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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The magazine @slate.com really should stop writing breathless foreshadowing headlines on stories that don't deliver as promised. Can @schweather.bsky.social please object to her editors about the misleading tease put atop this five-paragraph roundup? slate.com/life/2026/08...

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Why Did Trump Lose It Over Natalie Harp—and Who Is She, Anyway? Unfortunately, I’ve Learned Too Much.

It’s not anything so obvious as an affair. It’s somehow worse.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

But is it actual fascism? Or merely a bad song with fascistic characteristics?

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sammy John called himself “a conservative hippie.”

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Heather Delaney Reese @itsalovelylife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

When the break comes at San Antonio, you have five hours to wander the Riverwalk in the wee hours. Pro tip: Mi Tierra restaurant is open 24 hours.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Intoxicated” — with what? I huffed no glue, garcon.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yes, because that would fix everything.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Another example of unused tenure.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The academy generally doesn’t care about engaging narratives which is one of the reasons why ordinary readers stay away.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I was thinking about the careful evaluation and documentation of mineral outflows.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

All the more qualifications for mine inspector. This should go on a glossy door hanger.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“That’s a mighty fine mine, yessir. We done here?” ::chugs Coors Lite::

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The idea that historians only of a particular identity should be allowed to write or speak about that identity’s history seems kinda dangerous.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Been meaning to send an email. Stay tuned!

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This was exactly the approach that made LARB great.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

And she doesn’t split her infinitives!

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I done got throwed off that site.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Honored to have been a guest on the most thoughtful history podcast in digital-land, Richard Kreitner's Think Back. www.thinkbackpod.com/p/how-slaver...

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How Slavery Ended

Tom Zoellner on the messy, inspiring story of the ground-level revolt that brought about emancipation.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It is a well-known rule of journalism that the subject of a profile is granted absolute power over the content.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

$1.5T military budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $500M sending National Guard into cities $250M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ on Trump's golf outings $75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip Priorities.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thst is a sub-Constitutional office

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Badly written, too. Full of bromides and generalizations.

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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Trump's dictatorship coup is now fully in the open. Wake up America.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

That misses the point of serving as a landmark.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is not the first time you’ve made that reference

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Your spirit Muppet here seems to be one of those cranky old codgers up in the opera box.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Kermit wears a raincoat when he covers the news.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Antagonists like to slam @radiofreetom.bsky.social for decrying the fascist characteristics of Trump while refusing to call it such. But they should point out a worse hypocrisy: labeling 1970s music "a horrid stew of disco and wimp-rock hits" in The Atlantic while rocking out to #AT40 in private.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Good reporting by The D, though.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The cruelty is big business

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

What the Trump Admin is telling you. -Don't record ICE -Don't carry a gun around ICE -Don't ask ICE for a warrant. So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

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Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences @wilkinsoncollege.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

ChapmanU Professor Tom Zoellner (English) published his new book, The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War. thenewpress.org/books/the-roa... @tomzoellner.bsky.social

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Alan Watts discussing why poets are so often at their best when speaking of change.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#OTD in 2019, we lost beloved #poet Mary Oliver. Her work celebrated the natural world with simple, profound language & a sense of wonder. Perhaps America's best-selling poet, she won the #Pulitzer Prize (1984 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦) & National Book Award (1992 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴). #booksky #poetry

Iconic black-and-white photograph of Mary Oliver, renowned American poet celebrated for her lyrical observations of nature and deep bond with dogs. Seated cross-legged on a plush couch near a bright window, she holds an open hardcover book in her lap, wearing round glasses and a simple dark turtleneck. Her expression is gentle and absorbed as she looks sideways at her fluffy white standard poodle, Percy, who stands poised on a square ottoman or cushion right beside her, ears perked and eyes fixed intently on Oliver in a moment of quiet connection and mutual regard.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

🔥NYT: “Trump is the Jan. 6th president… It was a turning point toward an even more lawless version of Trump… people who violently attacked Congress & beat officers escaped w/o lasting consequence… Tragically, 🇺🇸 is still living in that political era…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I hope you told him that just about all of his songs are heavily sentimental nonsense.

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Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My beloved Salt Lake Tribune was an early victim. They are poison.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Here, far more than majority of working journalists, are some of the villains people could focus on when they just say “the media.” Fact that so few know about outfits like this is a measure of their awful success.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

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