Joseph M. Adelman
@jmadelman.bsky.social
Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
I’m a baseball fan for life. I go through withdrawal every year in early November when the World Series ends.
The absolute saturation of gambling into the games, stadiums, and broadcasts makes me want to walk away from the game.
The absolute saturation of gambling into the games, stadiums, and broadcasts makes me want to walk away from the game.
Following this weekend’s indictments of Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, MLB has announced that, in collaboration with major sports books, single pitch wagers are being capped at $200 and excluded from all parlays:
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I’m a baseball fan for life. I go through withdrawal every year in early November when the World Series ends.
The absolute saturation of gambling into the games, stadiums, and broadcasts makes me want to walk away from the game.
The absolute saturation of gambling into the games, stadiums, and broadcasts makes me want to walk away from the game.
The cost of building anew probably goes a long way to explaining why neither major party has splintered in the past thirty years even though each has seemed headed that way at times.
There’s a two party duopoly in this nation.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The cost of building anew probably goes a long way to explaining why neither major party has splintered in the past thirty years even though each has seemed headed that way at times.
It is so disheartening to hear someone who should know better say that if their book was in the Anthropic database that means it was being read more. That’s … not how any of this works.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It is so disheartening to hear someone who should know better say that if their book was in the Anthropic database that means it was being read more. That’s … not how any of this works.
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
It's dreary, dark, and pouring rain here in eastern New England this morning. So I'm required to post and share this music video.
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's dreary, dark, and pouring rain here in eastern New England this morning. So I'm required to post and share this music video.
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Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
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The Rose Reading room at the NYPL, for instance, is a place where literally anyone can have access to world class research materials— a universe of ideas— and, if they use them right, and stay at it, they can become a genius
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Rose Reading room at the NYPL, for instance, is a place where literally anyone can have access to world class research materials— a universe of ideas— and, if they use them right, and stay at it, they can become a genius
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Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
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THE POOREST PERSONS ON TWITTER MAY HAVE ACCESS TO MORE BEAUTY AND MEANING THAN THE ‘MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE WORLD’
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
THE POOREST PERSONS ON TWITTER MAY HAVE ACCESS TO MORE BEAUTY AND MEANING THAN THE ‘MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE WORLD’
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
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The Politics of Family/History. I've been so grateful for opportunities to talk abt the history of genealogy in early America & its implications. Tuesday lovely colleagues @brownhist.bsky.social are hosting my conversation w the great Leslie Harris. Join us! events.brown.edu/history/even...
The Politics of Family History: Karin Wulf in Conversation With Leslie Harris (Northwestern University)
Join the Department of History for a conversation with Karin Wulf and Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) on Wulf’s latest publication, Li...
events.brown.edu
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Politics of Family/History. I've been so grateful for opportunities to talk abt the history of genealogy in early America & its implications. Tuesday lovely colleagues @brownhist.bsky.social are hosting my conversation w the great Leslie Harris. Join us! events.brown.edu/history/even...
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
And the 1986 iteration thereof.
Every decor choice that Trump makes for the White House absolutely screams mid-tier Long Island wedding banquet hall
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
And the 1986 iteration thereof.
Omg
Coming in 2026 from the Postal Service, a series of stamps honoring key figures from the American Revolution.
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Omg
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If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
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November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
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Omg
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Omg
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This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.
That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Coming this afternoon at #USIH2025, a fun session on thinking about public history and #America250, moderated by @sarageorgini.bsky.social and featuring me, @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social @theotherrbg.bsky.social @lizcovart.bsky.social (unfortunately @katejewell.bsky.social can’t be here).
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Coming this afternoon at #USIH2025, a fun session on thinking about public history and #America250, moderated by @sarageorgini.bsky.social and featuring me, @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social @theotherrbg.bsky.social @lizcovart.bsky.social (unfortunately @katejewell.bsky.social can’t be here).
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In Detroit for #USIH. @jmadelman.bsky.social and I decided to check out the Motown Museum. It was a great tour and worth the stop.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In Detroit for #USIH. @jmadelman.bsky.social and I decided to check out the Motown Museum. It was a great tour and worth the stop.
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
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This & her indispensable role in passing the ACA are the defining points in her career.
Adding: Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war came from her knowledge & leadership on national security, something that persuaded/affirmed other colleagues in their opposition to war.
Adding: Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war came from her knowledge & leadership on national security, something that persuaded/affirmed other colleagues in their opposition to war.
When many other Democratic leaders in Congress were cravenly supporting the run-up to the Iraq War, Nancy Pelosi opposed it and whipped votes in the House against it.
She has many other career accomplishments but that brave and prescient stand is what I'll remember.
She has many other career accomplishments but that brave and prescient stand is what I'll remember.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This & her indispensable role in passing the ACA are the defining points in her career.
Adding: Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war came from her knowledge & leadership on national security, something that persuaded/affirmed other colleagues in their opposition to war.
Adding: Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war came from her knowledge & leadership on national security, something that persuaded/affirmed other colleagues in their opposition to war.
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Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis suggests outlines of an emerging Dem coalition organized around anti-Trump *and* affordability politics. This is doing serious damage to the MAGA coalition. Its success this week undermines the idea of a big Trump 2024 realignment. 7/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis suggests outlines of an emerging Dem coalition organized around anti-Trump *and* affordability politics. This is doing serious damage to the MAGA coalition. Its success this week undermines the idea of a big Trump 2024 realignment. 7/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...