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Crystal Brandenburgh

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Bitter feminist | CMU History PhD candidate researching interwar women’s politics | She/her 📚😈

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 27/05/2026
"This was...a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom....Today, CBS management is...choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it."
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Sharyn Alfonsi CBS News Contract Expires, Blasts Bari Weiss Over Spiked Story: “Sends A Chilling Message”
Alfonsi remains employed by CBS News for now —“if they want me gone, they’ll have to fire me” — though her public statements suggest that she is already thinking of moving on.
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today we have a fantastic essay on medicine’s patriarchal assumptions in treating women’s bodies. nursingclio.org/2026/03/25/t...
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The Virgins’ Malady: How Marriage Became a Medical Treatment
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief /… / Be not her maid, since she is envious; / Her vestal livery is but sick and green / And none but fools do …
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake” Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway Read it in English here: verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin... And in German here: verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Publicly supporting women is nice, but what really matters is what men do behind closed doors. What matters is how they hold each other accountable. The men’s hockey team shouldn’t get a pass because they were in the locker room—that’s where women need their support the most.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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Crystal Brandenburgh @cbrandenburgh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Excellent new essay about the systematic destruction of the Humanities at CMU and the students/faculty who are trying to resist. Really proud to call its author, Catherine Evans, my friend: www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
East Wing lobby from 2023
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Say it!
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world. I spoke to the @nytimes.com about the strong forces trying to turn the clocks back and how we can all fight for women's rights and futures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
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Hillary Clinton Sees a Dangerous Moment for Women’s Rights, and Democracy
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
In 2019, commercial hotels like the Marriott pledged not to work with ICE to detain immigrants. Now, about 6 years later, reporting shows they are holding people pre-deportation. Such important reporting from @oliverlaughland.bsky.social + @skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ice used Marriott chain to detain immigrants, despite hotel’s 2019 pledge not to cooperate
Sheraton in Louisiana held father and teenage son this month in apparent contradiction of former position
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Sansu The Cat @sansuthecat.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abe Lincoln, 1859
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Read This: "Victim’s Haunting Words Which Show Ghislaine Can Never Be Truly Free" www.thedailybeast.com//victims-hau...
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Victim’s Haunting Words Show Maxwell Can Never Be Truly Free
Even if Ghislaine Maxwell pulls off a pardon, the words of the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre will follow her always.
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50501 Pittsburgh @50501pittsburgh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Thank you to @pw4d.bsky.social for sharing this video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1FEQ...
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." This is painful to read and it feels exactly right.
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Historian Friends! @shgape.bsky.social is holding a conference next June in that great GA/PE city, Chicago! See link to CFP below!
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Writers Guild of America is calling for an investigation into Paramount after ending The Late Show. Link: www.wga.org/news-events/... Also, I love my friends who know I am deep into research and keep me up to date. It takes a village to write, research, and stay on top of this chaos
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Timely insights & continued relevance: progressivism, reform struggles, the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, & political philosophy. On the Legacy of Fighting' Bob LaFollette's Progressive Vision by Nancy Unger #madebyhistory TIME Magazine @shgape.bsky.social 🗃️ time.com/7293419/robe...
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The Legacy of Robert La Follette's Progressive Vision
Robert La Follette saw politics as a never-ending struggle for democracy and fairness and preached perseverance.
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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 18/07/2025
HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
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simoncordery.bsky.social @simoncordery.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Greetings! I'm on Blue Sky in advance of my new book, coming out with Cornell University Press in September. It's about an American entrepreneur who helped create & market luxury railroad cars before investing widely & wildly--the Pullman brother you've never heard of! @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Crystal Brandenburgh @cbrandenburgh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Highly recommend reading this article on the same day that Carnegie Mellon University is hosting an AI “summit” for President Trump and his broligarch minions. These feckless losers don’t want to improve higher ed or contribute to our civic well-being. Cozying up to them is not a winning strategy.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Frances Perkins Center is hiring an entry-level administrative position with a focus on development. $50k salary based in Maine. I happen to be hanging out with the team today, & they're fantastic! apply here: francesperkinscenter.org/wp-content/u...
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This illustration of Carry Nation pretty well captures my mood today. Where's my hatchet?
Woodcut-like illustration in red of a frowning, severe dee woman with foldes hands standing in front of a town with a church on one side and a saloon on the other. The text reads "Carry Nation by Herbert Asbury, Alfred A. Knopf New York 1929"
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Shock study finds that women IR scholars are less likely to BS than male IR scholars... Who knew?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📢📢📢 We’re looking for scholars who could write pieces on the following topics: RFK and miasma, the potential legislation of asbestos, and the backlash against sunscreen. Preferably for Clio ER. #histmed Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 19/06/2025
From historian Christopher Wilson's “It was Not the 'News' that Traveled Slowly—it was 'Power.'” www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee... #Juneteenth
Quote that reads: “Very often Juneteenth is presented as a story of ‘news’ of the Emancipation Proclamation ‘traveling slowly’ to the Deep South and Texas, but it was really a story of power traveling slowly and the freedom being seized." ~Christopher Wilson
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Compare and contrast scenes from yesterday in America. On the one hand, Trump's low-energy Dear Leader parade (that cost you $45 million). On the other, millions of people across the country gathering peacefully to say: Here, we have no kings.
A tank driving by a sparsely populated hill of spectators in Washington DC
A huge river of people at a No Kings rally in Los Angeles, CASparse crowds around the Washington Memorial in DC
A crowd as far as the eye can see at a No Kings rally in Houston, TX
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1. Vincent Scardina, a Trump supporter, gets emotional while discussing his employees who were recently arrested by U.S. immigration authorities. Scardina owns a roofing company in Key West and says that one-third of his employees are now gone.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A US Senator. Treated this way. Physically "forcibly removed" from DHS briefing on his state, pushed from room & to the ground, cuffed. By agents of the Executive Branch. When historians talk about unprecedented, authoritarian actions, this is exactly what we've been talking & worrying about.🗃️
Top Stories: News images and headlines from NBC, ABC, Axios, NBC LA, and Fox all noting Sen. Alex Padilla "forcibly removed" from DHS Secretary Krisi Noem's news conference
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