Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
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Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
· Dec 17
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.
I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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TODAY!
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
February 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
TODAY!
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
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True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely!
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
TODAY!
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely!
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
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This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
Literally the most sense in the House. Just telling it like it is
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Literally the most sense in the House. Just telling it like it is
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Good morning, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Beatles made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show 62 years ago today. 50,000 people requested tickets to see the taping at CBS’s Studio 50 and more than 73 million viewers tuned in. A watershed moment in broadcasting history and Beatlemania!
The Beatles made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show 62 years ago today. 50,000 people requested tickets to see the taping at CBS’s Studio 50 and more than 73 million viewers tuned in. A watershed moment in broadcasting history and Beatlemania!
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Good morning, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The Beatles made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show 62 years ago today. 50,000 people requested tickets to see the taping at CBS’s Studio 50 and more than 73 million viewers tuned in. A watershed moment in broadcasting history and Beatlemania!
The Beatles made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show 62 years ago today. 50,000 people requested tickets to see the taping at CBS’s Studio 50 and more than 73 million viewers tuned in. A watershed moment in broadcasting history and Beatlemania!
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I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law
www.annaolaw.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
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Bad Bunny opening halftime performance by moving through sugarcane highlights colonial history that binds US, Puerto Rico & the larger Caribbean. Sugar everywhere in the performance - drinks, wedding 🎂, etc. Labor, desire & pleasure tied to the land.
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Bad Bunny opening halftime performance by moving through sugarcane highlights colonial history that binds US, Puerto Rico & the larger Caribbean. Sugar everywhere in the performance - drinks, wedding 🎂, etc. Labor, desire & pleasure tied to the land.
That gay hockey show has launched a complete mass cultural exercise in close reading/re-reading, and I love it. This might be my favorite post ever suggested to me on a social media network. “Look at this minor scene in a work of narrative? Seems insignificant??? How does it fit? What do u think???”
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
That gay hockey show has launched a complete mass cultural exercise in close reading/re-reading, and I love it. This might be my favorite post ever suggested to me on a social media network. “Look at this minor scene in a work of narrative? Seems insignificant??? How does it fit? What do u think???”
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@lmchervinsky.bsky.social joined @lizcovart.bsky.social's Ben Franklin's World to talk Common Sense's 250th:
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-431-...
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-431-...
Episode 431: Thomas Paine's Common Sense at 250: The Pamphlet That Sparked a Revolution
Explore the 250th anniversary of Common Sense with historian Nora Slonimsky. Discover how Thomas Paine’s words sparked revolution.
benfranklinsworld.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
@lmchervinsky.bsky.social joined @lizcovart.bsky.social's Ben Franklin's World to talk Common Sense's 250th:
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-431-...
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-431-...
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& I wrote for my @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on what Common Sense can help us remember about the Revolution, Loyalists, & the fight for American ideals:
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...
Considering History: Common Sense, Loyalists, and the Fight for American Ideals | The Saturday Evening Post
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet can offer a perspective on the overlooked Revolutionary community known as the Loyalists, who demonstrated that the Revolution was fought not by or for a particular culture or ...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
& I wrote for my @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on what Common Sense can help us remember about the Revolution, Loyalists, & the fight for American ideals:
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...
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Happy Tom Paine Day! Ain't that America's Revolutionary ideals?
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February Nominees
February 1: Langston Hughes , one of America’s most talented poets and writers , and the only one equally adept writing about himself , ent...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Happy Tom Paine Day! Ain't that America's Revolutionary ideals?
memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/february-n...
memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/february-n...
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There's been a ton of great recent work for the 250th anniversary of Paine's Common Sense, including @rezekjoe.bsky.social in the Times:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
There's been a ton of great recent work for the 250th anniversary of Paine's Common Sense, including @rezekjoe.bsky.social in the Times:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
The craziest Super Bowl party I ever went to, the drunkest and loudest and most terrifying, was with a bunch of gay Bostonian’s during that Pats streak in the 2010s.
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The craziest Super Bowl party I ever went to, the drunkest and loudest and most terrifying, was with a bunch of gay Bostonian’s during that Pats streak in the 2010s.
Like everyone else in Boston, tonight I am downtown at a French cabaret 🤷♂️
February 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Like everyone else in Boston, tonight I am downtown at a French cabaret 🤷♂️
Just for the record I posted this before recent events
It seems like a lot of these olympians are like “I am 39 and at deaths door and none of my limbs work and I need more sleep than ever but let me crawl back on the mountain for one last time.”
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Just for the record I posted this before recent events
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I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
It seems like a lot of these olympians are like “I am 39 and at deaths door and none of my limbs work and I need more sleep than ever but let me crawl back on the mountain for one last time.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
This people are out of their minds.
I'm going to win.
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This people are out of their minds.
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It seems like a lot of these olympians are like “I am 39 and at deaths door and none of my limbs work and I need more sleep than ever but let me crawl back on the mountain for one last time.”
February 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It seems like a lot of these olympians are like “I am 39 and at deaths door and none of my limbs work and I need more sleep than ever but let me crawl back on the mountain for one last time.”
Fake post looked to be true post on fake “truth” posting site that posts non-truth posts from faker
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Fake post looked to be true post on fake “truth” posting site that posts non-truth posts from faker
I love a time delayed non-live curated prime time Olympic broadcast. All narrative! All the highlights!
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I love a time delayed non-live curated prime time Olympic broadcast. All narrative! All the highlights!
These guys are amateurs I mean they are dealing with the CLINTONS.
February 8, 2026 at 2:14 AM
These guys are amateurs I mean they are dealing with the CLINTONS.
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But he KNOWS exactly why. Stop phrasing things as rhetorical questions and TELL the people what’s happening, and why.
SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”
@acyn.bsky.social
@acyn.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
But he KNOWS exactly why. Stop phrasing things as rhetorical questions and TELL the people what’s happening, and why.
These guys are skiing *really* fast
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
These guys are skiing *really* fast