david helps
@david-helps.bsky.social
historian & postdoc, University of Toronto • writing a people’s history of global LA • Great Lakes supremacist • he/they • https://www.david-helps.com/writing
The left’s answer to Thomas (shitposter)
August 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The left’s answer to Thomas (shitposter)
Been a long time since I read it, but this on Indigenous women brokering the fur trade is one of the classics of Canadian social history www.oupress.com/978080611847...
Many Tender Ties - University of Oklahoma Press
Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts ...
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August 18, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Been a long time since I read it, but this on Indigenous women brokering the fur trade is one of the classics of Canadian social history www.oupress.com/978080611847...
The consequences of being late may be worse for low-wage workers, but the answer there is stronger labor rights and unions not “speeding is virtuous, actually.”
August 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The consequences of being late may be worse for low-wage workers, but the answer there is stronger labor rights and unions not “speeding is virtuous, actually.”
The chart reads “among their own’s state’s validated voters”
August 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The chart reads “among their own’s state’s validated voters”
One of the most devastating maps you’ll ever read: detroitography.com/2013/06/12/w...
Where Commuters Run Over Black Children, Detroit 1968
Starting William Bunge Wednesday and posting his radical cartography from his work at the Detroit Geographical Expedition. “Any Detroiter would have known that these commuters were white and …
detroitography.com
August 17, 2026 at 4:06 AM
One of the most devastating maps you’ll ever read: detroitography.com/2013/06/12/w...
California slid into the ocean? Need to pay your hotel bill? Call now!
August 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
California slid into the ocean? Need to pay your hotel bill? Call now!
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Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.
August 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.
“Mass deportations but not enough to kill the economy or alienate key business interests” has been the GOP position since Reagan, but somehow Trump can’t even do that
July 29, 2026 at 5:57 AM
“Mass deportations but not enough to kill the economy or alienate key business interests” has been the GOP position since Reagan, but somehow Trump can’t even do that
What’s even worse is the Democratic Party used to be really good at it! www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...
Not popularism. Not deliverism. Partyism
Perhaps Democrats should consider becoming a political party?
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July 23, 2026 at 1:53 PM
What’s even worse is the Democratic Party used to be really good at it! www.programmablemutter.com/p/not-popula...
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This from @cgmaisano.bsky.social (and riffing my work, full disclosure) was illuminating: dissentmagazine.org/article/part...
Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
dissentmagazine.org
July 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
This from @cgmaisano.bsky.social (and riffing my work, full disclosure) was illuminating: dissentmagazine.org/article/part...