David Rotenstein
@davidrotenstein.bsky.social
Writer. Folklorist. Historian. https://blog.historian4hire.net/about/ | History is my hustle. Also @covertnky.com
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December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A fair trade off: extreme weather, species extinction, loss of habitable land, and more disease in exchange for bringing back the Woody. Hooray.
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as best as I can do based on list you provided and google image search.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
as best as I can do based on list you provided and google image search.
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Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2025 — Visual Art: Harrison Apple
Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2025 — Visual Art: Harrison Apple
Queer history has undergone more than its fair share of erasure, including in Pittsburgh. Local bars, clubs, and other spaces that, over the decades, served as safe havens for the city’s LGBTQ…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2025 — Visual Art: Harrison Apple
This is appalling. But, I think it would make a great book title: "A/K/A DEPARTMENT OF WAR."
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is appalling. But, I think it would make a great book title: "A/K/A DEPARTMENT OF WAR."
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The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Thursday, arguing that the Defense Department infringed on the constitutional rights of its journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Thursday, arguing that the Defense Department infringed on the constitutional rights of its journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military.
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Read more: nyti.ms/44CRJZY
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Where to Find "The Better Angels of Our Nature"
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Where to Find "The Better Angels of Our Nature"
I am tired of having to listen to the rantings of arguably the most racist president in American history.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Where to Find "The Better Angels of Our Nature"
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I fixed his tweet.
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I fixed his tweet.
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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(AP) — Steve Cropper, influential guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the MGs, has died at age 84.
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
(AP) — Steve Cropper, influential guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the MGs, has died at age 84.
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Someone should really tell @savingplaces.bsky.social that the Harris family home (aka National Negro Opera Company House) wasn't a theater. While at it, please tell them that the project they're boasting about funding crashed & burned. savingplaces.org/stories/hist...
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Someone should really tell @savingplaces.bsky.social that the Harris family home (aka National Negro Opera Company House) wasn't a theater. While at it, please tell them that the project they're boasting about funding crashed & burned. savingplaces.org/stories/hist...
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Fascinating article about Pittsburgh’s black theaters.
It's [almost] impossible to write about organized crime history without also wading through some entertainment history. My latest about some forgotten Pittsburgh cinemas for @pghcitypaper.com originated in my research into gambling & bootlegging history. 🗃️ www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/histo...
The forgotten history of the Hill District's silver screens
The Hill District once had several popular cinemas that doubled as jazz clubs and indoor golf courses.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Fascinating article about Pittsburgh’s black theaters.
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FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
SILVER SPRING, MD—Praising the drug’s ability to quickly and effectively increase fatalities amongst the nation’s opioid users, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray Wednesd...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
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As you get to know COVertNKY, you can either blame or thank Hank Messick for its arrival.
Blame Hank Messick
As you get to know COVertNKY, you can either blame or thank Hank Messick for its arrival.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As you get to know COVertNKY, you can either blame or thank Hank Messick for its arrival.
From the stories that will never see the light of day b/c in some places there’s no such thing as journalism without fear or favor. It’s time to move on when one editor writes of the subject, “The [redacted] are a big bunch around here” & another writes “Tread lightly … Ohio has thicker skin.”
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
From the stories that will never see the light of day b/c in some places there’s no such thing as journalism without fear or favor. It’s time to move on when one editor writes of the subject, “The [redacted] are a big bunch around here” & another writes “Tread lightly … Ohio has thicker skin.”
How many of those "white people" in 2021 or 2025 have ancestors who raped Black/brown women yielding offspring that passed as white and whose descendants identify as white? What would a DNA test on Musk reveal?
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How many of those "white people" in 2021 or 2025 have ancestors who raped Black/brown women yielding offspring that passed as white and whose descendants identify as white? What would a DNA test on Musk reveal?
I don't know, I'm thinking that the correct answer by a government official would be something along the lines of "We don't consider any people to be garbage." But what do I know, I'm just someone who has been called a "garbage person" by a critic ....
BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage?
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data
BERMAN: All of them?
McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't know, I'm thinking that the correct answer by a government official would be something along the lines of "We don't consider any people to be garbage." But what do I know, I'm just someone who has been called a "garbage person" by a critic ....
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The Haitians in Springfield, Ohio (remember?) has a fabulous nonprofit working to support them. I've contributed in the past and they are wonderful. Perhaps you might want to help them meet their goal?
Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Haitians in Springfield, Ohio (remember?) has a fabulous nonprofit working to support them. I've contributed in the past and they are wonderful. Perhaps you might want to help them meet their goal?
I wonder if Donald Trump knows Decatur's Jeff Lell?
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I wonder if Donald Trump knows Decatur's Jeff Lell?
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His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
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I see he’s moved on from the couch
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I see he’s moved on from the couch
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December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Look, we’ve all had a rough year…
A raccoon goes on a drunken rampage in a closed Virginia liquor store, hitting the bottom shelf where the scotch and whisky were stored before smashing bottles and spilling alcohol everywhere before passing out on the floor.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
An employee at a Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Look, we’ve all had a rough year…
Why can’t they simply say “lies”? He’s not making false claims, he’s lying.
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Why can’t they simply say “lies”? He’s not making false claims, he’s lying.