Christopher Deutsch
@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social
Historian. Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Prosperity in Postwar America. Research postdoc. Views my own.
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The destruction of knowledge continues apace.
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The destruction of knowledge continues apace.
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Nothing against Nancy Guthrie here. If they spent half the time they are spending looking for her abductor on the Epstein files, criminals, they would be in jail already.
February 15, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Nothing against Nancy Guthrie here. If they spent half the time they are spending looking for her abductor on the Epstein files, criminals, they would be in jail already.
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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
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Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3
October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3
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Joe Arpaio: “I was using race as the reason to determine whether somebody was here legally or illegally..I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Joe Arpaio: “I was using race as the reason to determine whether somebody was here legally or illegally..I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
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I’m going to become the Joker
Alt: a TikTok ad from Sourcely where it says “minutes before submission and no citations” and below it reads “say goodbye to late-night citation hu…”
Alt: a TikTok ad from Sourcely where it says “minutes before submission and no citations” and below it reads “say goodbye to late-night citation hu…”
February 15, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I’m going to become the Joker
Alt: a TikTok ad from Sourcely where it says “minutes before submission and no citations” and below it reads “say goodbye to late-night citation hu…”
Alt: a TikTok ad from Sourcely where it says “minutes before submission and no citations” and below it reads “say goodbye to late-night citation hu…”
Truly, this is a new society. An ostensibly mass consumer society fueled by wage earners spending money to acquire the means of subsistence is now one in which a handful of people get everything and the rest of us get nothing but debt and wealth extraction.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Truly, this is a new society. An ostensibly mass consumer society fueled by wage earners spending money to acquire the means of subsistence is now one in which a handful of people get everything and the rest of us get nothing but debt and wealth extraction.
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Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 263 (2/15/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add mor...
blackwhiteandread.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Celebrating Presidents in 2026? Fraught as hell, but what’s not is celebrating all the great public scholarship in my 263rd #ScholarSunday thread of writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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"Kordia has been held at the Prairieland detention facility in Texas since then, despite a judge twice ruling that she poses no threat and may be released on bond." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Calls mount for release of Palestinian protester held by ICE for nearly a year
Leqaa Kordia was taken into custody last March, nearly a year after being arrested at a protest at Columbia
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February 15, 2026 at 5:34 AM
"Kordia has been held at the Prairieland detention facility in Texas since then, despite a judge twice ruling that she poses no threat and may be released on bond." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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a friend just said this to me and then walked into the bathroom
February 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
a friend just said this to me and then walked into the bathroom
Propagandhi! 🤘 Cerebral punk
Everyone drop your best archives music here
I don't know what y'all listen to in the archives, but I have The Knocks feat. Mallrat--R U High?--on loop while I read through Cotton Mather's copy of White Kennett's Bibliothecae Americanae primoridia next to me, and I'm delighted.
February 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Propagandhi! 🤘 Cerebral punk
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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mega yikes. Ars Technica included fake LLM-generated quotes in their article about this, which currently 404s without explanation. author guesses it’s because his site blocks LLM scrapers, so their system made some up instead of erroring out
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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February 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
mega yikes. Ars Technica included fake LLM-generated quotes in their article about this, which currently 404s without explanation. author guesses it’s because his site blocks LLM scrapers, so their system made some up instead of erroring out
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
My brain hurts. My heart breaks. US slavery was monstrous. We have the receipts to prove it. It is uncontroversial among academic historians. Progressives and leftists who happen to read our work find our version of brutality convincing. I am really enraged by this.
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
My brain hurts. My heart breaks. US slavery was monstrous. We have the receipts to prove it. It is uncontroversial among academic historians. Progressives and leftists who happen to read our work find our version of brutality convincing. I am really enraged by this.
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Note the framing here:
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Note the framing here:
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Some retail outlets forget that they have a customer base whose custom and tender are what keeps them afloat. Others remember.
February 14, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Some retail outlets forget that they have a customer base whose custom and tender are what keeps them afloat. Others remember.