Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social
Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Historian here do join me at the famed Chautauqua Institution tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. I am so looking forward to this event and attending events with Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen in the morning and David Blight and Tiya Miles on Wednesday morning. www.chq.org/event/manish...
Manisha Sinha - Chautauqua Institution
Welcome to Chautauqua Institution! We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity.
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Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
The “get politics out of sports” crowd is sure having a normal one
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Historian here do join me at the famed Chautauqua Institution tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. I am so looking forward to this event and attending events with Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen in the morning and David Blight and Tiya Miles on Wednesday morning. www.chq.org/event/manish...
Manisha Sinha - Chautauqua Institution
Welcome to Chautauqua Institution! We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity.
chq.org
Good to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon.
Max Miller has a documented history of violence against women dating back to high school. Read this article from 2021. web.archive.org/web/20211105...
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
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I once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoDying. It continues. SUSAN ORLEAN
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
nytimes.com
Always a bad sign if political analysis becomes reduced to Putinology, Orbanology, Trumpology…
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924
Professor here let’s connect the dots here people. The State Department’s hilarious map of African countries with coastal and landlocked countries flipped: “An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.”
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
If they can acknowledge it’s fascism so can the media
Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 4d ago
They lie about the big stuff. They lie about the small stuff. They lie about having lied. And they act outraged if anyone points it out. We need a fundamental change in how their words are reported, interpreted, and acted on.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d agoReflecting Pool lessons: 1. Trump administration lying is routine and pervasive. Nothing they say or do should have a "presumption of regularity." 2. They spend our money to prosecute innocent people. Congress should cut and restrict funds and hold liars accountable. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
"I will never understand why these huge corporations refuse to acknowledge objective reality: paying Trump doesn’t buy you anything. All it does is teach him that you’re willing to pay, and next time, he’ll get you to pay more."
ABC Makes Huge Realization About Their Devil's Bargain With Trump
The company’s court filing underscored just how dangerous Trump’s assault of free speech is as the midterms approach.
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My husband finally took me to see The Odyssey on date night. Forget Emily Wilson’s snarky review, a perfect allegory for our times. I am not a classicist but much prefer Nolan’s tortured Odysseus than a wily cunning one, artistic license people. And no it did not need more sex or better food!
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
