centrality of Slavery:Empire and Enslavement in
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Podcast on "The Centrality of Slavery," and 30% of from Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social @richardscenter.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282842... open.spotify.com/episode/3dfG...
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Episode 128: The Centrality of Slavery - John Craig Hammonds (Origins, Part 8)
Our Missouri · Episode
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
Here are the quotes Trump's NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument. Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.
Poster that reads "Colored Americans were here that day fighting with other patriots, our own ancestors, of whom we are justly proud and on whom we base our claim for full liberty and equality as citizens." - William Monroe Trotter, Activist and Editor of the Guardian, Bunker Hill Day Address, June 17, 1925.

"We find, upon reflection, that our duty to our country has not ended...We as Vietnam Veterans, strongly feel that the United States should cease to build memorials to death and begin to glorify life" - Arthur Johnson & Bestor Cram, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Letter in the Boston Globe, May 23, 1971.Poster that reads, "Now that a public orator has declared that foreign-born men have no association with the men of the Revolution, it is our duty to show that in love of freedom and loyalty to the Republic, the citizens of foreign birth take no second place..." - "To Our Irish Societies," The Pilot, May 8, 1875.

"The battle is celebrated for the justice of the cause, which, because it was just, was triumphant. The woman suffrage battle is like that of Bunker Hill-not won today, but sure to be later. Meantime, Bunker Hill Monument is our Monument." - Lucy Stone, Suffragist and Newspaper Editor, Woman's Journal, June 22, 1889.Poster that reads, "The Bunker Hill Monument is finished. Here it stands...it rises over the land, and over the sea...it stands a memorial of the last, and a monitor to the present, and to all succeeding generations." - Daniel Webster, Bunker Hill Monument Dedication Oration, June 17, 1843.

"As we drew near Boston, there stood Bunker Hill Monument, towering up towards the heavens, as if in silent, bitter mockery of the millions of slaves guarded by the professed lovers of Liberty, who reared its lofty column." - G.B. Stebbins to William Lloyd Garrison, Letter in the Liberator, May 22, 1846.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Double Nickels on the Dime"
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A poorly individuated identity leads to frightened rigid adherence to pre-formed off-the-shelf identities built around immutable self-features like race & gender. These store-bought identities are fragile and must be protected. Protecting this fragility is why right-wing politics exists.
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