A History Prof
@bellhistory.bsky.social
Wilson Bell (he/him), history & politics prof (Thompson Rivers University); interested in connecting on issues of social justice, current events, vegan/vegetarian food, baseball, higher education. Author of Stalin’s Gulag at War (UTP 2019)
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Just in case you weren’t sure how awful Doug ford is. The courts ruled against him based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because PEOPLE WILL DIE IF HE REMOVES SAFE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. So he’s considering ABUSING the Notwithstanding Clause just for ego and some cheap suburban votes.
August 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just in case you weren’t sure how awful Doug ford is. The courts ruled against him based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because PEOPLE WILL DIE IF HE REMOVES SAFE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. So he’s considering ABUSING the Notwithstanding Clause just for ego and some cheap suburban votes.
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Oh course the midterms face a threat from the federal government. This has been obvious from day one
President Trump’s pardons of election deniers like Rudy Giuliani are a reminder that the midterms will face threats from a new source: the federal government itself. Stay informed by subscribing to The Briefing, our free weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Oh course the midterms face a threat from the federal government. This has been obvious from day one
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Your periodic reminder that Trump has never denied raping anyone. He’s just said “she’s not my type.”
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Your periodic reminder that Trump has never denied raping anyone. He’s just said “she’s not my type.”
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It took science a century to eliminate measles and misinformation less than five years to bring it back.
Decades of progress erased by conspiracy theories and political cowardice.
Congratulations, anti-vax movement: you’ve successfully reinvented the 19th century.👇
Decades of progress erased by conspiracy theories and political cowardice.
Congratulations, anti-vax movement: you’ve successfully reinvented the 19th century.👇
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It took science a century to eliminate measles and misinformation less than five years to bring it back.
Decades of progress erased by conspiracy theories and political cowardice.
Congratulations, anti-vax movement: you’ve successfully reinvented the 19th century.👇
Decades of progress erased by conspiracy theories and political cowardice.
Congratulations, anti-vax movement: you’ve successfully reinvented the 19th century.👇
Thinking about my maternal grandfather (Lt. Wilson Buster, Jr.), who died in combat in WWII (Pacific theatre) shortly after my mother was born. He managed to get a short leave to hold her, once, and write in her baby book, which we still have. He is on the "Tablets of the Missing" in Honolulu.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thinking about my maternal grandfather (Lt. Wilson Buster, Jr.), who died in combat in WWII (Pacific theatre) shortly after my mother was born. He managed to get a short leave to hold her, once, and write in her baby book, which we still have. He is on the "Tablets of the Missing" in Honolulu.
The U.S. is a rogue terrorist state:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the vessels were carrying drugs and traveling on a “known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.”
U.S. Boat Strikes In Pacific Kill Six Alleged Drug Smugglers
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the vessels were carrying drugs and traveling on a “known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.”
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The U.S. is a rogue terrorist state:
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Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
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Liberals stop calling it trickle down economics
Me: okay how is it different?
Liberals: we’re going to invest huge in corporations and private sector projects to create jobs and kick start the economy
Me: that’s trickle-down economics
Liberals: STOP CALLING IT THAT
Me: okay how is it different?
Liberals: we’re going to invest huge in corporations and private sector projects to create jobs and kick start the economy
Me: that’s trickle-down economics
Liberals: STOP CALLING IT THAT
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Liberals stop calling it trickle down economics
Me: okay how is it different?
Liberals: we’re going to invest huge in corporations and private sector projects to create jobs and kick start the economy
Me: that’s trickle-down economics
Liberals: STOP CALLING IT THAT
Me: okay how is it different?
Liberals: we’re going to invest huge in corporations and private sector projects to create jobs and kick start the economy
Me: that’s trickle-down economics
Liberals: STOP CALLING IT THAT
It is so obvious that sports gambling should be illegal, but on the other hand North American society now seems to be about making a few people rich, embracing corruption, and letting everyone else suffer, so I guess that tracks
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It is so obvious that sports gambling should be illegal, but on the other hand North American society now seems to be about making a few people rich, embracing corruption, and letting everyone else suffer, so I guess that tracks
Are (most) politicians of the people? No.
Are they for the people? No.
Are they thus a government by the people? No.
Are they for the people? No.
Are they thus a government by the people? No.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Are (most) politicians of the people? No.
Are they for the people? No.
Are they thus a government by the people? No.
Are they for the people? No.
Are they thus a government by the people? No.
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Confirmed match-fixing in the NBA, MLB, and UFC. Multiple studies showing sports betting increases debt, bankruptcy, and even domestic violence.
Legalized gambling was a huge mistake.
Legalized gambling was a huge mistake.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Confirmed match-fixing in the NBA, MLB, and UFC. Multiple studies showing sports betting increases debt, bankruptcy, and even domestic violence.
Legalized gambling was a huge mistake.
Legalized gambling was a huge mistake.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Never ceases to amaze me that when government creates jobs by directly creating jobs (public sector employment) that’s considered “waste” or “inefficient”…
Yet when government sends money to the private sector it’s “efficient” investment because it “creates jobs”*
*only if shareholders are happy 🤷
Yet when government sends money to the private sector it’s “efficient” investment because it “creates jobs”*
*only if shareholders are happy 🤷
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Never ceases to amaze me that when government creates jobs by directly creating jobs (public sector employment) that’s considered “waste” or “inefficient”…
Yet when government sends money to the private sector it’s “efficient” investment because it “creates jobs”*
*only if shareholders are happy 🤷
Yet when government sends money to the private sector it’s “efficient” investment because it “creates jobs”*
*only if shareholders are happy 🤷
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“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany
Housing The Homeless Saves Money--Here's The Research That Proves It
The best way to stop homelessness is mindbogglingly simple: Give them homes.
www.fastcompany.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany
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I had hoped this unintentional gag was the last gasp of Trumpism
The absurdity of it still makes me think we are in a simulation
The absurdity of it still makes me think we are in a simulation
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I had hoped this unintentional gag was the last gasp of Trumpism
The absurdity of it still makes me think we are in a simulation
The absurdity of it still makes me think we are in a simulation