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David Waldstreicher
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Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
This is the essence of crypto -- a total scam. Yet our government continues to promote this grift. A great story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/rE94Vo
CEO of South Philadelphia Bitcoin mining company defrauded investors out of $48.5 million, regulators say
Dahn C. Vo, founder of the now-defunct VBit Technologies Corp. based in South Philly, was accused by the SEC of misappropriating more than $48 million of investor funds in a nationwide scheme.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d
The fact that overt (as opposed to dog whistle) antisemitism was at least partially taboo on the US right post-WWII, compared to, say, racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia, which were always entirely acceptable, is precisely why antisemitism is how the young right is proving how transgressive it is.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking news: david stearns has traded the ghost of tom seaver for a player to be conjured later.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 3d
yes, because aesthetics is sublimated ideology. (not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that.)
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 4d
NEQ's paywall has been an irritant for a long time!

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 6d
To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 6d
This guy got a PhD to become a university president.He got a PhD in "Higher Ed Admin" & wrote a diss./book about "non traditional presidents" aka consultant class experts who believe that faculty and students have too much say. Fullest expression of the BOV contempt for UVA &especially faculty.
vpm.org VPM News @vpm.org · 6d
Breaking: The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named a new president Friday: Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA's Darden School of Business since 2015.

Beardsley called the selection "the honor of my life."
UVA board selects Scott Beardsley as new president
Beardsley, a longtime consultant, has led the Darden School of Business since 2015.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 6d
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 9d
In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history.

#teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16
Two side-by-side photos of Old South Meetinghouse, with two projections: “1773: Tea into our Harbor” and “2025: Ice Off Our Streets.”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9d
"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially."

Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander.

My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 11d
Go Adam!
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Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d
Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 12d
Only if it has a cafe car
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 14d
We need a new series called Very Long Eviscerations. Cambridge can do it.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 15d
GOP Rep. Randy Fine says he's "not afraid" of being called "Islamophobic" and that, instead of making peace with Palestinians, "destroy them first."

This was during a hearing on "Judea and Samaria"—a term used to erase Palestinian ties to what's actually known as the West Bank.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 15d
Thinking about one of my all-time favorite historians, CUNY grad Nick Salvatore, & what he did for cultural/political biography, radical history, Af-Am history. I am always telling folks about We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber.
www.ithacavoice.org/2025/12/obituary-nick-salvatore/
Obituary: Nick Salvatore - The Ithaca Voice
Nick Salvatore, 82, of Ithaca, New York, died on Saturday, November 29th after a period of declining health. He passed away peacefully, listening to music he loved and comforted by […]
www.ithacavoice.org

David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 15d
They kicked him upstairs, they hate him that much. They'd vote for Ted Cruz on the supreme court, and probably will next year if maga not too scared about losing the texas seat.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 15d
There is no goofing off like taught your last class yesterday goofing off.
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 17d
I never write or even say "of course" anymore because of the way certain historians in my field use it (as a shield).

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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 18d
Sunstein posted an admirably frank essay yesterday on the Unitary Executive Theory:
How he participated in this elite bipartisan political consensus —
and how he has been persuaded by overwhelming historical evidence that he & other high-ranking lawyers were wrong.
open.substack.com/pub/casssuns...
The Unitary Executive
Notes on how people know things
open.substack.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21d
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23d
Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.

Seems like a key detail!

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · Nov 24
“Most of our political evils may be traced to our commercial ones, as most of our moral may to our political.”
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · Nov 20
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Nov 20
Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after.

Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.

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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social · Nov 19
On Phillis Wheatley, check out our recent podcast interview with Wheatley biographer David Waldstreicher: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 127: Phillis Wheatley: A Black Evangelical Poet in Revolutionary America
Podcast Episode · The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. · 11/04/2025 · 55m
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · Nov 17
"The real question for the Semiquincentennial isn’t whether we can celebrate the Revolution, but whether we can finally afford to understand it—not the comforting mythology Burns offers, but the history scholarship reveals: disturbing, illuminating, and indispensable."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Ken Burns Won’t Tell You About How 1776 Built a Democracy—and an Empire
Founding Myths vs Founding Realities
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · Nov 16
What an honor to sit between Robin Kelley and Vivian Gornick, so a reading, discuss, & celebrate the Boston Review! Thanks to Brooklyn Public Library too (recording linked below)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahH...
Vivian Gornick, Robin D.G. Kelley & David Waldstreicher on Boston Review at 50.
YouTube video by BPLvideos
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