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Jamie Bronstein

@tomduncombe.bsky.social

History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico. I don't speak for my employer.

created August 24, 2023

1,539 followers 1,786 following 1,688 posts

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Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the first time i've laughed out loud at a dickens refprince

31/8/2025, 8:36:06 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

O'Keefe doesnt want anyone to know that he is Guatemalan

31/8/2025, 6:30:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Margaret Brennan is at least usually better than Ed O'Keefe. It's like he has never heard of a follow-up question.

31/8/2025, 2:48:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone called RFK Jr a ballsack with eyes and I approve the metaphor

29/8/2025, 10:35:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Who knew Trump would bring back the CCC

29/8/2025, 8:43:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

it only "has" these if your school has the expensive Kanopy license. Our school buys individual streaming films on Kanopy.

29/8/2025, 8:35:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a $20 plug in USB dvd player after running into this during spring semester. It's tiny and light

29/8/2025, 8:34:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

if you can't count it/report on it it didn't happen

29/8/2025, 8:24:10 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

I missed something wym

29/8/2025, 8:23:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Kennedy supplies him with heroin probably

29/8/2025, 6:30:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

He has already suggested work camps for people to "detox" from ssris

29/8/2025, 6:24:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Im sure they called themselves "the people."

29/8/2025, 6:21:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Alyssa thank you so much for these posts. We have to drive 35 miles to get our shots but at least now they are scheduled.

29/8/2025, 1:44:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you smell burnt toast

27/8/2025, 2:57:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

You're starting to sound like the people who you have criticized for being doomery

25/8/2025, 10:45:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kylie M. Smith (@drkyliesmith.bsky.social) reposted

In some good news, @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website πŸŽ‰ You can save 50% off all books, including mine which is up for pre-order, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50 πŸ™Œ uncpress.org/978146968920...

25/8/2025, 2:48:35 PM | 59 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

No AI slop

25/8/2025, 1:24:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

My history colleague who just retired, Ken Hammond, was one of the Kent 25. He told the students in any US History course about his experiences. Quite a chilling presentation.

25/8/2025, 1:21:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

So much is inconfiftent these days

24/8/2025, 11:59:58 PM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

send unhoused ppl to camps

24/8/2025, 7:03:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

oh wow! I had no idea that NMSU faculty were lucky about something. :) I hope you get it!! I've had a total of 4.

24/8/2025, 5:41:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you not take one every time you're due for one?

24/8/2025, 11:47:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

ikh hob geredet a sakh yiddish mit meyne chaveyrim

24/8/2025, 2:13:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Hello, Canada?

22/8/2025, 10:38:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

the Fabian Society still exists?!?!

22/8/2025, 10:36:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Onward Christian Emus, marching to the war

22/8/2025, 10:33:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

DOJ are the president's lawyers.

22/8/2025, 10:32:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

That's your fault, Jill Stein voter.

21/8/2025, 10:04:43 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social)

At right, Eric Lendrum, chinless pornstache ubermensh.

A pile of garbage in human shape
19/8/2025, 9:31:52 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

what happened in Oregon?

19/8/2025, 9:22:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Why not? Were you alive during covid?

18/8/2025, 5:19:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

I am unfamiliar with the genre of financial thrillers

18/8/2025, 5:02:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

lite-brite

18/8/2025, 4:44:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

the fetus self-yeeted

17/8/2025, 8:59:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

You'll be in a good position to write a postmortem.

17/8/2025, 3:33:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

He's like my former colleague whose mind was always determined by the last person to speak to her.

16/8/2025, 1:52:52 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture keyser soze (@keysersoze2024.bsky.social) reposted

FIFA should pull all of the 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to be played on US soil & reassign them to venues in Canada. That includes the World Cup final scheduled to be played at the Meadowlands. This is not a country suited to host an international event now & won’t be until 2029.

15/8/2025, 6:10:55 PM | 3710 820 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social)

Bernie is once again asking you to sign your union membership form.
15/8/2025, 6:26:59 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be funnier if it weren't AI slop

15/8/2025, 5:29:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Kristallnacht says what

15/8/2025, 5:26:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Washington Spirit (@washingtonspirit.com) reposted

Different Roots. Same Home. One Spirit πŸ’›

15/8/2025, 5:08:38 PM | 207 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Just ask him or her "Ike or Adlai?"

15/8/2025, 12:31:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

No Alpha Male wears a baby, c'mon

14/8/2025, 3:10:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet there were many people stupid enough to believe him.

14/8/2025, 3:08:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

replace your line 2 with "but I did not throw the condiments"

14/8/2025, 8:22:38 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Imola-ted

14/8/2025, 8:17:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

A hit dog will challah

14/8/2025, 8:12:07 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Fountains of Parsippany

13/8/2025, 7:34:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Luke up there!

13/8/2025, 7:27:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

It's giving Elvis impersonator

12/8/2025, 4:27:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

That guy looks like the world's least talented magician

12/8/2025, 4:26:14 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

We? Last I checked there was a court case and a small group of supposedly textual originalists ignored the plain text of the 14th Amendment, despite a historians' brief waving red flags.

12/8/2025, 4:24:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

There's no reason anyone should believe you, Nostradamus.

12/8/2025, 4:01:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Be safe! You're lucky to have that option.

12/8/2025, 12:39:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

This is where the party ends

12/8/2025, 7:14:56 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

This is fantastic!

11/8/2025, 8:28:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had no idea he was old enough to be employed in 2016.

11/8/2025, 2:34:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

No, that was Nate Silver

11/8/2025, 2:06:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Then do something about it.

11/8/2025, 8:25:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

No originalism is legitimate.

10/8/2025, 2:30:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Because Lincoln was a Republican

8/8/2025, 12:26:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

How's AI working out for you in those online classes?

7/8/2025, 1:23:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a significant split on this between high school teachers and professors, so I bet you can guess.

5/8/2025, 8:17:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

it doesn't "know" anything. And sadly, neither do you.

5/8/2025, 8:10:11 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Im sure the Catholic Church would like a word

5/8/2025, 3:24:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

etymologically

4/8/2025, 9:41:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone who knows how to do anything at nasa has retired or taken the DRIP.

4/8/2025, 9:29:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh the Hume-anity

3/8/2025, 9:41:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody has ever seen Colin Robinson and Kevin Hassert in the same room simultaneously

3/8/2025, 9:39:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

How did this Genocide supporter get on my feed?

3/8/2025, 9:28:15 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Today it would be the factor ensuring his election.

2/8/2025, 4:17:57 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

How dare a country that brags about its moral superiority try to help humanity in general

1/8/2025, 11:52:48 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

wasp man origin story

1/8/2025, 11:51:35 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Gotta find which kids to Aktion T4 after all

31/7/2025, 7:49:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Im not sure which is going to win the war against higher ed: the Trump administration or LLMs.

31/7/2025, 4:54:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Are there a lot of people in Idaho who care about this issue?

31/7/2025, 4:52:41 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Only theoretical or imaginary Jews are worthy of protection.

31/7/2025, 4:49:11 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Im guessing that's a Pine Sol ad

31/7/2025, 1:50:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

They want a sentient pine cone that cleans your oven?

31/7/2025, 1:37:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

36

31/7/2025, 6:55:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks from this NM Jew

31/7/2025, 2:13:22 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Go Ossoff!

31/7/2025, 2:11:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

They only care about white fetuses

30/7/2025, 1:06:53 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

I think a difference could be that Israeli Jews, enabled by some American Jews, are committing atrocities motivated in part by religious claims.

29/7/2025, 2:32:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

There are a ton of articles out there--short ones--about Mary Toft. :)

28/7/2025, 7:33:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social)

New Mexico Hospital for the Insane, 1913

New Mexico Hospital for the Insane, 1913
28/7/2025, 5:18:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Starvation vs a slight feeling of cognitive dissonance

28/7/2025, 6:10:25 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

this^^

27/7/2025, 9:08:14 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

morays?

27/7/2025, 8:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Modest proposal

26/7/2025, 3:53:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Maga will now outlaw floss

25/7/2025, 10:22:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

The wikipedia page links to dead and archived links and I have yet to find one credible primary source substantiating your claim. Nobody in 1941 would have had any idea who was 1/16 Japanese even had that been mathematically possible. People who were interned were either first-gen or second-gen.

25/7/2025, 9:29:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

1/16 Japanese sounds made up.

25/7/2025, 8:04:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

He meant to write "Likes Child Curiosity"

25/7/2025, 5:42:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Congress DID pass a law to enforce the 14th Amendment. In 1870. The law created the Department of Justice. That has proved to be just as vulnerable to Trumpian corruption as every other American institution.

25/7/2025, 5:39:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

I assume you saw the executive order about homeless and mentally ill individuals--again, "outdoor relief" is being discarded in favor of carceral treatment.

25/7/2025, 5:37:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

"almost never"

25/7/2025, 3:06:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Convict leasing

25/7/2025, 3:06:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

But the 14th amendment didn't prevent convict leasing and the creation of "felonies" like vagrancy that were intended to swell the ranks of forced labor.

25/7/2025, 3:05:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Bronstein (@tomduncombe.bsky.social) reply parent

Read the roomful of starving Gazans, yo

25/7/2025, 3:02:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view