Greg O’Malley
@gogogomalley.bsky.social
Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
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They really stuck the landing on this one.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They really stuck the landing on this one.
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The 2025 writers are trolling us.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The 2025 writers are trolling us.
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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Alan Taylor: "By turns tragic, picaresque, & inspiring, The Escapes of David George illuminates the daunting chains of American slavery and the resolve of courageous people to break them. O'Malley deftly explores the interplay of freedom and slavery in a time of revolution."
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October 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Alan Taylor: "By turns tragic, picaresque, & inspiring, The Escapes of David George illuminates the daunting chains of American slavery and the resolve of courageous people to break them. O'Malley deftly explores the interplay of freedom and slavery in a time of revolution."
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@wcaleb.org: "Where on earth, could a Black man in eighteenth-century America go to be free? With his award-winning ability to narrate histories of slavery, between the local & the global, ... the material & the spiritual, Greg O’Malley is an expert guide through George’s Atlantic world.”
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October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@wcaleb.org: "Where on earth, could a Black man in eighteenth-century America go to be free? With his award-winning ability to narrate histories of slavery, between the local & the global, ... the material & the spiritual, Greg O’Malley is an expert guide through George’s Atlantic world.”
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard/PBS: "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution."
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October 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard/PBS: "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution."
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Jennifer L. Morgan, NYU: "If you read only one book on the American Revolution--this should be it. O'Malley's riveting history reframes the concepts of liberty & freedom in ways that are profoundly important as we mark the 250th anniversary of the War for American Independence."
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October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Jennifer L. Morgan, NYU: "If you read only one book on the American Revolution--this should be it. O'Malley's riveting history reframes the concepts of liberty & freedom in ways that are profoundly important as we mark the 250th anniversary of the War for American Independence."
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Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
October 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
October 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Looking forward to Game 4 of the #ALDS, I really just have one question: Is Bryce Miller the secret love child of Simon & Simon? Tell me I’m wrong.
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
#Mariners | #TridentsUp
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We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
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The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Really looking forward to this
We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Really looking forward to this
We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We've been getting endorsement blurbs for The Escapes of David George, and I'm deeply honored and moved by the kind words from these great scholars.
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
1/
The book drops from @stmartinspress.bsky.social
on Feb. 2, and is available for pre-order now:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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to paraphrase Tyrion, "we aren't challenging your integrity, Madam Attorney General, we are denying its existence"
Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
to paraphrase Tyrion, "we aren't challenging your integrity, Madam Attorney General, we are denying its existence"
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To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
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In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
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He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.
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If I had a penny for every time some idiot claimed that Russia must be allowed to do whatever it wants or else World War III will erupt, I’d be swimming in wealth.
Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.
Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If I had a penny for every time some idiot claimed that Russia must be allowed to do whatever it wants or else World War III will erupt, I’d be swimming in wealth.
Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.
Appeasing aggression invites escalation. Holding Russia accountable for its provocations is what actually deters it.
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Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”
Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules
The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.
wapo.st
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”
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very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive
Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products
September 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive
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Yup. Key point.
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Yup. Key point.
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Now say it publicly.
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Now say it publicly.
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It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
September 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
War-ravaged Portland