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Peter Manseau
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“It is chilling, but not impossible, to envision the signs screaming “Stop the steal!” picked up on the garbage-strewn National Mall on Jan. 7, 2021, treated one day as patriotic treasures, displayed alongside the writing desk Thomas Jefferson used to draft the Declaration of Independence ...”
petermanseau.bsky.social Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 17h
Published this warning about what could happen to the memory of January 6 on the first anniversary of the attack. Never imagined so much of the country would — willfully, foolishly — forget so soon. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...
Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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petermanseau.bsky.social
Published this warning about what could happen to the memory of January 6 on the first anniversary of the attack. Never imagined so much of the country would — willfully, foolishly — forget so soon. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...
Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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husseinrashid.com
Fantastic project
January 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Proud to be part of this project examining the role religion played on January 6. uncivilreligion.org/home/index
Uncivil Religion: Home
A Curated Resource of Media from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
uncivilreligion.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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“To grapple with these truths would, in a very real way, unmake them.” —@semperwry.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Recently, I told Hodges that I’d been interviewing Tom Webster about January 6. Hodges vaguely remembered the story about the former NYPD cop who’d assaulted one of his colleagues. When I told him that Webster still believed that the 2020 election may have been stolen, Hodges was not surprised. He doesn’t think people like Webster will stop lying to themselves anytime soon. “They can’t,” Hodges said; the cognitive dissonance and moral pain would be too great. Accepting reality would mean reevaluating everything they thought they knew—that their actions were ethical and justified, that they are great patriots. Accepting the truth of January 6 would require coming to grips with the fact that they supported a con man and participated in a violent plot to subvert democracy. The immediate reward for undertaking this kind of hard self-examination would mainly be shame and regret. “To grapple with these truths would, in a very real way, unmake them,” Hodges said.
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
petermanseau.bsky.social
There are days when I try to convince myself everything is not actually as bad as it seems, and then there are days like this.
January 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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burnidge.bsky.social
So much to explore and analyze when it comes to religion, Jan 6, and our memories of it.

@miketheprofessor.bsky.social and @petermanseau.bsky.social did us all a service by creating the Uncivil Religion digital resource.

uncivilreligion.org/home/about-t...
Uncivil Religion: About Uncivil Religion
A collaborative digital resource
uncivilreligion.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Despite my long experience with climate deniers, it is still shocking, & saddening, what has happened in the 5 years since the MAGA attack on the Capitol on January 6th
petermanseau.bsky.social Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 17h
Published this warning about what could happen to the memory of January 6 on the first anniversary of the attack. Never imagined so much of the country would — willfully, foolishly — forget so soon. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...
Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
petermanseau.bsky.social
Published this warning about what could happen to the memory of January 6 on the first anniversary of the attack. Never imagined so much of the country would — willfully, foolishly — forget so soon. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...
Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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bocadelperro.bsky.social
So far it's exceeding expectations.
petermanseau.bsky.social Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 7d
2026 has a lot to live up to. Can it continue the ten-year streak of every year being the worst year ever?
January 4, 2026 at 5:41 AM
petermanseau.bsky.social
2026 has a lot to live up to. Can it continue the ten-year streak of every year being the worst year ever?
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
petermanseau.bsky.social
Tis the season.
Chalk cartoon of Santa and his sleigh approaching forked trolley tracks. One way leads to a single elf tied to the tracks, the other way leads to five elves tied to the tracks. An elf standing at the fork controls the switch. Caption: The Jolly Problem
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Chalk cartoon of a man in a red tie standing before a judge. Judge says, “Your crimes are an existential threat to the nation, but as the founders intended, you’re now the boss of everything because we ran out of time.”
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The life and times of a uniquely American testament.

The Jefferson Bible by @petermanseau.bsky.social is now available in #paperback!

Check out a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30 : press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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The Jefferson Bible: A Biography by Peter Manseau. The life and times of a uniquely American testament.
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Love a good opening line.
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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tursulowepress.bsky.social
This looks fascinating.
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Yes indeed.

Jefferson created his “own” Bible by cutting and pasting Bible text.

I’ll watch for this book.
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Paperback of my Jefferson Bible book drops next week! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Jefferson Bible
The life and times of a uniquely American testament
press.princeton.edu
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Paperback of my Jefferson Bible book drops next week! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Jefferson Bible
The life and times of a uniquely American testament
press.princeton.edu
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
petermanseau.bsky.social
Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.
May 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM