Claire Potter

@TenuredRadical

History | Executive Editor | "Historians on Hamilton" (Rutgers, March 2018) | Tweets all mine, RTs not endorsements | I block h8trs

New York, NY
Joined April 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 27

    Renee Romano and I are proud to say that our book, "Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past" can now be preordered from . And it is a really beautiful book. With pictures.

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  2. 6 hours ago

    So they can be huge hypocrites and try to rule from the court?

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  3. 6 hours ago

    I dunno -- have you considered the Supreme Court? I hear they are advertising.

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    In 1933, The New School founded the University in Exile as a haven for refugee scholars. In spite of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the immigration travel ban, we will continue to advance our mission by welcoming and supporting students and teachers from all over the world—

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    From the history of fascism and populism to the ways in which “anxieties of affluence” suppress discussions of income inequality, faculty members confronted a number of pressing social issues this academic year →

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  8. 19 hours ago

    A) Did you never go to a Tea Party or Trump rally? B) How about the Lock Her Up chants? And C) Who produces them? Their is no actual organization called “The Left.” There was, however Tea Party America and the Trump Campaign.

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    Jun 24

    Trump Administration report shows refugees added $63 billion to US economy over the past decade. Trump White House then killed the report they ordered and demanded it be manipulated to only show costs and not profits.

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  10. Jun 25

    "We cannot forget the lessons of internment as our national leaders callously dehumanize migrants for, in Trump’s words, “infesting” America. We must do better. We owe it to Alice."

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  11. Jun 25

    "Trump responded to intense public criticism by ending his official policy of family separation. But don’t be fooled- the inhumane treatment of children & families won’t be solved by this executive order. There is no plan to reunite children already separated from their parents."

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  12. Jun 25

    "Even today, at 91, Alice is only just realizing that she, too, was a minor child separated from her parents and that she is still dealing with the trauma of her experience."

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  13. Jun 25

    "The experience affected Alice, too. When she left the camp to attend college, she was shy and timid, remaining apart from most of the other students."

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  14. Jun 25

    "Alice spent months living with her sisters in a horse stall at the Santa Anita racetrack. The famous racehorse Seabiscuit, Alice pointedly recalls, had two stall spaces at Santa Anita, while she and her sisters shared just one for nearly 10 months."

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  15. Jun 25

    "Alice & her 18-year-old sister were at school when her parents were arrested; they came home to find them gone. Alice still recalls the trauma of that day, marked by the sharp awareness that she didn’t even get to say goodbye to her mother & father before they were taken away."

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  16. Jun 25

    "In its own way, the internment of Japanese Americans was a kind of “zero tolerance” policy."

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    Jun 25

    Dear all, here is our alpha of . Intense work in 7 days. We will continue work on this, but we are ready to share.

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  19. Jun 25

    Charlie Kirk, you lying piece of cr^p. Go to college. Learn something.

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  20. Jun 25

    Actually, I am visiting Austria and everyone I speak to is not laughing at the US they are laughing at you.

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  21. Jun 25

    I also have a rule. If a President seems to be dirty, he should SHOW US HIS TAX RETURNS AND PROVE HE IS NOT.

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