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Labor + naval historian | they/them political economy, ships, and shipbuilders CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26 currently an adjunct at UConn words at buttondown.com/anotherway

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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

04.03.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2102    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 469

I admit I'm in the latter category and I think it's probably worse

04.03.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read

04.03.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

04.03.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3143    πŸ” 848    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 39

the beacons are lit. dunkin calls for aid

04.03.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"... to compel people to return home voluntarily..."

04.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œauthorities” part is key.
Who authorizes this β€œdeath and destruction” and on what grounds?
Reminded of William Blackstone’s admonition to judges: β€œTo shed the blood of our fellow creature is a matter that requires the greatest deliberation, and the fullest conviction of our own authority. …,”

04.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

Talking about freedom and democracy while being allied to the Gulf States is so dumb

04.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

legendary sword that gives you a penalty to intimidate rolls and causes you to autofail combat rolls, but neither are obvious to the player because they're all hidden dm rolls

04.03.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh man I can't believe we're bringing back "unleash Chiang" lore!

03.03.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

teaching winstanley again this week

03.03.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"They have by subtile wit and power, pretended to preserve a people in safety by the power of the Sword. . . But all this is but a bloudy and subtile Theevery, countenanced by a Law that Covetousness made"

03.03.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I will be speaking this Thursday evening at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School on my forthcoming book with Arjun Jayadev, Against Money. The event is free, but you need to register in advance. event.newschool.edu/againstmoney

03.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey some of us naval historians are agnostics who go to episcopal services and are otherwise indistinguishable from practicing episcopalians okay

03.03.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the episcopal church welcomes you (to a richer understanding of naval strategy)

03.03.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

ah and it's gotten worse within <10 minutes

03.03.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

war of kushner's ear

03.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

if uhhh any journalists need an academic to talk about trade flows and naval logistics the 18th-century maritime world is becoming rapidly more analogous in alarming ways

03.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 153    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

finally a use for the LCS

03.03.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Apropos of nothing, "comparative advantage" means the thing *you're* best at -- not the thing you're *better at than others*. This isn't pedantry; it's essential to the entire argument, from Ricardo to today

03.03.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

pivot to asia meant pivot to south west asia I see

03.03.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to have this out - give it a read and let me know what you think

03.03.2026 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

People who use the computer to be pathologically careless will never understood those of us who use it to be pathologically careful.

06.07.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that's a big part of it yeah! it certainly adapts over time and is about seizing opportunities as much as planning but it's very much planned and envisioned and deliberate

03.03.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

This is an excellent summary of the looming Alberta Crisis. Probably not much much new information if you’ve been following the issue, but it’s one that neatly lays out the pieces on the board

02.03.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

yeah good question! GE is a big subject of one of the later chapters, mostly. in the 1940s in response to left wing unions they begin developing and popularizing right-wing economic thought, ultimately leading to Reaganomics! the book especially adds detail here on early factory floor propaganda

02.03.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might β€˜disparage’ America β€” The Washington Post An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

welp, someone (not me!) finally put this database out into the wild... it's as bad as you thought it was, if not worse.

02.03.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! πŸ₯³

02.03.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6

oh yeah. a truly unsettling season of tv

02.03.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a little over two months to go. purchase the hardcover, let the fluorescent yellow attract eyeballs as you read it on the train, and then tell everyone disturbing truths about General Electric

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