Jamie Bronstein
@tomduncombe.bsky.social
History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico. I don't speak for my employer.
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
"It seems to have been a blessing in disguise. That's an idiom." Abbey Romeo on CNN. Happy Autism Awareness Day.
@historians.org NewspaperArchive is still down more than a month later, and I've seen you do absolutely zero to address the issue of what ought to be readily available--the nation's historic newspapers--plopped behind a paywall by a company that couldn't be bothered with security measures.
If the government were correct that the domicile-related intent of parents to stay in a country or not is material to the citizenship of babies born to them, then the babies of any Jewish people who intend to make aliyah should not be birthright citizens.
The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026
Donald is now killing kids to distract from his raping them.
“Once you understand that Pam Bondi is Donald Trump's Ghislaine Maxwell . . . Everything makes sense.”
My latest article, 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760-1850', has been published in @enghistrev.bsky.social! It uses coroners' inquests to reconstruct everyday food-giving practices in 18th- and 19th-century labouring communities 🍞🍗🥕 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
@cnn.com Give this to John Berman, since he was trying to draw a diagram of blame with Noem, Miller, Bovino and Trump.
Unhelpfully, this is what the weather forecast used to look like in the Times. I only wanted to say whether it was sunny or not in London. Can anyone translate?
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. It's peculiar that a country of gun fetishists puts up no resistance.
We used to call Pete Muntean FAA Fetus but now he looks even younger, like he has Benjamin Button disease.
PBS Newshour this evening is leaving me gutted. Four women abused by a military doctor, perhaps out thousands in his caseload. All complaints ignored.
I thought of another one: זאָלסט דו פֿאַרלוירען דעם שליסל אַף דײן אַוטאָ אינעם נוזשניק
The next person who pisses me off, I'm going to tell them: זאָלסטו שטאַרבען אַ טױזאַנד װײטיקדיק טױטעס
@jrakove.bsky.social The refusal of the DoJ to cooperate with state officials in MN to investigate the Good murder reminds me of the 1774 Administration of Justice Act, "The Murdering Act." Speed-running the American Revolution . . .
Brilliant historian's take in a thread
Jack Rakove@jrakove.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn observation apropos of the semi/q/centennial: I find myself thinking of my late friend Pauline Maier's first book (she came from St. Paul), From Resistance to Revolution. One of big takeaways was the idea of extra-legal resistance, which meant opposition to questionable actions of government.
A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead