Greg Wilson
@gswphd.bsky.social
Professor of History. U.S. environmental, labor, public history. Ohio history.
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📆 Next week! Remember to sign up for our roundtable organized by the Deindustrialization and the Environment Working Group
Roundtable - Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss ongoing research
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October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📆 Next week! Remember to sign up for our roundtable organized by the Deindustrialization and the Environment Working Group
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President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S. manufacturing lost 37,000 jobs over three straight months ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/t...
Trump Promised to Revive Manufacturing. Will He Deliver? • Ohio Capital Journal
President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S.…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
President Trump has not brought his promised manufacturing revival. After more than 610,000 manufacturing jobs were created during the Biden administration, the July jobs report showed U.S. manufacturing lost 37,000 jobs over three straight months ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/02/t...
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KSU Press joins the wider Kent State community in remembering the events of May 4, 1970. As part of our contribution to the commemoration, we’re sharing a list of titles on May 4 themes:
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/
May 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
KSU Press joins the wider Kent State community in remembering the events of May 4, 1970. As part of our contribution to the commemoration, we’re sharing a list of titles on May 4 themes:
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/category/may4/
JD Vance drops College Football Playoff trophy
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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April 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Over a hundred people showing up for democracy Zanesville today! I’d say the honks against fascism outnumbered the middle fingers for it about 3 to 1.
April 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Over a hundred people showing up for democracy Zanesville today! I’d say the honks against fascism outnumbered the middle fingers for it about 3 to 1.
Vultures gathering to feast on the remains of my retirement plan.
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Vultures gathering to feast on the remains of my retirement plan.
And then provide $600 million for the Cleveland Browns. And attack higher education.
Click the "OH House" tab in this document to find contact info for every #Ohio House Republican:
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+Follow these orgs:
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+Follow these orgs:
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April 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And then provide $600 million for the Cleveland Browns. And attack higher education.
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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Happy to be part of this great collection of essays!
Happy pub day to @jlauck1941.bsky.social and Gleaves Whitney, whose book "Where East Meets (Mid)West" is now available. Congrats to the editors, and to all the contributors—including @marystockwell.bsky.social, @gswphd.bsky.social, @drdonnad.bsky.social, and @awyle.bsky.social.
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy to be part of this great collection of essays!
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On the left: Hegseth's message.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
March 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On the left: Hegseth's message.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
Everything is fine. Everything is fine. No need to worry.
Health insurance companies are under increasing scrutiny for allegedly using artificial intelligence bots and algorithms to swiftly deny patients routine or lifesaving care — without a human actually reviewing their claims. States trying to rein them in are seeing mixed results.
States try to rein in health insurers’ claim denials, with mixed results • Ohio Capital Journal
Health insurance companies are under increasing scrutiny for allegedly using artificial intelligence bots and algorithms to swiftly deny patients routine or lifesaving care — without a human actually…
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Everything is fine. Everything is fine. No need to worry.
Great piece from Martha Pallante’s talk at YSU. Ohio is purported to have had the largest number of KKK members in the 1920s.
Italian-Americans confronted Klan rally in Niles, OH, 1924. "‘I walked up to this guy in his hood + he was yelling at me. So, I tore his hood off. It’s our grocer! We just stared at each other + didn’t know what to do.'” www.vindy.com/news/local-n... h/t Martha Pallante @youngstownstate.bsky.social
YSU professor discusses anti-KKK rallies in Niles
YOUNGSTOWN — Listening to Dr. Martha Pallante’s speech, “Riot! 1924 Opposition to the KKK in Niles, Ohio,” on Friday at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (commonly known as the St...
www.vindy.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Great piece from Martha Pallante’s talk at YSU. Ohio is purported to have had the largest number of KKK members in the 1920s.
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Pete Hegseth in 2023 on Biden "handling classified documents... flippantly": "If at the very top there's no accountability," then we have "two tiers of justice."
March 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pete Hegseth in 2023 on Biden "handling classified documents... flippantly": "If at the very top there's no accountability," then we have "two tiers of justice."
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No way this guy accidentally leaked war plans in a text message
March 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
No way this guy accidentally leaked war plans in a text message
“Censorship is a weapon of the totalitarians. Freedom of expression is the bulwark of democracy.”
History:
Akron educator warned of idealogues controlling schools
Sarah C. Caldwell organized Akron’s first teachers union and later served as president of the 500,000-member @NEAper4, expressed concerns that “a few loud voices” wanted to curb freedom of speech.
www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...
Akron educator warned of idealogues controlling schools
Sarah C. Caldwell organized Akron’s first teachers union and later served as president of the 500,000-member @NEAper4, expressed concerns that “a few loud voices” wanted to curb freedom of speech.
www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...
Local history: Akron educator and NEA president warned of idealogues controlling schools
Garfield High School teacher Sarah C. Caldwell organized Akron’s first teachers union and served as president of the National Education Association.
www.beaconjournal.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“Censorship is a weapon of the totalitarians. Freedom of expression is the bulwark of democracy.”
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School vouchers were the most obvious scam in history.
March 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
School vouchers were the most obvious scam in history.
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On Monday, Speaker Huffman blamed expenditures on uneaten green beans for why Ohio wouldn’t fund free lunches for schoolchildren.
Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season.
www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...
Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season.
www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...
Won't somebody think of the disgustingly rich crackers?
Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is on the verge of co-opting our State Legislature at the cost of everyone else in Ohio who isn't a criminal billionaire.
www.rooster.info
March 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On Monday, Speaker Huffman blamed expenditures on uneaten green beans for why Ohio wouldn’t fund free lunches for schoolchildren.
Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season.
www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...
Yesterday, he ordained what will amount to a $1 billion gift to a criminal football team that won three games last season.
www.rooster.info/p/wont-someb...
How Ohio lawmakers are reacting to the Browns request for $600 million - Ohio Capital Journal.
Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.
Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.
March 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How Ohio lawmakers are reacting to the Browns request for $600 million - Ohio Capital Journal.
Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.
Bail out the Browns for $600 million and add $500 million more for vouchers while saying there’s no money for public schools, including breakfast and lunch programs, and attack higher education.
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Opinion
Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence
What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government.
by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati
Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence
What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government.
by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati
March 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Opinion
Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence
What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government.
by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati
Senate Bill 1 would damage students’ pursuit of truth, excellence
What does Senate Bill 1 really advance in higher education, other than a conservative educational agenda, and the overreach of government.
by Mel Searle, University of Cincinnati
March 7 1965. Bloody Sunday. Remember the struggle as voting rights are again under attack.
They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
@19thnews.org
@19thnews.org
Black Women Are the Unsung Heroes of “Bloody Sunday” 60 Years Ago
They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
truthout.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
March 7 1965. Bloody Sunday. Remember the struggle as voting rights are again under attack.
Newt just stop, please.
Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period.
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
March 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Newt just stop, please.
Trump is a God now, well almost. He awaits the unanimous decision of the Senate.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...
Four Republican Justices “Stunned” Trump Isn’t a King Yet
The Court's decision in the USAID lawsuit reveals an institution perilously close to making Donald Trump a king.
ballsandstrikes.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump is a God now, well almost. He awaits the unanimous decision of the Senate.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/usaid...