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Rebecca Brannon

@rnbrannon

Professor @JMU. Historian of Loyalists and of old age. Author of _From Revolution to Reunion_. Inspired but negligent cook.

 Harrisonburg, VA
Joined January 2015
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I can’t believe we’re two months away from 2027 and the easiest way to save something as a PDF is still to lie to your computer and tell it you’re about to print it.
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Because he needs Clyburn to show up in Detroit on Sunday and that is still not assured.
Jacob (@Jacob650069) profile pictureJacob@Jacob650069Oct 30
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Because Clyburn told them to bury the hatchet and in return he'd be a surrogate for AES with the black community. It looks a lot like Stevens refused to play ball, given they campaigned together yesterday and she attacked him again today.
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This 100% has to be Obama telling them to shut the fuck up and fall in line
Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 (@HBendaas) profile pictureHamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸@HBendaasOct 30
Someone’s making some phone calls to get everyone in line. Good.
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@semaforbenOct 29
2028 candidates will have to think through the politics and policy of GLP-1s semafor.com/article/10/28/20…
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The 21st century fertility decline is driven by falling 1st (and to some extent 2nd) births. Declining marriage is one cause. But @PeterRFB @DrJasonCarroll and I show that unsupportive friends may uniquely shape 1st/2nd birth decisions too! cc @FamStudies
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@BradWilcoxIFSOct 19
The top 1% are most likely to have 3+ kids. 49% of families in this bracket have 3+ kids - according to @mtkonczal. Love to see an America 🇺🇸 where big families were easier to have up and down the income ladder.
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Mike Konczal (@mtkonczal) profile pictureMike Konczal@mtkonczalOct 19
What distinguishes the 1% from the merely affluent? How about having a third child. New post on a topic I've long been fascinated by (the economics and financing of having a third kid) where I finally felt bold enough to go into the latest SCF microdata to get a good answer. /1
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Mike Konczal@mtkonczalOct 19
What distinguishes the 1% from the merely affluent? How about having a third child. New post on a topic I've long been fascinated by (the economics and financing of having a third kid) where I finally felt bold enough to go into the latest SCF microdata to get a good answer. /1
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Derek Thompson
@DKThompOct 19
Great, great data. I also a hunch that having 3 kids was becoming a new status symbol for the 1% in the 2020s. Not quite. It's more that 3-kid families among every other non-rich percentile has declined by double-digit percentage points while the 1% held steady. So having 3 kids went from being fairly common across the board to a luxury good that, increasingly, only the 1% can afford.
Mike Konczal (@mtkonczal) profile pictureMike Konczal@mtkonczalOct 19
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Is this a new status symbol? I don't think so. It looks more like children fall for all families except the 1% over the past 30 years. Maybe the things that made children more difficult for the 99% just bounced right off the 1%? /2
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Another name for Nova Scotia in the 1780s was Nova Scarcity. Read more at uelhistory.blogspot.com/2026…
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@drjoemooreOct 13
#1 book in Economic History! (Kindle) Amazon's algorithm is a fickle mistress, but it is nice when she winks.
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@CharlieMarlow_Oct 10
Companies always give away coffee tumblers as promo gifts. Nobody needs another tumbler. Everybody has too many. What businesses should be giving away is chip clips. Everybody needs an extra chip clip. This is an important tweet.
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Billy Fleming@JooBillyOct 8
I think one of the most frustrating parts of the academy is that, for structural reasons, you spend much of your career watching good scholars/people fail and bad ones succeed.
Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) profile pictureYuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_zOct 8
Princeton denied her tenure.
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Sign me up! But it might hurt to try to do both at once. Liking living on both sides of the mirror at once.
Nick Burns (@NickBurns) profile pictureNick Burns
@NickBurnsOct 7
The hypothetical dream two-book deal is one where you write the same book twice, once for a university press, carefully circumscribed argument dealing in detail with all the literature on the subject; then again for a trade press in absolutely shamelessly demagogic fashion
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i regret to inform you this is also literally what is happening with teacher pensions in the US today!
Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) profile pictureJordan Weissmann
@JHWeissmannOct 7
France is apparently dipping into its schools budget to plug holes in its public pension system. Seems relevant given that the country is currently being rocked by students protesting over conditions at their high schools!theconversation.com/the-fren…
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DukesTailgate@DukesTailgateOct 3
Someday we will have nice tailgate weather for @JMUFootball, right? Been tailgating for more than a quarter century & have never seen a season where it has rained for every single home tailgate. Instead of building a new Bridgeforth maybe we start building an Ark!
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Brian Hackel@Brian_A_HackelSep 27
When I went to @Tulane, in 2015, a dude in my dorm SA’ed a woman. He had school hearings. NOPD issued an order of protection. But no charges or expulsion. I saw him out one night & yelled at him. He took a video & sent it to the school. I was put on probation for “bullying”.
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College Sports Only
@CSOonXSep 26
If you hire a head coach from James Madison, you will become a college football powerhouse overnight:
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@pmamtravellerSep 25
fifth-generation Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket weaver Corey Alston standing next to one of his large, contemporary sculptural basket creations.
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Wow: Of 11-12,000 undergraduate degrees at UT, only 300 were in any humanities program. That includes History and English: thedailytexan.com/2026/09/22…
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@YAppelbaumSep 23
Maybe you think you've read everything you need to on this topic. But if you haven't read @JenishaWatts, you need to add that to your list: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School

Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School

I admire Nikole Hannah-Jones’s choice. I am making a different one.

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