Terry Bouton
@terrybouton.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution and Creation of the US Constitution. Author of Taming Democracy.
Forthcoming Book: Madison's Mistake: The Rise and Fall of American Monarchism.
Democracy Dies in Doomerism. Don't be a Doomer.
Forthcoming Book: Madison's Mistake: The Rise and Fall of American Monarchism.
Democracy Dies in Doomerism. Don't be a Doomer.
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Terry Bouton
@terrybouton.bsky.social
· Aug 6
It’s finally real. I have a publication date! The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging comes out Jan 6, 2026. Five years inside conspiracy culture—what draws people in, what it costs to leave. Pre-orders are up: noellecook.com/book
An amazing book (as @noellecook.com's proud husband, I've read it several times, so I know!). It's a timely, fascinating, head-scratching, heartbreaking, funny, sobering, empathetic, and intimate look at the epidemic of conspiracism sweeping the nation and the world. A wild and entertaining ride!
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Leaving MAGA will be joining The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle tonight at 11:40 EST.
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Leaving MAGA will be joining The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle tonight at 11:40 EST.
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Watching @leavingmaga.org build his nonprofit has been a real source of hope for me. His integrity and dedication have created a community that’s growing for all the right reasons. Happy to see his work getting national attention on The 11th Hour tonight. Congrats, Rich.
Leaving MAGA will be joining The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle tonight at 11:40 EST.
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Watching @leavingmaga.org build his nonprofit has been a real source of hope for me. His integrity and dedication have created a community that’s growing for all the right reasons. Happy to see his work getting national attention on The 11th Hour tonight. Congrats, Rich.
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Grateful for this thoughtful review from Library Journal on The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging.
"This look at a little-understood community may help people whose loved ones have gone down the proverbial rabbit hole." 📚 #NewBook
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-c...
"This look at a little-understood community may help people whose loved ones have gone down the proverbial rabbit hole." 📚 #NewBook
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-c...
The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging
www.libraryjournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Grateful for this thoughtful review from Library Journal on The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging.
"This look at a little-understood community may help people whose loved ones have gone down the proverbial rabbit hole." 📚 #NewBook
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-c...
"This look at a little-understood community may help people whose loved ones have gone down the proverbial rabbit hole." 📚 #NewBook
www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-c...
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So the same MAGA propagandists who cheer Trump's summary execution of people on small boats in the Caribbean, on grounds that this supposedly prevents drugs from entering the homeland, will also cheer this pardon because ...
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
So the same MAGA propagandists who cheer Trump's summary execution of people on small boats in the Caribbean, on grounds that this supposedly prevents drugs from entering the homeland, will also cheer this pardon because ...
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???
Had a long conversation at Thanksgiving with a Trump voter who wished the Democrats had held out to protect health insurance subsidies because their premiums are nearly going to triple. Not happy about inflation either. Interesting conversation.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Had a long conversation at Thanksgiving with a Trump voter who wished the Democrats had held out to protect health insurance subsidies because their premiums are nearly going to triple. Not happy about inflation either. Interesting conversation.
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If you don't have access to the Boston Globe, here's another story about the horrible and illegal deportatuon of a college student who has been in the US since she was 8.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If you don't have access to the Boston Globe, here's another story about the horrible and illegal deportatuon of a college student who has been in the US since she was 8.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
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Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.
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Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
Writing to be thankful for.
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Writing to be thankful for.
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Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection
YouTube video by Rich Mullinax
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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it's that time of year again
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
it's that time of year again
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🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...
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This is the academic institution that is playing the most significant role in shaping the official celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding. dc.hillsdale.edu/News/Hillsda...
Hillsdale College Partners with the White House America 250 Task Force to Produce a New Educational
dc.hillsdale.edu
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is the academic institution that is playing the most significant role in shaping the official celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding. dc.hillsdale.edu/News/Hillsda...
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A great reminder of the dangers of teaching a sanitized history www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Corruption + Coercion = Monarchism. Not every founder saw "corruption" as a problem. The more monarchical ones viewed self-interested governance as necessary to maintain a stable ruling class. They didn't publicly advertise those beliefs due to monarchism's great unpopularity with the citizenry.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Corruption + Coercion = Monarchism. Not every founder saw "corruption" as a problem. The more monarchical ones viewed self-interested governance as necessary to maintain a stable ruling class. They didn't publicly advertise those beliefs due to monarchism's great unpopularity with the citizenry.
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Happy to share that Vroman’s is hosting the launch for The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging. I’ll be joined by author @rothschildmd.bsky.social, a leading expert on conspiracy movements.
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Happy to share that Vroman’s is hosting the launch for The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging. I’ll be joined by author @rothschildmd.bsky.social, a leading expert on conspiracy movements.
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
If you’re in the area, we’d love to see you: vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
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the only way i am willing to consume olivia nuzzi content is by reading an endless succession of stories about self-serious amoral idiot ryan lizza being cuckolded by an increasingly gross succession of octogenerians
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
the only way i am willing to consume olivia nuzzi content is by reading an endless succession of stories about self-serious amoral idiot ryan lizza being cuckolded by an increasingly gross succession of octogenerians
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Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.