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Jeff Nichols

@backwardsriver.bsky.social
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Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD jeffnicholshistory.com

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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 11h
Adolf Hitler, semi-professional painter and author jailed for failed putsch, dies in Berlin with wife
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chicago Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen on strike, 1950
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chicago 1918
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Chicago 1918
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
West Side, Chicago c. 1968-1969
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A coyote checking out some tombstones.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
one thing I remember thinking about during the NYT's wall to wall coverage of Claudine Gay's fake plagiarism scandal is how regularly the NYT denies credit to the work of local, independent, and/or student journalists
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Newsboy with newsstand displaying two New York theatre/entertainment papers, Chicago (1904) Chicago Daily News
From source: Image of a newsboy holding newspapers and standing next to a paper stand on a commercial street in Chicago, Illinois, August 11, 1904. A pedestrian is visible in the foreground.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 03/10/2026
Corsets to fit every figure—— EVERY CORSET GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR
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Democrats Abroad UK @demsabroaduk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With major statewide seats wide open and a golden opportunity to shift the political landscape, Iowa is emerging as a massive battleground this cycle. 🌽🗳️🌍 If you’re an Iowa voter living overseas, request your ballot today and view IA’s deadlines here: www.votefromabroad.org/states/Iowa
A graphic in blue with a starburst design as the background. The shape of the State of Iowa is at the center. The text says "Iowa. Josh Turek, Senate. Rob Sand, Governor, Ryan Peterman, Secretary of State." There is a checkmark in a circle beside each name. The DA logo is at the bottom.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do you call the feeling of melancholy when something that would have been a huge scandal in any other administration breaks on a near daily basis?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If like 10 years ago you could develop a list of the most obviously impeachable acts a President could commit, Trump would have hit every one this term.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saying ‘no-one elected you’ to the Pope is genuinely funny
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HINOJOSA PLUS FOUR?
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow, imagine if Trump’s legacy was America becoming a democracy.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That long silent walk the lectern is priceless.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Program guide in the Bregstone Papers at the Newberry
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Corset ad in Yiddish, Chicago 1918
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over on X, the everything app, claims that Ireland has descended into "full-blown civil war", with people engaged in open warfare about migration and claims about the "New Irish Republican Army", mostly with old/unrelated videos/images. Absolute brain worms.
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§JUST IN: Ireland is on the brink of becoming the first country in Europe to plunge into a full-blown civil war over immigration.
The government and police are struggling to maintain order in major cities as protests and acts of civil disobedience escalate.SHOCKING: IRELAND JUST ERUPTED INTO FULL CIVIL WAR
Patriots seize Dublin and major cities...owing to SHUT DOWN the entire economy until the Treasonous Government FOLDS.
The Irish are DONE being replaced and robbed.
It's OVER for the EU Tyrannical LIARSWWG1WGA
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So this just happened yesterday in the Irish Capital - no Police to be seen anywhere.
If this doesn't terrify you, then you're simply not paying attention.
No these are not Irish people.THE NEW NEW IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY HAVE DECLARED TO THE AUTHORITIES THAT THEY WILL START A CIVIL WAR IF ALL MIGRANTS ARE NOT REMOVED FROM IRELAND
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THE NEW NEW IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY
HAVE DECLARED TO THE AUTHORITIES THAT THEY WILL START A CIVIL WAR IF ALL MIGRANTS ARE NOT REMOVED FROM IRELAND
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's problem was that he didn't brag enough. That was it
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Encouraging sign that Trump is so desperate for a W that he is holding a national address to tout a factory in Iowa that will never be built
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Calling it now: Centrist pundits: Trump wins in 2024 by one point: “all of American culture has changed tonight!” Trump is so hated that Wyoming elects a Black lesbian Democrat as governor in 2026: “now, let’s not be hasty abt seeing anything national in these strange local stories.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fetterman looks like he tells his boss “we got him” when he only actually saw him fall into the river
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, Sen. Grassley, if he does something after you tell him he can't, and you don't do anything, it turns out he *does* have the authority.
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