RobbieTubbs.bsky.social
@amhistteacher.bsky.social
History teacher, Adjunct professor, James Madison Fellow PA ‘20. Studying constitutionalism and popular dissent. Also interested in American religious history.
God, NY Times, it will not be lifted as long as he is president. Is this really still so hard for so many people to see? We live in a fascist state.
August 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
God, NY Times, it will not be lifted as long as he is president. Is this really still so hard for so many people to see? We live in a fascist state.
All of this is true, but it should also be remembered that he is just stupid. Since he came on the scene I have been screaming that he is just actually an idiot who can barely read and for a decade the press has treated him as some mystical, political phenomenon.
Guardian reporter is not waiting around for a book deal but reporting it now: Dementia Don is falling apart — can’t even babble straight. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
All of this is true, but it should also be remembered that he is just stupid. Since he came on the scene I have been screaming that he is just actually an idiot who can barely read and for a decade the press has treated him as some mystical, political phenomenon.
My summer American Legal History class just analyzed warning newspaper adds from the 19th century warning runaway enslaved people of bounty hunter sightings.
In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.
July 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My summer American Legal History class just analyzed warning newspaper adds from the 19th century warning runaway enslaved people of bounty hunter sightings.
I’m 33, married, 4 kids. Head of a single income household with a mortgage and a little bit of student debt. I’m WELL off compared to most and I just had a mild panic attack this morning thinking about this very thing. This is going to be impossible?
June 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’m 33, married, 4 kids. Head of a single income household with a mortgage and a little bit of student debt. I’m WELL off compared to most and I just had a mild panic attack this morning thinking about this very thing. This is going to be impossible?
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
Mass protests need to disrupt this.
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Mass protests need to disrupt this.
Stephen Miller has been giddy for this. If you think this admin hasn’t been waiting for a chance to gun down people in the streets you’ve been sleeping.
Reminder…governors can say “no” to this.
Reminder…governors can say “no” to this.
Statement from the White House regarding deployment of the national guard in California:
“Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen…”
“Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen…”
June 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Stephen Miller has been giddy for this. If you think this admin hasn’t been waiting for a chance to gun down people in the streets you’ve been sleeping.
Reminder…governors can say “no” to this.
Reminder…governors can say “no” to this.
I don’t disagree with Bouie often but I do here. This is precisely what they’ve been calculating for. They’ve desired a “reason” for escalation for a while. But he does raise a good point: can they keep loyalty on the military side? That is not clear.
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
June 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I don’t disagree with Bouie often but I do here. This is precisely what they’ve been calculating for. They’ve desired a “reason” for escalation for a while. But he does raise a good point: can they keep loyalty on the military side? That is not clear.
This is insane and in so many ways exactly what the admin wants. They are fascists who want to feel power (hence the full tactical clown suits) but also the admin desperately wants more people to resist like this so they can jack up the violence and feel “justified”.
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is insane and in so many ways exactly what the admin wants. They are fascists who want to feel power (hence the full tactical clown suits) but also the admin desperately wants more people to resist like this so they can jack up the violence and feel “justified”.
Has anyone stopped to think that, just like every slop EO and official statement from this WH, a large portion of the report was probably written with AI. We know it makes up citations.
The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Has anyone stopped to think that, just like every slop EO and official statement from this WH, a large portion of the report was probably written with AI. We know it makes up citations.
I've been saying this all along...every one of these people are petty tyrants that want to have their own kingdom. They are so drunk with their proximity to power that they violate every function of their actual job description. None of these appointees care about anything other than feeling strong.
Why is the US Govt continuing to interfere in the domestic politics and elections of our allies, and why is the Homeland Security Secretary on a lengthy world tour?
May 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've been saying this all along...every one of these people are petty tyrants that want to have their own kingdom. They are so drunk with their proximity to power that they violate every function of their actual job description. None of these appointees care about anything other than feeling strong.
So it’s clear now who Tapper sees himself as, or rather whom he wants the history books to see him as.
Jake Tapper on Biden: "It is a scandal. It is without question -- and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn't drinking."
May 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
So it’s clear now who Tapper sees himself as, or rather whom he wants the history books to see him as.
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Historian here it is the fall of the Republic. The President does not know that he has to uphold the Constitution and the dog killer Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security thinks habeas corpus means the opposite of what it actually does. God save the United States of America!
May 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Historian here it is the fall of the Republic. The President does not know that he has to uphold the Constitution and the dog killer Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security thinks habeas corpus means the opposite of what it actually does. God save the United States of America!
I’ve been cutting the Amazon chord completely and this solidifies for me. Ugh…
Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’ve been cutting the Amazon chord completely and this solidifies for me. Ugh…
I’m just so sick.
For an administration that claims to love America and its history, it's notable the extent to which they are actively working to decimate our ability to learn new things about that history.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
May 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m just so sick.
I’ve been watching this guy for years…this (higher office) was ALWAYS the goal. There is no considering. He wants higher and always will. And he’ll destroy whatever he has to in order to get there.
May 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ve been watching this guy for years…this (higher office) was ALWAYS the goal. There is no considering. He wants higher and always will. And he’ll destroy whatever he has to in order to get there.
US Constitution - Article I, section 8, clause 3: "Congress shall have...the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations..."
There is no "deal" until Congress approves.
There is no "deal" until Congress approves.
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
US Constitution - Article I, section 8, clause 3: "Congress shall have...the power to regulate Commerce with foreign nations..."
There is no "deal" until Congress approves.
There is no "deal" until Congress approves.
It’s clear too bother much of the garbage coming from the White House is also written by AI.
May 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It’s clear too bother much of the garbage coming from the White House is also written by AI.
This is not hard. It is exactly what Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro and the rest of the online ilk do to college kids and then they are heralded as debate gods who cannot be beaten. Just ask for follow ups.
Reporters:
Here's a simple question that will generate viral stories.
"How exactly is it Marxist?"
The response will be a dodge, so you've got to stay with it and follow it up.
"No, you said DEI was Marxist. What did you mean by that? Specifically?"
Here's a simple question that will generate viral stories.
"How exactly is it Marxist?"
The response will be a dodge, so you've got to stay with it and follow it up.
"No, you said DEI was Marxist. What did you mean by that? Specifically?"
May 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is not hard. It is exactly what Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro and the rest of the online ilk do to college kids and then they are heralded as debate gods who cannot be beaten. Just ask for follow ups.
There really needs to be mass protest to this. Disrupt the stupid thing, drown it out. But the admin already knows that will happen that’s why they won’t release any plans.
(AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
apnews.com/article/army...
apnews.com/article/army...
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There really needs to be mass protest to this. Disrupt the stupid thing, drown it out. But the admin already knows that will happen that’s why they won’t release any plans.
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🚨🚨100 days of DOGE:
— 250,000 workers exiting
— 11 agencies gutted
— 64 lawsuits filed
— $160B in claimed savings
— 8,500 contracts + 10,000 grants killed
Yet government spending is still higher than last year.
t.co/spexOMt2rR
— 250,000 workers exiting
— 11 agencies gutted
— 64 lawsuits filed
— $160B in claimed savings
— 8,500 contracts + 10,000 grants killed
Yet government spending is still higher than last year.
t.co/spexOMt2rR
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/doge-impact-washington-spending-100days-00316587
t.co
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🚨🚨100 days of DOGE:
— 250,000 workers exiting
— 11 agencies gutted
— 64 lawsuits filed
— $160B in claimed savings
— 8,500 contracts + 10,000 grants killed
Yet government spending is still higher than last year.
t.co/spexOMt2rR
— 250,000 workers exiting
— 11 agencies gutted
— 64 lawsuits filed
— $160B in claimed savings
— 8,500 contracts + 10,000 grants killed
Yet government spending is still higher than last year.
t.co/spexOMt2rR
For an admin that wants to argue unitary executive and the president whose brand is a tough-ass boss man, he sure claims to know nothing about anything MOST of the god-damned time. Can the press please start asking him why he doesn’t know? Isn’t that embarrassing?
April 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For an admin that wants to argue unitary executive and the president whose brand is a tough-ass boss man, he sure claims to know nothing about anything MOST of the god-damned time. Can the press please start asking him why he doesn’t know? Isn’t that embarrassing?
Only because I’m still salty…135B would fund the NEH for the next 540 years.
“An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.” By Elizabeth Williamson at NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too (Gift Article)
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Only because I’m still salty…135B would fund the NEH for the next 540 years.
154 billion dollars could fund the National Endowment for the Humanities budget for 600 years.
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
154 billion dollars could fund the National Endowment for the Humanities budget for 600 years.
Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social for speaking to this specifically. I'm getting ready to take some very bright kids to the PA state contest tomorrow. It's shameful that if my kids qualify for nationals, I have to tell them they might not go. They've been working since September.
April 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social for speaking to this specifically. I'm getting ready to take some very bright kids to the PA state contest tomorrow. It's shameful that if my kids qualify for nationals, I have to tell them they might not go. They've been working since September.