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Clare Corbould

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Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor. Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press. Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian. She/her 🌈 | Personal account

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here’s a selection of recent writing:

“With abortion back on the agenda in Australia, the US election feels more personal than ever.” Aust Book Review, republished open access here:

womensagenda.com.au/latest/with-...

With abortion back on the agenda in Australia, the US election feels more personal than ever

It is no wonder people are watching the US election closely, especially with abortion back on the agenda in Queensland and South Australia.

womensagenda.com.au

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 28d

Vanity Fair: What scares Guillermo del Toro?
Guillermo del Toro: People with nice suits and horrible souls.

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · 28d

the video must have jumped to TikTok, aka teen crack.

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · 28d

by the time i read the news this morning, about 7:50am, both kids were already well aware of the assassination of Kirk. the elder one advised immediately i probably wouldn't want to watch the video 😲. their lives are so saturated with US culture and politics.

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 30

Covfefe, revealed. Finally!

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · Aug 30

This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks:

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An archived screencap of a deleted Truth Social post of Trump's, showing a black oval with blurry edges in the center of a grayish field.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 30

The Gilded Rage

Matt Chandronait @talkingorange.bsky.social · Aug 30

If we survive this, I hope I live long enough to find out what historians dub this period in US history.

The Great Madness has a certain ring to it.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Aug 29

I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · Aug 30

Look, if we are doing authoritarianism then doing Kremlinology comes with it for free. I don’t make the rules.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wait I thought people were joking about Trump being dead? People think it’s true bc he hasn’t been on tv in 3 days? What?

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El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30

Facebook: it could rain tomorrow. Here’s three ads about umbrellas.

Mastodon: here’s 14 Linux distros that anyone can install in less than a week.

Bluesky: IS HE DEAD YET? IS HE DEAD? I HEARD THAT HE’S DEAD, IS HE DEAD?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m not kidding when I say I love a formal synthesis. This one is spot-on. Some of what’s happening is people are trying to have a historical gaze for events that are still happening. Is it definitionally authoritarian? Cannot know until bodies stop dropping. But you can know it feels authoritarian

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly
Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding

Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Aug 28

I find this @donmoyn.bsky.social piece helpful in clarifying why I disagree with the "America is already in competitive authoritarianism" thesis.

Don's checklist shows things that Trump has tried to do, but he hasn't *succeeded* in most areas

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 29

From 2016 onwards, I had to mute so many dudebro historians over at that other site as they debated this question. You've probably seen this review but if not, it's a beauty.
s-usih.org/2025/05/the-...

“The Wolves Came”: Richard Steigmann-Gall on Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins’s *Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America* | Society for US Intellectual History

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins has edited a book which he hoped would finally put to bed the hotly contested Fascism Debate that arose from Trump’s 2016 candidacy, and which has found itself renewed intermi...

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 28

Smashed this year’s Miles Franklin book award winner. It’s full of heart, so sharp, and lol funny.
“Four hours of meandering footage of the swelling seas… ‘Don’t Encourage Him’ is the Director’s retelling of Moby Dick, only from the whale’s point of view.” Siang Lu, Ghost Cities.

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 28

even I'm blocked!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Aug 28

So much of my own job interpreting Trumpism for the public is just reciting elementary second wave insights about masculine domination very slowly and loudly for people who have never been exposed to them before.

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 28

and even a few first-wave ones!

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 27

they do share a certain number of, checks notes, youthful interests

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 26

imo trump should just wear a single glove, like michael jackson

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nice find. But 10 bucks says the young ppl this was aimed at thought it was tryhard. Just like young ppl do today when most politicians etc get on TikTok or whatever.

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 26

And India for packages over a certain weight. And Australia.

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 26

evergreen skeet

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 26

There’s something to be said for billionaire governor hey.

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 26

Big ups to The Conversation (aunz.theconversation.com‬), which is largely funded by universities, for publishing this piece. Well worth a read. theconversation.com/universities...67

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

theconversation.com

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 24

baking hack that made me actually lol. Then I thought—I bet this person could change my life if I knew ALL her other tricks.

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Easy way to line a 2-Pound (2lb) Loaf Tin

YouTube video by Scrummy TV

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wanna lean over to say they’ve got Buckleys…

Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 23

Melb cafe, Sat morning: 4 ppl in their 80s racing to do the NYT Spelling Bee & considering whether the maker will respond positively to an entreaty to accept Australian words. Sole woman is adamant Sam Ezersky will make amendments. A companion declares he’s too arrogant to reply. It’s quite…lively.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just thinking about the round-the-clock outrage that Fox News and other MAGA media have devoted to Mamdani's proposal to open a handful of city-run grocery stores.

Meanwhile, the president literally just nationalized Intel.

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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hell I’d settle for 25 hours