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"Yesterday we moved on to the dysgenic portion of the program ..." www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God
One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.
www.thebulwark.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Revealing their core eugenic ideology,” NYT’s Polgreen writes, “President Trump and his supporters ... are obsessed with contamination and contagion, seeing it as the site of despicable difference. Again and again, they deploy metaphors of disease and disfigurement.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I have been saying since 2016 that the MAGA movement is a second "redemption," an effort to halt and reverse racial justice initiatives. How I hoped I was wrong. textbookhistory.substack.com/p/textbook-r...
Textbook Reconstruction
Reconstruction was a decade-plus (1863-1877) effort by the U.S. government to manage the readmission to the Union of states that had rebelled during Civil War, with specific demands by Congress to enf...
textbookhistory.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Recommended: Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards. Even as a student of early-to-mid-century scientific racism, I’m shocked at how foundational it remains to today's right. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hayek's Bastards
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
press.princeton.edu
August 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Yes @crockett.house.gov Black history is American history, and Black history is World history and there were centuries in the Americas of slavery that saw the mass kidnapping, torture and exploitation of black people for the profit of white people. True facts! youtu.be/BGjSday7f_8 #DrJoyDegruyLeary
Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder
YouTube video by Terrance Carney
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August 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
What explains the ubiquity of EX-LAX in Deco-era drug store windows? ghostsignarcheology.substack.com/p/the-deco-e...
The Deco Era’s Drug of Choice
What explains the ubiquity of EX-LAX?
ghostsignarcheology.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Did anyone ever spit on a returning Vietnam vet? Impossible to say. But, researcher Jerry Lembcke could not find a single recorded incident. Remember that this weekend, when the Trump/Bondi regime claims *their* acts of violence are in response to some protester’s loogie.
June 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sit with this, an ad in the April 1901 edition of Physical Culture, published by Bernarr MacFadden. If it seems familiar, it’s because, in the age of Trump, the quacks are back. And this time they’re in charge!

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May 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My article on the “Cave Painters of Schoharie County” was just published in the Spring 2025 SCA Journal. For your reading pleasure, I’ve linked it here:
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May 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Spring 2025 SCA Journal is out with articles on "The Cave Painters of Schoharie County," "Signs with Roofs," and a bunch related to Niagara Falls ... the site of SCA’s June 2025 conference and tours ... to which everyone is invited! sca-roadside.org/lost-photos-...
Lost Photos, Found Memories: Niagara Falls - Society for Commercial Archeology
In anticipation of us making our own memories at this June’s SCA Conference, presented here are a baker’s dozen of vintage Niagara Falls vacation photos from the SCA Journal series, “Lost Photos, Foun...
sca-roadside.org
May 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
As eugenics comes roaring back in the policies of HHS director Robert Kennedy, Jr., tech nut Elon Musk, and pronatalists from Silicon Valley to the Bible Belt, I thought a refresher course was in order. #eugenics #immigration #ai #immunizations #fluoridation
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To Conserve Man - Textbook History
To our Rachel Carson-tuned ears, the word conservation means allowing nature to hold sway, to designate areas as wetlands, protected habitats and forever wild, to be humble and accept that nature is u...
textbookhistory.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As my journal's tagline now reads: “Mining 200 years of anatomy, biology, and history textbooks to tell stories of surprising relevance. I mean, really! Who knew eugenics would make a comeback?” textbookhistory.org
April 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A frightening overview of what I like to call the “dangerous dorm room eugenics” of Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Peter Theil.
Opinion | It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either
How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Albany, NY #HandsOFF
April 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I somehow missed this when first published. Evangelicals love Putin because he hates America as much as they do. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/o...
Opinion | Why MAGA Loves Russia and Hates Ukraine (Published 2024)
Inside the far right’s latest bespoke reality.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is 23 years old? It could have been written yesterday! www.angryflower.com/348.html
March 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The casual rise of eugenics and breathless, credulous declarations of innate superiority of some people over others even among self-styled centrists is one of the creepiest and most alarming trends I’ve seen in a while.
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"We should not resist calling this for what it is—a deep animus toward anything that detracts from a white-centered view of American history."
Frederick Douglass Parade Canceled After 54th Massachusetts Pulls Out
The Trump administration’s ongoing crusade to roll back DEI initiatives was never out of a concern for fairness or challenging what it sees as unjust discrimination.
kevinmlevin.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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On this day in 1913, the famous Armory Show opened in NYC, popularizing modern art in the US. Our review predicted the art on display "a monstrous aberration." t.co/xc6TGzH35P
February 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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People should familiarize themselves with transhumanism. Musk believes that in order to be interplanetary he has to take over medical research to focus on merging us with computers. It isn't backed by science & crosses all the boundaries of ethics. So he is purging pub health scientists
February 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM