Ellen Litwicki
@elitwicki.bsky.social
Happily retired historian living the good life in Tucson, except when I’m traveling.
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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❤️🩹 NATIONWIDE: Jan 20, 2026 Free America Walk Out! ❤️🩹
★ We walk away from fascism.
★ We walk towards a Free America.
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all.
★ Everybody in, nobody out.
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout
HOST a walk out: bit.ly/1202026
Pledge to walk: www.freeameri.ca
★ We walk away from fascism.
★ We walk towards a Free America.
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all.
★ Everybody in, nobody out.
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout
HOST a walk out: bit.ly/1202026
Pledge to walk: www.freeameri.ca
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
❤️🩹 NATIONWIDE: Jan 20, 2026 Free America Walk Out! ❤️🩹
★ We walk away from fascism.
★ We walk towards a Free America.
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all.
★ Everybody in, nobody out.
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout
HOST a walk out: bit.ly/1202026
Pledge to walk: www.freeameri.ca
★ We walk away from fascism.
★ We walk towards a Free America.
★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all.
★ Everybody in, nobody out.
★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout
HOST a walk out: bit.ly/1202026
Pledge to walk: www.freeameri.ca
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Collier's mag in 1952: "McCarthyism will have to be considered, by tacit approval, a part of official Republican policy....It is incredible that any American who is both sane & honest can believe that [General] George Marshall or [Sec of State] Dean Acheson is a traitorous hireling of the Kremlin."
January 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Collier's mag in 1952: "McCarthyism will have to be considered, by tacit approval, a part of official Republican policy....It is incredible that any American who is both sane & honest can believe that [General] George Marshall or [Sec of State] Dean Acheson is a traitorous hireling of the Kremlin."
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Trump is actively trying to erase the 20th Century. And this one too. He's systematically undoing virtually every major achievement and foundation of U.S. progress we've seen since the McKinley Administration. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social. www.thedailybeast.com/aging-trumps...
Aging Trump’s MAGA Agenda Means Gutting America’s Truly Great Past
The 79-year-old president might be struggling with his memory these days, cognitive tests be damned. But there’s lots he wants everyone else to forget, too.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Trump is actively trying to erase the 20th Century. And this one too. He's systematically undoing virtually every major achievement and foundation of U.S. progress we've seen since the McKinley Administration. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social. www.thedailybeast.com/aging-trumps...
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Fight, fight, fight. 💜🤍💙🇺🇸💪
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Fight, fight, fight. 💜🤍💙🇺🇸💪
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Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
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Tomorrow will be interesting.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Tomorrow will be interesting.
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US Army in WW2 pamphlets for GIs:
'Fascism is government by the few, for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “People run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
'Fascism is government by the few, for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “People run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
US Army in WW2 pamphlets for GIs:
'Fascism is government by the few, for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “People run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
'Fascism is government by the few, for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “People run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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What's happening, Tucson?
Here's your update on local pro-democracy calls to action as of January 9, 2026
For more info, links, and updates, please head to takeactiontucson.org
Hope to see you there!
#tucson #tucsonactivism #civicengagement #tucsonprotest #tucsonprotests #tucsonevents
Here's your update on local pro-democracy calls to action as of January 9, 2026
For more info, links, and updates, please head to takeactiontucson.org
Hope to see you there!
#tucson #tucsonactivism #civicengagement #tucsonprotest #tucsonprotests #tucsonevents
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
What's happening, Tucson?
Here's your update on local pro-democracy calls to action as of January 9, 2026
For more info, links, and updates, please head to takeactiontucson.org
Hope to see you there!
#tucson #tucsonactivism #civicengagement #tucsonprotest #tucsonprotests #tucsonevents
Here's your update on local pro-democracy calls to action as of January 9, 2026
For more info, links, and updates, please head to takeactiontucson.org
Hope to see you there!
#tucson #tucsonactivism #civicengagement #tucsonprotest #tucsonprotests #tucsonevents
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A wonderful description of "Fascism" written by and for the men and women that confronted and defeated it in WWII
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A wonderful description of "Fascism" written by and for the men and women that confronted and defeated it in WWII
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
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This song, these days, a must listen
The Clash - Know Your Rights (Remastered)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM
This song, these days, a must listen
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Is it asking too much for a reporter to include something like "Nobel prizes are non-transferable"?
Yes, yes it is asking too much
Yes, yes it is asking too much
I thought Trump would never get the Nobel Peace Prize. He's about to prove me wrong!
January 9, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Is it asking too much for a reporter to include something like "Nobel prizes are non-transferable"?
Yes, yes it is asking too much
Yes, yes it is asking too much
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Guns give people the ability to do terrible things that can never be undone. And we have far too many of them in this sick, violent country. It’s woven into our national DNA, I know, but there needs to be a reckoning.
a blue background with a white peace sign in the middle
ALT: a blue background with a white peace sign in the middle
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January 9, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Guns give people the ability to do terrible things that can never be undone. And we have far too many of them in this sick, violent country. It’s woven into our national DNA, I know, but there needs to be a reckoning.
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“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
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The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
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Oil not as strategic resource, but as imperialist nostalgia
What's bleakly funny this time around is, even the oil companies don't want the headache of Venezuelan oil, the regime is basically blackmailing them into it.
It's about oil not as a strategic resource, but as a fetish commodity
It's about oil not as a strategic resource, but as a fetish commodity
January 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Oil not as strategic resource, but as imperialist nostalgia
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The events of 5 years ago today mark one of the darkest days in US history.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The events of 5 years ago today mark one of the darkest days in US history.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
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Really very last, my final post for TSK was my most personal, about how STEM obsessions and tail chasing has proved an ouroboros for research and knowledge. ☹️ // scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Really very last, my final post for TSK was my most personal, about how STEM obsessions and tail chasing has proved an ouroboros for research and knowledge. ☹️ // scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
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Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
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1/ In this anniversary year of 2026, I salute:
The coming together of communities that enabled 13 colonies to win a war vs. tremendous odds.
The rage vs. a king’s tyranny that fueled that coming together.
And the fundamental belief that their fight mattered “in the course of human events.”
The coming together of communities that enabled 13 colonies to win a war vs. tremendous odds.
The rage vs. a king’s tyranny that fueled that coming together.
And the fundamental belief that their fight mattered “in the course of human events.”
January 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
1/ In this anniversary year of 2026, I salute:
The coming together of communities that enabled 13 colonies to win a war vs. tremendous odds.
The rage vs. a king’s tyranny that fueled that coming together.
And the fundamental belief that their fight mattered “in the course of human events.”
The coming together of communities that enabled 13 colonies to win a war vs. tremendous odds.
The rage vs. a king’s tyranny that fueled that coming together.
And the fundamental belief that their fight mattered “in the course of human events.”
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Thomas Paine began 1776 with _Common Sense_ and the call to reject monarchy, and ended with _The American Crisis_, warning that "these are the times that try men's souls."
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
January 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Thomas Paine began 1776 with _Common Sense_ and the call to reject monarchy, and ended with _The American Crisis_, warning that "these are the times that try men's souls."
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
Like many in my field, I've spent the last dozen years preparing for 2026, sure that the fullest histories serve us best. 1/
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Happy New Years! The January 2026 edition of our Beacon newsletter is all about the 250th anniversary of the release of Common Sense. View the newsletter in full here: thomaspaine.org/newsletters
December 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy New Years! The January 2026 edition of our Beacon newsletter is all about the 250th anniversary of the release of Common Sense. View the newsletter in full here: thomaspaine.org/newsletters