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Historian. Proud George Mason University PHD

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Senate Democrats wrote a letter of concern. tinyurl.com/yfdw9m5h
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Forget the East Wing. The Real Demolition Has Only Just Begun. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o...
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Opinion | It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.
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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump's personal lawyer, whose main mission is to run a vast cover-up hiding that the President of the US is a sex trafficker and child rapist, is confirmed by fifty GOP Senators. Oh, and his secondary mission is to go after Trump's political enemies. /1
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Donald Trump has called Schwartz “a STAR”. ...she seems to be yet another stooge..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential | Arwa Mahdawi
An exchange between Dr Erica Schwartz and Senator Josh Hawley during her confirmation hearing is alarming
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Saint Jerome contemplating the sorry state of the world. Know how he feels! By Pieter Coecke van Aelst, born OTD in 1504.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Brent Leggs, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ...said the new regulations would “eviscerate the preservation of our shared civic and cultural heritage in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/a...
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Critics Say Historic Sites Are Endangered by Trump-Aligned Panel’s Plan (Gift Article)
Proponents say the changes to the federal preservation rules are necessary, but critics argue they are alarming and would help expedite the president’s redesign of Washington.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The assault on history and culture marches on with the revision of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act--"...plac[ing] approximately 1.4 million historic sites at greater risk by shifting decisions away from the communities where they are rooted." (AIA) www.aia.org/about-aia/pr...
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AIA Responds to ACHP Vote to Revise Section 106: Calls for Congressional Oversight and Legal Review
AIA is opposed to the decision by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to move forward with revisions to Section 106 of the National Historic Preser
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A smarter citizenry protects freedom and improves economic growth. Now, it is up to citizens at all levels to check the power of the authoritarian in the Oval Office, who is trying to dumb down the American public for political gain. open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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Degrees of Damage
Pre-schoolers to grad students — no one is safe from Trump’s attack on education
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
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WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Danish media on Greenland: politiken.dk/edition/art1....
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First Maga, now Greenland: Christoffer Guldbrandsen finds hi
We are completely mistaken if we think Trump is done with Greenland, says the Danish star director Christoffer Guldbrandsen, who has closely followed the MAGA movement. Only one thing can stop the pre
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 02/07/2026
Those arrested in the recent surge include a 56-year-old Catholic nun from Nigeria.
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Armed With New Slush Fund, 'Lawless and Rogue' ICE Arrests 10,000+ in Just Five Days
Those arrested in the recent surge include a 56-year-old Catholic nun from Nigeria.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fugitive slaves were literally not accused of a crime, this was a rather important point in the 1850s.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Out of Rubble Comes Hope: Two Gaza Sisters Win Top Environment Award | Countercurrents
Two sisters from Gaza have won a top international award for the environment. They are 17-year-old Tala and 15-year-old Farah Samer Moussa from Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and…
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sherrilyn Ifill, explains the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act..the history and how the Voting Rights Act protects the voting strength of minorities and their candidates of choice, and the dangers we now face. youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM?...
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Sherrilyn Ifill - What Happened to the Voting Rights Act? | The Daily Show
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"The majority even makes explicitly clear that Black voting strength and representation can be subordinated to an array of state interests including, a state’s interest in protecting white incumbents..." Sherrilyn Iffel. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/scotus-dro...
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights Act
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Good Trouble Veteran @goodtroubleveteran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I have never seen anything more staged in my life. In what reality is the Vice President rushed off before the President?
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George @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Abolish ICE @milpool.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
38 US states are whiter than the US average and those states control 76% of the Senate and an outsized share of the Electoral College so I don’t think we’re being too mean to the reactionary country folk
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The U.S. Forest Service will shutter 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week. The closures will target science studying how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are impacting forests.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Former UN human rights director Craig Mokhiber: “Iran has not been attacked because it has nuclear weapons, it's been attacked because it does not have nuclear weapons” “Iran has not started a war with another country in centuries”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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KD Combat, Immovable @katiecombat.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Today I heard about an interesting book on a public radio station show, then when I got home I went to the website for my local public library and requested it. I'll have it tomorrow for free. This is precious. We must protect this.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
.Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
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Opinion | The Mistake That Iranians Make About America
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought.
Note: This is a long post.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 06/02/2026
Trump's Depraved Racist Attack on the Obamas Matters Deeply and Must Be Condemned | If you can’t bring yourself to condemn something this overtly racist, where exactly is your line?
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Trump's Depraved Racist Attack on the Obamas Matters Deeply and Must Be Condemned
Promoting a video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates isn’t a joke. It isn’t satire or an accident. It’s the oldest racist smear in the book. If you can’t bring yourself to condemn something this overtly racist, where exactly is your line?
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Noura watermelon mafia thank you very much @sonourable.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Israeli occupation is building a concentration camp for Palestinians and as far as i can tell, not one mainstream media outlet has connected the dots to what is happening to Palestinians is translating back to here in the US. They still don’t get it
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/27/g...
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Gaza’s “Board of Peace”: A Circus to Normalize a New Phase of Mass Dispossession and Genocide
The so-called ceasefire in Gaza was a cynical ruse to secure Israeli captives while giving Israel free rein to starve, murder and assassinate at will. The
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Prime Minister of Greenland: Sovereignty is a red line. Our integrity, our borders, and international law are definitely, definitely a red line that we don’t want anyone to cross.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Primary ALL of them. Supporting violent, masked state police is inexcusable, especially after all the videos have shown them to be domestic terrorists who constantly ride roughshod over both people and the Constitution.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ceasefire offers little hope that it will fundamentally change the status quo Israel has established over the past three months, which many refer to as "a new form of genocide."
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible....The point is not to get back to normal. Normal is how we got here. Adam Bonica data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Gaza staggers under 80% unemployment rate: Not a ceasefire Day 89
Gaza hospitals, civil defense overwhelmed; attacks on Palestinians in 2025; Israel and Somaliland; Israel’s arms manufacturers get EU money; more headlines
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
There is no cease fire. aje.io/fgxjtd
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Israeli school assault wounds dozens of Palestinians in West Bank raid
Casualties taken to Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah following an Israeli army attack on Birzeit University.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
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With Global Attention on Venezuela, Israel Intensifies Assault on Gaza, Lebanon | Common Dreams
Amid global concern over Trump's actions in Venezuela, Israel is bombing Gaza and Lebanon.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is courage. aje.io/2tretw
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Gaza’s tech workers code from rubble as Israel’s war destroys digital life
Gaza's coders and technicians battle to keep enclave online amid Israeli infrastructure destruction.
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Virginian @cafferata.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is courage. aje.io/vf70ud
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Economic survival in Gaza decimated by Israeli counts on small initiatives
Gaza's unemployment rate has reached 80 percent, among the highest in the world, according to the United Nations.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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B'Tselem and Amnesty warn Gaza genocide is not over
B'Tselem reported that genocide in Gaza is not over even 75 days into the ceasefire — is the world inured to Palestinian suffering?
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