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Timothy Messer-Kruse
@profmk.bsky.social
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Professor of Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Eclectic scholar of radicalism and culture. Currently writing a civics textbook from a critical perspective. https://blogs.bgsu.edu/tmesser/
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profmk.bsky.social
Let me add #11: “This is going to change the world!” Crickets…
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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alwaystheself.bsky.social
The caucasity! And it gets wilder. Moynihan's (white, single, destitute) mother was quite literally ON WELFARE! This is the same guy who practically created the myth of the Black matriarch and the controlling image of the Black welfare queen! www.theguardian.com/news/2003/ma...
Moynihan was the first child of Margaret and John Moynihan. His father was a newspaper reporter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but, six months after his son's birth, he moved to New York as an advertising copywriter. The family had two more children and lived comfortably until Moynihan Sr turned into an alcoholic and a compulsive gambler. Eventually, he fled his creditors, leaving his family destitute. Margaret Moynihan was forced into the Manhattan slums, and resumed her work as a low-paid nurse; even with welfare benefits, her children were obliged to shine shoes and sell newspapers to meet the bills. But young Patrick, as he was universally known, prospered at the local Roman Catholic parochial schools, emerged top of his class in 1943, and was encouraged to go on to university.
September 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
profmk.bsky.social
I've been on their 'Watchlist' since 2023 and have sent TPUSA a cease and desist letter on the basis of defamation. They responded by threatening me with countersuits and the implication they could could outspend me in court. (Which is very true.) I'm still on their list for things I've published.
September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
profmk.bsky.social
Somehow, this pundit can’t imagine a way all of these things can be true at the same time and the tension between these contradictions is the motive power of historical change. Sad. 3/3
September 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
profmk.bsky.social
Take this author’s point: “the debate over how to portray the nation’s history boils down to fundamental questions. Is America a nation conceived in liberty, or in slavery? Does liberty mark our nation’s core, and slavery the aberration—or is slavery the core, and liberty the aberration”? 2/3
September 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM