Dr. William Horne
@wihorne.bsky.social
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
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Dr. William Horne
@wihorne.bsky.social
· Dec 15
White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories
There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.
activisthistory.com
As a scholar of white supremacy & Black liberation movements, it's important to me to recall my own family's history supporting slavery & Jim Crow as I do this work. I wrote this piece a few years ago to help me think through how this past both facilitates & informs my research today.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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Interesting to see the Toad-eyed-loon changing his position from he never said stuff, to a qualification on what he said. [Claims he can’t remember, but then claims he only ever said non-abusive stuff?!] Schoolmates say he said ‘Hitler was right’, was antisemitic & mimicked Nazi death camp ovens*
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Interesting to see the Toad-eyed-loon changing his position from he never said stuff, to a qualification on what he said. [Claims he can’t remember, but then claims he only ever said non-abusive stuff?!] Schoolmates say he said ‘Hitler was right’, was antisemitic & mimicked Nazi death camp ovens*
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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Just say no to leftists who tell you that Mamdani must play by neoliberal rules of public finance. Don’t accept the enemy’s paradigm.
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just say no to leftists who tell you that Mamdani must play by neoliberal rules of public finance. Don’t accept the enemy’s paradigm.
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The non-unitary executive
The crazy thing about Trump II is that we really have no idea who is drafting the war plans or the peace plans, or even how much Trump is in the loop on either.
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The non-unitary executive
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed.
But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?
But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed.
But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?
But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?
One funny thing abt this website is that you can write something like “Dems should give out more hugs” & your brotifications will light up with “actually hugs can only be advanced by supporting appropriate, means-tested legislation to confer institutional legitimacy on the potential embrace.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One funny thing abt this website is that you can write something like “Dems should give out more hugs” & your brotifications will light up with “actually hugs can only be advanced by supporting appropriate, means-tested legislation to confer institutional legitimacy on the potential embrace.”
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"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
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If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Imagine if the DNC made it a national priority to coordinate free food & medical aid through its local offices in response to the fascist crisis. Imagine the politics of empowerment & possibility that would emerge.
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Imagine if the DNC made it a national priority to coordinate free food & medical aid through its local offices in response to the fascist crisis. Imagine the politics of empowerment & possibility that would emerge.
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Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.
This is a crisis.
This is a crisis.
FBI Caught Spying on Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists
Keep a close eye on who’s joining your group chats.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.
This is a crisis.
This is a crisis.
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Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
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Actually was already going to lecture on William Walker today, who did invade and conquer Nicaragua, made English the nat language, legalized enslavement, and was recognized by President Pierce!
Backlash to this is the origin of the idea of "Latin America"
Backlash to this is the origin of the idea of "Latin America"
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Actually was already going to lecture on William Walker today, who did invade and conquer Nicaragua, made English the nat language, legalized enslavement, and was recognized by President Pierce!
Backlash to this is the origin of the idea of "Latin America"
Backlash to this is the origin of the idea of "Latin America"
Y’know, random white guys actually tried this all the time in the nineteenth century. The practice, termed “filibustering,” shaped the U.S. both geographically & ideologically in ways that are still visible today.
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Y’know, random white guys actually tried this all the time in the nineteenth century. The practice, termed “filibustering,” shaped the U.S. both geographically & ideologically in ways that are still visible today.
AI is peak “Whitey on the Moon.”
The Google Pixel ads showing off how you can ask Gemini for the most popular lakes in Banff are really demonstrating that companies are still struggling to make AI useful to people in a day to day sense, beyond writing long emails badly. Like "if only there were a way to find out about Lake Louise!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
AI is peak “Whitey on the Moon.”
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Exactly this👇🏽:
It's just nonstop bangers:
"If the American people had not been racist, they could never have boasted abt American democracy all these years."
"If the American people had not been racist, they could never have boasted abt American democracy all these years."
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Exactly this👇🏽:
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"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics
"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."
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Too many parallels. Explains why the Black Americans hold the views they do on this. Same shit, different day. Sigh
Not only did local police & officials refuse to protect Black rights in the state, but actually worked to undermine them. "They have been accusing the colered peple of an insorection which is a lie, in order that they might get arms to carrie out their wicked designs–"
Mississippi Black Soldier to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner, December 16, 1865
www.freedmen.umd.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Too many parallels. Explains why the Black Americans hold the views they do on this. Same shit, different day. Sigh
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This 🧵 on the cruelties emancipated Black folks suffered during Reconstruction.
Something about history rhyming...
Something about history rhyming...
After emancipation, a Black Mississippi veteran reported that his white neighbors "outraged [Black Southerners] beyound humanity. Houses have been tourn down... & the old Negroes after they have worked there till they are 70 or 80 yers of age drive them off in the cold to frieze & starve to death."
Mississippi Black Soldier to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner, December 16, 1865
www.freedmen.umd.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This 🧵 on the cruelties emancipated Black folks suffered during Reconstruction.
Something about history rhyming...
Something about history rhyming...
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This relentless white conservative state & vigilante violence against Black Southerners could only be resolved in one way:
"get Congress to stick in a few competent colered men [into public service] as they did in the army & the thing will all go right."
"get Congress to stick in a few competent colered men [into public service] as they did in the army & the thing will all go right."
Mississippi Black Soldier to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner, December 16, 1865
www.freedmen.umd.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This relentless white conservative state & vigilante violence against Black Southerners could only be resolved in one way:
"get Congress to stick in a few competent colered men [into public service] as they did in the army & the thing will all go right."
"get Congress to stick in a few competent colered men [into public service] as they did in the army & the thing will all go right."