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Bill Bush

@profbillb.bsky.social
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History prof at TX A&M-San Antonio, father of two, retired skater, grouch. Historian of kids and justice systems. Opinions shared here are mine alone and don’t represent my employer.

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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🎯🎯
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cruel and unusual punishment even by the US own degraded standards
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a … Schmitt-head
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is “artificial stupidity” a term?
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole premise of insurance is that people who don’t use it offset the costs of people who do… you absolute ding-dong.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being in the country illegally (which may not even describe this person) is NOT a capital offense.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Truth
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This thread. The juxtaposition of kidnapped kids and an opulent wedding bankrolled by the kidnappers is nauseating.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gilded, not golden
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lack of expertise hasn’t stopped legislators from dictating what’s taught in our schools and universities, but then again educators lack the capital to buy such deference.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Starting to think “Lutnick” is Yiddish for “bullshit,” e.g., “what is all this Lutnick?”
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Meanwhile teachers are having their jobs threatened if they teach the history of slavery, Jim Crow, Juan Crow, lynchings, redlining, or anything involving gender and sexuality. Tell me more about this “free speech.”
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This guy should immediately file a civil suit against the dopes who brought these charges.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
💯
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thanks for staying on this @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Maybe it’s time for a Bluesky-like alternative to Facebook.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Same
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Once-eliminated diseases have returned, our food is no longer reliably safe to eat, fake conspiracies pose as expert advice, and I can’t have salads anymore. Thanks for nothing, “doctor.”
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Saw this last night with my theatre kid - it was so good, really recommend highly.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Terrific essay providing the best response to the baseless attacks on the Odyssey
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Historically illiterate goobers lecturing actual historians would be great comedy if they weren’t doing so much damage.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I miss eating salads.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I saw an amazing high school production of Hadestown last spring and def want to catch this film
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What an attention whore
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This sort of revelation may be coming to Texas courtesy of the voucher law passed last year.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Also these actors appear for maybe 15 minutes in a 3-hour movie. Not that it should matter but I expected them to figure more prominently given all the “anti” whining.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fans of Gawker might want a word.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another superb report on the increasingly punitive school discipline problem in Texas. As the formal juvenile justice system shrinks, its worst features appear to be outsourced directly into the public schools. @amari-clare.bsky.social
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We would call this a death squad in any other country.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This hits even harder today than it did in 2020.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Like “Vice-President?”
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🎯🎯🎯
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are talking about it in Texas but it should be a national story.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Project much?
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
About time
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
From 2018, still the best take on McConnell’s role in our unfolding disaster: www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
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The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning
Whatever secret reservations Mitch McConnell and other traditional Republican leaders have about Trump’s character, governing style, and possible criminality, they openly rejoice in the payoff they ha...
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Swiss coach is either a James Bond villain or the chillest looking dude ever, or both.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
👇🏼 me for the last two weeks
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
An enjoyable thread for those of us who value the first amendment.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Woman Laughs and Spits Drink
ALT: Woman Laughs and Spits Drink
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A leading Holocaust scholar called him, appropriately, “the gravedigger of democracy”
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There’s that situational originalism again.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Outstanding
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This essay hits hard.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Rich people call history hobbyists “historians” routinely especially when they say what they want to believe.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Neither is mindless stupidity, but the Establishment Clause is a thing that actually does appear in the Constitution.
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Freak daddy
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Bill Bush @profbillb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Lest we forget, the 1918-19 flu pandemic started on military bases then spread into the civilian population.
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