Jamie Bronstein

Jamie Bronstein

@tomduncombe.bsky.social

History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico. I don't speak for my employer.

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@historians.org NewspaperArchive is still down more than a month later, and I've seen you do absolutely zero to address the issue of what ought to be readily available--the nation's historic newspapers--plopped behind a paywall by a company that couldn't be bothered with security measures.

If the government were correct that the domicile-related intent of parents to stay in a country or not is material to the citizenship of babies born to them, then the babies of any Jewish people who intend to make aliyah should not be birthright citizens.

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Unhelpfully, this is what the weather forecast used to look like in the Times. I only wanted to say whether it was sunny or not in London. Can anyone translate?

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. It's peculiar that a country of gun fetishists puts up no resistance.

Brilliant historian's take in a thread

Jack Rakove@jrakove.bsky.social

An observation apropos of the semi/q/centennial: I find myself thinking of my late friend Pauline Maier's first book (she came from St. Paul), From Resistance to Revolution. One of big takeaways was the idea of extra-legal resistance, which meant opposition to questionable actions of government.

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A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Shadow Congress, not just Shadow Cabinet. And I told my Congressman that in a one on one.

comfít@sl33peragent.bsky.social

The Shadow Cabinet is the single good idea of UK parliamentary politics and we absolutely should be doing it here

I agree with Secretary Pete. ATC workers have tremendously high rates of stress-related illness and are entitled to any time off that they need to take.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

Remember

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.