David Rotenstein
@davidrotenstein.bsky.social
Writer. Folklorist. Historian. https://blog.historian4hire.net/about/ | History is my hustle. Also @covertnky.com
Actual cosplay! 👇
This FBI “pulse check” report on the dept under Patel and Bongino is a mixed bag - the fibbies love having no more sensitivity training but many hate going on ICE raids and think leadership is weak - but this anecdote is clearly gold: K$H Patel wearing the traditional FBI Director’s ladies clothes.
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Actual cosplay! 👇
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December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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It's not Patti punting, but it's close enough! If there were any critically thinking journos in Decatur, they would have covered Patti's tenure during one of the most extreme periods of displacement & racial discord since Jim Crow. #DeacturGA gentrifiedsuburb.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/p...
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It's not Patti punting, but it's close enough! If there were any critically thinking journos in Decatur, they would have covered Patti's tenure during one of the most extreme periods of displacement & racial discord since Jim Crow. #DeacturGA gentrifiedsuburb.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/p...
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A few weeks ago I said to my wife that it would be great to find out who installed most of the bookie wire connections to Covington, Kentucky, bars in the 1940s-50s. It took some digging and I think I found a good candidate!
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A few weeks ago I said to my wife that it would be great to find out who installed most of the bookie wire connections to Covington, Kentucky, bars in the 1940s-50s. It took some digging and I think I found a good candidate!
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
Where’s the white bread?
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Where’s the white bread?
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Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
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Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
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Should have tagged this 👇 for #skystorians 🗃️
Most folks might be surprised to learn how many architectural historians & archaeologists work for consulting company AECOM, one of the 3 key contractors for this abomination. They can't/won't speak out b/c it would cost them their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Should have tagged this 👇 for #skystorians 🗃️
Most folks might be surprised to learn how many architectural historians & archaeologists work for consulting company AECOM, one of the 3 key contractors for this abomination. They can't/won't speak out b/c it would cost them their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Most folks might be surprised to learn how many architectural historians & archaeologists work for consulting company AECOM, one of the 3 key contractors for this abomination. They can't/won't speak out b/c it would cost them their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
The Pittsburgh Prison Cats are being displaced ahead of the demolition of the former Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. I wrote about the cats & their caretakers back in 2023. I miss riding along the river trail & visiting with the kitties. nextpittsburgh.com/latest-news/...
Pittsburgh Prison Cats shine a light on city’s feral cat problem
Did you know Western State Penitentiary Is home to one of Pittsburgh’s incalculable number of homeless cat colonies?
nextpittsburgh.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Pittsburgh Prison Cats are being displaced ahead of the demolition of the former Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. I wrote about the cats & their caretakers back in 2023. I miss riding along the river trail & visiting with the kitties. nextpittsburgh.com/latest-news/...
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"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
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"Du Bois, she said, understood the importance of photography and often asked, 'Why aren't there more Black photographers, Black men studying photography?'"👇🏾
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Du Bois, she said, understood the importance of photography and often asked, 'Why aren't there more Black photographers, Black men studying photography?'"👇🏾
You know, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, maybe the "Dictionary of the Underworld" isn't as reliable as I originally thought. I never considered thumbing over to "trump" to see if there is an entry. There is one, but I think the editor made a serious mistake.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You know, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, maybe the "Dictionary of the Underworld" isn't as reliable as I originally thought. I never considered thumbing over to "trump" to see if there is an entry. There is one, but I think the editor made a serious mistake.
If a product's price falls more than 101%, doesn't that make the product free? Is there some sort of primer for trumpmath? I really wish that I had gone to Wharton instead of getting a Penn humanities PhD.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If a product's price falls more than 101%, doesn't that make the product free? Is there some sort of primer for trumpmath? I really wish that I had gone to Wharton instead of getting a Penn humanities PhD.
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Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
I would pay to see this.
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I would pay to see this.
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Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Gonna get a lot worse as Esri fully ends old storymaps projects not migrated to costlier new version.
Going through books and guides to Spatial Humanities and Historical GIS, and most of the links to projects no longer work or exist, even as late back as 2019.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Gonna get a lot worse as Esri fully ends old storymaps projects not migrated to costlier new version.