Nicole Hemmer

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Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit

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Michigan's fall 2026 public law workshop is presenting a marvelous range of work from an exceptional group of scholars. Our theme this semester is presidential power--anyone in the U of M community is warmly invited to join!

Aug 31 - Anne Joseph O'Connell Sept 21 - Andrea Katz Oct 9 - Shalev Roisman Oct 26 - Rebecca Ingber Nov 2 - Amanda Hollis Brusky Nov 9 - Daryl Levinson Nov 23 - Nicole Hemmer
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“As the GOP has grown more and more extreme, Democrats have held fast to defending a supposedly vital center—both for moral reasons (compromise and moderation are who we are) and strategic ones (the misguided appeal to the mythical ‘median voter’).” @pastpunditry.bsky.social

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Great conversation about the American Scoundrel. Just finishing the new bio, which is fantastic. Roy Cohn: ‘The Evil Forrest Gump of the 20th Century’ @pastpunditry.bsky.social

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if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women. tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy

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“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

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SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

thecrimson.comHarvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two…
aaup.orgSeven Theses Against Viewpoint DiversityDemands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.
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tucker is criticizing trump to further his own far-right politics. not only do you not have to hand it to him, but when you do hand it to him, you're lending him legitimacy to do other bad things.

Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

You guys don't need to hand it to Tucker Carlson for any reason, ever. just fyi

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A clear-eyed letter from Columbia historians. “The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now.”

March 20, 2025. To President Katrina Armstrong and the Board of Trustees, As faculty members of the Department of History at Columbia University, we recognize in the recent actions of the Trump Administration a desire to assert political control over the university. Like many other American campuses, Columbia University has seen struggles over academic freedom and the right to protest in the past, including the dismissal of faculty during World War I that led to the resignation of historian Charles Beard; the 1936 expulsion of a student, Robert Burke, after his role leading anti-Nazi protests on campus; the 1968 building occupations; and the campus demonstrations over apartheid and ethnic studies in the 1980s and 1990s. The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now. We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia and around the world to reject such efforts to dominate colleges and universities. Such interventions jeopardize our ability to think honestly about the past, the present, and the future, and to do so with our students, who deserve every opportunity to learn and to think for themselves. Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible. Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History Frank Guridy, Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Ford Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities Pablo Piccato, Professor of History Elizabeth Blackmar Mae Ngai David Rosner Michael Stanislawski Adam Tooze Camille Robeis Gregory Mann. [some titles truncated bc of character limit]
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

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Guest on Megyn Kelly this week: “So, that's the thing is the funniest joke we ever pulled on the Democrats was convincing them that Project 2025 wasn't real…it's over, we won, yes, we're going to do Project 2025. And the other thing is, it's good.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Congrats. You played yourself.