Matt Gabriele

Matt Gabriele

@profgabriele.com

Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval" nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com

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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

guys i promised some news and here it is... I'm writing another book. Look for VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY in bookstores in late 2027/ early 2028

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

democrats-judiciary.house.govJudiciary Democrats’ Report Details Mounting Evidence Linking Trump to Epstein’s Criminal Activities and DOJ’s Cover-Up; Specific Accounts Involving 11 Women Provide More Evidence of Potential Sex Cri...Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a sweeping new Committee staff report, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffr...
Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

Oooohh I wish I had some four cheese pasta, or a baja bowl with pork carnitas; To the mall! To the mall! To the mall! The Factory. In Cheesecake Land where I was fed, Filling up on tasty bread, To the mall! To the mall! To the mall! The Factory.

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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

Red Robin starts publishing broadsides to end Cheesecake's tyranny. A new John Brown builds support by visiting Outback Steakhouses throughout the free states.

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

Oooohh I wish I had some four cheese pasta, or a baja bowl with pork carnitas; To the mall! To the mall! To the mall! The Factory. In Cheesecake Land where I was fed, Filling up on tasty bread, To the mall! To the mall! To the mall! The Factory.

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Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social

Signal-boosting! (I am outside the US and own this book already. :) )

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com

to celebrate, let's do a giveaway! I have 2 copies - 1 hardcover, 1 paperback - of OATHBREAKERS that i'll give away. reply here with your favorite episode of my podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social & why (please subscribe!) and I'll pick respondents at random!* *must be in US for postage reasons

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

to celebrate, let's do a giveaway! I have 2 copies - 1 hardcover, 1 paperback - of OATHBREAKERS that i'll give away. reply here with your favorite episode of my podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social & why (please subscribe!) and I'll pick respondents at random!* *must be in US for postage reasons

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com

the cover of the Polish translation of me & @lollardfish.bsky.social "Oathbreakers" is so dope mtbiznes.pl/hartland/his...

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

I’ll go farther and say that Pondisco’s is a fascist ideology I’m not proud of voting? That’s the premise of the democratic experiment, asshole!

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Matt Gabriele
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i see the dipshittiest keyboard warriors have found one of my posts and now I need to KNOW that Biden is the reason for Trump, even though Trump 1 was before Biden and there's a history of the Republican Party's racism going back generations

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

related, i've been really leaning into asking my students how they're doing. noting if they've been out for a bit, checking in on them. they're universally grateful someone care. 10/10 no notes. recommend.

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The kids are alright, man

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

oh, as a teacher, I can tell you that's a "i didn't read it" sentence

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

question for historians: we hear a lot of "you gotta judge them by the standards of their times" nonsense to justify horrors from the past, but do you know any examples of people using that same ARGUMENT in the past? like I cannot IMAGINE medievals saying "well, Athens was another time you see"

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

guys i know it's a bad argument. this isn't my first day. please don't respond unless you have a specific historical example of someone, before the 21st century, using that argument.

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

Cornel West sucks

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.
Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

this is only true if you woke up in 2024 and Trump 1 and the entire Republican Party across the last half century and more didn't exist but it's an excerpt from an interior designer and podcaster turned political commentator so this is the level of commentary we deserve I guess

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social

Why the road to American fascism was paved by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

bit.lyHow Joe Biden and the National Democratic Party Paved the Way For American FascismI’m angry at MAGA leaders every day for the lies and manipulation and wreckage they’ve wrought on the very people who voted for them—not to mention the rest of us. I’m angry when I see faith manipu…
Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

i like arguing about dumb shit on here. make me feel like a 13th-century scholastic at one of the lesser medieval universities arguing about how many angels can fit into a loaf of rye bread

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

This is… correct?

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Vampires are inherently Catholic. Werewolves are inherently Protestant. Zombies are inherently Atheist. Thank you for coming to my presentation.

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

The global far right is global. Opposition to it should be too

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

I, posting on Bluesky, the niche microblogging app, am pure. everyone else who votes against the fascists is complicit in eugenics.

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Laboratoire LaMOP
@labo-lamop.bsky.social

Séminaire du LaMOP (2026-2027) : Histoire et Anthropologie du haut Moyen Âge - Formes de domination au haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe s.), dirigé par Sylvie Joye, le jeudi de 15h à 17h, à la Sorbonne, salle Perroy. Plus de détails : lamop.hypotheses.org/17791

lamop.hypotheses.orgSéminaire 2026-2027 : Formes de domination au haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe s.)Séminaire dirigé par Sylvie Joye. Les séances du séminaire se tiennent en Sorbonne le jeudi de 15h à 17h en salle Perroy (galerie Dumas, escalier R, 2e étage) Programme au format PDF PROGRAMME Semestr...
Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com

Does democracy bc and accountability matter I gravely intone

Cardinal News@cardinalnews.org

Republicans have moved away from such meetings in favor of tele-town halls. Democrats say they’re hiding; Republicans say they’re reaching more people. https://mrf.lu/2HpMW

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Big Frickin' Swede
@bigfrickinswede.bsky.social

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

pbs.orgMost Americans don't realize state funding for higher ed fell by billionsSpending is down by $9 billion over the last decade, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers.
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