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Paul Lerner

@plerner.bsky.social

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🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · Feb 24

I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 12h

I did not have feeling sympathy for Meloni on my bingo card for 2025 but here we are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Meloni doesn't exactly looked thrilled as Trump calls her "beautiful"

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 15h

yeah both here

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 15h

Makes you want to

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 16h

Can relate

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 1d

Kid dreamt we were yelling at RFK jr about all of the damage he’s causing. He cited some studies & kid shouted “that’s junk science,” etc. Then RFK went back into his house and slammed the door

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 1d

Where’s sandwich guy when you need him most

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d

You can take the kid out of St. Louis…

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d

🤞

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d

well put!

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d

How about we just be grownups and deal with the crisis without thinking about the 2028 horserace?

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 2d

At least the Cubs lost

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