Wondering who in the media gave Kentucky a first place vote the #SEC preseason poll. (They are picked to finish 14th.)
Mike Trapani
@trap1305.bsky.social
History, sports, politics, grew up in the 90s. Published a book on Andrew Jackson’s impact on the presidency. Writing a biography of NJ statesman, Samuel Southard.
Watching a multi-episode series on Thomas Jefferson on the History Channel. Not one mention of the Haitian slave revolt in the discussion about the acquisition of Louisiana 🗃️
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official…It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." -Teddy Roosevelt
To all the people bitching that they couldn’t understand a word of what Bad Bunny was singing please tell me all the words to It’s the End of the World as We Know It #SuperbowlLX
Interesting developments in NJ 11 special election primary. NJ is a closed primary state. When all mail ins and provisionals are counted, it looks like 65,000 democrats will have voted. By comparison, 2024’s democratic primary turned out about 52,000.
This is the first paragraph of a book written for young people that gives an overview of the #CivilWar. In a section titled “Why Did We Fight the Civil War?” to not include the word slavery is completely absurd and a disservice to any young person who wants to learn more about US history.
In case anyone wanted to know how today’s cabinet meeting went: Noem thanked Trump for keeping us safe from hurricanes and saving hundreds of millions of lives by blowing up cocaine ships in the Caribbean, RFK said the Trump administration saved women’s rights. And of course Trump fell asleep
@awfulannouncing.bsky.social be sure to check out completely tone deaf Boomer & Gio joking about adopting foster home teens. Gio says Al should adopt one to walk his dog. Boomer says there’s a 10% of getting a “good” teen from a foster home
Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in the day Mikie Sherrill resigns from Congress after winning her governor’s race. On the plus side, it should prevent Trump from interfering in the race. He needs Sherrill to win and resign to block the release of the Epstein files
@gauthamrao.bsky.social Just got an email to my school account from Gilder regarding your Law, Constitutions, and Governance class. Sounds incredible
Forgot how much I missed #southpark. Trump isn’t gonna be happy
GPS says just under four hours. Off to Providence! #shear2025
Just saw a car with a Tulsi 2020 sticker on it. Doesn’t get much worse than that. Although it could be worth a lot of money as there can’t be more than 10 of those on the whole planet
Anyone happen to have a copy of Herbert Ershkowitz’s, The Origin of the Whig and Democratic Party, New Jersey Politics, 1820-1837? Libraries near me have it but as a non-circulating reference book. 🗃️ #blustorians
5,000 pages of newspaper mentioning Samuel Southard between 1810 and the end of 1842 (the year he died) done. On to the 1,950 Southard mentions in John Quincy Adams’ diary #amresearching #amwriting 🗃️ #writing #booksky
Bellwether gubernatorial election in NJ coming up in November. Voted in primary day today. One of a strong stable of established democrats will likely face normal republican turned Trump shill, Jack Ciattarelli who lost to current governor, Phil Murphy in a closer than expected race in 2021.
Heading to #SHEAR 2nd Book Workshop in July at Brown University. Any good hotel recommendations? 🗃️
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
🗃️ has anyone who has done any research on the early/mid 19th century United States come across any letters, diary entries, etc. pertaining to Samuel Southard? Either written by him, to him, or in reference to him?
Wish you could see my surprised face. Part of me is glad to see this. This is what you voted for because god forbid you live in a country run by a female.
I had multiple 7th graders tell me today they’d be ok with the president having control over what social media apps are allowed in the U.S. One said “the president gets millions of votes so he can do what he wants.” They’re still learning democracy but their instinct is to be led by a strongman
So #TikTok is now dark. Tomorrow, Trump will grant a 90 day extension to the sale deadline and magically on day 89, a deal will happen. And Trump will be the savior of TikTok and hero to young people even though he tried to ban it through executive order in his first term. Trump wins again
Anyone out there have a Rutgers login who’d be willing to help me get some letters off the RU library database? Much of their digital collection is open access but a few pieces require a login. Any help is greatly appreciated. #amwriting