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@vntrinh13.bsky.social
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California boy living in the Midwest. Historian and teacher. Currently writing a book on race, radicalism, and law-and-order policing in Los Angeles. He/Him.
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The “man with butterfly” meme, where the man is “Ezra Klein” and the butterfly is “doxxing college professors for studying and teaching about anti-fascism” and the question is “Is this doing politics the right way?”
October 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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TOMORROW at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social. Chop it up with us over urban insurrections and—spoiler alert—a mass deportation campaign that the LAPD and INS carried out in the middle of the Rodney King Uprisings.

#UHA2025LA
Session 107 • Sat. 11:30 am-1:00 pm Roundtable: Urban Uprisings after the 1970s Athenian Chair: Max Felker-Kantor University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Hinton Yale University Ashley Howard University of Iowa Tyler Parry UNLV Alexander M. Stephens University of Michigan V.N. Trinh The Ohio State University
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Back on my bullshit, and my bullshit involves looking dang good.
An Asian dude with amber sunglasses, headphones, and a baseball cap that says “LACAB” stands in front of a park in a downtown area.
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Them: “Stop crying it’s just a movie”

The movie:
A GIF from Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), featuring somebody in a hazmat suit picking up trash from the ground while a small Black girl looks on. The San Francisco Bay is in the background.
August 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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An Asian American dude with glasses sits at a rooftop bar, with sunny blue skies and a black-brown building behind him.
August 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?
Adele’s debut studio album 19.
July 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Braised kale, aka kale-ard greens.
A pot of braised kale and other vegetables—along with a few bacon bits—in brown chicken stock.
June 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Quote post with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.
The Silver Surfer on his surfboard, soaring above some dark clouds.
May 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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An idea being upsetting or frustrating or unfamiliar does not make it false. If and when you feel actually curious instead of dismissive or obstinate, here are some excellent, peer-reviewed texts by respected thinkers in my field. They would act as good primers for you.
Gerald Horne's "Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America." Lisa Lowe's "Intimacies of Four Continents." Carl T. Bogus' "Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment." Michael A. McDonnell and A. Dirk Moses' "Raphael Lemkin as Historian of Genocide in the Americas."
May 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Lando Calrissian tells Han Solo and Princess Leia that “I’ve just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.”
April 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Maybe a five-minute walk from the house where I grew up.
A paved trail on a grassy hill. A wooden fence sits on the right side of the trail. The sun sets in the distance.
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look
Han Lue, the Fast and Furious character played by Sung Kang. Doc Brown, the Back to the Future character played by Christopher Lloyd.
February 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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My lady just learned about Shy Ronnie and she was absolutely cracking up in the living room.
Rihanna, wearing a pinstripe suit and fedora, points a tommygun threateningly. Andy Samberg is dressed as Shy Ronnie, wearing a colorful sweater, scarf, and whote beret.
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Nice.
A screenshot showing that I have exactly 666 followers.
January 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Besties!
A small orange cat sits on a windowsill looking out into the dark of night. Below him, a medium black-and-white cat sits on a black chair and looks to the camera’s right.
January 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Not much beats tacos pastor at sunset.
Plates featuring tacos al pastor, tortilla chips, and French fries sit on a wooden table outdoors. In the distance, the colors of a setting sun—the blue and the yellow—mix over a park that has a soccer pitch and a basketball court.
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Happy New Year! 🎉🎉
A chubby squirrel crouches over while balancing on a railing. Winter trees without their leaves fill the background.
January 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I dearly miss my beloved fur son, Gonny Gonkerson. He crossed that rainbow bridge two years ago on Christmas Eve—too soon.
A gray-and-white cat lies down on a copy of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s “Abolition Geography.” A gray-and-white cat lies down on a yellow bedsheet. His chin is also touching the sheet. A gray-and-white cat lies down in bed with me—an Asian dude—snuggling him. A massive gray-and-white cat lies on a bed with his stomach facing up.
December 25, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Day 20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge
Forrest Stuart's book "Down, Out, & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row." The front cover features a black-and-white photograph of homeless people lying down on meager makeshift bedding along the sidewalk. They have some of their things propped up against a chain-link fence.
December 19, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Sometimes when I have a bad dream these furry kids climb onto the bed and keep me company.
Two orange cats—one large and one small—lie side-by-side in a bed and a pile of blankets facing away from the camera.
December 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Day 19: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge
Aimé Césaire's book "Discourse on Colonialism." The front cover features a painting of a white woman clad in green. A Black woman or girl--either way, one of much smaller stature--stands next to the white woman. A vase of yellow and pink flowers sits in the foreground.
December 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Day 18: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge
Elizabeth Hinton's book "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America." The front cover features a photograph of a Newark police cruiser driving on the street. Two police agents inside the car visibly wield shotguns, their barrels sticking out of the rolled-down side windows.
December 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Day 17: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore's book "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950." The front cover features a photograph of Black protestors. Their signs indicate support for the Scottsboro Nine. Their most legible sign reads, "Free the Scottsboro Boys!"
December 16, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Meatballs!
A breakfast plate with meatballs and sauce, spinach, over-hard fried eggs, and a bed of rice. A plate with browned meatballs.
December 15, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Day 16: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky📚💫
#BookChallenge
Matthew Frye Jacobson's "Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race." The front cover features a group of different white men wearing coats and hats. The men are apparently waiting for a train or other long-distance transportation, as some of them are sitting on travel cases.
December 14, 2024 at 7:03 PM