Ryan Hendrickson
@imaginaryhistories.bsky.social
"You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?"
"Yeah, and nothing did. So what?"
Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they
https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
"Yeah, and nothing did. So what?"
Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they
https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
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For the record, I thought it was funny that Trump might have sucked Clinton’s dick because it amuses me to imagine the most morally repellent men in the world having sex. And, as usual, to the over 40 set the joke seems to be either that it makes Trump a fag or that it makes him a woman
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
For the record, I thought it was funny that Trump might have sucked Clinton’s dick because it amuses me to imagine the most morally repellent men in the world having sex. And, as usual, to the over 40 set the joke seems to be either that it makes Trump a fag or that it makes him a woman
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most notably, this completely inverts the actual historic logic on the literal clause in the Constitution that imposed a 20-year moratorium on banning the slave trade, which was really that Southern delegates read population trends and concluded that was enough time to lock slavery in permanently.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
most notably, this completely inverts the actual historic logic on the literal clause in the Constitution that imposed a 20-year moratorium on banning the slave trade, which was really that Southern delegates read population trends and concluded that was enough time to lock slavery in permanently.
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right-wing pseudohistorians like David Barton and (and clearly, Heritage), totally do, yeah. They basically extend the "slavery was on its way out" Lost Cause narrative backwards to the founding and insist that all the pro-slavery clauses were secretly anti-slavery prophetic acts by the founders.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
right-wing pseudohistorians like David Barton and (and clearly, Heritage), totally do, yeah. They basically extend the "slavery was on its way out" Lost Cause narrative backwards to the founding and insist that all the pro-slavery clauses were secretly anti-slavery prophetic acts by the founders.
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but far-right pseudohistorians also love to assert that the founders were prophets and the Constitution was divinely inspired and an extension of Biblical law, so there's a dilemma: either slavery is divine provenance, or the founders secretly Da Vinci Coded the seeds of emancipation into it.
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
but far-right pseudohistorians also love to assert that the founders were prophets and the Constitution was divinely inspired and an extension of Biblical law, so there's a dilemma: either slavery is divine provenance, or the founders secretly Da Vinci Coded the seeds of emancipation into it.
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Essentially, Southern delegates were convinced that they were a generation of slave imports away from swamping out everyone else's representation with Slave Power on the strength of their enslaved populace. A "great replacement", if you will.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Essentially, Southern delegates were convinced that they were a generation of slave imports away from swamping out everyone else's representation with Slave Power on the strength of their enslaved populace. A "great replacement", if you will.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
Epstein is best understood as a service provider to the aristocracy, so the logical question is who has been providing this service since 2019 and who is protecting them
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Epstein is best understood as a service provider to the aristocracy, so the logical question is who has been providing this service since 2019 and who is protecting them
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The people who choose to spend their lives in an idealistic pursuit of knowledge--and the social mission of disseminating it--will fight for those ideals. The assdeans in suits, appointed by a board of ex-CEOs and lawyers who were appointed by centrist democrats and republican fascists, will not.
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The people who choose to spend their lives in an idealistic pursuit of knowledge--and the social mission of disseminating it--will fight for those ideals. The assdeans in suits, appointed by a board of ex-CEOs and lawyers who were appointed by centrist democrats and republican fascists, will not.
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One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.
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Been thinking a lot abt James Baldwin’s excellent Report from Occupied Territory in the context of ICE abuses & military deployments to our communities. Couldn’t be clearer that “occupied territory” is the form of governance pursued by this lawless regime.
A Report from Occupied Territory
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Been thinking a lot abt James Baldwin’s excellent Report from Occupied Territory in the context of ICE abuses & military deployments to our communities. Couldn’t be clearer that “occupied territory” is the form of governance pursued by this lawless regime.
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sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.
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we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
we have GOT to stop thinking about this in terms of hypocrisy because that's not what's going on! we NEED to understand why pedo apologia is so rampant in anti-trans pseudoscience, why abuse is so rampant in the home, why child marriage is still legal across the country etc.
Sometimes I think people forget that a major, maybe THE major, driving force behind the AI bubble is the surveillance and military apparatuses of multiple state security and intelligence agencies and especially their subcontractors
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
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My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sometimes I think people forget that a major, maybe THE major, driving force behind the AI bubble is the surveillance and military apparatuses of multiple state security and intelligence agencies and especially their subcontractors
Good example of the epistemic enclosure that's foundational to Trumpist conservatism
For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging. www.wired.com/story/maga-w...
All MAGA Wanted Was the Epstein Files. Now They're Ignoring Them
For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Good example of the epistemic enclosure that's foundational to Trumpist conservatism
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oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...
Am I to understand that Clinton and Trump are the actual original Blowjob Brothers
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Am I to understand that Clinton and Trump are the actual original Blowjob Brothers
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
The loathsome Republican defense of Trump is essentially “well it’s not like he was into BOYS”. Pedocon is a theory like evolution is a theory
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The loathsome Republican defense of Trump is essentially “well it’s not like he was into BOYS”. Pedocon is a theory like evolution is a theory
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The argument is “why didn’t we get that kind of investigation from the Times,” instead of the trans panic/Gaza panic/Zohran panic/here’s who the hell “Chris Rufo” is and all the other “We Didn’t Start the Fire” lyrics from Hell that the paper has instead pushed in the last nine years
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The argument is “why didn’t we get that kind of investigation from the Times,” instead of the trans panic/Gaza panic/Zohran panic/here’s who the hell “Chris Rufo” is and all the other “We Didn’t Start the Fire” lyrics from Hell that the paper has instead pushed in the last nine years
It's funny that AI companies are still like "it's good for pattern recognition but sometimes makes things up - 1 quadrillion $ please" while the average user apparently wants their computer screen to be their soulmate and spiritual guru. Meanwhile my workplace is putting all their chips on this
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's funny that AI companies are still like "it's good for pattern recognition but sometimes makes things up - 1 quadrillion $ please" while the average user apparently wants their computer screen to be their soulmate and spiritual guru. Meanwhile my workplace is putting all their chips on this
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Gawker doesn’t look so bad now does it, you massive pile of shit?
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Gawker doesn’t look so bad now does it, you massive pile of shit?
Wonder if the 2010s revival of “race science” is downstream from Epstein, via his friend Peter Thiel
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wonder if the 2010s revival of “race science” is downstream from Epstein, via his friend Peter Thiel
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or i guess more relevantly here, karl marx recognized capitalism as a *new and distinct* phenomenon, something radical and different which was sweeping away an old shitty order
these days you ask people what capitalism is and they'll give you a definition indistinguishable from feudalism
these days you ask people what capitalism is and they'll give you a definition indistinguishable from feudalism
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
or i guess more relevantly here, karl marx recognized capitalism as a *new and distinct* phenomenon, something radical and different which was sweeping away an old shitty order
these days you ask people what capitalism is and they'll give you a definition indistinguishable from feudalism
these days you ask people what capitalism is and they'll give you a definition indistinguishable from feudalism
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marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States