Jared Hardesty
Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writin…
- Reposted by Jared Hardestycan't say which i find more appalling, remnick handing him a "fair enough" on the left and right being equally antisemitic or saying there was "no immigration policy" under dems. either way, super embarrassing for remnick to get steamrolled this hard by the right's pre-eminent midwit
- In an interview with David Remnick, Ben Shapiro discusses his break with figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyBREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
- Reposted by Jared HardestyNEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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- Reposted by Jared HardestyDo you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
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- Reposted by Jared HardestyMamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
- Reposted by Jared Hardestysure seems like they thought the press would ignore like most of the deranged stuff trump says
- Reposted by Jared HardestyWhat else can this unnamed "staffer" post from the President's account in the middle of the night? Can they declare war? Can they order a nuclear strike? Can they speak for the President in his diplomatic communications with foreign leaders?
- Reposted by Jared Hardestyanyway sorry the guy you have supported and made excuses for for years is a sadistic gutter racist whose every action would horrify your average saturday morning cartoon villain we did tell you, repeatedly
- Reposted by Jared Hardestysabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed
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- Reposted by Jared HardestyTo recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King
- Reposted by Jared HardestyPOLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
- Reposted by Jared Hardestythe Obamas are by a wide margin the most popular political figures in the country and the video is so bad major newspapers are flat out calling it "racist" rather than "racially charged" their only move with anything is to double down so by all means let them double down on this
- Reposted by Jared Hardestyevery dem should immediately shift to the obamas-as-apes video trump posted, because it is instantly recognizable to normies are insanely racist and opens up numerous lines of questioning
- Reposted by Jared HardestySo a thought about why so many mainstream pundits seem not to be rising to the moment. Part of it, of course, is that the laziest way to perform the journalistic ideal of neutrality is a reflexive both-sidesism, but I think it’s more than that…
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- Reposted by Jared Hardestyodd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
- Reposted by Jared Hardestyone guy sent me an email that was like, “you’re just mad that vance knows who his father is!” and i replied to him just to say that vance, quite famously, did not have a dad around!
- Reposted by Jared Hardestykind of amazing to think that there are people who wake up in the morning, get mad at a fox news post and then send this stuff
- Reposted by Jared Hardestythis is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyWe put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
- Reposted by Jared HardestyLegally here on a work permit. Arrested when he went to renew it. Not fighting his deportation. Yet he's been in detention 29 days. No access to a lawyer. Has been given no information about his case. Family inquiries also ignored. ICE only responded when local news requested comment.
- Reposted by Jared HardestyThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
- Reposted by Jared HardestyAnother delayed #JobsReport Friday to all who mourn Remember when our federal government was run in such a way that the we learned about the health of the labor market in a predictable, regular way? That was early 2025 and before.
- Reposted by Jared HardestyFriday, Feb. 6, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.
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- Reposted by Jared Hardesty“i tested this 7 times because i thought i was doing something wrong. farfalle is wrong”
- Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource. www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyAmong many other huge considerations, entire economic sectors will end up stagnating when a few tens of thousands of votes across a handful of states can mean the difference between, say, full speed ahead toward electrification, and the exact opposite. Nobody can do long term planning.
- Reposted by Jared HardestyPour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyThe entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- Reposted by Jared Hardestythere arent many jobs in this country that you wouldnt be fired from for posting that video but apparently president of the united states is one of em
- Reposted by Jared HardestyI think this headline from 2019 holds up pretty well. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-presiden...
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- Reposted by Jared HardestyOne of the comments called this “Beige Against The Machine” and I made a noise that startled the dog.
- Reposted by Jared Hardestyover the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyWell, they’re fucking deporting him now. So what are you going to do about it, Senator?
- over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Jared HardestyOver the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
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- Reposted by Jared Hardestyembarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down
- Reposted by Jared Hardestywhat the fuck man
- Reposted by Jared Hardestyjeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
- Reposted by Jared HardestyThese people were not noticing - are literally INCAPABLE of noticing - fine distinctions in messaging. “Distinguish yourself from Biden” - man, do you think they’re gonna see that? Their ideas are just reflections of atmospheric cultural consensus, which comes from our enemies far more than us
- Reposted by Jared HardestyThe people who tilted the election were semi-literate knuckleheads at the absolute extreme edge of low-propensity voting; it’s ludicrous to claim they’d have defected from Trump en masse if Harris had used slightly different words or chosen some marginally different theme. They wouldn’t notice
