Bill Bush
@profbillb.bsky.social
History prof at TX A&M-San Antonio, father of two, retired skater, grouch. Historian of kids and justice systems. Opinions shared here are mine alone and don’t represent my employer.
When I was in grad school in the 90s, a Black colleague reported being advised several times (by the most prominent prof in the dept) that his quickest path to fame and fortune lay with becoming a Black conservative.
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When I was in grad school in the 90s, a Black colleague reported being advised several times (by the most prominent prof in the dept) that his quickest path to fame and fortune lay with becoming a Black conservative.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” never ends well and in this case may end us all.
They see it. They know. They just like that he hates the same people they hate.
How the fuck can anybody that voted for this colossally disturbed man not see how dangerous he is?
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” never ends well and in this case may end us all.
Censoring reports about horrific conditions inside carceral facilities is a practice with a long history.
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Censoring reports about horrific conditions inside carceral facilities is a practice with a long history.
Been waiting on this book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social - if our state hasn’t crushed the life out of our teaching by next fall I’ll use it in my history of mental health seminar.
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Been waiting on this book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social - if our state hasn’t crushed the life out of our teaching by next fall I’ll use it in my history of mental health seminar.
Good thread on the madness of AI evangelicals who won’t do the work - intellectual or emotional.
The person you’re sneering at is an actual historian who knows the job a million times better than you.
You don’t have the slightest goddamn clue what you’re talking about, which makes sense given how impressed you are by AI.
You don’t have the slightest goddamn clue what you’re talking about, which makes sense given how impressed you are by AI.
December 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Good thread on the madness of AI evangelicals who won’t do the work - intellectual or emotional.
Maybe some of these milquetoast After Dinner Democrats in the Senate are also lurking in the unredacted files
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Maybe some of these milquetoast After Dinner Democrats in the Senate are also lurking in the unredacted files
I was 7 years old and my single mom talked about this stuff constantly through the 70s and early 80s. And the shitty men she worked for and with.
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I was 7 years old and my single mom talked about this stuff constantly through the 70s and early 80s. And the shitty men she worked for and with.
My state Governor wants to forcibly install this org in our high schools and colleges, whether or not anyone wants them there.
Steve Bannon reportedly said: 'You raised a kid that slit your throat!' about the late Rob Reiner.
A reminder that not a single prominent Democrat or liberal pundit said anything even vaguely akin to this when Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Oh the hypocrisy.
A reminder that not a single prominent Democrat or liberal pundit said anything even vaguely akin to this when Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Oh the hypocrisy.
Turning Point crowd boos Rob Reiner: 'You raised a kid that slit your throat!'
A crowd at Turning Point USA's AmFest event booed slain Hollywood director Rob Reiner after MAGA influencer Steve Bannon said liberals believed he had a larger impact on culture than Charlie Kirk."Jus...
www.rawstory.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My state Governor wants to forcibly install this org in our high schools and colleges, whether or not anyone wants them there.
👇🏼 I think about this almost every day.
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
👇🏼 I think about this almost every day.
This “university” has become redundant thanks to the hostile takeover of public higher education that is now in progress. Time to move on to the next shiny object.
I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
www.chron.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This “university” has become redundant thanks to the hostile takeover of public higher education that is now in progress. Time to move on to the next shiny object.
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When Scalia rewrote the Second Amendment in Heller, I warned that he would have “blood on his hands” from the carnage he was enabling.
The Second Amendment protects a “militia” right, which was the understanding of the courts for 200 years. The “individual right” rewrite is a suicide pact.
The Second Amendment protects a “militia” right, which was the understanding of the courts for 200 years. The “individual right” rewrite is a suicide pact.
Brown University confirms two dead victims and eight others in critical but stable condition following a mass shooting on campus.
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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My students read “They Called Us Enemy” by @georgetakei.bsky.social and it had a big impact. To a person none had learned anything about Japanese internment in high school.
Is there a piece of scholarship on your syllabus that students really connected with or really worked well for your semester? You should take some time today to email those authors and tell them. I love sending these emails.
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My students read “They Called Us Enemy” by @georgetakei.bsky.social and it had a big impact. To a person none had learned anything about Japanese internment in high school.
Small-minded ignorance dressed up as erudition.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Opinion | Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Small-minded ignorance dressed up as erudition.
Did he do a Times New Roman salute while announcing this nonsense
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Did he do a Times New Roman salute while announcing this nonsense
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Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Disgusting
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Disgusting
The bodies of the last Holocaust survivors are barely cold in the ground and “Never Forget” has become “Eh” 🤷♂️
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The bodies of the last Holocaust survivors are barely cold in the ground and “Never Forget” has become “Eh” 🤷♂️
In many ways we are already there
This is sobering but precise.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In many ways we are already there
Family values
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Family values
Miraculous
BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Miraculous
Funding ICE but not SNAP during a shutdown is a choice.
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Funding ICE but not SNAP during a shutdown is a choice.
When all you have is a hammer every kid problem is a nail, Texas version number nine million: www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...
Tarrant County sending the most kids to state youth prisons
The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near an all-time high, the state says.
www.texastribune.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When all you have is a hammer every kid problem is a nail, Texas version number nine million: www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...
Well I’m sure ABC thought they secured “peace for our time.”
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Well I’m sure ABC thought they secured “peace for our time.”
More of this talk please
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
September 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
More of this talk please
This is helping me make at least some sense of the Discourse since last Wednesday. I’m still not sure I totally buy the idea that these two versions were as separate as portrayed here. And trying to guard against wanting it to be so.
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is helping me make at least some sense of the Discourse since last Wednesday. I’m still not sure I totally buy the idea that these two versions were as separate as portrayed here. And trying to guard against wanting it to be so.