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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ohio Sen. Cirino and Sen. Pres. Fortney, slam my textbook UNPATRIOTIC CIVICS and discuss how they are going to ban it from all university civics courses. This is their idea of "expanding intellectual diversity". Please share! Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_P...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ohio Sen. Cirino explains college students like socialism because of their Marxist Profs and they "coddled at the university" and "don’t understand the costs of any of the benefits that they’re getting". “The President’s Podcast”, Ohio GOP, YouTube, Aug. 19, 2026.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My unironic clothing choice for the day.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Everyone is welcome to join me tomorrow and discuss my alternative and unique interpretation of early abolitionism.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

NBC News silent on the most significant finding in its own survey: that a whopping 69% of respondents "strongly agree" that in the US "wealthy people can often avoid consequences that ordinary people would face for the same actions." Instead spooning out civics propaganda. tinyurl.com/2zpepcb7

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Nothing quite like race day with my champion girl.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Reading early 19c pamphlets debating whether Catholic immigrants should be afforded due process and ran across this verse no Christian nationalist ever quotes: LEV. 24:22. YE SHALL HAVE ONE MANNER OF LAW, AS WELL FOR THE STRANGER, AS FOR ONE OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We've arrived at the bread and circuses stage of imperial decline. But these geniuses have left out the bread part...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Thursdays' great civics debate ranged across political science, social theory, history, and constitutionalism. My opponent, Josh Dunn is a true scholar and a nice guy. But I quibble with Josh being declared the winner, as I pulled more undecideds to my view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbQ...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One day away from my big debate with Josh Dunn. If you haven't considered the case against civics education, you might want to tune in. Thurs. 6 pm PT. This debate will also be livestreamed and archived on YouTube. Here is the link to the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/4l0r2sX...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

If you are an educator considering adopting a legally compliant but uncompromising textbook for your civics course, dm me and I will send you a review copy. Also, for all course adoptions I'm making myself available via zoom for class Q&A.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Anyone in the LA area on Mar. 19 is welcome to come out and hear civic education debated.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Announcing the first textbook to meet the requirements of Ohio's SB 1. UNPATRIOTIC CIVICS examines the mandated 'founding documents' without sentimental myths. a.co/d/1DouSQT @stopsb1oh.bsky.social @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social @osuaaup.bsky.social @ohaaup.bsky.social

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Weird... I began updating my syllabi for the Spring term and checked the university calendars and MLK Day is just a blank. Probably just a glitch in the software...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Being a boomer who watched Sanford & Son and listened to the Grateful Dead, when the WaPo advertises its new product I think of something else...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

According to an EdWeek poll, only 14% of teachers who voted for Trump think "Combating discrimination against students" is something the Federal government should do. The only thing we agree on across the partisan divide is we all hate curricular mandates. epe.brightspotcdn.com/bd/a5/a6645f...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Can I just point out that Erika Kirk’s fundraising letter that repeatedly refers to “the evildoers that took Charlie’s life” and “they tried to silence [him]” is conspiracy mongering and reckless?

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Ohio's GOP has opened the door to renewed socialist education by requiring every student in state university to take a course that includes study of "the American economic system and capitalism." There is no other description of what this requires. Thank you comrade State Senator Jerry Cirino!

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

BTW, I am speaking on Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the U.S. Constitution at the BGSU Constitution Day Symposium Friday (9/19) at 4:15 in Rm 207 of the Union. In spite of the reluctance of the BGSU Marketing Dept. to mention my existence, they did relent and squeeze my name in at the bottom.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

At the red light I asked the guy in a red hat what his stage name was.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

First time in a decade my local paper prints a story about me and it has nothing to do with books.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I understand why comfortable liberals prefer to have their martyrs be peaceful and innocent. But if you call yourself a "radical" you should be willing to entertain the possibility that the Haymarket martyrs believed in propaganda of the deed and thought bombing cops would spark the revolution.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It looks like the Ohio House Comm. will vote on SB 1 on Tues.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

OK Ohio... hearing for opponent testimony to SB 1 is Tuesday at 9 am. #ohiosb1

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Ohio S.B. 1, the omnibus attack on higher education in Ohio, will be the subject of the House workforce and education committee, this coming Tuesday at 3:15.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A colleague reported that these flyers showed up near campus. I guess this is the "balanced discourse" MAGA demands we adopt.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I still like to delude myself and believe that academia has purpose beyond the market logic of capitalism but then I stumble across my uni's policy on naming academic programs. I'm hoping somebody will make me the DraftKings Professor of Cultural Studies for $300 k.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

As I teach two classes today, I'm not going to be able to join my fellow defenders of free inquiry today. I look forward to watching all your insightful testimony later! Will someone please ask Sen. Cirino to define DEI and clarify what scholarships he considers "DEI" and wants to cancel?

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ohio GOP is preparing to mandate civics for all college students. I've written a text to meet the requirements of SB 1 "Unpatriotic Civics: A Blasphemous Look at America’s Founding Documents". So the sponsors understand what many of us will do with this requirement, here is the table of contents.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

!!!BREAKING!!! Ohio SB 1 Proponent Testimony to take place Tues. Feb. 11 at 2 pm (North Hearing Room). GOP is planning to vote on it this same week!

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My humble request for scholars to comment on my untraditional civics text found no volunteers. So, maybe my title page will elicit some curiosity. #skystorians

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The usual “Like what you see” now sounds like a sales pitch. (End)

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Is Microsoft trying to cozy up to Trump too? Here is today’s screensaver: (1/3)

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Google has updated my description from “historian” to “public figure”. Should I be worried?

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When you live in Ohio, this is one sign you are far, far from home.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Each athlete competing in the NZ Ironman 70.3 World Championships received a letter written by a child from the area. Here is mine. Thanks for the kind wishes Hannah!

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A pub sign that shows you are in rugged country:

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Enjoyed my first genuine intercultural Kiwi conversation: Me: Good morning, how ya doin’? NZ’er: Just peachy mate!

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sunrise somewhere over the vast Pacific.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Remembering Ohio’s contribution to our national holiday.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Lets be clear about how power works. If you choose the most hated guy in Congress and you are able to install him over all opposition, you’ve both demonstrated and manufactured an awesome power. Choosing the worst was the point.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What gives Spotify? Like these MAGA parrots? Either your algorithm is hallucinating or you are pushing right-wing influencers on your listeners.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Please don't bother my old company with complaints...

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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I just received this message, "Congratulations! You’ve been accepted to the 2025 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon" and I remembered the last time I ran this race was in Nov. 2016. This was my outfit that day:

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