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Christopher Deutsch
@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social
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Historian. Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Prosperity in Postwar America. Research postdoc. Views my own.
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Been going to hardcore shows since the 1990s, today was one of the best. We're talking jumping off the roof amazing.
Flyer advertising Freeks and Geeks Festival in Columbia, Missouri. Featuring the bands Iced Wrist, Orphan Source, The Perilous Ones, Hang Your Hate, Find Fiona, kill_screen.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Police in the US are no strangers to politics
Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD by Max Felker-Kantor
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Yeah, because that's worked so well in the past...
From a wiki article; Future Combat Systems (FCS) was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009.[1] Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unprecedented fast and flexible battlefield network. The U.S. Army claimed it was their "most ambitious and far-reaching modernization" program since World War II.[2] Between 1995 and 2009, $32 billion was expended on programs such as this, "with little to show for it".[3] One of the programs that came out of the $32 billion expenditure was the concept of tracking friendly ("blue") forces on the field via a GPS-enabled computer system known as Blue Force Tracking (BFT). The concept of BFT was
October 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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First ride since the surgery
A selfie of a white dude in silly biking gear with a portion of a bicycle in the back ground in a sunny park setting.
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Antifa in the US *did* have an actual organization. It was an outgrowth of Anti-Racist Action.

Wild how all this antifa freakout is just the federal government beating up on a few anarcho punks and skins who spent decades street fighting racists and neo-Nazis.
The first group in the United States to use the term "Antifa" in its title was the Anti-Racist Action Portland branch, known as Rose City Antifa, which was refounded in 2007, according to Alexander Reid Ross, author of Against the Fascist Creep, from Portland State University.[52][53] This was inspired by the German anarcho-communist autonomists, who engaged in black bloc tactics that year in a mass protest at the 33rd G8 summit (many of the autonomists are associated with Germany's Antifa).[52] Portland Anti-Racist Action blamed neo-Nazis for the 2010 shooting of Luke Querner.[54]
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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It has been 6 weeks since the surgery, and now I've ended my period of intense recovery. As a treat, there's an insanely intense hardcore show in town tonight. I promise to mosh lightly and not push myself to much. 🤘
Tour poster for Counterparts
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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On the other hand:
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon R.Y. Storrs. How Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New Deal.
September 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Reminds me of "Dissection of Silence" by Eldritch Anisette:
"Dissection of Silence" by Eldritch Anisette, 1996 Classicism, Romanticism Portrait of a naked woman What is seen is beautiful and clean But does it speak Between your fingers what did you see That seemed to you so naked and willing Blot out the mouth: open and frightening This silent woman does not speak Attempt to justify this work with conversation To justify and to define the action To justify these pieces, widespread These pieces Dissection of a silent woman Obtain perspective when you box in With the forefinger and the thumb Under your thumb and prostrate, she waits Between your fingers what did you see That seemed to you so naked and willing Blot out the mouth: open and frightening This silent woman does not speak Attempt to justify this work with conversation To justify and to define the action To justify these pieces, widespread These pieces You don't have to look deep into her eyes to see She's saying something Don't blame her just because her lips aren't moving You fucked up her image in your fucked-up rendition Just because she couldn't speak doesn't mean you couldn't You couldn't listen In minutes, my dissection Ripped apart, put back together One hand attached at the mouth Two legs attached at the knees Ugly and unclean Self-portrait, self-dissection Beauty inside-out and yet still standing This woman does not speak This woman does not speak This woman does not speak Instead, She screams: I will not be your victim
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A tragic quote rolls around in my head with every campus shooting: "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." A tragic yet popular political calculation.
"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death," Kirk said at a Turning Point USA Faith event on Wednesday, as reported by Media Matters for America. "That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am—I think it's worth it. "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Supermarkets and big box grocery stores stocked to the brim with affordable food could not occur without labor exploitation, particularly non-citizens. Mass food consumption emerged because of this abuse and thrives because of it. In other words, we eat thanks to their terrible working conditions.
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce and that data shows 45% of workers in farming, fishing and forestry are immigrants, according to Pew senior researcher Stephanie Kramer. About 30% of all construction workers are immigrants and 24% of service workers are immigrants, she added
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Because of this man!
A 1968 photo of Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon with two other men visible in the shot.
August 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Really @historians.org!? No, not "most," it is all historical educators. We are not overwhelmed by AI tools. We hate them because they are being forced on us and they are giant stealth machines that rob students of their ability to develop the key skills college is supposed to teach.
This committee recognizes that generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning. At the same time, we respect the concerns expressed by history educators, many of whom feel overwhelmed, distracted, or frustrated by these technologies.
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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How it is going on the other place:
Screenshot of twwet by the Department of Homeland Security tweeting out a video with the text: "TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the United States, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down." The most liked reply is a photo of shirtless white supremacists fighting in Rhodesia with the phrase "You're getting deported" superimposed on top.
July 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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My three months of chronic pain may have been because of a tumor in my neck.
Selfy of a man (me) in a hospital bed.
July 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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It arrived! @earthbornegames.bsky.social's new releases have arrived! With @feonix.bsky.social's supervision, this set will be the best ever. Can't wait to try all the new player cards and delve into the depths of the ancestors.
A picture of Earthborne Rangers card gane new release, including Stewarts of the Valley and Legacy of the Ancestors Cute meeples!
June 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Hey, did I predict today's historian discourse or what?
American Historical Association panel What Is History in the Age of AI? A Conversation about Historical Research and the Archives featuring Joshua Sternfeld, Mark Humphries, Lara Putnam, Henry Snow, and myself from the 2025 meeting.
June 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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The banger's embrace, this rhapsodic transcendental state, a pack of raging troglodytes!
The Refused playing live in Sacramento, 10 April 2025.
April 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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To anyone who might see the above gloomy post, here's most of my collection:
Shelves of boardgames, featuring Ameri-trash big-box campaigns and card games.
April 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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One of my posts unexpectedly broke into boardgame bluesky. To counter the gloomy mood of that post, here's most of my collection:
Shelves of boardgames, mostly of the Ameri-trash variety. Plenty of campaign games and solo card games.
April 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!
The Way We Never Were American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz, 1992
April 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Well it happened. I can no longer claim to have never stepped foot pin an Ivy League campus. Elite academia, here I come! (I didn't see much ivy, so maybe change the name?)
Picture of me, your humble narrator, standing in front of Harvard University, facing Harvard Square. I'm a white guy with bushy mustache, a dress shirt, a loose tie, and a black overcoat.
March 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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@erikmbaker.bsky.social, it made its way home!
Tim Baker's Make Your Own Job published by Harvard University Press at Harvard Square.
March 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Workers are calling for a consumer boycott of several brands over the charge of ecocide. Historically, boycotts work when workers call for them and partner with consumers to force change.
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture. More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
March 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Hatred is the product, stoked by some very rich people.
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.
March 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Many are going to get hurt, particularly pregnant people and their children.
Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding. The shutdown left exposed open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange, which the American military sprayed across large swaths of the country during the Vietnam War. After Rubio’s orders to stop work, the cleanup crews were forced to abandon the site, and, for weeks, all that was covering the contaminated dirt were tarps, which at one point blew off in the wind. The cleanup work is dangerous and laborious. People hired by the contractors wear extensive protective equipment in the sweltering humidity and must have their blood tested regularly for dioxin. When levels get too high, they are no longer allowed to work at the site. There are supposed to be extensive safety checks in place to ensure the dirt doesn’t poison military officials or the surrounding community. The plan at Bien Hoa is to excavate a half-million cubic meters of the most contaminated soil and enclose it underground or cook it in an enormous furnace, which hasn’t been built yet, until the dioxin no longer poses a threat. The work requires extensive pumping and management of dioxin-contaminated water. Contractors are halfway through a 10-year project set to happen in stages, and the bulk of the excavation work must be done between December and April when there is less rain.
March 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM