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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

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When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

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The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

01.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 2296    🔁 765    💬 106    📌 25

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

01.03.2026 16:44 — 👍 734    🔁 114    💬 32    📌 17
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BREAKING: The Pentagon says three U.S. service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in hostilities with Iran

01.03.2026 14:56 — 👍 2567    🔁 1227    💬 642    📌 320
野鳥がたくさん描かれたスマホ壁紙用イラスト

野鳥がたくさん描かれたスマホ壁紙用イラスト

壁紙

28.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 2124    🔁 760    💬 9    📌 12
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Remember who we are fighting for!
10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

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it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

01.03.2026 01:48 — 👍 4763    🔁 1244    💬 33    📌 37
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> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

01.03.2026 00:33 — 👍 10228    🔁 2673    💬 696    📌 226
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 13119    🔁 4180    💬 450    📌 324

Getting a government decapitated because of "this could have been an email."

01.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 66    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

28.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 3170    🔁 760    💬 32    📌 18

I’d maybe sit this one out buddy

www.salon.com/2016/04/29/a...

28.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 461    🔁 78    💬 8    📌 1
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just circling back...

28.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 1519    🔁 215    💬 19    📌 20

Such a perfect example of Pundit Brain at work: Harper says he always knew Trump was lying about being the peace candidate — but still turned that into criticism of Harris.

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Don’t worry, he’s on it!

28.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 853    🔁 119    💬 15    📌 15

part of why putting congress back in charge of this is that it would require that the admin make the case for war in front of them, and i want you to think for a moment about what that case would look like coming from this admin

28.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 507    🔁 86    💬 8    📌 1
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In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

28.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 6522    🔁 2196    💬 253    📌 166

If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?

28.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 693    🔁 188    💬 29    📌 9

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

28.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 2902    🔁 1081    💬 115    📌 48

Congrats in advance to Mohammed Abdul Reza Rubio on his new role as the shah of Iran

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Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Don doesn’t take no for an answer, weird, no such stories like this before

27.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 156    🔁 17    💬 8    📌 0
a long tube of pringles containing four individual tubes of Pringles stacked. it is taller than at least one of my children

a long tube of pringles containing four individual tubes of Pringles stacked. it is taller than at least one of my children

I am normal and can be trusted with a costco membership

27.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 2131    🔁 214    💬 43    📌 90
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There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

27.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 4265    🔁 1209    💬 96    📌 230

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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27.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 2881    🔁 715    💬 50    📌 52

At the risk of having this skeet blopped on my head in a couple of months, the birthright citizenship case is an incredibly easy case decided by straightforward text, and that’s part of why these amicus briefs are all such dunks.

27.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 1106    🔁 89    💬 32    📌 28

Good to see the Secretary of Defense has his priorities in order in the midst of the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the Gulf War.

27.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 846    🔁 139    💬 40    📌 4