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Boston 's Leslie Knope

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Former Local Government Archivist now in the Ivory Tower. MBTA green and blue line commuter. Once described as "insane in a great way"

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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 4h
I had to deal with an AI customer service agent today and all I could think was, "Please take me back to the nice people at the call centers in Mumbai'
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 22h
This. Blue collar work is important, it's also typically dangerous and often doesn't come with robust health insurance, paid holidays etc. Can't we just be truthful about it?
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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"All the women in art [seem to] hold the cause of suffrage at heart” -- so declared, in 1915, the magazine Arts and Decoration. Many Boston artists, including Anna Coleman Ladd, claimed their voting rights as soon as the 19th Amendment passed in 1920. Image: Library of Congress
Artist Anna Coleman Ladd working on a mask with a soldier in her studio.
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bless this coffee shop in NH that is playing music from my youth
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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#onthisday in 1904, writer, journalist, and intelligence officer Graham Greene was born. Greene travelled extensively during his career and his papers document his travel and his relationships across countries and continents.  For more: findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/r…
Stack of passports belonging to Graham Greene
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My parents are being extreme about this and retiring to Maine because they hate hot summers
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BostonTimelapse @bostontimelapse.org · 27/09/2026
24 hours of Boston in 24 seconds!
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is actually not hopeless and what we do matters
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time I forget about this character, he pops up again
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My mother is embroidering flowers on my sister's jeans and offered her embroidery services to me too, so apparently 2001 is back.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
cnn.com
FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is my take as well. If you create a car that spontaneously accelerates because of how it’s designed, nobody says the car went rogue. You, who designed and sold the car, are on the hook. It’s not everybody else’s problem. Can’t keep it from spontaneously accelerating? Don’t sell it.
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Mass50501 @mass50501.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE has run 2 days of stops in New Bedford, demanding papers from anyone who "looks like" an immigrant. People here legally are taken 90 min to Burlington, then released w/ no ride home. Need help? Call the LUCE hotline: 617-370-5023. Alert via @lucenewbedford (IG).
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Rachel Wagner @drrachelwagner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If parents want to help higher ed real fast, make concrete inquiries about administrator salaries at campus tours. That’s where all the money is going. If a school is eliminating programs while paying administrators big bucks, call them out. Walk away. Then things will change.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Attorneys for a man tased by ICE in Danbury, Connecticut, last month said in a court filing that they had a similar experience when they tried to visit him in the hospital.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I haven't heard of Novelist before, but now I am looking into it!
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I started doing it a few years ago and it's so great! I think translated into English (unless it's a really easy read).
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm headed to southern Spain (Granada and Sevilla) in 2 months and I want to read some Spanish fiction (preferably set in southern Spain) while I'm there. Hit me with your recs! I loved The Shadow of the Wind and hated City of Marvels, if that gives you an idea of my taste.
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As usual, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The #mapoli MAGA candidate for governor wants to suspend the state gas tax when prices go over $4/gallon. His plan for responding to federal foreign policy folly is to disinvest in our transportation system. A better plan would be to make commuter rail free while gas prices exceed $4.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now imagine that during a crisis an AI draws from a huge amount of data to conclude that Russia or China are preparing a nuclear first strike and an under-pressure analyst sends that immediately up the chain.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
davebarry.substack.com
Michelle
A tribute.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this is alarming people, but it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We don't let airlines self regulate, so I think this is imprudent.
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sometimes I read the student evals just to feel better.
Handwritten comment on student evaluation reading "archivists work really hard so historians can write really cool stuff"
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#GoodNews for #biodiversity, because we all need some www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s really taking off’: hedge revival as farmers rediscover ancient tools
Grant applications in England surge as interest grows in habitat that captures carbon and helps reduce flood risk
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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
How does one un-burn-out oneself once the semester starts? Many of us will be doing this experiment with Ns of 1.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
in 30 years people are going to wonder how we got caught up in the AI extinction hysteria while a real mass extinction was happening and we did very little to stop it
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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Starting in the late 1850s, the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland formed Model Schools to provide vocational ed to Irish workers. In 1861, they published this primer, “Simple directions in needle-work and cutting out : intended for the use of the national female schools of Ireland."
lace work sample pasted onto a green specimen pagebaby shirt sample pasted onto a green specimen page
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another day and another example for why we desperately need a thriving academic field of religious studies.
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I do it all that way and when asked, I say it's how I do my part to support the usps
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I'M Insane Damin Toell
Alt: I'M Insane Damin Toell
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This seems useful to me!
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I insist on paying most bills with paper checks. I was made for this
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Amen
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my whole vibe
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This seems very significant
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Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At Boston City Hall for Brownsberger-Lander recount Multiple state senators here, as are current and former Wu aides. underscoring the cloze race's mayor vs. Senate dynamic
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Boston 's Leslie Knope @archifydd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I just spent an hour talking to my father on the phone about WWII, dial up internet, academic politics, real estate, and East Asian foreign policy. I am either a 65 year old white man or an Eldest Daughter.
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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Mary Eliza Project in the news! www.wcvb.com/article/bost...
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54,000 women registered to vote in Boston in 1920; Is your great-grandmother on the list?
When the 19th Amendment was ratified, 54,000 women in Boston registered to vote. Now you can search the database to see if your relative was among the trailblazers.
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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As many of us head back to school, today’s #VoteroftheDay is veteran teacher Mabel Vivian Shaw (1879-1979), who registered to vote in Boston on September 8th, 1920. Image: 1906 Mirror, Edmund Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College
Black and white portrait of a young woman in a dress with a handwritten label, Mabel V. Shaw. The image is on a green background.
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