Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)
@tenuredradical.bsky.social
Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | podcaster | http://clairepotter.substack.com | antifascist | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
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On this week’s podcast, listen to Neil discuss this piece by Bobby Smith II, associate professor of history at the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign. It's about food and the civil rights movement. Go to the link in my bio, or scroll down my feed for the full episode!
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History Shows How Cooking Can be a Pivotal Tool for Activism
A key civil rights activist illustrates how traditional protest tactics aren't the only way to bring about change
time.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On this week’s podcast, listen to Neil discuss this piece by Bobby Smith II, associate professor of history at the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign. It's about food and the civil rights movement. Go to the link in my bio, or scroll down my feed for the full episode!
time.com/7323420/civi...
time.com/7323420/civi...
@neiljyoung.bsky.social and I look at why Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth is once again on the ropes, and how this disaster is all so predictable
youtu.be/Q9cQy892BBQ
youtu.be/Q9cQy892BBQ
Lethal, Lazy Liars
YouTube video by Political Junkie Substack
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December 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@neiljyoung.bsky.social and I look at why Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth is once again on the ropes, and how this disaster is all so predictable
youtu.be/Q9cQy892BBQ
youtu.be/Q9cQy892BBQ
Great essay by @jenszalai.bsky.social about why Arendt is a vexed but eminently useful figure, one that implies that it is less the Steven Millers of the world who should incite our fear than the hundreds of little Eichmanns who work for Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Great essay by @jenszalai.bsky.social about why Arendt is a vexed but eminently useful figure, one that implies that it is less the Steven Millers of the world who should incite our fear than the hundreds of little Eichmanns who work for Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
It is one the ironies of writing that I sometimes spend several hours writing a paragraph that even a 7th grader can read in under three minutes
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is one the ironies of writing that I sometimes spend several hours writing a paragraph that even a 7th grader can read in under three minutes
Seriously, would you go to SCOTUS to keep Alina Habba in your employ?
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Seriously, would you go to SCOTUS to keep Alina Habba in your employ?
In my latest drop I explain why all Trump administration lying derives from the One Big Lie.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In my latest drop I explain why all Trump administration lying derives from the One Big Lie.
clairepotter.substack.com/p/repeat-aft...
clairepotter.substack.com/p/repeat-aft...
Yes, Jackson was brilliant. But I am deeply disturbed that a distinguished scholar can dismiss everything we know about Michael Jackson's sexual predation on boys, and his dishonesty about it, by saying: "Time has been hard on our memories of Michael Jackson."
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A Peerless Genius: Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ by Mark Anthony Neal
Michael Jackson was fifteen years into a professional singing career when Thriller was released on November 30, 1982, but nearly a decade…
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yes, Jackson was brilliant. But I am deeply disturbed that a distinguished scholar can dismiss everything we know about Michael Jackson's sexual predation on boys, and his dishonesty about it, by saying: "Time has been hard on our memories of Michael Jackson."
medium.com/@tnimixtape/...
medium.com/@tnimixtape/...
My terribly exciting life, as imagined by someone working in a spam farm:
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My terribly exciting life, as imagined by someone working in a spam farm:
Knowing that it won’t be.
Justice Dept. again asks for Epstein grand jury testimony to be unsealed - The Washington Post
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Knowing that it won’t be.
Reposted by Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)
Senator Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million in Back Taxes to I.R.S.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have zero knowledge about Olivia Nuzzi that has not come out of Ryan Lizza’s pie hole
So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We have zero knowledge about Olivia Nuzzi that has not come out of Ryan Lizza’s pie hole
Today, on a Substack Live, historian Kevin Schultz and I talked about the opportunities for a renewed liberalism in this political moment. Here's a clip--and for the whole feature you can go to my Substack.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Today, on a Substack Live, historian Kevin Schultz and I talked about the opportunities for a renewed liberalism in this political moment. Here's a clip--and for the whole feature you can go to my Substack.
clairepotter.substack.com/p/does-every...
clairepotter.substack.com/p/does-every...
Reposted by Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)
The official statement from the MAGA White House as the US hits a rapidly increasing all-time high $38 trillion national debt, is:
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The official statement from the MAGA White House as the US hits a rapidly increasing all-time high $38 trillion national debt, is:
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.”
I had a few things to say about how Trump's DOJ minions botched the revenge prosecutions against James Comey and Letitia James--and why MAGA needs to understand that experts do matter.
youtu.be/bBx7I49isOE
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Why Experts Matter
YouTube video by Political Junkie Substack
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November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I had a few things to say about how Trump's DOJ minions botched the revenge prosecutions against James Comey and Letitia James--and why MAGA needs to understand that experts do matter.
youtu.be/bBx7I49isOE
youtu.be/bBx7I49isOE
Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys: they will definitely succeed.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
RESULT!
RESULT!
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys: they will definitely succeed.
Har, har.
QUICK: Last week, the president -- I'm not sure if he was joking -- he said he loves everything you're doing but if you don't get the Fed to lower interest rates soon, he might fire your butt
BESSENT: Well Becky, if you were in the room he was joking
BESSENT: Well Becky, if you were in the room he was joking
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Har, har.
Before I retired, I always loved Thanksgiving week and that sense of the whole college slowly coming to a halt for a precious few days before the final push.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Before I retired, I always loved Thanksgiving week and that sense of the whole college slowly coming to a halt for a precious few days before the final push.
If you live in Tennessee, don't imagine you will go to the library before Thanksgiving to borrow a movie or books: the librarians have been forced to close in order to make LGBTQ people invisible.
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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you live in Tennessee, don't imagine you will go to the library before Thanksgiving to borrow a movie or books: the librarians have been forced to close in order to make LGBTQ people invisible.
popular.info/p/tennessee-...
popular.info/p/tennessee-...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I could write or I could watch the cheetah cub cam.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I could write or I could watch the cheetah cub cam.
Texas, it seems, is just bursting with lovely people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
2 Texas Men Plotted Coup of Haitian Island to Enslave Women and Children, U.S. Says
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Texas, it seems, is just bursting with lovely people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
Reposted by Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)
Scam insurance posing as Obamacare gets bought by unsuspecting consumers thanks to Google ranking sponsored links higher. Per FTC records from people who got scammed. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Americans Googling Obamacare Are Finding 'Junk Insurance' Instead
During open enrollment, ads from telemarketers are crowding out official health exchanges.
www.bloomberg.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Scam insurance posing as Obamacare gets bought by unsuspecting consumers thanks to Google ranking sponsored links higher. Per FTC records from people who got scammed. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
What it means to work on something until you succeed: well done, Mr. PIttman.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
After a lifetime championing Black history, he finally got an apology for slavery
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman will apologize for slavery on the county’s behalf. Meet one of the civil rights leaders who made it happen.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What it means to work on something until you succeed: well done, Mr. PIttman.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...