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Keith Wailoo

@kwailoo.bsky.social
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Author, historian, and policy scholar Pushing Cool, the untold story of the menthol cigarette; Pain, a political history; Dying in the City of the Blues.

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 22/09/2026
📢Congratulations to our new OAH Lecturers! 🎉 We are proud to announce this year’s group of U. S. historians who bring a wealth of knowledge and diverse historical perspectives to the OAH Lectureship Program roster. #OAHLecturer 👉 Meet the new speakers: ow.ly/I0L550ZQhGC
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He also knows AI good. Go ahead, ask him about if there was anti-shark AI on the electric boat, then what?
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alt headline: “Swapping brown shirts for khakis,….”
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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's literally like a Christian saying "God willing" Or, to quote Hank Williams, Jr If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise
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If The Good Lord's Willin' (And The Creeks Don't Rise)
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“It's very easy to create something you don't need with AI,” said Vincent Gusdorf, head of AI analytics at Moody's Ratings and author of a new report that recommends a more disciplined approach. abcnews.com/amp/Technolo...
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A flex in corporate America, AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as workplaces look to cut tech spending
A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“The AI executives are saying (basically) “we plan to consume so much power that we will soon need to blot out the sun with space data centers,” and their favored bloggers are then chiming in to say “but when you think about it, that’s not much energy usage at all!””
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“something had gone “completely wrong.” He said he was channeling the voice of American businesses privately “livid” about paying so much for tokens that create no value.” Creating no value.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Serious question: with reflecting pool drained where does RFK jr wash his lettuce?
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If he signed an MOU with the pool algae, it would be lead story on Fox News. And major media would headline, “Questions Mount over Trump’s Daring Deal with Reflecting Pool Algae.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Trump regime used DEI words to target and terminate grants. No one can hide the bigotry and racism of Republicans at this point. Nobody‼️ #USDemocracy #Pinks
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/03/2026
Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Tillis lecturing Noem on how castrated goats fall in line. As a GOP Senator in Trump era, he sure knows what he’s talking about.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Well, well, well…❤️
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Scott says Americans dont get what’s Beautiful about the bill because we don’t understand the pieces. So every 2 weeks he’s gonna “extract (a piece) and educate” us. The piece I think Scott should extract first is his head from Trumps ass (to paraphrase a fella at a GOP town hall).
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/11/2025
While Americans go hungry, President Donald Trump was partying it up. The president spent Friday night hosting a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween celebration at Mar-a-Lago, just hours before tens of millions of low-income Americans were set to lose access to food stamps.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
A shocking level of cruelty mixed with demented delusion. Building a grand palace ballroom for the rich while using hunger as a political tool against those in need.
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✰ @erikforrestjackson.com · 28/10/2025
The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
To be clear, calling it the Epstein Ballroom doesn’t mean it’s named for Epstein the pedophile. So many others. Could be Epstein from Welcome Back, Kotter.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Brutal. A true leader would resign based on this alone.
Trump is extremely unpopular.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Every day is Opposite Day if your head is in trumps rectum. Speaker Johnson: “we call it the ‘Hate Anerica’ Rally.. I bet you you’ll see… people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.” That’s a bet you lost big time, opposite boy! Pay up.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In a Cabinet of Fools. Scott Bessent: “this crazy No Kings rally, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party”. This what you call hard core? Time to take your head out of Trump’s ass, Scott.
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sam @samveep.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
lol please watch this with sound
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Cuomo is an embarrassment. If he hadn’t been publicly sat down once already, I would say “just sit down.” He’s ready &willing to kneel to fascism and sacrifice New Yorkers in the bargain. Pathetic.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Gavin Newsom with the receipts!
A screenshot of an X post by Gavin Newsom (@GavinNe
..., 1 day ago) listing the last three government shutdowns: October 1, 2025 under President Trump, December 22, 2018 under President Trump, and January 20, 2018 under President Trump, with the comment "Almost like there is a pattern here." The post includes a profile picture of Gavin Newsom speaking.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Mamdani on Trumps threat to punish NYC if he wins: "He’s going through the many stages of grief… First, it’s denial that this could ever take place. Now it’s acceptance. And still through it all, he is looking to use every tool at his disposal to help Andrew Cuomo become the next mayor of the city.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Gov Pritzker: “…Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that’s some sort of proving ground for war…is just, frankly, inane.. something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Wow. The GOP Speaker of the House, when told by a Dem Representative that “the president is unhinged. He is unwell,” responds “A lot of folks on your side are too. I dont control him.” So he sees Trump as unhinged and unwell. Glad that’s out in the open. Thanks Mike.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Back in the day TV used to be called the idiot box. George Carlin had it right: “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKN1...
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George Carlin - Stupid people
YouTube video by Gábor Hényel
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
For farmers, Trump tariffs destroy markets abroad & wreck local economy. “Gackle said the losses are not just tied to individual farmers. "It's the small businesses, the local grocery stores, hardware stores, our local schools, our financial institutions, they are all feeling the hurt from this."
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thinking ahead about what the post-Nazi era of accountability might look like. Who will be named today’s “major offenders,” “militarists,” “profiteers,” “lesser offenders,” and “followers”? Not too soon to plan for after the fall. www.theholocaustexplained.org/survival-and...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ezra Klein has been speaking a lot on red states and rural Democrats and here’s the thing…he shouldn’t. He has no idea what he’s talking about.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sometimes the truth just pops out that way.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Here we go again America. Taking advice from dude who told us about disinfectants against COVID and that he heard “the virus dies quickly in sunlight..” and we could maybe bring that “into the body.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
What kind sickness is it when someone says an obvious thing, as Harper did, “If you want people to speak kindly about you after you’re gone then you should speak kindly while you’re alive.” And so-called people are like, hey dude, take that back!! Bryce is right: speak kindness not cruelty.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
GOP Reps in Montana, Missouri, FL, and Utah hate “equity” so much they cut highway projects in their own districts “to the detriment of their own constituents.” Never occurred to them that “equity” meant decent roads, fair access in Utah and Montana.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Constituent has perfect message for GOP: “TYHOOTA” (take you head out of…) But they’re having a hard time hearing in there.
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Heidi Schuster @heidischuster.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Chris Truax, an appellate lawyer who served as Southern California chair for John McCain’s 2008 primary campaign, — published an article in The Hill today, titled: “Trump’s mental decline is undeniable—so what now?”” I’ve never understood why this wasn’t a bigger story.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“Just then, they discovered 30 or 40 windmills... And as soon as don Quixote saw them, he said… “Look over there…where there are thirty or more monstrous giants with whom I plan to do battle and take all their lives, and with their spoils we’ll start to get rich.” What giants?” said Sancho Panza.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It’s ominously bad for him when an article can begin fact-based like this: “Ghislaine Maxwell is a pedophile, a sex trafficker and a perjurer, and Donald Trump needs her to vouch for him.” He’s like “Yeh, she’ll clear it all up. You’ll see.”
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Another case of “I didn’t vote for this” coming back to bite hard. Of course Republicans did vote for this. Just thought “other people” who were “too reliant on government” would be hurt while their own reliance would be spared. Rural hospitals fail, erosion $ gone. They voted to harm themselves.
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Asked about GOP cuts, Nurse caring for disabled kids on Medicaid says: ““Giving up is not something that parents of medically complex and disabled children know how to do,” she said. “I just don’t understand why they’re making it harder.””
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Keith Wailoo @kwailoo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Yes, this is pure satire! The Washington Nationals must IMMEDIATELY be sent back to their homeland and be MONTREAL EXPOS once again!! Having Rubio revoke their visas now!! Ebbets Field in Flatbush must be rebuilt and the Dodgers must leave FAILING Los Angeles. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!
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