Theresa M Collins PhD
tcollinsphd.bsky.social
Theresa M Collins PhD
@tcollinsphd.bsky.social
Historian
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November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is how THE GILDED AGE series should end: look to era b4 Gatsby @ James Hyde's lavish costume ball in 1905. It destabilized free-wheeling monopolists when Hyde was rumored to have paid for his lavish private costume affair with funds from Equitable Life. Prelude to Pujo Investigation etc etc
So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Thousands of you shared heartbreaking and maddening stories with me about rising health care costs. But the fight is far from over.

If you're willing to record your story, we can make sure GOP lawmakers see and hear the direct impact of their policy failures: wintheera.myctbl.com/share-your-s...
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hey, @nytimes.com!
Maybe if you spent more time covering the threat of Project 2025 between Spring 2023 and the election than you did covering Joe Biden's age, we wouldn't be in this mess!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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ICE detain multiple U.S. citizens in Chicago—including Chief of Staff for 22nd Ward Alderman.

2 agents slam the woman down onto ground, kneel on her back, and zip tie her—despite witnesses all agreeing she made no threat.

"I'm not resisting," she screams in Chicago, Illinois.
October 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.

"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.

"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.

Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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WATCH: “All of this is going to have to be investigated,” says Jeffries on Trump gutting the entire White House East Wing to build a ballroom. “That's our warning to all of these people participating in this scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and, of course, to destroy the people's house.”
‘Destroying the people’s house’: Jeffries blasts Trump’s White House demolition
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If the 118th Congress was a golden age in Nick LaLota's bipartisan index,
he's a total right wing extremist now-- putting party boss over country and lyind about Medicaid, SNAP, immigration, national + domestic security. People are calling him LaLiar, and he's earned it.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Lalota's telephone substitute for a real town hall tonight was great, if you like a greased pig shtick! www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cky...
🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸
"nothing quite says america like a greased pig” – Dustin Chafin
Redirecting...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Equity and Local 802 have both been in negotiations with The Broadway League since August to improve their workplaces. For too long, Broadway workers have risked their health and safety so the show could go on.
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Tell The Broadway League that you support our members who make Broadway possible!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stand United for a Healthier Broadway
If you love going to the theatre, then you're familiar with the "the show must go on" mentality that has persisted within the theatre industry. For generations, that phrase has been a plucky, pull-...
actionnetwork.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Jane Goodall on Donald Trump: “I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:
September 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Javier Muñoz asks our attention fighting for HIV funds on Capitol Hill.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Good evening Brooklyn College. We’re fighting oligarchy with Senator Bernie Sanders.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/q2WCNB7...
September 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Marte4speaker.com !!! NYCity Council speaker race heats up as Christopher Marte hops in
Christopher Marte for City Council Speaker
Marte4speaker.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Re Epstein files.
Just saying….
July 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not to be overlooked in the NYC mayoral race: Democrats are disrespecting the primary results again. It's getting to be a habit.
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This story needs to be flogged, amplified, lifted.
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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These young Californians have something to say. I hope you’ll listen.

“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids

@theneighborhoodkidsmusic
June 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM