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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 14h

I was one of the 12,000. Had to avoid antifa terrorists at aid stations, but made it.

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

You Go Portland !!......

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · Sep 8

“The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth.” —Trevor Jackson

How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson

What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 8d

Plan seems to be purge the military of people unwilling to go along with fascism. Same with FBI.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 11d

I'm running a half marathon in war-ravaged Portland Oregon next Sunday. I have been so afraid that I would be attacked by Antifa that I almost cancelled. So grateful that our wonderful President, a model of Christ-like behavior, is sending the troops.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 12d

RIP Quintard Taylor. Honored to have been his colleague when he was in the History Department at the University of Oregon 1990-1999. @uoregon.bsky.social

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BlackPast.org Announces with Profound Sadness the Passing of Founder Dr. Quintard Taylor

It is with deep sorrow that BlackPast.org announces the passing of its founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, who died peacefully on September 21, 2025 at the age of 76 in Houston, Texas.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 12d

The great Dakota artist Oscar Howe's 1959 painting of Wounded Knee. No matter what Whiskey Pete says, it was a massacre not a battle.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 13d

This man is ignorant. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle.

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NPR @npr.org · 13d

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 14d

Love how the New York Times fact checker always says Trump's blatant lies lack evidence as if some evidence might eventually be found.

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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 16d

I have a new piece about the memorialization of Charlie Kirk, American identity, and the coming storm.

The Autumn of Charlie Kirk

What does it mean to turn a far-right activist into a national martyr?

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Aug 17

A good example is a Prager video by Jeff Fynn-Paul, author of the ridiculously bad book NOT STOLEN, which tries to argue that the United States did not steal Indigenous lands, as though Native Nations somehow just gave it all away willingly.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Aug 16

Or the Constitution.

Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Aug 7

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Aug 2

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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Donate to Urgent: Help Mohammad and Tasneem Evacuate Gaza, organized by Kaleigh Bronson

Two students, Mohammad and Tasneem, have been awarded the Internationa… Kaleigh Bronson needs your support for Urgent: Help Mohammad and Tasneem Evacuate Gaza

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 16

In “History on the Lost Coast,” Kathleen C. Whiteley shows how historians can use a resilience framework to highlight Indigenous agency, spotlighting the Wiyot Nation’s reclamation in 2019 of over 200 acres on Northern California’s Tuluwat Island, the site of an 1860 catastrophic massacre. 🗃️

History on the Lost Coast: Locating Wiyot Stories of Resilience in Nancy and Matilda Spear

Abstract. This essay is a response to an AHR call for works on resilience: “how to revive,” as it’s framed, “after things fall apart.” It would be hard to

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Jul 28

A very informative book. Well-deserved recognition.

Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · Jul 28

Honored that my book is on the longlist for this year’s Cundill History Prize.

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The 2025 Cundill History Prize Longlist | Cundill Prize

The jurors have chosen 15 exceptional titles to be longlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · Jul 21

SCOOP: The Trump Administration directed the Muir Woods National Monument to remove language it had added to its interpretative signs detailing women's contributions to the monument and the racist ideologies of some of its founders.

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Women’s contributions and men’s racism erased from history of Muir Woods National Monument

An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Jul 18

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On Myths and Monuments – AHA

How do you tell the story of Mount Rushmore? The answer has changed over time.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Jul 15

Powerful essay by genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · Jul 14

"In the past decade, as extreme weather killed nearly 700 people in Texas, the state relinquished $225 million in federal grant money that it was supposed to spend on protecting residents from disasters, federal records show."

Including floods.

via @eenews.bsky.social

E&E News: Texas failed to spend federal aid for disaster protection

States across the country have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other disasters.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Jul 5

This is an excellent dissection of the NYT / Mamdani / "Ugandan-American" fiasco, by @donmoyn.bsky.social

h/t @resnikoff.bsky.social

The episode looks worse, the more we hear about it. Worse because of the patterns it illustrates. Worth reading.

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Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Debate over 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center a personal one for members of Miccosukee and Seminole tribes

The homes of Miccosukee and Seminole people, as well as their ceremonial sites, surround the detention center on three sides.

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