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Claire Denelle Cowart

@clairedenelle.bsky.social
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Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen Dan Sullivan (R-AK), up for reelection and lagging in the polls against his Democratic challenger Mary Petola, is revealed as a platinum card Epstein club member whose politically career was funded by Epstein's wing man, Leon Black. thealaskacurrent.com/2026/09/18/d...
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Dan Sullivan took money from Epstein associate Leon Black
Leon Black, the billionaire who has refused to testify about his close relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, gave money to Sullivan in 2019.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This needs to be a much bigger story. "Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir."
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Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you fancy learning about some 18th century women writers, you can still sign up for the latter half of this course. And it's still an absolute steal! (Online!) regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
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12 Books Your Regency Heroine Should Read – Regency Fiction Writers
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oligarchs cause diseases with their greed
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
CFPs and Events: Anne Radcliffe, eco-Gothic, Northanger Abbey, the Weird, Folk Horror, vampires, dragons A fab conference CFP, articles for journal and exciting events coming soon! www.opengravesopenminds.com/?p=22324
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CFPs and Events: Anne Radcliffe, eco-Gothic, Northanger Abbey, the Weird, Folk Horror, vampires, dragons
Whitby Abbey seen from the south west (by Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0) There have been a lot of exciting events that I have saved up for a post (unfortunately, I'm too late for some of them, so I apologise to the organisers and to you all!). Events later in July will appear in a subsequent post. CFP: Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now Conference 2027 Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now; University of Sheffield, 24-26 June 2027 Deadline: 15 September 2026 Since 2024, the Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now project, funded by the AHRC, has sought to reintroduce Ann Radcliffe to 21st-century readers by exploring both her contemporary influence and her lasting legacies.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Still not on either the NYT or WaPo homepages: Trump: "I love inflation"
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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#ACIS is officially on BlueSky, just in time for the #NationalACIS26 conference in Denver from May 27-31!
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is just horrifying. No one will ever be willing to help us again. Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
For completeness Here’s the gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 13/04/2026
Our latest from @kylebazgo.bsky.social: a look at 8 of the most insane fascist and antisemitic accounts JD Vance follows on X. No idea why mainstream outlets don’t think it’s notable he follows people who joke about Holocaust denial and an account that says Hitler was “the lesser evil.”
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BOO-nker SPOOK-room, male porn star @seej500.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction
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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For the day that's in it. "...The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here." The Cure at Troy
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Good grief—he has really gone over the edge.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A statement has been issued by the US president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in response to President Trump's social media post about the pontiff.
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Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!
Details for a call for papers for the workshop "Modern British History and the Environmental Turn", 16-17 September 2026, at Lincoln College, Oxford. 300 word proposals for a short 'position paper' of approximately 2500 words, to be submitted to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
1. Elahe Mohammadi’s reporting on the funeral of Jina Mahsa Amini — which ignited the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings — led to her being imprisoned by the regime for 17 months. God only knows what she endured while in prison. So I hope you’ll read her message below.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Republican majority leaders Thune and Johnson refuse to call back their members for an emergency session in the biggest American crisis of the century. Minority leaders Schumer and Jeffries should have their members in session right now on the steps of the capitol, if that's what they have to do.
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Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yep. Just a reminder about Substack's Nazi connection, which is the reason why I left a few years ago & don't even read any newsletters hosted over there.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
So the astronauts had to hang a T-shirt in the window to screen out the Earth’s brightness. No one thought of shades?
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The realization of how fragile democratizing progress is should make us appreciate and celebrate it more, not less. Only if we value the progress that has been achieved do we understand what we must defend.
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 04/04/2026
Repost is so important here - Likes are nice but don’t have any effect on the number of people seeing a creator’s work. Like block, use repost early and often to make everyone’s feed richer.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well this sounds scary.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The emails she quotes are both disgusting and infuriating. Glad this was published, though. The Epstein Emails Show #MeToo Never Stood a Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...
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Opinion | The Epstein Emails Show #MeToo Never Stood a Chance
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This triggered quite a response.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Amazing.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 15/03/2026
It was a typo ffs
Search for new digital humanities tutles

Al Mode reads:
"New digital humanities turtles" refers to a growing, interdisciplinary research area that reclaims the "turtles all the way down" metaphor to explore animal cosmologies, Indigenous knowledge, and digital, environmental, and technological studies. This emerging field— highlighted by initiatives at institutions like the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is terrible.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'll be taking part in mystery and noir night for New Orleans Public Library on 3/25! I'll be reading from my novel, The Pike boys, and slinging some signed copies. I'll be alongside Tom Andes ( @tomandes.bsky.social),Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert! Location: Nora Navra branch time: 5:30!
Author Night

Mystery and Noir

Four authors read a selection of mystery, noir, and crime fiction with a New Orleans twist

Featuring readings by Tom Andes, Danny Cherry jr., Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert. 

Wed March 25th 530 pm to 630pm

Nora Navra Library

1902 Saint Bernard Ave.

NOLA Public Library
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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WakeMeWhenItsOver😴 @zelbel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
According to the FBI, Trump was accused credibly of raping a child in the early 80's. They interviewed the victim 4 times to collect testimony, but now DOJ has removed records of the investigation from the released Epstein files. Trump was also accused by a victim that helped convict Maxwell...
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DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files
The FBI interviewed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims four times over her allegation that Donald Trump assaulted her when she was underage.
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Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Whoa!
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/02/2026
Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Trump: "I don't know Prince Andrew."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:
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The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging - The American Prospect
As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen resistance only grows.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/02/2026
NEW: Easily one of the most important interviews I've done. This is bigger than the intel that led to Trump's first impeachment, and Tulsi Gabbard, Susie Wiles, & seemingly Trump himself are feverishly trying to cover it up. You can watch the interview here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-tulsi-...
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NEW: Tulsi Gabbard is Covering Up a Call About someone Close to the White House
This is an impeachable offense. I sat down with the whistleblower's attorney for an in-depth, 45-minute interview. You don't want to miss it.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
👉🏼“NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is like mom hissing WE'RE GOING TO TALK LATER ABOUT WHAT YOU DID to dad in front of the kids
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