Bill Bush
@profbillb.bsky.social
History prof at TX A&M-San Antonio, father of two, retired skater, grouch. Historian of kids and justice systems. Opinions shared here are mine alone and don’t represent my employer.
Disgusting
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Disgusting
The bodies of the last Holocaust survivors are barely cold in the ground and “Never Forget” has become “Eh” 🤷♂️
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The bodies of the last Holocaust survivors are barely cold in the ground and “Never Forget” has become “Eh” 🤷♂️
In many ways we are already there
This is sobering but precise.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In many ways we are already there
Family values
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Family values
Miraculous
BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Miraculous
Funding ICE but not SNAP during a shutdown is a choice.
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Funding ICE but not SNAP during a shutdown is a choice.
When all you have is a hammer every kid problem is a nail, Texas version number nine million: www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...
Tarrant County sending the most kids to state youth prisons
The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near an all-time high, the state says.
www.texastribune.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When all you have is a hammer every kid problem is a nail, Texas version number nine million: www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...
Well I’m sure ABC thought they secured “peace for our time.”
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Well I’m sure ABC thought they secured “peace for our time.”
More of this talk please
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
September 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
More of this talk please
This is helping me make at least some sense of the Discourse since last Wednesday. I’m still not sure I totally buy the idea that these two versions were as separate as portrayed here. And trying to guard against wanting it to be so.
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is helping me make at least some sense of the Discourse since last Wednesday. I’m still not sure I totally buy the idea that these two versions were as separate as portrayed here. And trying to guard against wanting it to be so.
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They really haven’t gotten over the facts that there was a wildly popular, two-term Black POTUS and that millions of people of all races came together around the world to say Black lives matter.
A lot of what we’re experiencing now is downstream from their ongoing freak-out about those things.
A lot of what we’re experiencing now is downstream from their ongoing freak-out about those things.
September 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Other people’s kids aren’t real to them. Kirk was a peer.
Uvalde somehow didn't convince the NY Times that "something is seriously wrong in this nation," but Charlie Kirk's murder is a bridge too far.
Shooting school children they've completely normalized, but Kirk's death violated, "basic, common-sense, need-not-be-debated American" values.
Shooting school children they've completely normalized, but Kirk's death violated, "basic, common-sense, need-not-be-debated American" values.
After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Other people’s kids aren’t real to them. Kirk was a peer.
Our pundit class is as lost as the society they purport to speak to and for.
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our pundit class is as lost as the society they purport to speak to and for.
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Again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from this to Jan 6 to torture to Iraq 2003 to Iran-Contra to Watergate to 1865 - is because there are <never> any legal, personal, or political consequences for those things. We <totally fail> at elite accountability.
September 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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July 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The bodies of the last survivors are barely cold in the ground and Americans already gleefully shitcanning “Never Forget.”
So are Republicans going to be asked to condemn this or
Republican candidate for Governor of California Kyle Langford stands in front of a Nazi concentration camp and proposes sending unemployed and homeless individuals to be incinerated there.
July 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The bodies of the last survivors are barely cold in the ground and Americans already gleefully shitcanning “Never Forget.”
I spent all last week in the National Death Penalty Archive, at SUNY Albany. Incredible collection, I could’ve spent another week there easily.
July 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I spent all last week in the National Death Penalty Archive, at SUNY Albany. Incredible collection, I could’ve spent another week there easily.
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Only one of these women graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, clerked for Justice Breyer, served as a trial judge, appellate judge, and public defender.
Hint: it’s not the one the right calls “qualified.”
Let’s talk about the real DEI hire. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
Only one of these women graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, clerked for Justice Breyer, served as a trial judge, appellate judge, and public defender.
Hint: it’s not the one the right calls “qualified.”
Let’s talk about the real DEI hire. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
July 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Lolol
Holy shit, this is amazing
July 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lolol
Which is why he doesn’t belong in government, where the expectation is to act and not just pray.
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
July 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Which is why he doesn’t belong in government, where the expectation is to act and not just pray.
Good thread. The “Crossfire” model of journalism persists and continues to fail the truth test.
It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.
Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Good thread. The “Crossfire” model of journalism persists and continues to fail the truth test.
He has no idea and could care less.
El Salvador president denies that Abrego Garcia was tortured in prison reut.rs/4lgeZU3
El Salvador president denies that Abrego Garcia was tortured in prison
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Thursday denied accusations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, was tortured in a Salvadoran prison.
reut.rs
July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
He has no idea and could care less.
A resurgence of “therapeutic” youth prisons would represent yet another evil perpetrated by this evil regime.
The project is about kids with disability in juvenile detention, by the way. I wrote a little about it for @nursingclio.bsky.social here: nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
July 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A resurgence of “therapeutic” youth prisons would represent yet another evil perpetrated by this evil regime.
Historians of prisons know this: Jailers hate surprise inspections and prefer to put on dog and pony show for compliant politicians. Don’t let them do it.
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Historians of prisons know this: Jailers hate surprise inspections and prefer to put on dog and pony show for compliant politicians. Don’t let them do it.