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David Justice
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Historian & educator of US pop culture and diplomacy. First-gen. Husband & dog dad. Music & film aficionado. Not the baseball player.
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Allow me to reintroduce myself.

I’m a modern US diplomatic and cultural historian, and currently writing a book on emo bands and fans protesting the Iraq War. Prepare to see photos of my dogs and cross-stitch projects.
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Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Dear future historians,

When trying to understand the 2010s-2020s, please avoid focusing on the crypto and AI bubbles. Instead realize that our greatest invention was Dawn Powerwash.
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Is anyone keeping track of how many gambling and AI commercials there are during the Super Bowl?
February 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Someone bring Wynonna from the Puppy Bowl to me this instant!
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
AMC’s programming today: Speed, John Wick: Chapter 4, Point Break, Road House, & Days of Thunder. AMC was like, “I’ll see your Super Bowl and raise you more testosterone!”
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Every four years, I become an expert in curling, luge, and the biathlon.
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The rebooted Muppet Show is perfect
February 5, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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...So we can get better angles of the murders?
Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Noem says every DHS officer deployed to Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera.
February 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
This might be peak internet
ten years ago today no one clapped
February 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Will y’all leave that poor groundhog alone?
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Will y’all leave that poor groundhog alone?
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Call me whatever you want, but it sure seems like a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis seized control of a global superpower…and now they’re murdering Americans in the street, arresting journalists, and setting up a network of concentration camps across the United States.
January 31, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
Michael ‘5000’ Watts, Swishahouse founder and Houston hip-hop pioneer, dies at 52
Houston hip-hop icon Michael "5000" Watts, the founder of Swishahouse Records and a pioneer of the "chopped and screwed" sound, has passed away following a recent hospitalization.
www.fox26houston.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 AM
No, no, no. No, dammit, no!
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Why are Jannick Sinner’s matches always so long?
January 30, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I’ve long championed Kenny Vasoli as the greatest pop-punk writer, but there might be a new king. Long live The Paradox!

This song feels like a time warp to 2002.
The Paradox - Do Me Like That (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by The Paradox
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 12:57 AM
We are about 2 years away from needing multi-factor authentication for your multi-factor authentication.
The creep of multi-factor authentication into every crevice of life is getting ridiculous!
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
January 28, 2026 at 1:41 AM
“I think I might watch Birth of a Nation, you know, to expand beyond my political bubble.”

Or, stick with me here, you don’t have to engage with these things. Don’t give them oxygen. Let it wither and die.
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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if polling is so tilted against DHS/ICE that Laura fucking Ingraham is calling the post-9/11 creation of DHS unnecessary bureaucratic overreach on Fox News, the Democrats shouldn’t be aiming for moderate reforms as a negotiated compromise position - they should be pressing this advantage.
we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
January 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Excited for Bovino and his new office.
January 27, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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These Department of Homeland Security shooters are trained. They know how to handle firearms and how to handle crowds. They are culturally part of the outdoor and civilian operator set. The killings were choices by trained men who knew what that were doing.
Here is what we know about the Border Patrol agent who shoots Alex Pretti:

-Eight yr veteran of Border Patrol per Bovino
-Has a Texas flag on his backpack
-Allegedly part of a "strike squad" that was attacked by glass bottles, resulting in a female agent going to the hospital, per DHS to Daily Wire
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 PM