Eric Rauchway
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Historian. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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beware the detail-knowers
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Julia Rose Kraut
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āhe prefers to dance, deflect, and obfuscate, so as to better conceal the savageries of actually existing conservatism. He is much more likely to billow forth a fog of counterfactual thought experiments and seen-it-all Weltschmerz, or to press the case against the case against whatever he is for.ā
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God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird
Ross Douthatās usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/01/15/god-of-the-gaps-believe-ross-douthat/
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Gerry Doyle
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mayonnaise is a delicious condiment
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Sophie Gilbert
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Whoās who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Muskās big tent
https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091?accessToken=zwAGR7kzep9gkdOtlNtMlaBMZdO9jTtD4SUQkQ.MEYCIQCdZajuC9uga-d9b5Z1t0HI2BIcnkVoq98loextLRpCTgIhAPL3rW72aTHBNL_lS7s1ONpM2vBgNlBNHDBeGbHkPkZj&sharetype=gift&token=a7473827-0799-4064-9008-bf22b3c99711
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but guess what for: āāThese people should all be prosecuted someday,ā Kammen says, portraying the administrationās assault on the environment as a crime against humanity. āIām not joking. These people should be prosecuted.āā
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Trump's Assault on the Environment Has Been Even Worse Than Experts Predicted
President Donald Trump's assault on the environment over his first year back in office has done real damage to the global fight against climate chage.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-assault-environment-climate-change-fight-1235494125/
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James Calbraith
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Ask them why Falklands and British West Indies never fell under the Monroe remit
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"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
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surely US officials conducting a law enforcement action would Mirandize an arrestee
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when things are definitely fine
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Anjali Dayal
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Itās easy in these moments to get exasperated by the UN, but the Charter does two key things that have helped define the post-1945 world: it outlaws the use of aggressive warfare as a tool for remaking international order, and it underwrites postcolonial sovereignty. US actions this week breach both
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Corey Atad
3 days ago
season 1 Star Trek: TOS is just too fuckinā good
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Thor Benson
3 days ago
I read every post this Thor Benson guy writes. I think he's onto something
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madness
politics, tech and science newsletter.
https://madness.ghost.io
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"The offer has been on the table for the last 10 days, the person said" seems like it should be higher up in the story
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Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/trump-venezuela-oil-us-companies-return-00709782
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did he say āitās not a blockade, itās a quarantineā
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You could have read that "This is what Trumpās āAmerica Firstā means: a white Americaā¦living behind higher walls and screens, lashing out to prove its strength and then retreating again" if only you read an obscure publication like The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...
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Queer Hand Luke
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Seva
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lol come on now
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"The Monroe Doctrine was basically a justification by the United States to exercise force in Latin America. And that was renounced by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of a shift away from the idea that states could use force whenever they wanted to." šļø
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The Brazen Illegality of Trumpās Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President NicolƔs Maduro.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-brazen-illegality-of-trumps-venezuela-operation
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The Alternate Historian
4 days ago
History is just Big Globe trying to take your money.
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Peter
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first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after
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āRein in.ā You mean ārein in.ā
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perils of the unqualified "this"
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I bet Doug Feith is available
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me, to all my early Republic historian friends on the occasion of the 250th: happy for you or, sorry that happened
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people writing about the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary as if nothing happened to the Monroe Doctrine after that, smh
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Dr. Amanda J Summers
6 days ago
Yeah because we are still in the long 17th century š
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Andrea Junker
5 days ago
Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
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š½LOLGOPš½
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If āthe GOPās biggest donor ever built an international child porn machineā is a little too on the nose for you, let me propose that we are on historyās nose.
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Jake Grumbach
6 days ago
According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractorās testing facility and you say āwhere are the missilesā and they donāt let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen
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Jacqueline Antonovich
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Anytime some yahoo says, āall serious historians agreeā¦ā I want to say: 1. What is a āseriousā historian? 2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We canāt even agree with how long the 19th century was.
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Here we go
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look when I retire it will be because I want to spend more time wearing flip flops and I won't write an essay about it
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Oakland Review of Books
7 days ago
We launched Oakland Review of Books in 2025, starting with an events calendar and vibe reports and, as we've gone on, more and more blogs and reviews and even a few full-on bangers. (And The Oakland syllabus!) We've actually done a lot. But 2026 is going to be The Year of ORB!
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"Alfonsi, displaying a maximum effort at transparency and credibility, spends precious minutes of screen time showing how investigators conducted the verification process for claims made about CECOT. This is journalism."
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive storyāand who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/
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āPart of what was so terrifying at the beginning of the year was the way many elites acted as if Trump had won a landslide and had the widest conceivable support among the public. Many among the press, the universities, corporations, and law firms surrendered in advanceā
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We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going-to-win/
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It's in this article, though I got the idea of academic urban legends from the sociologist Ole BjĆørn Rekdal, whose prime example was the idea that there is an exceptional amount of iron in spinach
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āTheir impunity traces back to two Supreme Court decisions that put far too much faith in ICEās commitment to respecting peopleās constitutional rights. As a result of these cases, people whose rights are violated by ICE agents have little to no recourse.ā šļø
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Why ICE Is Getting Away With It
The Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agentsābut the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/ice-scotus-impunity/685298/?gift=DgK4WwxRk921JoS0tWwhGKNqpRX6mjboqjKBOqNFmfA
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Doug Mack
10 days ago
Little reminder: This is excellent (independent!) outlet could really use your help to support its work sharing news and voices from US territories. If you're able to help, even $1 makes a difference. **If you donate any amount, LMK and I'll send you a pic from my travels in the territories**
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Brandy Jensen
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Wonāt do a big thread of what I wrote this year because thereās not that much of it, but I am quite proud of this one
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William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector
Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesnāt feel like it. Sam Tanenhausās extremely long and anxio...
https://defector.com/william-f-buckleys-bill-never-came-due
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Stephen NuƱez
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I have a paper on the "bankruptcy" canard ready to go for January. Tar will be the first of a series of projects around OASI by
@rooseveltinstitute.org
We have an interest in this topic for good reason.
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Christmas 1941 šļø
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Churchill And Roosevelt Christmas Speech (1941)
YouTube video by British PathƩ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZTRbNThHnk
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In the early 1920s the US armed forces tested the vulnerability of battleships in the age of air power. Here's a clip I've used in lecture showing the test bombing of the ALABAMA, with Gen Billy Mitchell briefly in it šļø
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William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
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Because of a lack of awareness of the US territories, their citizenship status, and overall existence, a community of American Samoans in Alaska has fallen victim to prosecutorial overreach, facing felony charges for voting after being told by officials that they could. This is why our work matters.
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Mac William Bishop
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Make Billy Mitchell Great Again
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"we came upon a man-of-warā¦in the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firingā¦Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screechā āand nothing happened.
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since 1937
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Jesse Hawken
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I am always disappointed when someone I like and respect uses the word in the year 2025
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