Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h agoIn dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x
One Democrat says something mildly critical of Thanksgiving and the entire GOP insists all Democrats are laser-focused on ending the holiday. And then the GOP president commits a crime every hour and they insist it has absolutely nothing to do with them. How dare you even associate them with him?!
Ashley Kuckelman@ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 21h agoLet’s all take a moment to reflect on how monumentally stupid Chuck’s post is - cancel Thanksgiving? JFC Republicans will say ANYTHING to get their cult base all worked up. 🙄
With all due respect to the AI bot who just emailed me and Tom Sugrue to propose a bold new marketing strategy to optimize national sales on The New Suburban History, an edited collection of scholarly articles published with a university press two decades ago, I think that ship has sailed.
The most exotic thing I ever cooked in my Cornell grad dorm was Wegman's store brand mac and cheese
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 23h agoCornell University has banned the processing of wild game in residential kitchens on campus after two students carved up a bear carcass to make “black-bear pastrami”
thinking about Mike Wallace interviewing white people who said they weren't racist, but thought Black people shouldn't move into Cicero, in such a way that got them to say obviously racist things
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18h agothe argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
A friend just sent me this and I was convinced he was pulling my leg. Nope!
and even if you know the story, read this to refresh your memory. then get back to work.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h agoYou're probably familiar with the events in Selma, Alabama, that helped secure the Voting Rights Act. But you might not know the story of how the Voting Rights Act then transformed Selma and the rest of the South. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
Watching WNBA clips now, realizing how they'd be even more amazing if they included Enes Kanter moving in slow motion like an Ent as these women kept scoring all around him
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 17h agoChelsea Gray... dime
If these occasional posts are any indication, this book is going to be way more fascinating than folks might expect.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h agoYou're probably familiar with the events in Selma, Alabama, that helped secure the Voting Rights Act. But you might not know the story of how the Voting Rights Act then transformed Selma and the rest of the South. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
In which an idiotic Tesla driver tells the cop who clocked him going 20 over the limit that he demands to speak with his manager.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 19h agodude gets pulled over for speeding and tells the cop—fingers tented Elon-style—that he wasn't actually driving, his Tesla was it does not go well youtu.be/kOa9iZmlfnk
What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Expert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters.
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Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 3d agoReally? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.
"I would never thought the United States would act this way" - Nunca Pensé featuring Mariachi Arcoiris is available on all streaming platforms
Correct. (Word counts etc.) It is also hard to overstate how much the establishment democrats and leadership were and are aligned with technology. The SV culture, the money, and the theory of mind — they are enamored with it.
Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 20h agoThe only thing I'd add to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's fine work this morning is that the establishment Dems have an ideological blind spot around organizing. They overindex on capital-intensive forms of mobilization and are completely lost when it comes to labor-intensive forms of mobilization.
Energy not the same as before? Need that pick me up? Introducing Endless War from Mike Rogers.
Now that Ross Douthat is gone, NYT Opinion should actually do a weekly Cletus Safari. Invite the people who actually matter to the GOP--the Groyper who wants to bring back segregation, the mega church pastor in favor of marrying children, the pro-fascism political theorist--and let them cook.
If you'd told me there was a Democratic Senate candidate campaigning against the Powell Memo, I'm pretty sure I would never have guessed it was Talarico in Texas. Good for him.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 18h ago👀 “The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties” - @jamestalarico.bsky.social This is good stuff.
After the VRA, George Wallace suddenly redirected his attacks from civil rights workers to communists. “The reason he’s talking about communism,” said Alabama AG Richmond Flowers, running against Wallace’s wife Lurleen, “is because there aren’t 228,000 registered communists in Alabama.”
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h agoYou're probably familiar with the events in Selma, Alabama, that helped secure the Voting Rights Act. But you might not know the story of how the Voting Rights Act then transformed Selma and the rest of the South. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
Douthat is leaving, but in his honor the New York Times will continue to publish a column's length of empty white space that says nothing.
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22h agoWhere are the good guys and bad guys in contemporary politics? In his final column for Times Opinion, Ross Douthat writes about how each major political faction seems tempted toward the dark side “to a degree that makes me uncertain where the side of the angels really lies.”
"The president threw a tantrum and filled his diaper" is a great insult and also a literal description of most of his public events.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h agoSKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀
Related. The Jonathan Daniels pilgrimage is next weekend in Alabama. www.dioala.org/jonathan-dan...
Jonathan Daniels and the Martyrs of Alabama Pilgrimage - The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
Rethink God's Love
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Really good piece. Especially for a Canadian who has little knowledge of the mechanics of how the US Voting Rights Act was implemented.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h agoYou're probably familiar with the events in Selma, Alabama, that helped secure the Voting Rights Act. But you might not know the story of how the Voting Rights Act then transformed Selma and the rest of the South. New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: