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Tim Barker

@timbarker.bsky.social
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recovering historian

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Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The petition candidates are uncompromising opponents of genocide. That AHA leadership takes issue with that says a lot. This should be an easy choice for anybody who takes history seriously
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Incredible, from @timbarker.bsky.social: The DNC post mortem or whatever it is does not even mention inflation as a factor in Harris's loss. ourtime.substack.com/p/dont-menti...
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
this is a bad thing to do to someone, especially when you insist on anonymity for yourself! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Andy Schou, he works at google
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Wait he obviously did something specifically wrong. That's what the Gizmodo article is about.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Do you think Zohran Mamdani is a celebrity?
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Andy Schou, he works at google
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
can you share a source for the KPD actually saying "nach Hitler, uns?" or "Nach Hitler kommen wir"? I don't dispute that the slogan captures something about their attitude, but I've had trouble sourcing the quote. Ironically, the one example I have found is from an SPD figure.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Planned obsolescence feels related but different. IIRC the magazine Consumer Reports emerges out of the post-Popular Front world. Would be interesting to look also at Vance Packard's The Waste Makers –
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
So why do you lie about other people?
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Why are you lying about this? There is no burner account.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
one of my basic principles (which made Noah Smith really angry at me) is that I don't keep the confidence of racists
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
yeah, Yglesias regularly takes money to shill for the crypto industry alongside fascists
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...
historians.org
Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"the tragedy in Gaza"
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Petrzela supports for a war, which I admit is an unconventional way of opposing the war.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Is this supposed to be a threat? What are the consequences? Claire Potter unblocked me on Twitter yesterday specifically to fight about Gaza. I'm not broken up that she doesn't like me.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We can't all be Tenured Radicals - it's not fair, but that's life.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
No one should tell anyone what to think, believe, or say. But the 2014 version of @tenuredradical.bsky.social has a petition you might be interested in signing. What happened, Claire?
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
fact check: partly true
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy update
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This from the person whose defense of the Gaza genocide involved an illiterate reference to "Tigre" Ethiopia
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Gotcha. Probably for the best anyway.
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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
If you happen to be an historian, and you happen to be in NYC and you belong to the AHA, please come to the AHA Business Meeting (Sunday 1/5, 5:15 pm) to vote in favor of the resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza. Every vote is needed, as there will be plenty of opposition.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I’m someone willing to put my name on my statements. You are “BCJ860”
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
He was a Republican, a fact which Gage does not dispute.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
You sound like AI
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Makes u think
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
?
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Historians of the US should oppose US-backed genocide
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Historians of the US should oppose US-backed genocide.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Kevin Kruse can be on the same side as me any time he wants. That’s up to him.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
How is “hoping to push out Truman” not a motivation?
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Not sure I follow
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hey stalker, I’m glad you saw this and hope you get the engagement you’re craving. Try retweeting it every half hour!
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The fact that someone who probably makes $300,000 a year responds to criticism by complaining about “unpaid labor” is really a perfect epitaph for the Twitter-poisoned history profession
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"We need to create a shared educational experience for everyone," says Natalia Mehlman Petrezela, the American Historical Association's designated champion of Israeli scholasticide.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Sunday
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Notice also tgat #historians like kevinmkruse.bsky.social have been absent from this debate. He'll "cut you" [sic] if you call him a resistance historian, but other things he won't resist. The historical profession - in its own tiny, symptomatic way- is a dying empire run by bad people.
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: KevinMKruse.Substack.com
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I’m biased but I think the anti-genocide wing of the historical profession has a better starting lineup. Unlike the other side, we have both Jewish and Palestinian speakers. Also unlike the other side, we have actual experts on the Middle East and on genocide.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The American Historical Association is about to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli destruction of every educational institution in Gaza. The spokespeople for the pro-scholasticide wing of the historical profession are Roger Horowitz, Suzanne Marchand, and nataliapetrzela.bsky.social.
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Did you ever get around to reading Burns's defense of Pinochet?
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