Dan Mandell
Author of THE LOST TRADITION OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN AMERICA, 1600-1870, and many works on Native peoples in New England 1600-1900. Emeritus prof of history, Truman State University, now happy to be in Worcester Mass., aka Nipmuc homelands. He/him/FDJT
- My city takes a good step.
- Reposted by Dan Mandell1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections. 2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so. 3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy. 4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.
- Reposted by Dan MandellYou can read the news and its sober people just straight up saying, “oh yeah the president of the United States is probably going to steal that oil money and we all kind of know it.” And apparently that’s just how it is now.
- “barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial.” www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
- MAGAs are snowflakes who can’t deal with reality. wapo.st/4t9mYXp
- Indy wishes y’all a good Caturday: stay warm and watch out for ICE.
- “Classic Nazi Blunder: Attacking in Winter.”
- I haven’t heard or read elsewhere about the Lowell film being “banned.” Does anyone have confirmation or more information?
- Apologies to British friends: our president is a corrupt ignorant jackass. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
- Big Brother aka Stephen Miller wants us to forget. Local folks should regularly post copies — or pass them out to visitors. That’d be a great public history project. wapo.st/3LxnCgq
- “The Trump administration has turned legions of ICE agents into a violent and unaccountable domestic police force.” Some of that abuse may be, Edsall notes, the result of ICE agents abusing anabolic steroids. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
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- Reposted by Dan MandellOrin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"
- This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant. I would like to see that argument. documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Herr Trump wants to run (ruin?) the world and make $billions doing it. But his dementia is really flaring up if he expects any chumps to join.
- Gotta remember this if ICE tries a surge in frozen Worcester.
- Reposted by Dan MandellAs a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
- Reposted by Dan MandellWe recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one
- @repmcgovern.bsky.social Shouldn’t you cosponsor this?
- 80 co-sponsors on resolution impeaching Noem on three articles: obstruction of Congress, 'violation of public trust' (ICE crimes), and self-dealing corruption. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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- This sounds like a very interesting event, March 11 at UMass Amherst, and there is a "virtual" option. I'll be on the "Past" panel, discussing scholarship on the history of town meetings. To register: sites.google.com/umass.edu/de...
- Reposted by Dan MandellEvery couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
- Trump regime’s Environmental Pollution Agency. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
- Reposted by Dan MandellI also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building
- Reposted by Dan MandellMust be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
- Reposted by Dan MandellYes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
- The corrupt demented jackass tried gaslighting about Jan 6th, had his goons murder (and then slandered) Renee Good, is pocketing the proceeds from Venezuela oil, and is trying to shake down local DA offices.
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- We’re living in 1984.
- Looking forward to @earlymodjustice.bsky.social book "which challenges the notion that slavery arose . . through the interests of merchants and planters, showing how behind them lay a British crown that believed in absolute power over subjects and granted similar powers to proprietors and masters."
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- Caturday lapsits.
- Trump’s head of the Kennedy Center threatened to sue the musician who cancelled his show there and called it a “political stunt.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
- The real story is how Congress’s refusal to act (and SCOTUS’s blessings) gave autocratic power to the corrupt ignorant demented jackass president.
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- “In America, the Law is king.” Probably my favorite piece of political writing, and one I regularly had students read. Rezek’s article ignores, btw, the significant way Paine wielded the Bible to attack monarchy — Paine knew his audience. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...
- Reposted by Dan MandellThe full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
- Reposted by Dan MandellPer NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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- Is it unfair to assume that these are the same folks who wanted to keep out my grandparents and ridiculed the reality of pograms and death camps? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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- The vibes are definitely the same.
- Reposted by Dan MandellEvery legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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- Reposted by Dan MandellThe new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
- Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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- Adrien Vermuele and other RW ideologues want to replace the "secular" Constitution with natural law. Are they aware that natural law, according to Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologia, one of the most influential Western works, permits those in need to take from those with wealth?
- “The Great Upheaval” has arrived, huzzah! Lovely volume, and it’s been five years since my last publication (other than those TIME pieces).
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- We all need some good news. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
