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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 3h

The words you're looking for are "attempted murder charges" He intentionally drove his SUV into a pedestrian

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 4h

That's my student, and I'm proud of her.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18h

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 21h

@caitcoker.bsky.social has all the fun stuff! What a cool thing to view!

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m going to the conference as well! I’m curious to see what will happen. It doesn’t seem like them to suggest we should cross the line. I’d rather stand in the street and have our meeting!

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh that is interesting. At the very least the gop is having to dump a lot of money into Texas v before when they did very little.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It dawned on me this morning that the onslaught of political ads we are getting in Texas must be what other competitive states experience. Oh! We’ve never had competitive statewide races in the 30 years I’ve lived here. We do have tons of Talarico signs in the area & almost no Paxton signs. Maybe??

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026

received this very nice book of maps of population migration focused on the american south and my sweet, nerdy 8-year-old is obsessed with it. we just spent. the last 40 minutes talking about population movements in the 19th century.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I shouldn't have to tell you that the church Colonial Williamsburg tore down & replaced with a parking lot was a Black church.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only way anyone would celebrate Columbus is if they didn’t read primary texts (or were themselves genocidal murderers and rapists). Rejecting Columbus Day isn’t brainwashing or wokeness. It’s telling the truth about a horrible and evil person.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In Am lit survey I teach primary text Columbus-his letters & de Cuneo’s letter. Students show up for the class looking shell shocked at the frank descriptions of murder and rape perpetrated by Columbus’ group. Then they read de las Casas & see that in his own times Columbus was condemned.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Spoken like many, many Texans. When our child went to college in Ohio… I answered many questions that started.. where?

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mean… immigration enforcement is not well loved. I’ve spoke with people who voted for Trump and they all admit that Texas is built on migration. This is only going to play with a small percentage of people. That’s why the state wide races are close- for the first time in 30 years.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And if you don’t understand… Houston is the most diverse city in the US. 156 languages are spoken in the city. This is absolute bs.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks. I feel very badly for our students who signed up for women and gender studies courses only to have them canceled. For being so called concerned abt students- they aren’t at all.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is real. One quibble. The article says Texas A&M doesn’t use ai to censor. TAMU uses ai to review all our syllabi, and the admins have admitted it’s inaccurate.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wait until you see the new history curriculum that has been approved by Texas…

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

His wool is sort of less fluffy than a cotton ball, but still soft. Our breed tends to be hit or miss on softness depending on which side he pulls- might be long merino or a shorter more primitive wool. We shall see!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When you are caught up in the fitness craze sweeping the zeitgeist but also smoked a bit too much of the good stuff before embarking on today’s 20k.

A sheep who has fallen asleep, mid-run, possibly as a direct result of counting too many of her colleagues.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know two words in French and they're both here

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is an excellent solution to the dilemma of lynching images. Thanks for it.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say

Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He’s tucking that one away!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At the very least this gives me a good group of people to block! I just am not going to abide- this is racist to white people. Please.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I agree. It’s all a through line from the start - destruction of indigenous peoples, enslavement, Jim Crow etc.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It sounds like you have very notable ancestors. Part of our work has been to help uncover Black histories stored behind paywalls and get that to the descendants.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A rep for the Texas constitutional convention, minister, and tried to bring justice to the Millican massacre victims including his friend Pastor George Brooks. Let me see what I can find this weekend - I will come back and respond.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t know much about Kansa but can poke around. We have worked with a number of Black Kansa’s families who traces their roots to Texas. Many ancestors left to start free Black cities in KS. We are working with the Stephen Curtis descendants. He was a very prominent figure

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m not sure which you are referring to, but she’s not wrong that for the most part lynchings are in the service of white supremacy and mostly conducted by white people. Ida b wells has the stats. If we add in so called riots it’s far clearer.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I always struggle with using lynching photos when I teach. They are exploitive and horrific, but students need to understand how lynchings we’re spectacles that families attended, at times bringing picnic lunches . I find Marisa Parham’s work on Black violence so helpful.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It is small even for this breed!

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I often teach a book traces component for my classes where we go through the stacks and look at marginalia. They absolutely love it and it’s a sneaky way to get them into the library. Just in case people don’t know of it booktraces-public.lib.virginia.edu

booktraces-public.lib.virginia.edu

Book Traces

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That’s a really smart strategy. I think there is a lot more of the techniques for reading and writing that we might teach. I always tell them that what works for one person may not work for another.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Raising sheep has its difficulties, but it’s pretty helpful for managing stress when you get to just hang out with them.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Brutal morning of headlines for Ken Paxton.

New York Times: Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.

ProPublica: Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

CNN: ‘He wants me to lose’: Paxton complains about lack of support from Cornyn in leaked audio

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh I didn’t think about that! We want our lambs in January or February because it is too hot for heavily pregnant ewes at other times. So this lamb is a few months too early. Mr ram must have been busier than I thought!

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lynching pictures were also a worldwide event. This comment historicizes the celebratory murder of Black and brown people. It isn’t a coincidence that they are choosing a person who they label a “radical Muslim.” It can be both and….

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know the feed is bleak, but please have a brand new lamb picture. I wasn’t expecting this one, and he might be a premie, but his mom is great and he is eating well.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The “discomfort” white people feel when we discuss race is an inheritance that was taught to them. Teaching children to become complicit in the horror of enslavement and segregation is horrible too. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece b/c it tells that story of that negotiation.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@beaubaumann.bsky.social is right: everyday, until the supposed day of public execution, is a struggle over the message. I would add two things: First, when I say that the Civil War taught us No Kings, No Masters, this is what I mean. The master had sovereign authority over the plantation.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Totally agree. This is an epidemic that hasn’t changed since I went to college. Unis are interested in protecting themselves but not the victims.

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