Jesse Montgomery

fort'coming: IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY (UNC Press, May 2026)

and so the universal thump is passed round

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Thrilled that IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY has a cover and is available for pre-order!

John Sayles calls it “a fascinating chapter in the long story of seemingly powerless people trying to win some control over their lives.”

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13 years ago Bill Callahan signed my copy of A Game of Thrones

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@brian_callaci It’s a troubling predicament

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innovation discovered in the archives: the Central Kentucky Cigarette Holder (c. 2016)

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@brian_callaci oh yeah. killer version of a perfect song

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heard an old timer listening to Gary Stewart in the parking lot at Menards and went over to talk about it. "what he had just used him up," he said, "and Keith Whitley too."

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@DjLancasio

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@brian_callaci Chaser: https://t.co/kpRxj3ffzk

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@brian_callaci Shot: https://t.co/em8ZsNDWZw

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@DrewFrogger “Hear this, nations!”

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Westmoreland during the US War on Vietnam:

"The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner... Life is cheap in the Orient."

Zombie Orientalism just marches on. And we wonder how we lost our future.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

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"John Fetterman holds the same views as Joe Biden and it is shocking to me that we are going to target this guy for simply being consistent."

[HalalFlow @halalflow]

Former First Lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa: “Do I want Susan Collins to win? Not necessarily, but she is much more my style than ... Graham Platner.”

[Don Hughes @getfiscal]

I'm almost done the Fragile Juggernaut podcast about the CIO and it's been wonderful to learn about labour history but a great part is hearing stuff like a Pete Seeger song about price controls or old recordings of activists.

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mitch was noodling

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Mitchell Robinson did not break his pinky during a basketball-related activity, per @FredKatz

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Chicago friends & anyone in early for Labor Notes, week after next I'll be in town at Pilsen Community Books to talk about the Young Patriots & radical community organizing with Will Harris. rap starts at 7PM!

[Tejasvi Nagaraja @TejNagaraja]

reminder — ‘The Future is Unwritten’

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Pikeville

[Valley @Magical_Views66]

Guess the city without cheating?

[Lyle @WalkWithLyle]

Philadelphia

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@brian_callaci very funny to watch the Olympics or Euroleague and see none of this

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@williamtylertn thanks, William!

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today is pub day for IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY!

this history of radical rednecks, Black Panthers, and southern migrant activism in Chicago is available NOW at your local bookstore or thru Bookshop: https://t.co/9sA7FaiChR