Chuck Holden
@cholden07.bsky.social
US historian, SMCM prof, U2 fan. Written books on academic freedom at UNC, conservatives in SC, and Spiro Agnew and the media. Some range, huh?
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Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
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Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?
May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?
Smart piece by my great colleague @profchrisadams.bsky.social
Thanks to @brianros1.bsky.social for editing this for #TIME . Glad Judge Alsup reversed Trump's illegal firings today; I hope Americans, unlike the Prussians facing off with Bismarck in 1862, keep the pressure on, since Trump's policies (unlike Bismarck's) have zero upside. time.com/7260716/1860...
Americans Will Decide Whether to Support Trump or Congress
A constitutional crisis in 1860s Prussia could teach Americans the importance of public participation in democracy.
time.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Smart piece by my great colleague @profchrisadams.bsky.social
Yes please!
NEW: Judge Chutkan GRANTS a request for discovery in the case brought by state AGs alleging that the conduct of Musk and DOGE violates the Appointments Clause.
The permitted discovery includes documents and interrogatories related to the scope of Musk/DOGE's authority.
The permitted discovery includes documents and interrogatories related to the scope of Musk/DOGE's authority.
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Yes please!
We’re going to see a lot of Democrats should Do Something. Oh but not that.
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
We’re going to see a lot of Democrats should Do Something. Oh but not that.
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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Why is it that of all our electeds, only AOC seems to understand how to talk about Trump and Musk right now?
January 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why is it that of all our electeds, only AOC seems to understand how to talk about Trump and Musk right now?
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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The Luftwaffe couldn’t erase them but the US government can
January 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Luftwaffe couldn’t erase them but the US government can
So. All you subaltern studies experts. This is your moment!
January 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So. All you subaltern studies experts. This is your moment!
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I’ll be posting this today
January 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’ll be posting this today
Disgusting. It happens to the Emmett Till marker, too.
Historical marker honoring lynching victim vandalized months after unveiling in Rolesville, NC abc11.com/post/george-... #ushistory #blackhistory #lynching #whitesupremacy
Historical marker honoring lynching victim vandalized months after unveiling in Rolesville
Rolesville Police said the incident happened on Dec. 17.
abc11.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Disgusting. It happens to the Emmett Till marker, too.
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Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
NET Journal; H. L. Hunt: The Richest and the Rightest
Haroldson LaFayette Hunt is the American success, a grandfatherly Horatio
Alger with a Dallas drawl. He was born in Illinois, son of a Confederate war
veteran. Later he drifted west, worked at odd job...
americanarchive.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
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Hello #aha25! I'm on two panels this weekend, a listening session on "anti-woke" legislation on Sunday (#204), and as a late addition to a career diversity panel on Saturday (#112). If you're here, stop on by and say hi!
January 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hello #aha25! I'm on two panels this weekend, a listening session on "anti-woke" legislation on Sunday (#204), and as a late addition to a career diversity panel on Saturday (#112). If you're here, stop on by and say hi!
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There are two principle things I think about AI. One is the pollution factor. We already live in a world of information mess; the pollution of the scholarly record has implications for every field. This 💯thread (thank you @altmetric.com) offers an excellent history of AI generated "papers." 1/
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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December 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
There are two principle things I think about AI. One is the pollution factor. We already live in a world of information mess; the pollution of the scholarly record has implications for every field. This 💯thread (thank you @altmetric.com) offers an excellent history of AI generated "papers." 1/
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Required reading on humanities research, by Christopher Newfield :
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 28, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Required reading on humanities research, by Christopher Newfield :
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
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it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
December 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
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I'm reposting a twitter thread from my university's AAUP chapter. They're not on bluesky yet, but I have permission to post it here.
December 13, 2024 at 12:28 AM
I'm reposting a twitter thread from my university's AAUP chapter. They're not on bluesky yet, but I have permission to post it here.