Thaddeus Russell

My new book is out today. Sixteen years after A Renegade History of the United States, I'm taking the story around the world. Savior and Seducer tells the story of two Americas: one that sought to conquer and remake the world, and another that liberated people through music, movies, sex, and pleasure. Get your copy: amazon.com/dp/0802128211

Unreported 217: Midterms, and more nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2zkANrrgo…

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Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Democrats take Congress in historic landslide • Trump announces US will end $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel • Bukele escalates in Haiti 7 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/HQb2hluF5sM

So I'm not getting $5,000?

Although I do regret my vote for Walter Mondale.

I haven't voted since 1984, and I'm still feeling good about it.

Factory workers paid with their bodies for the social advances brought by the Industrial Revolution. Now we all pay the price of psychic damage to our minds for the glorious advances of the information revolution, which allow us to watch and hear things like that Learjet crash.

Obvious.

During World War II, an anthropologist working with the federal government instructed Americans that opposition to racism was a defining national virtue—and a reason to go to war. thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

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Unreported 216: Elections in Brazil, Israel, Serbia, and more nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKVmydgR…

Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Lula wins, Bolsonaro flees to U.S. • Netanyahu’s party cries fraud • Student List wins in Serbia • Bukele sends 1,000 troops to Haiti 7:30 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/yehRQ_uke5Y

American popular culture—from blackface vaudeville to jazz, Hollywood, and hip-hop—has done more to liberate people living under dictatorships than the 82nd Airborne ever could. Lit Hub just published an excerpt from my new book, SAVIOR AND SEDUCER: lithub.com/holiness-and-hedo…

Hitler had neither the intention nor the military capacity to conquer America. So why are we still told that WWII saved us from Nazi rule? And what did American intervention mean for Europe’s Jews? My new essay: thaddeusrussell.substack.com…

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Unreported 215: Slotkin Plots, Russia Ukraine Negotiations, Riots Continue, and more nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1mGPaZoEb…

Tonight on UNREPORTED: • Savior & Seducer published • Sen. Elissa Slotkin threatens to prosecute Trump officials • Riots spread from France to Italy and Belgium 7:15 PM ET Livestream on YouTube, Rumble and X youtube.com/live/XIVMVicAjPk