Colin Woodard
@colinwoodard.bsky.social
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Total lawlessness (on the FBI’s part.)
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Total lawlessness (on the FBI’s part.)
Hey Iowa friends: I'm your guest today on @iowapublicradio.org's River to River. Noon central I believe. Talking about Nations Apart and how we hold this country together around the best version of itself.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey Iowa friends: I'm your guest today on @iowapublicradio.org's River to River. Noon central I believe. Talking about Nations Apart and how we hold this country together around the best version of itself.
That’s not a Moon!
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
That’s not a Moon!
+1
Gordon Wood: "There has been talk we aren’t and shouldn’t be a creedal nation—that beliefs in a creed are too weak a basis for citizenship, and citizens with ancestors have a stronger stake than recent immigrants.
I reject this position as passionately as I can."
www.thebulwark.com/p/amateur-ho...
I reject this position as passionately as I can."
www.thebulwark.com/p/amateur-ho...
Amateur Hour At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The White House is in free fall. How long will it last?
www.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
+1
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Historian Colin Woodard joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the civics lessons we’re taught about our country are sometimes overridden by regional cultures and how a new national story might bring us together.
The U.S. has never had a common identity - Think
Historian Colin Woodard joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the civics lessons we’re taught about our country are sometimes overridden by regional cultures and how a new national story might bring us...
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Historian Colin Woodard joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the civics lessons we’re taught about our country are sometimes overridden by regional cultures and how a new national story might bring us together.
Now you know what he really does and doesn’t stand for, seeing as he’s stepping down and has zero chance of ever being elected to statewide office.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Now you know what he really does and doesn’t stand for, seeing as he’s stepping down and has zero chance of ever being elected to statewide office.
Reposted by Colin Woodard
In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate:
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
Collins' office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.
www.bangordailynews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate:
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Total lawlessness.
"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Total lawlessness.
How'd the Virginia gubernatorial election stack up, in regional and urban/rural terms, to the 2021 and 2017 contests? The answers to your pressing questions here, via @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab and #AmericanNations: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2025-vir...
The 2025 Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections and the American Nations
This month’s votes followed the usual regional lines, but with shifts toward Democrats even in rural Appalachia
www.nationhoodlab.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
How'd the Virginia gubernatorial election stack up, in regional and urban/rural terms, to the 2021 and 2017 contests? The answers to your pressing questions here, via @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab and #AmericanNations: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2025-vir...
Jared Golden on the list, #MEPolitics.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Jared Golden on the list, #MEPolitics.
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Joined Stand up with Pete Dominick recently to talk about the nation's troubles and how to solve them. Video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jd...
Colin Woodard / Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
YouTube video by Stand Up! With Pete
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Joined Stand up with Pete Dominick recently to talk about the nation's troubles and how to solve them. Video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jd...
Reposted by Colin Woodard
What still unites us? I discussed recently with the @americanvalues.bsky.social's podcast. Audio here:
news.americanvalues.org/p/some-good-...
news.americanvalues.org/p/some-good-...
Some Good News About What Unites Us
with Colin Woodard
news.americanvalues.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What still unites us? I discussed recently with the @americanvalues.bsky.social's podcast. Audio here:
news.americanvalues.org/p/some-good-...
news.americanvalues.org/p/some-good-...
Thanks to @think.kera.org in Dallas for having me on Think to talk about Nations Apart & the work we're doing at Nationhood Lab. The full interview is now downloadable at @kera.org and, for R.I. friends, broadcasts today at 2p on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social stations. think.kera.org/2025/11/21/t...
The U.S. has never had a common identity - Think
Historian Colin Woodard joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the civics lessons we’re taught about our country are sometimes overridden by regional cultures and how a new national story might bring us ...
think.kera.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thanks to @think.kera.org in Dallas for having me on Think to talk about Nations Apart & the work we're doing at Nationhood Lab. The full interview is now downloadable at @kera.org and, for R.I. friends, broadcasts today at 2p on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social stations. think.kera.org/2025/11/21/t...
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Jan Resseger takes a look at the work of Colin Woodard and what it has to say about the place of the public school system in our society. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Jan Resseger: As an Institution, Public Education Is the Very Definition of Our Society’s Civic Vision - Network For Public Education
Jan Resseger takes a look at the work of Colin Woodard and what it has to say about the place of the public school system in our society. Reposted with permission. Colin Woodard is the director of the...
networkforpubliceducation.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Jan Resseger takes a look at the work of Colin Woodard and what it has to say about the place of the public school system in our society. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Yeah, they didn’t seem to grind DJT very small, not when he was a real estate developer, not when he encouraged an armed coup against the United States. It grinds some people small and lets others pass on through.
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yeah, they didn’t seem to grind DJT very small, not when he was a real estate developer, not when he encouraged an armed coup against the United States. It grinds some people small and lets others pass on through.
Well known and very clearly defined in political science.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Well known and very clearly defined in political science.
Reposted by Colin Woodard
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
Coming up next week: why the sun rises in the east.
The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into months of darkness.
It’s the result of simple (or perhaps not-so-simple) geometry. https://wapo.st/3K6NwGR
It’s the result of simple (or perhaps not-so-simple) geometry. https://wapo.st/3K6NwGR
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Coming up next week: why the sun rises in the east.
Reposted by Colin Woodard
I am really interested to learn how, practically speaking, they plan on making the ICC indictments just go away. And if not, how Putin, readmitted to G-8 (another part of the plans) is going to travel to all those summits
All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I am really interested to learn how, practically speaking, they plan on making the ICC indictments just go away. And if not, how Putin, readmitted to G-8 (another part of the plans) is going to travel to all those summits
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Student journalism once again dramatically outperforming “mainstream” journalism
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Student journalism once again dramatically outperforming “mainstream” journalism
Reposted by Colin Woodard
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
Reposted by Colin Woodard
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
Primarily just that the American Dream narrative is downstream from (predicated by) the American Experiment. There’s no such dream in the authoritarian herrenvolk regime, at least not for most people.
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Primarily just that the American Dream narrative is downstream from (predicated by) the American Experiment. There’s no such dream in the authoritarian herrenvolk regime, at least not for most people.