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Nathaniel C. Green

@nathanielcgreen.bsky.social
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History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961 Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who knew Eric Schmitt didn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes?
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am not watching this game because I refuse to subscribe to Amazon Prime, but if this actually happened you throw this asshole out and you do not give him a refund.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The greatest playoff performer in Atlanta Hawks history
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026
Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
name your fave 80's film
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Indiana Jones Looks Thoughtful
Alt: Indiana Jones stroking his chin while admiring the golden idol in the Amazon, beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This should seriously be an interactive exhibit at the Folger
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jesus: Love thy neighbor. Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Heal the sick. Welcome the stranger. Conservative dipshits: Prepare for war, got it.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Otters are awesome
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Owls are awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykcs...
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Incredible footage shows how owl uses sound to hunt under snow
YouTube video by The Nature of Things
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026
“PUT THAT ICED COFFEE DOWN.”
Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, yelling about coffee
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I say take this an an opportunity to build more inclusive, way lefty institutions and policies. Shoot for the moon, since conservatives will be pissed and call you a traitor and a socialist anyway. Defund ICE and prosecutions across the board, massive public support for public k12 and higher ed...
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pro-tip: don't take advice about what skills and knowledge are important and which don't "matter" from a dude who admits he literally doesn't know his own address and can't remember his own zip code.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The next White House Correspondents' dinner is going to be really awkward
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just imagine being married to that
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump really is the ugly distillation of America's absolute worst historical pathologies and for that reason it is clear that if you support him you are an awful person.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Indiana Fever absolutely taking the Lynx to the woodshed.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a great article, from @jgienapp.bsky.social
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up
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winston @winston.cc · 17/09/2026
new cat dropped! new cat dropped! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Like I said. bsky.app/profile/nath...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bryant’s book is so timely! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Public toilets determine who gets everyday dignity, freedom of movement, and civic belonging—and who doesn’t.Americans have nowhere to go. Nationwide, countless public spaces lack one crucial thing: b...
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone who has seen Parks and Rec knows how this is going to end.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is also how you get great scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Give a historian money, access to archives, and the leave them alone. Simple formula, and it works!
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This fucking asshole destroys everything good he touches and makes every horrible thing he touches worse. Trump is a pathetic disgrace, and no one loves him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are acting like parents' concern for the latter is somehow not valid because of the former, please stop it.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Young people are despondent over fascism and climate change and are still reeling from the effects of the pandemic, and also 9 year olds should not have smart phones.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alan Taylor is astonishingly prolific for a historian. His new book looks like it might be another classic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/b...
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Piercing the Delusions of a ‘Humane’ Plantation (Gift Article)
In “Tower Hill,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Alan Taylor pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we go live to trump's economic plan
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump's thinking on this doesn't go farther than "deficit=bad"
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fantastic thread by @kawulf.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My man looks like the star of a failed Christian Broadcasting Network sitcom called "Our Father!"
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gem (real name) 💎 @gemcitygem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
me: hi gimme a large pizza pizza guy: any appetizers? me: what do you have? pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce pizza guy: and for your dip? me: sauce
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is obvs. about JD Vance. I've never placed much stock in the distinction between someone who is "actually" racist and a cynic who "only" says racist things to advance a political agenda. I fail to see why the distinction matters.
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Already reposted this, but I would add that conceding this is also accepting that trans people--specifically trans girls and women--are a threat to cis girls/women. They are not. In sports, or in anything else! That to me is even more important than the "fraudulent" point (which is also true)!
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The people who make this shit really do think that everyone is just looking for an excuse not to do any of their own work. They don't like to think or craft or learn or create, and they think no one else does, either. They can't fathom that we actually work at this ourselves and we're good at it
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Danger Zone
Alt: Archer leaning over to Lana and whispering "Danger Zone"
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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I realize I used the word "literal" three times in two sentences. That's how literally stupid everything is.
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