Chris Ehrick
@cehrick.bsky.social
Historian, University of Louisville. Latin America, Radio, Sound Studies, Media History. Currently researching radio and dictatorship in Uruguay
No Kings Louisville. Amazing turnout in Breonna Taylor’s city
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
No Kings Louisville. Amazing turnout in Breonna Taylor’s city
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'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
www.noemamag.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
This is the plan. Nothing about crime; all about suppression of the dissent they know is coming
The regime’s playbook:
Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.
Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.
The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.
There is no justification for violence by anyone.
Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.
Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.
The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.
There is no justification for violence by anyone.
October 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the plan. Nothing about crime; all about suppression of the dissent they know is coming
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
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like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
This is going where we knew it would be going. Offshoring and disappearing “undesirables” with no due process to a gulag where they have no rights.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is going where we knew it would be going. Offshoring and disappearing “undesirables” with no due process to a gulag where they have no rights.
So heartbreaking and so revealing of the DOGE-MAGA agenda. They want to suffocate anything that stands for truth and beauty and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s really that simple.
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
April 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So heartbreaking and so revealing of the DOGE-MAGA agenda. They want to suffocate anything that stands for truth and beauty and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s really that simple.
Keep it going, Senator Booker! Hope Chuck Schumer is awake and watching/ listening- this is what the moment calls for.
April 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Keep it going, Senator Booker! Hope Chuck Schumer is awake and watching/ listening- this is what the moment calls for.
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The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
Just noting that the militia house in my neighborhood now has its American flags right side up along with a big yellow happy face flag
March 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Just noting that the militia house in my neighborhood now has its American flags right side up along with a big yellow happy face flag
Yep. Where are you, university presidents? Including my own
Again, the head-down, quiet strategy is bound to fail. It always does. We know this in WI from the Scott Walker years. R1 presidents need to get over their collective action problems & get out, in DC, right now, & engage Congress & the public, before it's too late.
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
March 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yep. Where are you, university presidents? Including my own
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Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison should be a post-credits scene to The Substance.
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison should be a post-credits scene to The Substance.
Ok maybe obvious, but need to point out gender aspects of all this. Last week, DT said Ukraine responsible for Russian invasion because didn’t do enough to prevent it. Today Ukraine to blame because didn’t show appropriate gratitude. Ukraine as colonial feminine. Russia and US dominating masculine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Ok maybe obvious, but need to point out gender aspects of all this. Last week, DT said Ukraine responsible for Russian invasion because didn’t do enough to prevent it. Today Ukraine to blame because didn’t show appropriate gratitude. Ukraine as colonial feminine. Russia and US dominating masculine.
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If the guy who arguably has the most to lose from telling Trump to get fucked can manage it, then everyone else should too.
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If the guy who arguably has the most to lose from telling Trump to get fucked can manage it, then everyone else should too.
This is just atrocious. I know folks know what to do with a snitch site like this
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Department of Education FormLock
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February 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is just atrocious. I know folks know what to do with a snitch site like this
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In explaining the concept of the State, I’ve done an exercise with Gen Ed students: ask them to name things tax $ pay for. First answers almost always things like welfare, prisons, police, etc. With some coaxing someone will eventually timidly offer “fire department?”, “roads?”.
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In explaining the concept of the State, I’ve done an exercise with Gen Ed students: ask them to name things tax $ pay for. First answers almost always things like welfare, prisons, police, etc. With some coaxing someone will eventually timidly offer “fire department?”, “roads?”.
We did a thing recently. Historical Marker unveiling for Gottschalk Hall, home of University of Louisville History dept. Beautiful ceremony with great turnout. In honor of those incarcerated in this building in the past, and those who stand for human dignity and equity today
February 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We did a thing recently. Historical Marker unveiling for Gottschalk Hall, home of University of Louisville History dept. Beautiful ceremony with great turnout. In honor of those incarcerated in this building in the past, and those who stand for human dignity and equity today
Just to mark this as the day that removed any last shred of doubt as to what is happening here. No wait and see. No this will blow over. No it can’t happen here.
February 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Just to mark this as the day that removed any last shred of doubt as to what is happening here. No wait and see. No this will blow over. No it can’t happen here.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
February 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So Trump has now come out against the spork and in favor of plastic straws. What’s next? Perhaps call for a ban on reusable grocery bags? Or that other symbol of wokeness, the tampon?
February 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So Trump has now come out against the spork and in favor of plastic straws. What’s next? Perhaps call for a ban on reusable grocery bags? Or that other symbol of wokeness, the tampon?
Just want to point out that the US National Anthem ends with a question, not a statement.
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just want to point out that the US National Anthem ends with a question, not a statement.
So much Destiny to Manifest, so little time….
February 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So much Destiny to Manifest, so little time….