David Waldstreicher

just don't go to the wbc you'll be fine

I agree, though i have colleagues who remain suspicious. Why the change? (1) partly because the work has been good? (2) 20th c. now dominant in history depts, less insecure? (3) pop culture being done by other departments as well? (4) Reagan to Trump continuum of politics becoming ever more tv show?

frankly trump himself is iraq war blowback

2026 John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture- ONLINE RSVP Please fill out the information below to remotely attend the John Patrick Diggins lecture on 02/25/26 from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. A Zoom link will be sent out on the morning of the lecture.

TONIGHT The brilliant Mary Sarah Bilder is joining us at 630 for the 13th John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture: "The Perils of Sex: Catherine Macaulay's Constitution of Liberty" Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
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Tonight! Join us in person or on zoom!

employed the 11 yr old girl across the street, who was shut out of Dad & brother shoveling, for 20 minutes, paid her 3x what she asked, felt great all day.

If you appreciated my @nybooks.com article, you'll love my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in April. Order with discount code BLUE20 at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...

Print is a rent strike.

The brilliant Mary Sarah Bilder is joining us Wed. 2/25 at 630 for the 13th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture: "The Perils of Sex: Catherine Macaulay's Constitution of Liberty"
Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
In-Person RSVPs: email History@gc.cuny.edu
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Mary Sarah Bilder is joining us Feb. 25 at 630-8 @cunygraduatecenter for the 13th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture:

"The Perils of Sex: Catherine Macaulay's Constitution of Liberty"

The Segal Theatre at The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5TH Ave. New York, NY 10016

Wow!! Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship by Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social is out!! As timely as it is important.

"Every man of Sense amongst us knows that the Army is not kept here to protect, but to enslave us; and notwithstanding our Assemblies have given vast sums of Money to provide them with such Necessaries which many of the good Burghers want." (John Lamb, "To The Public," Jan. 15, 1770).

newspapers too.

Pennsylvania is like Long Island of my youth this week:

DA Krasner: ICE are wannabe Nazis.
Gov. Shapiro: what a terrible thing to say.
Sen Fetterman: calling people that leads to violence.

reminds me of conversations on playgrounds during the 1970s and i know who was on the side of the bullies.

I am catching up on this, but am quite willing to help do something public and explicit about the pattern. It's pure territorialism combined with a litigious streak, worthy of the oldest of the old boys. This time hiding behind others because not just free to punch down at so respected a scholar

CHEF'S KISS.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I am glad if the suing and bullying pattern is known. Making it hard to be objective and appreciative of their work.

This is extremely fishy, because the Constitution Center is (1) not part of the Park Service, (2) not part of the government - it's a private entity, which (3) has a Republican board head that pushed out (liberal) Pres & CEO, Jeffrey Rosen, in a "leadership dispute" acc. to the Inquirer and NY Times

Are You There, Constitution Center? It’s Me, a Citizen - The Philadelphia Citizen Jeffrey Rosen is out; the Constitution Center must decide if it will remain a genteel place of scholarship or try to save democracy

Informative but I am much more skeptical - to me looks like right-wing takeover that was always on the verge.

I was inspired to research and write _Slavery's Constitution_ after visiting the Center for the first time after it opened.

thephiladelphiacitizen.org/constitution...

all while cutting PhD spots. loser stuff. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator.

It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

This is extremely fishy, because the Constitution Center is (1) not part of the Park Service, (2) not part of the government - it isa private entity, which (3) has a Republican board head that pushed out (liberal) Pres & CEO, Jeffrey Rosen, in a "leadership dispute" acc. to the Inquirer and NY Times

i have never felt a shortage of contempt for clintons

Go directly to Palestine. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Snowcialism!

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

'I'm not done': Navy admiral booted by Hegseth now seeks to flip red Congressional seat In a dramatic political comeback move, three-star Admiral Nancy Lacore is throwing her hat in the ring for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District after being unceremoniously booted from her post ...

www.rawstory.com/nancy-lacore/ Among Hegseth's other things, his firings of generals and admirals is creating new Democratic House and Senate candidates in time for the 2026 election.