Chris Ehrick
@cehrick.bsky.social
Historian, University of Louisville. Latin America, Radio, Sound Studies, Media History. Currently researching radio and dictatorship in Uruguay
The ones I know have fully capitulated/shown their true colors. With the possible exception of Rand Paul
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
The ones I know have fully capitulated/shown their true colors. With the possible exception of Rand Paul
Yeah I agree. Mexico is a completely different situation. More than some kind of invasion, I do worry about Trump admin using drone strikes like they do tariffs: a way to punish and terrorize countries, groups they don’t like and to throw red meat to the MAGA cult (like the recent Nigeria thing).
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Yeah I agree. Mexico is a completely different situation. More than some kind of invasion, I do worry about Trump admin using drone strikes like they do tariffs: a way to punish and terrorize countries, groups they don’t like and to throw red meat to the MAGA cult (like the recent Nigeria thing).
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The last time Trump tried to change the government of Venezuela, it lead to economic collapse, a 7 million person exodus, and a hemispheric refugee crisis, without actually changing the government. But I'm sure that now that Maduro is gone, everything with go swimmingly.
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
The last time Trump tried to change the government of Venezuela, it lead to economic collapse, a 7 million person exodus, and a hemispheric refugee crisis, without actually changing the government. But I'm sure that now that Maduro is gone, everything with go swimmingly.
Oh I bet there is….
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Oh I bet there is….
Unless you’re Indiana
January 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Unless you’re Indiana
When I was in high school (1980s), one of our psychology teachers had a wall in his classroom featuring glamor photographs of female students taken in parks/ off campus. At the time I thought it and he were gross, but it was just there, out in the open. That’s how normalized this shit was then.
December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
When I was in high school (1980s), one of our psychology teachers had a wall in his classroom featuring glamor photographs of female students taken in parks/ off campus. At the time I thought it and he were gross, but it was just there, out in the open. That’s how normalized this shit was then.
The same reason I tell students sometimes you have to write the paper to figure out what the paper is about
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The same reason I tell students sometimes you have to write the paper to figure out what the paper is about
Word of warning in this holiday season. Do not assume that gift cards are more secure than cash. I have spent the last week trying to get a refund of money that was stolen from a gift card. Scammers somehow get the number and then grab the money before the recipient has a chance to redeem. #Kroger
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Word of warning in this holiday season. Do not assume that gift cards are more secure than cash. I have spent the last week trying to get a refund of money that was stolen from a gift card. Scammers somehow get the number and then grab the money before the recipient has a chance to redeem. #Kroger
Oh this is just so terrible, in so many ways
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Oh this is just so terrible, in so many ways
No Kings Louisville. Amazing turnout in Breonna Taylor’s city
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
No Kings Louisville. Amazing turnout in Breonna Taylor’s city
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'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
www.noemamag.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
This is the plan. Nothing about crime; all about suppression of the dissent they know is coming
The regime’s playbook:
Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.
Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.
The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.
There is no justification for violence by anyone.
Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.
Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.
The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.
There is no justification for violence by anyone.
October 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the plan. Nothing about crime; all about suppression of the dissent they know is coming
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Point taken. But these are not comparable cases. The other two were mass shootings, and this week’s was a targeted assassination of a prominent political figure. Nobody else shot. I worry that the 🤷 will be the MAGA strategy rather than explore right on right violence
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Point taken. But these are not comparable cases. The other two were mass shootings, and this week’s was a targeted assassination of a prominent political figure. Nobody else shot. I worry that the 🤷 will be the MAGA strategy rather than explore right on right violence
Aww I didn’t know or forgot you’re an IU alum. My kid is a junior there at the Media School
September 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Aww I didn’t know or forgot you’re an IU alum. My kid is a junior there at the Media School
One of the Cold War era notions that needs to go away is the “we’re the greatest country ever” idea (repeated by both Dems and Republicans). Ironically perhaps, this smugness and denial led us to the current mess, and is making it harder to resist it.
September 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of the Cold War era notions that needs to go away is the “we’re the greatest country ever” idea (repeated by both Dems and Republicans). Ironically perhaps, this smugness and denial led us to the current mess, and is making it harder to resist it.
I am a fan of shorter chapters. Grandin’s new book has 50 chapters, and I love it 😀
July 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am a fan of shorter chapters. Grandin’s new book has 50 chapters, and I love it 😀
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like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
I’ve heard amazing things about Georgian food, but have yet to experience it’
June 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I’ve heard amazing things about Georgian food, but have yet to experience it’
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Wow - heartbreaking but also an amazing statement Alondra. Thank you for your strength and advocacy in this strangest and scariest of historical moments
May 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wow - heartbreaking but also an amazing statement Alondra. Thank you for your strength and advocacy in this strangest and scariest of historical moments
This is going where we knew it would be going. Offshoring and disappearing “undesirables” with no due process to a gulag where they have no rights.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is going where we knew it would be going. Offshoring and disappearing “undesirables” with no due process to a gulag where they have no rights.
So heartbreaking and so revealing of the DOGE-MAGA agenda. They want to suffocate anything that stands for truth and beauty and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s really that simple.
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
April 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So heartbreaking and so revealing of the DOGE-MAGA agenda. They want to suffocate anything that stands for truth and beauty and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s really that simple.
Good god. These people continue to perform like our most unprepared undergrads
April 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Good god. These people continue to perform like our most unprepared undergrads