Steve Cerulli
@stevecerulli.bsky.social
PhD candiate in history at FordhamU. Views here are my own. Trying to understand how Italian Americans went from the lynched to the lynchers. he/him/lui 🤌🏼🏴🌶
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Super stoked for this week’s 1000! Steve Cerulli is a historian specializing in Italian and Italian-American history. We go through Leftist and Union history that flies under the radar, why Columbus Day is bs, contemporary politics, and more! pod.link/1707027844 @stevecerulli.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Super stoked for this week’s 1000! Steve Cerulli is a historian specializing in Italian and Italian-American history. We go through Leftist and Union history that flies under the radar, why Columbus Day is bs, contemporary politics, and more! pod.link/1707027844 @stevecerulli.bsky.social
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Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
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The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
September 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement
‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement
Carried by a band of pirates that stand up to corrupt and repressive rulers, the meaning of the One Piece flag has resonated across borders
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement
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I feel like the recent push to sanitize and censor the internet is part of an effort by the state to control what kind of unreality we will exist in, rather than address the root cause, because they believe they have more to gain that way.
one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I feel like the recent push to sanitize and censor the internet is part of an effort by the state to control what kind of unreality we will exist in, rather than address the root cause, because they believe they have more to gain that way.
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COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.
prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...
prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...
Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm
The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions
prismreports.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.
prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...
prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...
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Pointing out hypocrisy does not work in terms of accountability but it can help illustrate an important point: it has never been about principles and has always been about power
pointing out the rights hypocrisy about freedom of speech doesn’t really do too much but i honestly am just stunned how blatantly and quickly they reversed on pretty much every constitutional freedom the moment they gained full power
September 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Pointing out hypocrisy does not work in terms of accountability but it can help illustrate an important point: it has never been about principles and has always been about power
I went to a stag, for one of my oldest friends, this past weekend. The politics were polarized in both directions. Half support our modern SS and the other half are ready for some abstract revolution. A long distance from the let’s get drunk mentality of 10 year ago. Trump has radicalized us all.
September 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I went to a stag, for one of my oldest friends, this past weekend. The politics were polarized in both directions. Half support our modern SS and the other half are ready for some abstract revolution. A long distance from the let’s get drunk mentality of 10 year ago. Trump has radicalized us all.
Beyond being corrupt, Adams is a cartoon. Can’t make this stuff up.
Greatest city in the world.
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
August 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Beyond being corrupt, Adams is a cartoon. Can’t make this stuff up.
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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Trump says “politics is over” if Republicans gerrymander and ban mail voting before the midterms
August 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Trump says “politics is over” if Republicans gerrymander and ban mail voting before the midterms
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Our friends at PM PRESS UK have listed all our new titles and the boks we have co-published with Rupture Press, www.rupturepress.org check them out here; pmpress.org.uk/shop/?filter...
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Our friends at PM PRESS UK have listed all our new titles and the boks we have co-published with Rupture Press, www.rupturepress.org check them out here; pmpress.org.uk/shop/?filter...
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Artificial scarcity from landlordism and usury on credit are still enormously important, but IP arguably even more so because knowledge and technique result in less dependence on land and capital.
August 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Artificial scarcity from landlordism and usury on credit are still enormously important, but IP arguably even more so because knowledge and technique result in less dependence on land and capital.
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#OtD 6 Aug 1970 300 Yippies – countercultural radical youth – invaded Disneyland, protesting against the Vietnam war and calling for the liberation of Minnie Mouse from patriarchal captivity. Disney security and armed riot police were brought in workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-...
August 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#OtD 6 Aug 1970 300 Yippies – countercultural radical youth – invaded Disneyland, protesting against the Vietnam war and calling for the liberation of Minnie Mouse from patriarchal captivity. Disney security and armed riot police were brought in workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-...
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The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.
Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are increasingly speaking out against nuclear weapons.
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I think there’s an impulse among many people to assume society is always getting worse which probably both shapes media narratives & how people respond. As someone who teaches sociology, it’s astounding how many students begin papers with “X is increasing” when X has been decreasing for years.
The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
July 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think there’s an impulse among many people to assume society is always getting worse which probably both shapes media narratives & how people respond. As someone who teaches sociology, it’s astounding how many students begin papers with “X is increasing” when X has been decreasing for years.
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‘Western yoga existed in uncomfortably close proximity to various strands of extreme right-wing thought. [Fascist Yoga] is an attempt to educate practitioners about the influence of fascism on their culture'
Fascist Yoga reviewed in @nybooks.com:
Fascist Yoga reviewed in @nybooks.com:
Doing Their Own Research | Hari Kunzru
In August 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, suggested that Covid-19 could be a “plandemic,”
www.nybooks.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
‘Western yoga existed in uncomfortably close proximity to various strands of extreme right-wing thought. [Fascist Yoga] is an attempt to educate practitioners about the influence of fascism on their culture'
Fascist Yoga reviewed in @nybooks.com:
Fascist Yoga reviewed in @nybooks.com:
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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.
EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...
www.epa.gov
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.
What’s wild about 2025 Italian America, is the ultra Catholics (not trads, but go to mass every Sunday types) and progressives are united against MAGAroni (Italian American reactionaries). Do we really want the worst of the the worst to monopolize the community?
July 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What’s wild about 2025 Italian America, is the ultra Catholics (not trads, but go to mass every Sunday types) and progressives are united against MAGAroni (Italian American reactionaries). Do we really want the worst of the the worst to monopolize the community?
I am teaching a civic oriented high school class this summer. Today we are analyzing the Bronx Slave Market. I’m using social reproduction theory. Half the class loves the method heaviness of the class and the other half has no idea what I’m talking about. It’s literally a 50/50 split 😭.
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I am teaching a civic oriented high school class this summer. Today we are analyzing the Bronx Slave Market. I’m using social reproduction theory. Half the class loves the method heaviness of the class and the other half has no idea what I’m talking about. It’s literally a 50/50 split 😭.
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Nativist fascism and DOGEist austerity I think are understood as distinct pillars of Trump II; but I think we tend to understate MAHA lysenkoism as an independent ideological base
For the third time, Vinay Prasad reportedly overrules scientists and evidence-based policies
FDA staff were overruled again by Vinay Prasad, who limited Moderna’s Covid vaccine to high-risk children under 12, arguing that healthy kids wouldn’t see sufficient clinical benefit.
July 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Nativist fascism and DOGEist austerity I think are understood as distinct pillars of Trump II; but I think we tend to understate MAHA lysenkoism as an independent ideological base
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Tired: Rolling back the New Deal.
Wired: Rolling back Reconstruction.
Inspired: Rolling back parliamentary/legislative government.
Wired: Rolling back Reconstruction.
Inspired: Rolling back parliamentary/legislative government.
it isn't about the Dept of Ed. It is about a presidential monarch ruling without congressional control of the purse strings, breaking a principle established in the late 13th century under Edward I
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Tired: Rolling back the New Deal.
Wired: Rolling back Reconstruction.
Inspired: Rolling back parliamentary/legislative government.
Wired: Rolling back Reconstruction.
Inspired: Rolling back parliamentary/legislative government.
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Watching the enclosure of the internet has been a hugely demoralising thing to live through.
July 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Watching the enclosure of the internet has been a hugely demoralising thing to live through.
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#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the @NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788...
July 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the @NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788...