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Ben Alpers
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Associate Prof of US History in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. Author of HAPPY DAYS: IMAGES OF THE PRE-SIXTIES PAST IN SEVENTIES AMERICA (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Opinions are entirely my own. He/him.
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If you live in one of these battleground states or districts, we will give you a list of 10 voters in your neighborhood that we need to reach to win. It's that simple! Sign up now: indivisibleproject.f...

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Meme of Nixon at a press conference podium with the slogan "The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check."
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Apparently there's a major discourse on Twitter right now where dead-enders are getting mad about the Biden/Harris admin comms strategy over relief in WNC? As your friendly local North Carolinian I can assure you this is chattering class BS for Brooklynites not an actual thing people here are saying

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One of my most controversial beliefs is that Donald Trump was already president, with a policy record that can be assessed, and that he was still the president throughout the year 2020.

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I'm against what the Israeli army has been doing in Gaza too but I'm also against Iran bombing the fuck out of Israel. The part where civilians have human rights and should be safe is the common thread. Yes? Yes.

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Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)

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How many times have you seen Trump's disastrous management of the hurricane Maria response discussed in the media in this year's election cycle? Why do you think that it is not discussed in context of what's happening in North Carolina?

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Yup. And the US often supports countries committing genocide. Even Jimmy Carter continued to send arms to Indonesia during its ongoing genocide in East Timor. This is not_to excuse the US supporting Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. It's to say that support is but one example of a larger problem.

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Ben Alpers
@benalpers.bsky.social
Associate Prof of US History in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. Author of HAPPY DAYS: IMAGES OF THE PRE-SIXTIES PAST IN SEVENTIES AMERICA (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Opinions are entirely my own. He/him.
455 followers566 following1.1k posts