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David Waldstreicher
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Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 5d
I guess we're not allowed to call it a belgian danish?

Reposted by David Waldstreicher, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d
Danish guy gets it
@luhmann@hachyderm.io on Mastodon: So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him. Jan 03, 2026, 04:15 AM

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 6d
Does anyone else identify with their least cited articles or book and wish you could cite it all the time? Is this just a middle child thing?

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 6d
i most identify with my more neglected book & articles and I cite them when i can. Middle child syndrome.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 6d
It also has to be ok for us to, somehow, point this out and redirect to older stuff & not just our own!

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 6d
Every time I think I understand the Monroe Doctrine there goes another imperial president....

Reposted by Mark A. Graber, Julie Novkov, David Waldstreicher

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 6d
Posting @mgraber1.bsky.social 's book on January 6. It's about Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment and why the framers believed those, not today's famous Section 1, were essential to restoring democracy. 1/
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty
In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment—which includes the citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, ...
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 7d
Most Philly post of the day, thank you Carly.
carlygoodman.bsky.social Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7d
not enough people seem to be talking about what a great deal it is to get a hoagie from the acme for $6

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 7d
but not among real historians. (miniscule consolation.)

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7d
not enough people seem to be talking about what a great deal it is to get a hoagie from the acme for $6

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 7d
"A corrupt authoritarian president has been destroying his country for over a decade—and as of this weekend, he decided to invade Venezuela. But who is this political criminal?"
This Corrupt Dictator Has Been Running His Country into the Ground for Years, and Now He’s Invading Venezuela
As you’ve probably heard, a corrupt authoritarian president has been destroying his country for over a decade—and as of this weekend, he decided to...
buff.ly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
hurricanexyz.bsky.social Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 8d
Right.

If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8d
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19d
This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo
CEO of South Philadelphia Bitcoin mining company defrauded investors out of $48.5 million, regulators say
Dahn C. Vo, founder of the now-defunct VBit Technologies Corp. based in South Philly, was accused by the SEC of misappropriating more than $48 million of investor funds in a nationwide scheme.
share.inquirer.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20d
The fact that overt (as opposed to dog whistle) antisemitism was at least partially taboo on the US right post-WWII, compared to, say, racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia, which were always entirely acceptable, is precisely why antisemitism is how the young right is proving how transgressive it is.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 20d
Breaking news: david stearns has traded the ghost of tom seaver for a player to be conjured later.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 21d
yes, because aesthetics is sublimated ideology. (not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that.)

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22d
NEQ's paywall has been an irritant for a long time!

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, David Waldstreicher

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 24d
To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, David Waldstreicher

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 24d
This guy got a PhD to become a university president.He got a PhD in "Higher Ed Admin" & wrote a diss./book about "non traditional presidents" aka consultant class experts who believe that faculty and students have too much say. Fullest expression of the BOV contempt for UVA &especially faculty.
vpm.org VPM News @vpm.org · 24d
Breaking: The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named a new president Friday: Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA's Darden School of Business since 2015.

Beardsley called the selection "the honor of my life."
UVA board selects Scott Beardsley as new president
Beardsley, a longtime consultant, has led the Darden School of Business since 2015.
www.vpm.org

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 24d
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 27d
In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history.

#teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16
Two side-by-side photos of Old South Meetinghouse, with two projections: “1773: Tea into our Harbor” and “2025: Ice Off Our Streets.”

Reposted by David Waldstreicher

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27d
"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."

Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.

My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 29d
Go Adam!
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29d
Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Michael J. Taylor, David Waldstreicher

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29d
Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · Dec 13
Only if it has a cafe car

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · Dec 12
We need a new series called Very Long Eviscerations. Cambridge can do it.

Reposted by David Waldstreicher

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · Dec 10
GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's "not afraid" of being called "Islamophobic" and that, instead of making peace with Palestinians, "destroy them first."

This was during a hearing on "Judea and Samaria"—a term used to erase Palestinian ties to what's actually known as the West Bank.

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