Dr. Christopher Mauceri
@christophermauceri.bsky.social
PhD in History (Civil War America). Adjunct. Father. Disgruntled Mets, Jets, and Islander fan.
Telling Americans who are sacrificing for their country that they have to endure something awful just because “that’s what Americans do” is the most on-the-nose things—on so many levels.
who actually likes electricity? raise your hand. haha, i see a joker back there. but ask yourself: how many times do you turn on the light in morning, just for fun? what about the afternoon. never, right? and why are you staying up so late? our forefathers tucked themselves in at 6pm like god inten—
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Telling Americans who are sacrificing for their country that they have to endure something awful just because “that’s what Americans do” is the most on-the-nose things—on so many levels.
Why do I do this to myself?
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Why do I do this to myself?
This is a very, very good piece from a very, very good historian. Read it.
I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.
Why We Pretend
When the truth is unthinkable, we lie to ourselves and one another.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is a very, very good piece from a very, very good historian. Read it.
Garden is providing a lot of cut flowers this year!
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Garden is providing a lot of cut flowers this year!
Today’s garden haul
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today’s garden haul
They already have one: it’s called Harvard Business School.
Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.
Harvard Explores New Center for Conservative Scholarship Amid Trump Attacks
The Ivy League school has discussed an effort to ‘support viewpoint diversity’ with potential donors. Harvard says the initiative ‘will not be partisan.’
on.wsj.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
They already have one: it’s called Harvard Business School.
Couldn’t one say the same thing about Alabama, which receives more federal dollars than about 44 other states?
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL): "Again, these inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week”
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Couldn’t one say the same thing about Alabama, which receives more federal dollars than about 44 other states?
We have masked men kidnapping people on our streets; a POTUS who led an insurrection starting an illegal war; a Congress and a judiciary that has embraced the idea of executive authoritarianism; and a media controlled by oligarchs and unwilling to speak any kind of truth to power.
This is fascism
This is fascism
June 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We have masked men kidnapping people on our streets; a POTUS who led an insurrection starting an illegal war; a Congress and a judiciary that has embraced the idea of executive authoritarianism; and a media controlled by oligarchs and unwilling to speak any kind of truth to power.
This is fascism
This is fascism
I think it's time for a nationwide general strike.
June 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I think it's time for a nationwide general strike.
That sound you just heard is about 10,000 historians’ heads simultaneously hitting desks
Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world."
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
That sound you just heard is about 10,000 historians’ heads simultaneously hitting desks
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Maybe it’s time for Merz & Germany to return the favor?
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
June 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Maybe it’s time for Merz & Germany to return the favor?
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Remember: If the enemy of my enemy does Nazi salutes, he is also my enemy.
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Remember: If the enemy of my enemy does Nazi salutes, he is also my enemy.
The full story of this administration's corruption may never be told, even as it is happening in front of all of our eyes.
South Africa to offer Musk Starlink deal before Trump meeting, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/3Fg8hxv
South Africa to offer Musk Starlink deal before Trump meeting, Bloomberg News reports
South Africa's government plans to offer a workaround of local Black ownership laws for Elon Musk's Starlink internet service to operate in the country, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the discussions.
reut.rs
May 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The full story of this administration's corruption may never be told, even as it is happening in front of all of our eyes.
My alliums are blooming!
May 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My alliums are blooming!
Happy Confederate Surrender Day! Should be a national holiday…
April 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy Confederate Surrender Day! Should be a national holiday…
This was pretty cool to see in person
April 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This was pretty cool to see in person
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Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/
I have been a NY Mets, Jets, and Islander fan for almost 47 years. And I have never seen an organization group perform as pathetically as the Democratic Party right now.
February 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I have been a NY Mets, Jets, and Islander fan for almost 47 years. And I have never seen an organization group perform as pathetically as the Democratic Party right now.
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
But the problem with “originalism,” as has been pointed out in a whole other voluminous body of literature, is that it’s a vacuous idea with no real historical or legal merit. So giving it credence when it is always deployed for specific and often contradictory poltical reasons, is just, well, dumb.
My key point here is not substantive. I find Trump's order cruel & terrible, but whether it is constitutional is a separate, crucial question. Left-leaning people like me should assume good faith by those suggesting the order is constitutional & engage with their arguments.
January 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
But the problem with “originalism,” as has been pointed out in a whole other voluminous body of literature, is that it’s a vacuous idea with no real historical or legal merit. So giving it credence when it is always deployed for specific and often contradictory poltical reasons, is just, well, dumb.
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Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️
January 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️
We are so fucked.
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are so fucked.
My view for this evening:
January 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My view for this evening:
Guys, guys, I don’t want to be alarmist but I’m starting to think these billionaires really don’t care about the public good after all…
January 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Guys, guys, I don’t want to be alarmist but I’m starting to think these billionaires really don’t care about the public good after all…