Jared Hardesty
@drhardesty.bsky.social
Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
this is not Bill Barr 2.0. this is in fact explicitly designed *not* to be Barr 2.0 even if they *had* someone as good as Barr, which they don't.
there is a specific provision in the bill that requires the White House to justify any redactions made to Congress. if the DOJ classifies all mention of Trump, they will have to disclose that to Congress along with the legal justification for doing so
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
this is not Bill Barr 2.0. this is in fact explicitly designed *not* to be Barr 2.0 even if they *had* someone as good as Barr, which they don't.
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Hours after Speaker Mike Johnson confidently declared that Senate Republicans would "fix" Thomas Massie's bill requiring release of the Epstein files, the Senate just passed the bill as is by unanimous consent without any changes. A massive, embarrassing debacle for Johnson.
It now goes to Trump...
It now goes to Trump...
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hours after Speaker Mike Johnson confidently declared that Senate Republicans would "fix" Thomas Massie's bill requiring release of the Epstein files, the Senate just passed the bill as is by unanimous consent without any changes. A massive, embarrassing debacle for Johnson.
It now goes to Trump...
It now goes to Trump...
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Massie on Johnson: "He wants to create a provision of this law that would exempt the very people we're trying to expose -- the men who raped these women. He says, 'We'll make sure they are credible allegations.' Is he calling the survivors we witnessed today un-credible? That's the implication"
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Massie on Johnson: "He wants to create a provision of this law that would exempt the very people we're trying to expose -- the men who raped these women. He says, 'We'll make sure they are credible allegations.' Is he calling the survivors we witnessed today un-credible? That's the implication"
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
BREAKING & BIG: Federal judge BLOCKS Texas from implementing new, gerrymandered maps for 2026 midterms. Judge Jeffrey Brown (TRUMP APPOINTEE) wrote opinion, joined by Judge David Guaderrama (Obama appointee). Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) dissents.
storage.courtlistene...
storage.courtlistene...
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
BREAKING & BIG: Federal judge BLOCKS Texas from implementing new, gerrymandered maps for 2026 midterms. Judge Jeffrey Brown (TRUMP APPOINTEE) wrote opinion, joined by Judge David Guaderrama (Obama appointee). Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) dissents.
storage.courtlistene...
storage.courtlistene...
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel https://theonion.com/pentagon-blames-venezuela-for-flow-of-drugs-into-kash-patel/
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel https://theonion.com/pentagon-blames-venezuela-for-flow-of-drugs-into-kash-patel/
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
lol, lmao at johnson just making every single problem thune’s problem now
Mike Johnson says he's talked to Thune & he's "very confident that when this moves forward in the process - if & when it is processed in the Senate, which is no certainty - they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House. To amend this discharge petition."
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
lol, lmao at johnson just making every single problem thune’s problem now
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
There it is
Mike Johnson says he's talked to Thune & he's "very confident that when this moves forward in the process - if & when it is processed in the Senate, which is no certainty - they will take the time methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in the House. To amend this discharge petition."
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There it is
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Well, that didn’t take long.
www.schmitt.senate.gov
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Well, that didn’t take long.
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
congratulations, instead of Medicare for all, you invented “high-deductible health plans + HSAs” for all.
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
congratulations, instead of Medicare for all, you invented “high-deductible health plans + HSAs” for all.
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Vought was born 11 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Connecticut
Miller was born 20 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Santa Monica
They’re not motivated by nostalgia. They’re not revanchists. They’re not trying to regain lost status
They’re just evil fucks
Miller was born 20 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Santa Monica
They’re not motivated by nostalgia. They’re not revanchists. They’re not trying to regain lost status
They’re just evil fucks
Many of them are remaking the federal government right now.
there are quite a few white folks who vividly recall and rather miss Jim Crow alive and voting in this country right now
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Vought was born 11 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Connecticut
Miller was born 20 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Santa Monica
They’re not motivated by nostalgia. They’re not revanchists. They’re not trying to regain lost status
They’re just evil fucks
Miller was born 20 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Santa Monica
They’re not motivated by nostalgia. They’re not revanchists. They’re not trying to regain lost status
They’re just evil fucks
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
They should catch everyone leaving the auditorium and get them on camera and ask “what was your favorite fact of the speech” and supercut all the awkward laughing and ums together
Trump: "I gave them as you know unlimited water, Biden came back with a rigged election, and he immediately restricted the water again. But I came back in and immediately unrestricted it again. So now you have unlimited water to clean your damn dishes."
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
They should catch everyone leaving the auditorium and get them on camera and ask “what was your favorite fact of the speech” and supercut all the awkward laughing and ums together
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
Here we go www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Here we go www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader?
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader?
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
This is more or less exactly the level of total fucking incompetence I expected from Election Night onward.
While the specific incidents are hilariously randumb, the fact is that Trump chased almost every minimally competent professional away from the possibility of working in his second admin.
While the specific incidents are hilariously randumb, the fact is that Trump chased almost every minimally competent professional away from the possibility of working in his second admin.
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is more or less exactly the level of total fucking incompetence I expected from Election Night onward.
While the specific incidents are hilariously randumb, the fact is that Trump chased almost every minimally competent professional away from the possibility of working in his second admin.
While the specific incidents are hilariously randumb, the fact is that Trump chased almost every minimally competent professional away from the possibility of working in his second admin.
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
I think we didn’t want to admit that RFK Jr was decisive because we didn’t and don’t want to make the kind of compromises it would have taken to bring him on board
It was pretty visible in the polling I think we just collectively didn’t want to believe it
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think we didn’t want to admit that RFK Jr was decisive because we didn’t and don’t want to make the kind of compromises it would have taken to bring him on board
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
Reposted by Jared Hardesty
The defining feature of American political journalism is that they demand the deference, respect, and privilege of serving a vitally important societal role while simultaneously rejecting any of the commensurate responsibilities and obligations.
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The defining feature of American political journalism is that they demand the deference, respect, and privilege of serving a vitally important societal role while simultaneously rejecting any of the commensurate responsibilities and obligations.