Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
@bencarp.bsky.social
Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Of course the one time I cut it close is when the software will update or something and I'll end up being late.
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Of course the one time I cut it close is when the software will update or something and I'll end up being late.
Did someone try to do the one about fatiguing legislators into compliance?
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Did someone try to do the one about fatiguing legislators into compliance?
I have a distinct memory of having met Dr. Oz when he was a cardiologist at CUMC, more than twenty years ago, before he started doing all the television stuff. A long time.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I have a distinct memory of having met Dr. Oz when he was a cardiologist at CUMC, more than twenty years ago, before he started doing all the television stuff. A long time.
Clear, sunny skies in Upper Manhattan—microclimates are weird
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Clear, sunny skies in Upper Manhattan—microclimates are weird
There have to be some people out there for whom a thousand years of digestion isn’t enough
February 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There have to be some people out there for whom a thousand years of digestion isn’t enough
McNulty: “We don’t have enough love in our hearts for two witches?”
January 27, 2026 at 7:18 PM
McNulty: “We don’t have enough love in our hearts for two witches?”
“When you walk through the garden/
You’d better have a nap…” 🌺
You’d better have a nap…” 🌺
January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
“When you walk through the garden/
You’d better have a nap…” 🌺
You’d better have a nap…” 🌺
It amuses me a little that one of the guys who gave the annual Boston Massacre commemoration speech had previously been kicked out of the Continental Army for burning a chunk of White Plains in the fall of 1776. And he had the gall to say armies are bad for you. I guess he'd know!
January 25, 2026 at 11:44 PM
It amuses me a little that one of the guys who gave the annual Boston Massacre commemoration speech had previously been kicked out of the Continental Army for burning a chunk of White Plains in the fall of 1776. And he had the gall to say armies are bad for you. I guess he'd know!
Icebergen County
January 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Icebergen County
"I got a letter from the government the other day. I opened and read it, it said they were suckers..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_...
Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
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January 23, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"I got a letter from the government the other day. I opened and read it, it said they were suckers..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_...
I’m sure there are roller derby tactics that could be properly applied here
January 22, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I’m sure there are roller derby tactics that could be properly applied here
No—I guess that’s a battle for some future day
January 22, 2026 at 9:14 PM
No—I guess that’s a battle for some future day
This is how I feel about the new GC admissions system
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 PM
This is how I feel about the new GC admissions system