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@billconnell163.bsky.social
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Historian, author of After Moctezuma Oklahoma U Press 2011, writing about 18th century Mexican crime and murder. AAUP advocacy chapter vice president.

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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.
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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common Dreams
Historian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump may want to “move on,” may be eager to “declare success,” and be trying to “impose his will.” But his missteps have been disastrous, leaving Iran in a far stronger position (and the U.S. weaker) than it was before he started this war of choice with Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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Trump Wants to Move On From the Middle East. It’s Not Letting Him.
President Trump is eager to declare success in Iran and Gaza, but he is struggling to impose his will in either conflict.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin
Border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López was denied tenure at the University of Texas at Austin after being recommended by more than 30 scholars, The Austin-American Statesman reported.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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When a scholar is targeted, what should a university do?
A family scholar’s experience with harassment shows why universities need stronger systems to protect scholar safety and academic freedom.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Posted 5 days ago "russ_and_stacie_sullivan: Good morning, friends! Last night at WaterFire in Providence, 🔥a bunch of friends from different groups got together for a Signs of Fascism awareness event Signs of #Fascism is an event that highlights historical warning signs of #authoritarianism..."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026
i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lindsey Graham discovers that warmongering is easier than actually fighting an ill-conceived war led by a lazy, ignorant, dishonest commander-in-chief.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
YES!!!! In Virginia!
An I voted sticker
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Eric Swalwell — “I don't say this lightly: when we escape this trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president."
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
To command, threaten, or practice that “no quarter” be given to one’s enemies in battle is to simply say to subordinates: “do not accept surrender;” this implies killing every combatant regardless of their expressed desire to surrender and become a prisoner of war. A war crime.
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Your First Bike Commute After Winter: The 10-Minute Spring Safety Check. momentummag.com/your-first-b...
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ATTN HIGHER ED WORKERS! @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social Out of hundreds of thousands of VA workers, grad students/faculty are likely the ONLY gp excluded from historic Collective Bargaining bill. Last week of the session -- make your voices heard! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/forms/vigil-...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Academic freedom and fair employment are inseparable. @aaupmason.bsky.social leaders are fighting to prevent Virginia higher ed workers from being excluded from a historic expansion of collective bargaining for public employees. richmond.com/opinion/colu...
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Strong universities depend on a union contract | Guest commentary
Properly structured collective bargaining provides clarity, predictability and accountability — benefiting faculty, administrators and governing boards. Strong universities depend on protected workers...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/02/2026
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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"SOBREMESA" #CirculaEnRedes 📰Informa @circulaenredes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨 #CirculaEnRedes Informa 🗞️ La Presidenta #ClaudiaSheinbaum encabeza el 113 Aniversario de la Marcha de la Lealtad, que honra a los cadetes del Heroico Colegio Militar. Ellos protegieron al presidente Madero durante una sublevación. Las Fuerzas Armadas mantienen sus principios de patriotismo,
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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"Still, Hutchens said the UNC System considering protections for academic freedom at all is a notable endeavor compared to the actions of other university systems, like Texas A&M." Indeed.
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UNC System Board Advances Academic Freedom Policy, Despite Pushback
Lawyers for a faculty group said the policy would “effectively weaken the definition and historical scope of academic freedom.”
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/01/2026
The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide. “Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.” — Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
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Judge Rejects Nationwide Relief in AAUP, MESA Lawsuit Over Noncitizen Speech, Issues Narrower Protections | News | The Harvard Crimson
A federal judge rebuffed a Harvard faculty group’s request to extend speech protections to noncitizens nationwide after it won a lawsuit against the Trump administration — instead issuing a special…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Not a great day to be a Buffalo fan today. The Bills and the Sabres both have an inability to score and a crisis of confidence.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How far we have come that a dozen people shot with at least 4 deaths barely makes the NYT. No one should have this much power. Are mass shootings now this ordinary? At Least 4 Dead in Bar Shooting in South Carolina, Sheriff Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
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At Least 4 Dead in Bar Shooting in South Carolina, Sheriff Says
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Letter Regarding Compact
MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Strange way to start Sunday. @nytimes.com
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
No Kings Williamsburg Va!
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hoy compartimos el sexto video que curador José Montelongo preparó para su exhibición "Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature". Ahora en la JCB!
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Perhaps Nero can fiddle while we wait for the quo. Just because corrupt actors know how to do this does not mean the absence of an explicit action on the horizon. Will the NYT remember when it drops? Good grief, no one gives anyone anything worth that much without corrupt intent.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Undermining the NEH, National Archives, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian all at once also tells us this 360 is not just about higher ed or research but about how we have (finally, slowly, imperfectly) expanded the American story.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w... They are not even trying to hide it. Shame.
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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Governor Pritzker calls current democratic leadership and pundits “politicians whose simpering timidity served as kindle for the arsonists now urge us not to reach for the hose. Pritzker.” Harsh but we need to hear it. He is strong and a supporter of labor - worth 30 mins. youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...
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Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
revolution. music credit: The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Wordle 1,402 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Leafing through the (>500 GB!) digital copy of this Sebastian Münster MS that @adamjmosley.bsky.social pointed out, and the image of Japan just off Central America's west coast is a wild reminder of Europe's pre-Magellan uncertainty on the size of the globe: opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV0374...
Hand-drawn watercolor and ink map, from Sebastian Münster's "Kollegienbuch" dating from the early 1500s, showing an estimate of the outlines of the Americas and the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans. South America is starting to take its modern recognizable shape, but North America is barely present apart from a bit of Florida and SE U.S. sticking out, and Central America is just a very long and slender isthmus. Just off the west coast -- separated by only about 10 degrees of longitude -- is a large green island representing Japan.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/04/2025
Scenes at Harvard Square right now: community leaders in solidarity with Harvard faculty call out federal overreach for what it is: an attack on academic freedom — and democracy itself.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The many triumphed over the money in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election yesterday. Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford, to the people of Wisconsin, and to everyone fighting for a just and free America. Let's keep going.
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MX Futbol @mxfutbol.com · 24/03/2025
Raúl Jiménez sigue como líder absoluto de México y ha dado la primera Concacaf Nations League a México al vencer a Panamá dos goles a uno. #CONCACAFNationsLeague #MexicanosenEuropa
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¡Campeones! Raúl da a México su primera Nations League
Raúl Jiménez sigue como líder absoluto de México y ha dado la primera Concacaf Nations League a México al vencer a Panamá dos goles a uno.
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
3 killed, 15 injured in mass shooting at 'unsanctioned car show' in New Mexico park - NBC News So Much for that whole “guns save lives” argument . . . Again. It’s amazing we tolerate this level of violence by allowing people to carry weapons that can do this much harm
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to steal from us so regularly, so openly, so unapologetically that Americans just accept it as normal. We can’t let them. I’m headed to the Senate floor right now to lay out the story of 6 weeks of stunning, brazen White House corruption.
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chicagomother.bsky.social @chicagomother.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You need to post the video everywhere. Every American should watch this. youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...
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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/03/2025
NEW: The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would you cut back on the revenue side?” one expert asks. By @andykroll.bsky.social
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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billconnell163.bsky.social @billconnell163.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o.... “Musk is proving before our eyes, working 120 hours a week is not the same as doing a good job”.
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is the World’s Richest Man. Why Is He Sleeping on an Office Floor?
For today’s entrepreneurs, work isn’t merely a way to get things done; it’s also a “superpower” that confers the right to impose their vision on the world.
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OldDudeFella 🚫👑🤴⛔️ @olddudefella.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Well done Germany
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 05/02/2025
The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️
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AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”
The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yes, what’s happening is overwhelming and exhausting, but I refuse to be overwhelmed or exhausted. That’s their goal. That’s how they demoralize people and convince them there’s nothing they can do. Don’t believe it.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/01/2025
This is admittedly in part self-serving but if you value the work individual journalists are doing at The Post but are nervous about the paper institutionally, it's important to send signals — shares, clicks, comments — in support of the work you like instead of only criticizing what you don't.
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