KC Johnson
@kcjohnson9
Brooklyn College/@GC_CUNY history professor. Former Fulbright professor at @telavivuni Former track announcer at Scarborough Downs & the VT State Fair.
The campus environment created by the 2011 Dear Colleague letter has generated hundreds of lawsuits from accused students. In @NYUJLPP, @samk_harris & I analyze the resulting developmentsin federal courts: nyujlpp.org/wp-content/upl…
🧵At 96, my dad, Abraham Peter, is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease peels away recent memories, leaving him with his early Holocaust memories flooding his brain. Unrelenting. I share our story @nytopinion.🕯️ nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opi…
Since both the Tea app and Gawker are in the discourse, I'll say that in 2010 Jezebel and Deadspin republished a female Duke undergraduate's PowerPoint presentation naming all the sexual partners she had had in college and describing and rating their sexual exploits. Vicious rags
These kind of questions are really quite pointless because no Republicans are going to approve of Democrats and the Dems who disapprove will still be voting blue
New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). wsj.com/politics/elect…
It's hilarious. Spain is trying to block all posts about the Vueling pilot. Have they never heard of the Streisand effect?
Part of a longer call in which Russell (in somewhat of a reversal from 1963-1964) consistently took a more hawkish line than LBJ--and mentioned to LBJ that MS senator John Stennis was even more hawkish. x.com/kcjohnson9/sta…
60yrs ago today, LBJ & GA senator Richard Russell, on the decision to send 100k more troops to Vietnam. Russell: "Those people over there are playing for keeps." LBJ [with emotion]: "I'm putting a hundred thousand in there. Gosh, I've moved 150,000 in the last 90 days!"
Last year, the Republicans won the Congressional Delegate election in the Northern Mariana Islands. America's smallest occupied territory saw the Republicans win the Congressional Delegate race here for the first time ever, despite losing the "major" population center of Saipan.
Working with groups like Hind Rajab at all, in any capacity, should be a mark of shame. commentary.org/seth-mandel/a-…
The White House is pushing Harvard for a financial settlement that exceeds Columbia's payment earlier this week, according to a person familiar with Harvard's negotiations over $2 billion in frozen federal funding. @dhruvtkpatel and @graceunkyoon report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…
How is it that the Israeil left-leaning media always (generally speaking) accepts the enemy’s version without question, while right-leaning media accepts Israel’s version? True, both sides should be skeptical — but take a moment to think about why this happens, especially when…
60yrs ago today, LBJ & GA senator Richard Russell, on the decision to send 100k more troops to Vietnam. Russell: "Those people over there are playing for keeps." LBJ [with emotion]: "I'm putting a hundred thousand in there. Gosh, I've moved 150,000 in the last 90 days!"
How is Tucker this stupid in so many ways? Anti-vaxx, the worst leftists, UFOs, Putinism, Hitler apologists. Even random business scammers. His brain should be studied. Almost everyone else is occasionally right by chance. It’s like he’s possessed by some force of anti-logic.
If you want to understand how fake the current political system is, take a minute to listen to Ana Kasparian and ask yourself how much you disagree with. (0:00) Why Americans Care So Much About the Jeffrey Epstein Case (7:18) The Growing Nuance of America’s Political Parties…
So-called "genocide scholars" — historians, essentially —who know little about war, for some reason think they can assess the Gaza conflict and claim genocide. Yet, military experts worldwide, by a consensus, strongly disagree. See thread: x.com/Aizenberg55/st…
🧵Many leading worldwide military experts affirm that Israel is complying with rules of war in Gaza – no war crimes, no genocide, no indiscriminate attacks. In sharp contrast all reports by NGOs UN ICJ ICC claiming war crimes never cite military experts. Review of 10 experts: 1/
The only important fact is that the PM continues to hold minister Eliyahu as part of his government.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Minister Amichay Eliyahu does not speak for the government I lead. He is not a member of the Security Cabinet that determines the conduct of the war.
NEW: U.S. Jews refuse to meet with France’s FM over the country’s toxic, destabilizing recognition of a Palestinian state, warning it undermines peace, fuels extremism, and threatens Jewish security worldwide.
We sometimes forget how stupid everything became.
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
How @tuckercarlson became "America’s leading purveyor of antisemitic ideas.” “Tucker Carlson’s Dark Turn” My latest in @NationalReview nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…
this belongs in the crisis management hall of fame
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
Duke's endowment is 12 billion. The endowment is not being spent to save the uni as it has existed.
“More than 250 eligible faculty members across the university are also considering voluntary retirement incentive offers.” “Despite the buyouts, the university said it will still need to reduce its workforce so it can ‘responsibly support and invest in our important missions.’”
By me in @JNS_org: 🧵 Stanford University suspended the student-run Kairos co-op for the upcoming academic year, after receiving reports that Jewish students were targeted, a spokeswoman for the private California school told JNS.
Judge Divine is the first federal judge born in the 1990s (which also means I'm now older than a federal judge)
Today, Joshua M. Divine was sworn in by Chief Judge Clark as the Eastern District’s seventh active U.S. District Judge. Judge Divine served in a variety of roles in the public sector, most recently as the Solicitor General for the State of Missouri. moed.uscourts.gov/news/2025/hon-…