George Dillard
@worldhistory.bsky.social
History, Climate, Education. Looking Through the Past newsletter at https://worldhistory.substack.com/. Other writing at https://worldhistory.medium.com/. #coys
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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www.theresaganz.com
The thesis of my book Grand Illusion is that excesses of gold in architecture are a direct indication of despotism. As the White House festoons itself with golden doodads and proposes a gilded new ballroom, I think the thesis holds. Link in bio. 💛⚜️💛
The thesis of my book Grand Illusion is that excesses of gold in architecture are a direct indication of despotism. As the White House festoons itself with golden doodads and proposes a gilded new ballroom, I think the thesis holds. Link in bio. 💛⚜️💛
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August 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
www.theresaganz.com
The thesis of my book Grand Illusion is that excesses of gold in architecture are a direct indication of despotism. As the White House festoons itself with golden doodads and proposes a gilded new ballroom, I think the thesis holds. Link in bio. 💛⚜️💛
The thesis of my book Grand Illusion is that excesses of gold in architecture are a direct indication of despotism. As the White House festoons itself with golden doodads and proposes a gilded new ballroom, I think the thesis holds. Link in bio. 💛⚜️💛
This is adjacent to the fact that, as a history teacher, I must gird my loins for parent conferences where I have to chat about the submarines of WWII with my students' dads...
One of the things you learn as an ancient historian is that when you sit next to a white guy on a plane and they ask you what you do, you are going to to need to tell them that you are an accountant.
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is adjacent to the fact that, as a history teacher, I must gird my loins for parent conferences where I have to chat about the submarines of WWII with my students' dads...
Read about a guy who busted up a famous scam, made pioneering geographic discoveries, became a leading nature writer, and led a secret life as a black man. 🗃️
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...
The Making of the Gilded West
The intersection between science, speculation, and the conquest of nature
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November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Read about a guy who busted up a famous scam, made pioneering geographic discoveries, became a leading nature writer, and led a secret life as a black man. 🗃️
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
I am listening to Red Heat, by @alexvont.bsky.social, and I am shocked by how shitty people the male protagonists of political events in Latin America and the Caribbean were in the cold war. And the idea of how bad Che Guevara must have smelt is chasing me in nightmares
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?"
"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."
"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?"
"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."
"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Watched "House of Dynamite" and what struck me was how infrequently the Secretary of Defense (played by Jared Harris) failed to function because of his unwillingness to shove large tires around
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Watched "House of Dynamite" and what struck me was how infrequently the Secretary of Defense (played by Jared Harris) failed to function because of his unwillingness to shove large tires around
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Hate to break it but if you think mitigation of climate change is doomed inevitably to eternal failure due to social, economic and political limits..
..I have some v v bad news about the social, economic and political requirements for CDR to work at scale, or for geoengineering to work at scale
..I have some v v bad news about the social, economic and political requirements for CDR to work at scale, or for geoengineering to work at scale
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hate to break it but if you think mitigation of climate change is doomed inevitably to eternal failure due to social, economic and political limits..
..I have some v v bad news about the social, economic and political requirements for CDR to work at scale, or for geoengineering to work at scale
..I have some v v bad news about the social, economic and political requirements for CDR to work at scale, or for geoengineering to work at scale
Measured by traditional standards, Alfonso X of Spain was kind of a crappy king. He wasn’t all that good at wars, and he squabbled with his son. But one senses that he didn’t care all that much about traditional kingly stuff like wars and politics. 🗃️🧵
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Measured by traditional standards, Alfonso X of Spain was kind of a crappy king. He wasn’t all that good at wars, and he squabbled with his son. But one senses that he didn’t care all that much about traditional kingly stuff like wars and politics. 🗃️🧵
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Much like Alcibiades. (This account from Plutarch's Lives.)
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Much like Alcibiades. (This account from Plutarch's Lives.)
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We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt
Yum, goblin style
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Yum, goblin style
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We used to live in a society
Happy 48th anniversary to the greatest Halloween special ever:
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special!!
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special!!
October 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We used to live in a society
What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom
Gregor MacGregor’s Paper Kingdom
Inside one of the 19th century’s biggest scams
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October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
The technology wasn’t great, and creating one was time-consuming and expensive. But the archaeological record shows that neither of these things stopped ancient people from trying to see themselves in the mirror. 🧵🗃️
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The technology wasn’t great, and creating one was time-consuming and expensive. But the archaeological record shows that neither of these things stopped ancient people from trying to see themselves in the mirror. 🧵🗃️
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account