Cameron Zinsou
@czin.bsky.social
Texan. Professor (PhD). Historian of WWII France and occupation. Go Cowboys, Visça Barça, Formula 1. Opinions my own.
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
Me, minding my own business, getting ready to go to Wisconsin tomorrow for a wedding.
Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan.
Jersey Jones, *exists*
🤦🏽♂️
Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan.
Jersey Jones, *exists*
🤦🏽♂️
August 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Me, minding my own business, getting ready to go to Wisconsin tomorrow for a wedding.
Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan.
Jersey Jones, *exists*
🤦🏽♂️
Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan.
Jersey Jones, *exists*
🤦🏽♂️
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The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
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I wrote an essay a few years ago about a U.S. soldier during the Civil War who visited the plantation where Solomon Northup (of 12 Years A Slave fame) was enslaved. The soldier wrote in his diary that the horror of slavery was even worse than what Northup had written.
web.archive.org/web/20140120...
web.archive.org/web/20140120...
The horrors ‘12 Years a Slave’ couldn’t tell | Al Jazeera America
What a Civil War soldier’€™s diary tells us about Solomon Northup’s ordeal
web.archive.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I wrote an essay a few years ago about a U.S. soldier during the Civil War who visited the plantation where Solomon Northup (of 12 Years A Slave fame) was enslaved. The soldier wrote in his diary that the horror of slavery was even worse than what Northup had written.
web.archive.org/web/20140120...
web.archive.org/web/20140120...
I can't believe how many tall people shop at CostCo
August 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I can't believe how many tall people shop at CostCo
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I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.
25 for me
July 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
25 for me
This fucking corn sweat
July 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This fucking corn sweat
It's me. I'm people.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It's me. I'm people.
Oh no Terminator is to me what No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are to the y0uths
July 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Oh no Terminator is to me what No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are to the y0uths
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Oh god
Getting rid of PBS is also meant to clear the field for Prager U to be the place for children programming.
July 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Oh god
Kansas City is still the frontier and I am living in it. Behold, my near death experience
July 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Kansas City is still the frontier and I am living in it. Behold, my near death experience
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He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.
Palestinian man detained at TX airport for 10 days despite valid visa, lawyer says
He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.
bit.ly
July 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.
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Oh to achieve the melodrama of revolutionary actors in their correspondence.
I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."
I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."
July 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Oh to achieve the melodrama of revolutionary actors in their correspondence.
I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."
I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."
The savage round-up and deportation of immigrant Jews in August and September 1942 provoked impassioned objections from individuals, and gave a new moral urgency to Resistance…The deportation of Jews revealed the essence of Nazism and the moral degradation of Vichy...
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The savage round-up and deportation of immigrant Jews in August and September 1942 provoked impassioned objections from individuals, and gave a new moral urgency to Resistance…The deportation of Jews revealed the essence of Nazism and the moral degradation of Vichy...
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Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.
July 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.
Damn this Halfrican gonna get up to some nonsense
July 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Damn this Halfrican gonna get up to some nonsense
Always wonder if I've ingested the same atom twice. Would be crazy
July 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Always wonder if I've ingested the same atom twice. Would be crazy
I will never lose faith in America so long as drivers continue to flash their lights to warn oncoming cars about nearby cops
June 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I will never lose faith in America so long as drivers continue to flash their lights to warn oncoming cars about nearby cops
Hell yeah let's go Beloit
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
June 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hell yeah let's go Beloit
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For those asking, Yale recorded a lot of their popular lecture courses and put them online for free.
Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom.
In front of students.
You can find them here:
oyc.yale.edu/courses
Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom.
In front of students.
You can find them here:
oyc.yale.edu/courses
Courses | Open Yale Courses
oyc.yale.edu
June 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For those asking, Yale recorded a lot of their popular lecture courses and put them online for free.
Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom.
In front of students.
You can find them here:
oyc.yale.edu/courses
Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom.
In front of students.
You can find them here:
oyc.yale.edu/courses
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A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
April 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….
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There's a lot of history being suppressed lately, from a profound desire to say that American history has rarely or never been racist. So how about we show some receipts.
April 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There's a lot of history being suppressed lately, from a profound desire to say that American history has rarely or never been racist. So how about we show some receipts.
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Air Force Academy had 10% of its civilians take deferred resignation apparently, but aims to cut 20-30% of its civilians! That's of all civ staff, not faculty, but faculty will be hit hard. AFA acknowledges they'll go to accreditation minimums and likely eliminate some majors altogether
While the Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week reassuring them of a quality education at the school, a definitive plan for layoffs among faculty and staff is still in the works.
Air Force Academy's staff cuts unclear amid mass resignations; cadets assured of 'world-class' education
The Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week reassuring them of a quality education at the school.
www.koaa.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Air Force Academy had 10% of its civilians take deferred resignation apparently, but aims to cut 20-30% of its civilians! That's of all civ staff, not faculty, but faculty will be hit hard. AFA acknowledges they'll go to accreditation minimums and likely eliminate some majors altogether