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Chet DeFonso

@chetdefonso.bsky.social
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Yooperprof. British historian. Occasional actor. Jet Set Chet. Reader of books. Likes opera. Also beer. LGBTQ club member. He/him.

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David Gould @drdavidgould.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My book on historic rabbit warrens in England is published on 13th Nov by Liverpool Uni Press and I'm pleased to have received my advance copies. The perfect Xmas gift for any rabbit warren-obsessed nerd, of which there are no doubt many such people. #landscapearchaeology #rabbits #medievalsky
Me in a dapper shirt pointing at the cover of my soon to be published book.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The second attack in two weeks on an LGBT+ bookshop in Glasgow. STV posted this story on Facebook and there is an endless stream of comments underneath suggesting the answer is for them to stop using the word "queer", stop supporting trans rights, and stop being so visible. Mainstreamed hate.
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Queer bookshop vandalised again two weeks after targeted attack
Category Is Books in Govanhill has been targeted twice within two weeks
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five favorite British Films: Brief Encounter (1945) The Third Man (1949 My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Howard's End (1992) Secrets and Lies (1996)
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Author event [Anthony Marra] in Marquette.
Mercury Theatre Presents by Anthony Marra
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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👀🤔
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
De Gaulle's takeover WAS a military coup, btw. Sorry. But if there are literally paratroopers prepping to drop on the capital, with tanks waiting to roll into Paris then it is not a Sparkling Emergency Prime Minister appointment It is a coup, from the coup region of France.
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Follow your bliss, obviously. I like variety. Five of my faves: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church; the Holler House; North Point Water Tower; the Grain Exchange Building downtown; UWM School of Freshwater Sciences.
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ya think?
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Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ink’s dry, so I’m incredibly happy and honored to share that my book, The North Woods: An Environmental History, is officially under contract with the @uwapress.uw.edu in their Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series! Super excited to be working with @brdemuth.bsky.social as series editor!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Call for Papers – A World of a Thousand Cuts: Forests, Wood, and Industrialisation Across the Globe in the 19th and 20th Centuries 6-8 July, 2027, hosted by the University of Turin Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/09/17/c... #envhist #foresthistory #globalhistory
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Call for Papers - A World of a Thousand Cuts: Forests, Wood, and Industrialisation Across the Globe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
This 2027 University of Turin conference re-examines 19th-20th-century global industrialisation by exploring how timber's ongoing role reshaped world forests.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Brad and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today, September 14, 2026, in New York City. Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He was fantastic as Rossini's Tancredi (usually sung by a contralto) this summer in Rome.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels. n.pr/3T0rSsv
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Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring
In 2025, the Trump administration ended a long-running program to collecting air pollution data at U.S. embassies. A new study suggests that led to a 24-33% increase in local pollution levels.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 14/09/2026
Hongrie : le gouvernement présente un projet de loi pour amender la législation anti-LGBT+ introduite par Viktor Orban
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Hongrie : le gouvernement présente un projet de loi pour amender la législation anti-LGBT+ introduite par Viktor Orban
Le gouvernement de Péter Magyar propose d’aligner la législation hongroise sur le droit de l’UE en supprimant l’interdiction de la « promotion de l’homosexualité » auprès des mineurs.
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Trueharmony @trueharmony.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is how he answers a reporter.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things are not great at Auburn www.al.com/news/2026/09...
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Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate
Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bimbo's Wine Press, Iron Mountain Michigan. Italian-American neighborhood tavern in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, complete with Tom Izzo shrine.
Neighborhood tavern with Bimbo's sign.   Tavern interior with Italian red detailing Bimbo's signPressed tin ceiling painted with grapes and Bacchus figures
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politico cartoon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2026
Look who made the trip to Ireland! #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Ms Harp wearing green with her lovely smile
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Obligatory
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And Soylent Green is People.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
no amnesty
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Immigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Any politician willing to sacrifice even one marginalized group's rights, will always give up on others later. We do not and cannot compromise on people's rights and their lives.
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wisconsin - birthplace of Colby Cheese, the QWERTY keyboard, Orson Welles, and the Gideon Bible!
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What hath cod wrought?
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Americans are not accustomed to learning lessons about democracy from Nigeria, Peru, or the Philippines... Those countries offer examples of what it looks like to reclaim stolen or swindled wealth from fallen authoritarian rulers." Must-read by @davidfrum.bsky.social:
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What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains
Lessons from fallen autocrats
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I know it's trite to say, but still imagine the coverage Biden would have gotten if he had made up an elaborate lie about being saved on 9/11. Astead Herndon would have a podcast specifically dedicated to the issue up by the end of the afternoon
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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The Fiendish Legion @thefiendishlegion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
FUCK ICE
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Weird is an odd choice of adjective. "Complicit" would be my choice.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elizabeth Taylor, playing the character Martha in the film of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, shouts at her real life husband Richard Burton, who played Martha's husband George in the film.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Most American have zero interest in the US government treating one of our most important historical allies and trading partners like this. But the worst among us is running the country, thanks to the worst and most irresponsible voters among us.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Don't be so gloomy!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UK folks please keep the Reform takes coming. It is nice to take a break from the relentless stupidity of US politics by reading about similar stupidity elsewhere.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When Hegseth is sacked - a hot minute after Trump is gone - the U.S. should give serious consideration to extraditing him to the ICC to answer for his crimes. This would be at least a baby step on the US path to regain credibility.
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