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Timothy J Lombardo

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Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/587bfhcy). Other projects in the works, probably

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · May 14

PROOFS! Next year Penn Press is rereleasing a few Philly-centric titles, including my first book. I’m especially grateful that the new preface allowed me to rethink the book in light of recent politics, both locally and nationally, and to finally write about the Rizzo statue’s removal. More soon! 🗃️

Title page for 2026 edition of my book, Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics

First page of the preface to the 2016 paperback edition

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 6h

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CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 1d

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 3d

a baseball player with a p on his helmet

ALT: a baseball player with a p on his helmet

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 6d

She does tend to chew on her favorite things!

Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a tuxedo is hugging another man in a crowd and says you broke my heart .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is hugging another man in a crowd and says you broke my heart .

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t the first time my dog has gotten a hold of a book, but something about this time feels personal

A copy of my book that has been ripped and chewed by my dog

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7d

the people who are destroying all public goods and trying to kill you would like you to blame someone else, perhaps some Other whose immigration status you can deduce at a glance by putting on your racism glasses, who you can have sent to a concentration camp on the basis of your suspicion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 7d

Mourn, or Else www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 8d

"...the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."

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Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 8d

Hey Alabama - The first step to getting out of a hole: Stop digging.

This ain't it.

Chart showing Alabama has an incarceration rate way above the national average, and many times higher than other NATO countries.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I attended a conference of police all discussing surveillance and technology and here’s what learned:

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, but that also assumes they'd ever deign to visit the museum in the first place

Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

It's probably the former, but if it's the latter it's also the most generous of assumptions

Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

It's so frustrating because the argument is so disingenuous, but they can get away with it because the kind of people who believe them probably weren't going to visit an African American history museum in the first place

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

Fair point. And even if they did, I'm probably giving them too much credit by assuming they'd understand the symbolism

Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

The idea that the NMAAH doesn't show "how far we've come from slavery" is ridiculous. You have to physically ascend from the slavery exhibits through the 19th and 20th century exhibits. By the end, you have literally progressed from slavery. It's not only a powerful metaphor, its the whole point

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12d

The Comey trial is already shaping up to be a comedy act.

Trump tapped his former personal attorney, Lindsey Halligan, to prosecute James Comey, and she doesn’t even know the difference between real history and made-up stories.

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · 12d

The Council of Tims offers its full endorsement

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 12d

So when you wear an MIT T-shirt and look in the mirror, you're repping Tim's University.

Well I thought it was funny at least

Mirror selfie where I'm wearing a. "MIT" shirt but it reflects as "TIM"

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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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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 13d

Ezra Klein conducted a good interview with Corey Robin, about which I have some thoughts. The first is that Ezra's opening claim that the Reichstag fire analogy is "wrong" suggests a zero sum view that does not do justice to how most historians think about analogy.

In the hours and days after Charlie Kirk’s murder, there was a discussion on social media about whether this would be America’s Reichstag fire — a reference to the fire that was a rationale for Hitler’s crackdown on political freedom in Germany.

Many of us were worried hearing that, and I think what we’ve seen since suggests the fears were right. But the analogy was wrong. We should have been looking closer to home. This isn’t a Reichstag fire. This is more like the Red Scare.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14d

Some major personal news:

Things have really changed. Now I need your help.

On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:

Onward. Forward. Steady: