Larry J. Simon
@larryjsimon.bsky.social
Historian, teacher, editor; Antifascist, book lover, 3-chord strummer; Fan of Americana, Blues, Country, Dylan, Earle, FCBarcelona; UCLA Ph.D.; Southwesterner in Midwestern Exile. Not here for day job or to promote career. Opinions mine; not my employer’s.
At most Power 5 conference schools football & basketball help finance all athletics; at almost all mid-majors, as with WMU, football costs the uni (tens of?) millions of $. I was teaching; in three decades I’ve only been to one game; but stadium on my circuitous walk home. Go Broncos!
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
At most Power 5 conference schools football & basketball help finance all athletics; at almost all mid-majors, as with WMU, football costs the uni (tens of?) millions of $. I was teaching; in three decades I’ve only been to one game; but stadium on my circuitous walk home. Go Broncos!
No northern lights last night—maybe tonight—in Kalamazoo and all of LP Michigan. The only lights in town were from Waldo Stadium where Western Michigan University defeated Ohio U in a nationally televised football game and took over sole possession of first place in the MAC.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
No northern lights last night—maybe tonight—in Kalamazoo and all of LP Michigan. The only lights in town were from Waldo Stadium where Western Michigan University defeated Ohio U in a nationally televised football game and took over sole possession of first place in the MAC.
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 23/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 23/?
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 23/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 23/?
What Democrats? WTF, Dems? What a chyron MSNBC? @theweekendprime.bsky.social?
Reckon with? How about celebrate? Bask in glory of? Look to capitalize on?
“Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? —Florence Reece, wife of a union organizer, during the Harlan County War.
Reckon with? How about celebrate? Bask in glory of? Look to capitalize on?
“Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? —Florence Reece, wife of a union organizer, during the Harlan County War.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
What Democrats? WTF, Dems? What a chyron MSNBC? @theweekendprime.bsky.social?
Reckon with? How about celebrate? Bask in glory of? Look to capitalize on?
“Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? —Florence Reece, wife of a union organizer, during the Harlan County War.
Reckon with? How about celebrate? Bask in glory of? Look to capitalize on?
“Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? —Florence Reece, wife of a union organizer, during the Harlan County War.
Within seconds of each other in my Bluesky feed: white people yucking it up at the Fox Patriot Awards as Hegseth celebrates Trump ordering the murder of Venezuelan fishermen.
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Within seconds of each other in my Bluesky feed: white people yucking it up at the Fox Patriot Awards as Hegseth celebrates Trump ordering the murder of Venezuelan fishermen.
Cabezas up Kalamazoo: Tacos el Jefe in parking lot of Bottoms Up Spirits & Snacks, corner of W. Michigan and Lovell. Let Chicago’s loss be our gain. Snow on way, but life looking up.
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Cabezas up Kalamazoo: Tacos el Jefe in parking lot of Bottoms Up Spirits & Snacks, corner of W. Michigan and Lovell. Let Chicago’s loss be our gain. Snow on way, but life looking up.
John Rich once told me on Twitter that I was a sick, sick man. I am happy never to have been on X and now to be on Bluesky. I appreciate the greater civility here. I am going to pass on casting aspersions on this man’s education and intelligence and merely post here what has been sent to me.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
John Rich once told me on Twitter that I was a sick, sick man. I am happy never to have been on X and now to be on Bluesky. I appreciate the greater civility here. I am going to pass on casting aspersions on this man’s education and intelligence and merely post here what has been sent to me.
@carolleonnig.bsky.social, co-author w/ Philip Rucker of couple great Trump books, was just on @maddow.msnbc.com to discuss new book with Aaron Davis, INJUSTICE: How Politics & Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.
Exploration of how Garland inherited a damaged DOJ and failed his challenge.
Exploration of how Garland inherited a damaged DOJ and failed his challenge.
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
@carolleonnig.bsky.social, co-author w/ Philip Rucker of couple great Trump books, was just on @maddow.msnbc.com to discuss new book with Aaron Davis, INJUSTICE: How Politics & Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.
Exploration of how Garland inherited a damaged DOJ and failed his challenge.
Exploration of how Garland inherited a damaged DOJ and failed his challenge.
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 22/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 22/?
November 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 22/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 22/?
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 21/?
Time for another rally: I’ll soon be out of pics and the added boost it gave my spirits.
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 21/?
Time for another rally: I’ll soon be out of pics and the added boost it gave my spirits.
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 21/?
Time for another rally: I’ll soon be out of pics and the added boost it gave my spirits.
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two weeks ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 21/?
Time for another rally: I’ll soon be out of pics and the added boost it gave my spirits.
I live in clean, super safe hood.
Sidewalk outside BR window sees smoking foreignoids jabbering in Spanish, French, Italian, all of which I understand, Arabic, which I recognize, & God only knows what else as they go to mosque, grocer, or kid pickup.
Welcome to the USA, J.D.
Local elementary school:
Sidewalk outside BR window sees smoking foreignoids jabbering in Spanish, French, Italian, all of which I understand, Arabic, which I recognize, & God only knows what else as they go to mosque, grocer, or kid pickup.
Welcome to the USA, J.D.
Local elementary school:
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I live in clean, super safe hood.
Sidewalk outside BR window sees smoking foreignoids jabbering in Spanish, French, Italian, all of which I understand, Arabic, which I recognize, & God only knows what else as they go to mosque, grocer, or kid pickup.
Welcome to the USA, J.D.
Local elementary school:
Sidewalk outside BR window sees smoking foreignoids jabbering in Spanish, French, Italian, all of which I understand, Arabic, which I recognize, & God only knows what else as they go to mosque, grocer, or kid pickup.
Welcome to the USA, J.D.
Local elementary school:
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 9 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 20/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 9 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 20/?
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 9 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 20/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 9 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 20/?
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 8 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 19/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 8 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 19/?
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 8 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 19/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march 8 days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 19/?
#WorldSeries Yes I’m a Southwesterner living in Midwestern exile and dream of returning to the City of Angels, but I was an Angels Rod Carew fan not a Dodgers fan when I lived there. Hard not to like Doc “UCLA” Roberts and Mookie, but Go Blue Jays! 🇨🇦
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
#WorldSeries Yes I’m a Southwesterner living in Midwestern exile and dream of returning to the City of Angels, but I was an Angels Rod Carew fan not a Dodgers fan when I lived there. Hard not to like Doc “UCLA” Roberts and Mookie, but Go Blue Jays! 🇨🇦
Hot off the press: vol. 87 in our “Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World” series: Susan Leslie Boynton (Columbia University), Liturgy of Empire: Reading the Mozarabic Rite in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2026), 281 pp. #medieval #SkyMedieval #EarlyModernSpain
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hot off the press: vol. 87 in our “Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World” series: Susan Leslie Boynton (Columbia University), Liturgy of Empire: Reading the Mozarabic Rite in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2026), 281 pp. #medieval #SkyMedieval #EarlyModernSpain
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 18/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 18/?
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 18/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 18/?
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 17/?
Yes the crowd skewed older and white but erroneous to overemphasize this.
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 17/?
Yes the crowd skewed older and white but erroneous to overemphasize this.
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 17/?
Yes the crowd skewed older and white but erroneous to overemphasize this.
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march last Saturday at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 17/?
Yes the crowd skewed older and white but erroneous to overemphasize this.
RIP Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Perry (1937-2025). I was proud she was on my doctoral comprehensive examination committee. She challenged me more than any other of the very distinguished members of my committee. I have taught all her books for years but especially Handless Maiden and Gender & Disorder.
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
RIP Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Perry (1937-2025). I was proud she was on my doctoral comprehensive examination committee. She challenged me more than any other of the very distinguished members of my committee. I have taught all her books for years but especially Handless Maiden and Gender & Disorder.
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 16/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 16/?
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 16/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 16/?
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 15/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 15/?
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 15/?
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march two days ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 15/?
DM for Venmo address, George.
I found Antifa and asked to join; she said I could share her sidewalk. Later, I caught a glimpse of the backside of Queen Antifa. I can confirm: even though I left my UN flag home, tattooed globalists were present.
I found Antifa and asked to join; she said I could share her sidewalk. Later, I caught a glimpse of the backside of Queen Antifa. I can confirm: even though I left my UN flag home, tattooed globalists were present.
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
DM for Venmo address, George.
I found Antifa and asked to join; she said I could share her sidewalk. Later, I caught a glimpse of the backside of Queen Antifa. I can confirm: even though I left my UN flag home, tattooed globalists were present.
I found Antifa and asked to join; she said I could share her sidewalk. Later, I caught a glimpse of the backside of Queen Antifa. I can confirm: even though I left my UN flag home, tattooed globalists were present.