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Kevin M. Kruse
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Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America: bit.ly/34mlRgw
Princeton, NJkevinmkruse.comJoined February 2015
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The more people talk about my pinned thread of threads as a "mini-course" on modern American political history, the more it bugs me that it's not arranged in chronological order. So, here it is, with threads sorted together by era.
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nikki mccann ramírez
@NikkiMcR
if there was a car or pencil that had been specifically created to kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time I would also argue those things should be banned from public availability. whatever the fuck you decided to call them is irrelevant.
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Kevin Sorbo
@ksorbs
Assault weapons aren’t real. Just like there’s no such thing as an assult car, or assault pencil. Stop blaming objects when the person is at fault.
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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Sometime after W. Bush said only history could judge him on Iraq, Bill Clinton told me history won't remember almost any of us (even presidents). The responsibility of judging & responding to a leaders' actions, Clinton said, belonged to contemporaries. Durbin's ducking that job.
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The Hill
@thehill
"History" will judge Chief Justice John Roberts, Durbin says trib.al/UmlQkHb
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Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
She is an ongoing embarrassment. As is NBC for paying her $69 million.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
Replying to @megynkelly
So you're saying your side won the debate and got everything you wanted -- guns everywhere, no real regulation or control over who has them at all -- and when the result is the predictable spike in bloodshed that the other side wanted, it's all *their* fault? What the hell?
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Alexander Reid Ross
@areidross
this is not even the first time the "RWDS"/Pinochet meme has appeared in a mass shooter's repertoire. It was never funny, and it was never actually intended to be. just pure terrorism.
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Robert Downen
@RobertDownen_
Mauricio Garcia, who killed 8 people outside of Allen Premium Outlets, was reportedly wearing a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch. The phrase is popular among neo-Nazis and other extremist groups. washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05
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Andy Campbell
@AndyBCampbell
The Proud Boys — chaired by a guy named Enrique Tarrio — fight under an explicit banner of white supremacy. Their founder says anyone can join so long as they agree that white men created western culture. They have POC in their ranks, and they have neo-Nazis. Same team.
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Robert Downen
@RobertDownen_
Also: Seeing a lot of blowback to WaPo and WSJ saying Mauricio Garcia may have had white supremacist ties, given his race. So periodic reminder that there's a long history of POCs advancing and supporting Nazi/white supremacist goals/ideology.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
The story is horrific and then you get to the part about people showing up to harass the shelter workers after the tragedy.
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The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Seven people are dead and at least six injured after being struck by a vehicle at a bus stop near a shelter for migrants in Brownsville, Texas, police said. apnews.com/article/bus-st
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Shawn Reynolds
@ShawnReynolds_
"It wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle with bullets... I'm a former police officer, a former Army officer. These M4s, AR-15s, they've got to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening" - Allen, TX mall shooting witness Steven… Show more
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Robert Downen
@RobertDownen_
Mauricio Garcia, who killed 8 people outside of Allen Premium Outlets, was reportedly wearing a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch. The phrase is popular among neo-Nazis and other extremist groups.
washingtonpost.com
At least 9 killed, including gunman, after Texas mall shooting
At least seven are injured, while the suspected gunman was fatally shot by a police officer at Allen Premium Outlets, located in a Dallas suburb.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
"Martin Luther King Jr. would never have dared to block traffic and inconvenience travelers," I confidently write, revealing I've never thought through the logistics of Selma-to-Montgomery March's procession across 54 miles of state highways for several days.
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Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places
@SethCotlar
No "debate" was won. Guns & abortion were 2 issues that 20-30% of Americans held extreme opinions on in the 1970s/80s, & then those anti-abortion and pro-gun extremists managed to get the GOP to toe the line and do their bidding. It was about raw political power, not persuasion.
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Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
Serious q for gun control advocates: you’ve failed to effect change. Pls face it. You can’t do it, thx to the 2A. We’re all well aware you don’t like that fact, but fact it is. What’s next? Must we just stay here sad, concerned, lamenting? Could we possibly talk OTHER SOLUTIONS?
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S.V. Dáte
@svdate
NEW -- AND IMPORTANT -- If a serial killer or a child molester ran for president, we'd expect to see that fact in every news story about him, right? So why do we almost never read of Trump's attempted coup in stories about *his* presidential campaign?
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Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was
By failing to remind our audience what Trump did each and every time we mention him, journalists normalize his attempt to end American democracy on that January day.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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More to the point, what did he *do*? People trot this quote out as reassurance that things will get better on their own, when of course King worked tirelessly to bring about change
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the hot dam historian
@varsha_venkat_
someone: "the arc of the moral universe..." me: *shut up shut up shut up shut up* someone: "...is long, but it bends toward justice. martin luther king jr., said that. did you know?" me: "yea, i did, tell me, what else did he say?"
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Kevin Gannon
@TheTattooedProf
When a pro-gun person says stuff like "that's the price we pay for freedom," what it really means is they see our lives as readily disposable, to be exchanged for the satisfaction of their compulsion to be armed and feel strong in a way their inadequacies would otherwise prevent
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
Kelly admits that her side “won” the gun debate, and got all the looser gun laws they wanted … … but she wants to blame all the bloodshed that her side’s *huge* victory brought us on the people she says lost the debate and have no influence? No no, you won! Claim your prize!
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Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
No, YOU F off. I am sick and tired of nothing changing after mass shootings bc we get mired EVERY TIME IN THE DAMN GUN DEBATE. You have LOST. It’s DONE. For the love of God what else can be done? You are ruining any chance at change by not admitting that the gun debate is lost. twitter.com/happycrazytown…
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Will Bunch
@Will_Bunch
The worst scandal in the 234-year history of the Supreme Court requires more than just a Beltway shrug. This is a 21st century Watergate and let's treat it that way We need political, prosecutorial pressure for Thomas to resign...and more. My new column
inquirer.com
The Supreme Court ethics mess is today’s Watergate. Let’s treat it that way
The trickle of stories about shady ethics at the Supreme Court is becoming a flood. Democrats and prosecutors need to respond forcefully.
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the hot dam historian
@varsha_venkat_
it's really actually dangerous to let people like conor completely whitewash the history of protest movements, not just during the Civil Rights Era, but in all cases. because it purposefully delegitimizes the work that's being done by activists today...
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Conor Friedersdorf
@conor64
Replying to @jduffyrice and @thomaschattwill
How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott inconvenience anyone other than the people participating?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie
Folks are rightfully focused on the ghoulishness of these comments but I want to note that Kelly’s vision of “fortification of soft targets” is one where the US is a garrison state in which we live our lives as if we’re in a war zone. Totally inimical to free society.
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Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
Mental health interventions (smthg real, not the BS we now do), greater willingness to lock ppl up (w/protocols in place for civil libs) who are deemed to be threats, fortification of soft targets, coordination of media response to not lionize shooters, etc.
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Seriously, watch this:
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Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
WATCH: “…it wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle. I'm a gun lover. I have guns. I'm a former police officer. I’m a former Army officer ... prayers won't bring these people back. We need action in our legislatures.”
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Wesley
@WesleyLowery
Since Twitter is having its annual "why do people protest in ways I don't like /that inconvenience me/that I don't personally find wise?!" discourse, an excerpt from MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. The *point* of nonviolent protest is to create a crisis/tension/inconvenience
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Jeanne Theoharis
@JeanneTheoharis
Fun fact: this is just not true. In 1964, Brooklyn CORE--who'd been challenging NY housing, school & job inequality with little change--called for a stall-in on highways to the World's Fair. White and Black moderates were horrified & wanted King to repudiate. King said no.
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Billy Binion
@billybinion
Fun fact: Martin Luther King Jr. opposed blocking roadways & transit paths indefinitely because he understood it was more likely to piss people off than convince them. This is an exercise in vanity, not activism. reason.com/2022/07/06/blo
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
This is a post about a parent choosing to share violent images with the public and I’m a bit baffled by the responses who somehow read this as an argument that *other* people should post violent images and do so *over* the wishes of the parents.
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Joe Schmidt
@HSGlobalHistory
There are many things Betsy DeVos doesn’t know about education, looks like differentiating between a primary source and a secondary source is on the list. This is a skill most students know by 8th grade. Guess she’d get that question wrong on the NAEP.
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Betsy DeVos
@BetsyDeVos
Students' knowledge of U.S. history is at an all-time low. This is what you get when you teach #CRT, DEI & the 1619 Project instead of the Declaration of Independence, the #Constitution & the Gettysburg Address. @SandraSmithFox @AmericaRpts @FoxNews foxnews.com/video/63267627
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