Craig Johnson
@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social
Research on the right-wing and religion. Podcast: Fifteen Minutes of Fascism: https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964 Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/dINAA DMs open. Opinions my own.
an AI "book summary podcast" account just replied to this post and I swear to fucking Jesus Christ himself that I have no time for these shenanigans
Craig Johnson@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 2h agoIn English: For Mesoamerica I like Lockhart's The Nahuas After the Conquest (which is also about before the Conquest) For Andes, Steve Stern's Peru's Andean Peoples Also check out: Ambivalent Conquests and Broken Spears For Spain: Empires of the Atlantic World
if they'd done this before the 2nd Trump administration they might've cast a Black woman as Bond to intentionally ride the backlash now? by "really different" they might mean that he's gonna be an EXTREMELY straight twink
The Independent@the-independent.com · 12h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
next semester i am teaching a course on the US since 1900, and I am devoting an entire lecture to - the US Civil War and Reconstruction. basically no US history after the war makes any sense unless you understand the Civil War
honestly, we have no reason to believe that an actually isolationist, openly fascist white supremacist party wouldn't win Congressional seats or challenge the Presidency
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 6h agoFor federal elections, splitting the GOP into two competing crank Nazi movements would be great for Democrats. At the state/local level, however, we'd be condemning large portions of the South and Midwest to governance by Crossfit George Wallace's.
listen voters are vast and contain bewildering multitudes
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 10h agoMissouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
i need cosplay help, do i have people on here who can give me tips?
turning our collective back on trans people is a human rights crime, AND it won't win you an election
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 8h agoToday the UK is putting into practice aggressive restrictions on trans people using toilets and changing rooms. This follows a complex legal/political mess over two years. The UK was among the best countries in Europe on LGBTQ rights; now it's among the worst. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
you will have to take books and reading with your human eyeballs and thinking with your human brain from my cold, dead hands
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
ok, now it's up to the Blue No Matter Who folks to get behind this candidate
Truthout@truthout.org · 8h agoAbdul El-Sayed has achieved a dominant win in Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, winning by a narrow margin over Rep. Haley Stevens in a ground-shaking triumph over the $60 million spent by AIPAC and corporations to oppose him.
yes people in the US simply refuse to think in coalitions - or often they think that way only for the opposition (peeling off never-Trump GOP voters) but not for themselves!
Andrew Tobolowsky@andytobo.bsky.social · 8h agoIt's very very difficult for anyone to accept the simple and most straightforward explanation, which is also a tremendously common political paradigm: the democratic party is a coalition. The left part of the coalition has gotten bigger in recent years and there are fewer voters in the middle -
the sheer number of contemporary entertainers that would've loved to be in big musicals is a sad sign of what happens when an art form declines what will the people who, in their hearts, would've wanted to write a novel be doing in the age of LLMs?
well, for boots it like literally does you can pay $60 and replace your boots every year or pay at least $350 and have the same pair for like ten this is literally the case, i am wearing those boots right now
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 10h agoIf quality/durability DOESN’T grow exponentially with price, then you’re no worse off, financially, for having gotten the cheaper product. In many instances, you’re better off. For instance, if a product that costs twice as much also lasts twice as long, you’re paying the same amount over time.
there is a reason the chatbots are mostly gendered female! it is the same reason that the word "robot" comes to us from the Czech word for "serf!" our society genders these things as tools and utilities, which makes them: female
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterdayGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
the US is engaging in economic warfare with Cuba STILL, after 60+ years, as one of the physically and culturally closest countries to the US suffers greatly but we want to replace the Communists with a compliant regime so Trump can build a hotel chain
Cuba registra dos apagones nacionales en menos de 24 horas
Las autoridades trabajan para restablecer totalmente la electricidad en la isla, cuyo sistema, obsoleto y afectado por las restricciones estadounidenses, ha colapsado siete veces en 2026
elpais.com
US and Brazil are in a big feud, refusing diplomats - this is because Lula, correctly, says the Trump administration is aiding his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro (former Pres Jair Bolsonaro's son), and helped interfere with the previous Presidential election
US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud
Move is retaliation for Lula’s government refusal to approve Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasília
theguardian.com
when i first moved to california i was at a party and as a get to know you question a guy asked me "what kind of movement do you practice" i thought it was a weird and goofy question and now that's something i ask people, i guess i'm californian now
The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.
seriously, i am done with online anything in teaching the readings will be online and i'll answer email, but NOTHING else will be online
Craig Johnson@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · yesterday"History is a series of bullet points" is a mind virus that comes from teaching from powerpoints
gonna piss of the right-wing with a Muslim Rome playthrough of Crusader Kings III, starting today:
Historian Plays Crusader Kings III
YouTube video by Professor Craig
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"History is a series of bullet points" is a mind virus that comes from teaching from powerpoints
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
the core of the problem! not everything is data! some stuff is humanities instead
Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social · yesterday"Everything is just data so we can computer it" has broken so many brains I swear
true! and rebuilding them to the power they used to have will take decades, if it ever happens
Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social · yesterdayThe only way to defeat the powers that have co-opted our institutions without destroying everything is to build parallel institutions
we are going to have to rebuild the entire world, like every single building everywhere, and do it without fossil fuels we fucked up so bad it won't make ANY sense to the people who come next
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · yesterday4 AUGUST 2026 WRITE DOWN THIS DATE-EUROPE CLIMATIC HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ANEW Thousands and Thousands of records are being shattered in pieces in Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,Ukraine,Belarus,Romania,Serbia... Widespread 40Cs Tbc
They’re all spineless cowards afraid of his voters.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
fortunate/paying out the nose to live in a place where i haven't had a car for over ten years, never looked back biking, walking, and accessible transit are simply better for people and the world
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d agoAmerica the only country where people are so appalled when I tell them I don't drive that I pretend I don't know how to instead of the truth, which is I find it very boring and I'd rather just take the train/bus and chat with someone than spend that time getting mad at random strangers
i think after like 200 years of modernity we still don't really reconcile ourselves to the fact that a whole lot of people just *like* it when people say unhinged racist shit
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.
