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He is seriously damaged.
Associate Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
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He is seriously damaged.
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Congrats. I gotta give this a pleasure read.
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I'm in for a cool $50
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...
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Uh, Trump & Co. know a few things about mortgage fraud ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
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Thesis -> Anti-thesis -> Synthesis
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Pretty much all ed tech since COVID (and much pre-COVID)
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
So he wants ministers as overseers. Got it. Why did it take him 4 minutes to say that?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
And Poor Houses.
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I hate Illinois Nazis.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
"The Joos" are controlling "the Blacks" is about a half a step aaway from the "The Joos" are controlling "The Slavs"
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, I thought the Republicans were the fiscally responsible adults in the room who were going to curb spending and tackle the massive national debt.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
They watched every 80s movie and decided the bad guys were the good guys. Trump and JD and Miller are textbook John Hughes bad guys. Hell, JD was born a greaser but became a soc.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Just change your name to the Vichy Post or the Quisling Post.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
All true, but we desperately need to increase the size of Congress for about 100 different reasons.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
And 30,000 Pennsylvanians
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This always kills it in Lecture 1, History (as an academic discipline) vs. Heritage "The Sopranos," "Christopher," Season 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD6...
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One of television's greatest episodes EVER.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
MOOCs are the future my friend. A Harvard professor will teach your class and you will serve as a TA.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
I love writing in cursive. So elegant. I always admired how my parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles had such distinct but excellent cursive.
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So, the Intolerable Acts?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
God Bless America!
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
What about natural reproduction?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
When I recieved my first tape of this (1989-90?), we didn't know what ska was. We called it "punk reggae."
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Alpha Males use Just for Men on their Beards.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Quasimodo predicted all of this.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGum...
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
"When we fought the British ..." Dude, you fought the British? Or my favorite, "When we freed the slaves ..." Dude, I don't know where to begin.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. There is no "we" in history.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
And they should focus the entirety of 250 on the text of the Declaration of Independence.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
FWIW, this is exactly what I do at the beginning of all of my gen ed history courses. It's fantastic. The students really get into it.
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“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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What if they go to Evil Genius School?
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The true foundation of a university. I understand why traditional colleges of arts & sciences broke apart, but as someone with a BA in physics who went on to puruse a Ph.D in history (thanks humanities classes!), I will always have a softspot for the college of arts & sciences.
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I am fully in the liberal arts/humanities camp.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social)
He might not be the hero (sandwich) we deserve, but he's the hero (sandwich) we need.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
"winding his arm back and forcefully throwing a sub-style sandwich."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
It is proper that we honor the Revolutionary War Veterans who "took over the airports."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah but Black, female, federal employees are not "real" union members. Only white guys in hardhats are union guys and "working class."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
"Secession is unthinkable." Why? I am at the point where the Union has simply outlived it's usefullness.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
That fall catalog is a banger!
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Next stop Canada? This has shades of the Fugitive Slave Law.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social)
The @pennpress.bsky.social Fall catalog is out. I feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when the phone book is released.
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"In what world would exercising the kind of political speech ..." One in which we have a king rather than a constitution. The unitary executive theory is just the Divine right of kings gussied up.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
That article is terrible. I want my five minutes back.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
“Small Fisted Farmers, Mud-sills of Society, Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln.”
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Pre-Revolutionary France shit.
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Now I got them Steadily depressing Low down, mid messin' Workin' at the Cow wash blues
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Did they even say thanks?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Equally important, your reasoning is i)transparent ii)supported by real evidence AI gives us neither.
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He loves NYC so much he moved to Florida.
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The healthy cigarettes.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a BA in physics. A Ph.D in history. I would never try to do math like this in my head. There is no point to it. Do it longhand. In either case, I can reason my way through problems, whether in math or history. Can the same be said about AI?
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Digging the longhand multiplication!
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Good God. Ramones, Bill Stevenson Black Flag, and Minutemen.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Grown-ass men don't wear jeans anymore than "a don doesn't wear shorts."
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The Nepo-babies and trustfundicos will be our downfall.
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The Kennedy Center presents: Diddler On A Roof (I can do this all day)
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
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“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” ― Al Franken,
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, executive privilege and official duties.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
"True Marxism-Communism has never been tried."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Books are not "content."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, just roll with the "to be" verb.
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I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Tonight, Nick Lowe and Los Straigjackets at Hartwood Acres
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One more thing, Vance and Hazony's nihilistic nationalism fuels guys like this. www.wsj.com/us-news/cryp...
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
It's going to be a bloodbath for small, rural, private schools and their communitites, which depend heavily on international students.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
More, it's clear that both Vance and Hazony (father of 9 children) just want to control their children and their womens. They are nothing more than weak-ass, wanna-be authoritarians.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance and Hazony are also practicing weak-ass Whig history. In their readng, nations have a core, immutable essence and destiny. They can deviate from that essence and destiny. They can fullfill that essence and destiny. They falsely believe they understand the true essence of the nation.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
The soundtrack to that ICE video is about young men who are broken by vice. How fucking clueless are these people?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
At the end of the day, Vance and Yoram Hazony are trying to amplify and celebrate our basest desires, which is why they flock to people like Trump. We are living in the midst of a global struggle between the advocates of liberal democracy and authoritarians. I am not optimistic about the outcome.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Invested $600,000 based on a Charlie Kirk infomercial.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
We should talk some time. It's amazing how many swarmy men are still involved in youth soccer. It's more amazing to me, how many parents gladly sacrifice their daughters for the glory of D1 and the false promise of a spot on the USWNT, if they would just let their daughters play for those scum bags.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
He's 33. He's Korean. He will be the king of LA and SoCal football. As much as I am eh on MLS, I might watch a few more games because he's playing.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social)
Looking for some inexpensive monographs or edited volumes for your classes this fall? Assign one of these and I will gladly Zoom in, and ... 30% off. Use the code 10VABOOKS. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3917/ www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3344/
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Nerd out, man. Nerd out
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
ANd they inspired a whole lotta punks to get their own Ph.D's.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social)
Got to spend the summer playing in a competetive co-ed league with my daughters. Finished 4th out of 10 teams with a trip to the playoffs.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Who in their right mind would allow their daughter anywhere near that club? Why dopes ECNL allow a club under his control to continue to compete in their league?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Any chance thye try to move up to USL 1 and the USL-C?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
In what capacity is he still involved n youth soccer?
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Thank you.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
My daughter is the small one, 2016. She was tasked with marking the big one. We all had a good laugh, no "legitimate concerns" expressed by parents on either side.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Real men drink four shots of black espresso in the morning.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social)
Coffee drinkers really need to rise up over these 50% tariffs on Brazillian coffee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLb...
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Our job is neither to celebrate nor to condemn people in the past. Our job is to understand how and why; to understand the past on its own terms; tp understand the world as people in the past ocnfronted it. Do you wanna call the Conquistadors assholes? I agree, but you get zero credit for that.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
My first class is always on "History as an academic discipline." We examine interpretive vs. factual questions; arguments vs. beliefs; analysis of evidence; historiography lite. The point. Disciplines have rules.
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State legislatures do the same thing. Pennsylvania has six R1 universities and the state legislature never uses them for any studies.
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None greater
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"Punk Rock changed our lives."
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
I want to extend my annual pilgrimage to Third Beach.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Third Beach?
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Just divy up the three lower counties between PA and Maryland.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h4K...
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Punk. THere are quite a few old punks in academia.
John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent
Professors will pretend to teach. Students will pretend to leanr and produce. Checks will clear. Crednetials will be awarded. What a disaster.
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Tucker County, West Virginia Robertson County, Kentucky Hooker County, Nebraska All 100% White. They should move there.