Tim McMahon
@timtimothy87.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c Ireland & the British Empire. Faculty at Marquette University (WI, USA). Researching national identity, empires, decolonization, popular culture, especially religion.
🧵Important re: transatlantic nexus of this type of culture war demand
1/3 For years now a nexus of well funded right wing groups has been trying either to capture or undermine one of the world’s, & certainly the UK’s most effective media organisation with an impartiality ethic.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵Important re: transatlantic nexus of this type of culture war demand
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
A great pleasure to join Damian @irishacw.bsky.social and the Transatlantic podcast to talk about the Irish in Wisconsin & Milwaukee.
The latest episode of Transatlantic is live! We were joined by @timtimothy87.bsky.social to discuss all things Irish in Wisconsin, with a focus on Milwaukee. We cover everything from the horrific Lady Elgin disaster to the the photo of de Valera in Chippewa headdress: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
The Irish in Wisconsin | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
shows.acast.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A great pleasure to join Damian @irishacw.bsky.social and the Transatlantic podcast to talk about the Irish in Wisconsin & Milwaukee.
Excellent brief essay on the importance of multi-lingual skills to the Irish Revolution
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support
The multilingual skills of the revolutionary generation helped them to amplify Ireland's cause on the world stage
www.rte.ie
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Excellent brief essay on the importance of multi-lingual skills to the Irish Revolution
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
🧵This work looks so exciting. Thanks for calling attention to it.
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
patchworkcities.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🧵This work looks so exciting. Thanks for calling attention to it.
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Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery
By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…
alanlester.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
An important essay to consider. The argument is specific to UChicago, but its lessons to a greater or lesser degree apply to many American higher ed institutions, particularly R1s.
The crisis in US universities goes far deeper than Trump. Debt-driven leadership, privatized research, and the abandonment of education are undermining institutions like the University of Chicago, turning them into tech incubators instead of centers of learning. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
An important essay to consider. The argument is specific to UChicago, but its lessons to a greater or lesser degree apply to many American higher ed institutions, particularly R1s.
Looking forward to the return for season 2 of this terrific series!
Listen to #IrishImperialLives RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday, 8pm, or wherever you get your podcasts. 📻🏴☠️🌎☘️ @rteradio1.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looking forward to the return for season 2 of this terrific series!
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Dear Americans,
This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%".
This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU.
You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter,
Is Mise,
GnaM
This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%".
This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU.
You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter,
Is Mise,
GnaM
July 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dear Americans,
This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%".
This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU.
You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter,
Is Mise,
GnaM
This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%".
This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU.
You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter,
Is Mise,
GnaM
Trump hiring Oddjob to caddy for him because…of course
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
July 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trump hiring Oddjob to caddy for him because…of course
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Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again
July 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again
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1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:
July 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.
Amplify this analysis. 🧵 from @asharangappa.bsky.social
As usual, @asharangappa.bsky.social sees through the media fog to the actual rogue elephant in the room
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Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/
June 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Amplify this analysis. 🧵 from @asharangappa.bsky.social
This would seem to be very bad: the National Archives belong to the people of the United States.
June 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This would seem to be very bad: the National Archives belong to the people of the United States.
Long 🧵. Read to the end. Links throughout as well. GRMA, a Rothaí!
I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.
It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.
It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.
June 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Long 🧵. Read to the end. Links throughout as well. GRMA, a Rothaí!
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WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...
theonion.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.
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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
19thnews.org
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
Disturbing story from the UMichigan.
This story has not been covered by literally any local or national mainstream media outlets beyond The Guardian.
The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
June 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Disturbing story from the UMichigan.
The USA has a hate problem—one it has never dealt with, one that is getting license from the top but that has roots deep in our society.
Jackie Robinson mural in Miami defaced with racial slurs and swastikas
Jackie Robinson mural in Miami defaced with racial slurs and swastikas
Miami murals honoring baseball trailblazers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Minoso were defaced with swastikas and racist slurs this week
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The USA has a hate problem—one it has never dealt with, one that is getting license from the top but that has roots deep in our society.
So…how’s going?
two men are standing in front of a monitor that says status docked
ALT: two men are standing in front of a monitor that says status docked
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So…how’s going?
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We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
New Fulbright Fellowship in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast available from 2027
The US-UK Fulbright Commission's Queen's University Belfast Award in Irish Studies covers a six-month appointment to research, lecture and teach in Irish Studies in Northern Ireland.
www.qub.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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Last week, the Australian govt announced it had approved the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project - in an area incredibly significant to indigenous Australians- to continue operations until 2070.
Indigenous campaigners have said they will keep fighting the project.
Indigenous campaigners have said they will keep fighting the project.
Australia Extends License for Nation’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Project
Last week, the Australian government announced it had given preliminary approval for the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project, to continue operations until 2070. The ext...
www.hrw.org
June 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Last week, the Australian govt announced it had approved the country’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project - in an area incredibly significant to indigenous Australians- to continue operations until 2070.
Indigenous campaigners have said they will keep fighting the project.
Indigenous campaigners have said they will keep fighting the project.