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.
This data deserves as wide an audience as you’ve got.
Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country:
"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."
Facts matter.
"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."
Facts matter.
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This data deserves as wide an audience as you’ve got.
A useful guide to researching environmental history at the national Archives, UK.
The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A useful guide to researching environmental history at the national Archives, UK.
This.
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
This.
Amen. The Boss.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Amen. The Boss.
Another? They’ve shot another Minnesotan?
BREAKING: Ice appears to have just killed someone just now in South Minneapolis on 26th and Nicollet Ave.
Reports indicate the man was shot 3 times in the chest after being surrounded by ICE.
WTF AMERICA!
Reports indicate the man was shot 3 times in the chest after being surrounded by ICE.
WTF AMERICA!
January 24, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Another? They’ve shot another Minnesotan?
Apparently yesterday, while other non-violent actions took place around the Twin Cities. After clergy visited the site where George Floyd was killed, legal observers noticed vehicles following the bus carrying the clergy & began to follow and film. ICE officers proceeded to attack the observers.
ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
January 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Apparently yesterday, while other non-violent actions took place around the Twin Cities. After clergy visited the site where George Floyd was killed, legal observers noticed vehicles following the bus carrying the clergy & began to follow and film. ICE officers proceeded to attack the observers.
If you’re not watching Minnesota, you need to. This is what democracy looks like. This is what people power looks like. Bless them.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
If you’re not watching Minnesota, you need to. This is what democracy looks like. This is what people power looks like. Bless them.
Reposted by Tim McMahon
Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The brilliant @anamariecox.bsky.social on the ground at the Minneapolis airport. Listen to her describe the reality of people organizing to support community in the face of what has come to MN. This is people power at its finest. Inspirational.
January 23, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The brilliant @anamariecox.bsky.social on the ground at the Minneapolis airport. Listen to her describe the reality of people organizing to support community in the face of what has come to MN. This is people power at its finest. Inspirational.
🧵Interesting from Carney in Davos
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
🧵Interesting from Carney in Davos
Reposted by Tim McMahon
🔥 MACRON (throwing shade at Trump): "We do prefer respect to bullies…. And we prefer rule of law to brutality. Having a place like Europe which is predictable, loyal, and where you know the rule of the game is the rule of law, it's a good place.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM
🔥 MACRON (throwing shade at Trump): "We do prefer respect to bullies…. And we prefer rule of law to brutality. Having a place like Europe which is predictable, loyal, and where you know the rule of the game is the rule of law, it's a good place.”
Reposted by Tim McMahon
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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🔊 MN clergy got Target CEO Brian Cornell on the phone.
Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.”
More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔
We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell.
#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood
Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.”
More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔
We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell.
#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood
January 15, 2026 at 11:24 PM
🔊 MN clergy got Target CEO Brian Cornell on the phone.
Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.”
More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔
We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell.
#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood
Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.”
More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔
We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell.
#ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood
Minneapolis yesterday. This. 🙏❤️
📣 Today, 200+ Minnesotan clergy across faith traditions gathered in Minneapolis at the site where #ReneeGood was killed by an ICE agent yesterday.
This violence is unconscionable. We will not stand for it.
“It has to end,” said Pastor James Erlandson. “And it stops here in Minnesota.”
This violence is unconscionable. We will not stand for it.
“It has to end,” said Pastor James Erlandson. “And it stops here in Minnesota.”
January 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Minneapolis yesterday. This. 🙏❤️
I’m sorry. Dominant what? And that’s a good thing???
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I’m sorry. Dominant what? And that’s a good thing???
Happy New Year, Bluesky 🎉 May peace, care for working folks, racial justice, access to universal healthcare, scientific & historical research, & empathy be our guiding lights.
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Happy New Year, Bluesky 🎉 May peace, care for working folks, racial justice, access to universal healthcare, scientific & historical research, & empathy be our guiding lights.
A searching article from three outstanding historians in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social Thinking through how one moves beyond the statist view of history, in Ireland or elsewhere, is essential in the 21st century. I highly recommend this piece.
#OpenAccess research article, 'Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century' by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan is available through the following link!
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A searching article from three outstanding historians in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social Thinking through how one moves beyond the statist view of history, in Ireland or elsewhere, is essential in the 21st century. I highly recommend this piece.
That feeling when you’re traveling, and there’s a layover, and you think ‘I’ll just check what’s happening in the Ireland v Hungary match…!!!! #coybig 🎉☘️🎉
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
That feeling when you’re traveling, and there’s a layover, and you think ‘I’ll just check what’s happening in the Ireland v Hungary match…!!!! #coybig 🎉☘️🎉
🧵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
Reposted by Tim McMahon
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.
Reposted by Tim McMahon
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...