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Shane Landrum, PhD

@cliotropic.bsky.social
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Independent scholar, historian, technologist; they/them. Gardening, fluffy cats, practical animism. All opinions mine, not my employer’s.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Signed by foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, EU Commissioner
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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
we just republished months of our ICE coverage, free of paywalls, in professionally-translated spanish. check it out: www.404media.co/were-publish...
the 404 media homepage with ICE coverage in spanish
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 03/07/2025
Trump's administration reportedly wants to incentivize people to have more kids, driven by an ideology associated with eugenics.
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The Trump Admin Is Pushing Americans to Have More Kids. This Movement Explains Why
Elon Musk, who's fathered at least 14 children, has claimed that unless birth rates increase, "civilization will disappear."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2025
#ICYMI: The EPA withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities. By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
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EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility
A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage…
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congratulations to Harvard on its principled resistance to Trumpism <hand to earpiece> Hold on, I’m getting word -
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Harvard Removes 800 Students From Grad Union, Claiming They Are Not Employees | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will remove more than 800 students on research-based stipends from its graduate student union, capitalizing on recent National Labor Relations Board rulings to deal a crushing blow to student ...
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It’s past time Democrats start calling the media out in their appearances. Talking about ICE? Ask the host if they support white supremacy—and if not then why are they talking about ICE without talking about Stephen Miller, the documented racist who’s running it for a checked out Trump?
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
important update on @propublica.org's reporting on America's largest oxygen supply company, which made billions while repeatedly defrauding Medicare 👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
seems like this should be a big deal. apnews.com/article/pale...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
Last night a bunch of Republicans in the House were saying how awful this bill was. Only took a couple hours, some merch, and a few words from Donald Trump, and they’re lining up to rip away health care from 17 MILLION people. I’m sadly not surprised — but I am still outraged.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Two U.S. contractors said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished."
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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Republicans vote to kill
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 30/06/2025
It’s worth noting (again) that explaining to non-historians how studying history develops critical thinking skills is the most effective way to help people understand history’s value to society and leads them to support greater funding. aaslh.org/reframing-hi...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/06/2025
Surprise surprise. A week after Sarah McBride gives cover fire for throwing trans people under the bus, some Dems are privately indicating they’ll capitulate on trans youth healthcare and citing the pseudoscientific Cass Report literally drafted in consultation with hate groups.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 30/06/2025
It’s so bad. Everyone I know with the luxury of citizenship is carrying their passport around. I should say, everyone who isn’t white, since the abductors are clearly and obviously targeting people by race. Many, many people are too scared to leave their homes.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 30/06/2025
Oh man, I’ve been out of town for the last week or so, but this brought home how absolutely dystopian it is in LA right now. Roving bands of unidentifiable masked men just snatching people off the street, abetted by LAPD. It’s fucking terrifying. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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For Mayor Consideration
Podcast Episode · LA Podcast · 06/30/2025 · 48m
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Federal officers from across US government depts have joined ICE to execute raids, but we don't know who they are while they widely cover their faces + refuse to identify themselves. "Masked agents in casual clothing using force against people in public is associated with police states."
theguardian.com
The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
reuters.com
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
THREAD.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 10/06/2025
Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 11/06/2025
Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.
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ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 13/06/2025
"Doctors looked at my body, and couldn’t decide whether to mark M or F on my birth certificate. So instead of changing the form, they tried to change my body. "What I experienced is the opposite of gender-affirming care; it's gender enforcement... "I deserved to make those decisions for myself."
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/06/2025
Hospitals shutting down care in preemptive compliance with the Trump administration is cowardice. All this will do is move care to individual providers where trans youth will not have access to large interdisciplinary teams. It won’t stop care, but it will hurt patients.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights
"If we don't put a line in the sand here, other agencies will try and do the same.”
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 13/06/2025
“None of the women I met at the halfway house could cite positive past relationships with men, yet all were encouraged to pursue reentry plans that involved men.”
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How Post-Prison Reentry Programs Fail Queer Women
Having a man counts as a plan in some reentry programs.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump just announced new 50% tariffs on household appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators. Hope no one out there was in the middle of a remodel, or had a stove recently conk out www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...
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Home appliances swept up in expansion of Trump steel tariffs
A range of imported household appliances including dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators and more will be subject to President Donald Trump's expanded steel tariffs starting later this month, according to a notice posted on Thursday.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/06/2025
The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles will stop offering services related to transgender care, according to a message reviewed by The Times.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Abortion is healthcare. Can't believe that's controversial in 2025.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Another factor is the conversion to “student as consumer” model, associated with student evaluations, grade inflation, shrinking requirements. There were problems with “student as product” model, but it rightly emphasized that what you get out of college is proportional to the work you put into it.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The most salient factor, IMO, is rising course loads across all ranks, combined with creeping enrollment caps on GenEd, composition, & introductory courses. Both were intended to create more precarious labor & thus lower costs. they also increased student-to-faculty ratios & assessment loads.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵
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Shane Landrum, PhD @cliotropic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Imagining a future where anyone who actually did the work of extended longform nonfiction in school is an elder who mysteriously Knows Things that younger people never even heard of. Like, you know, the cultural history of global civilization. Literature. How we got into this mess.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This by itself is impeachable.
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Martin Lenz @goingloopy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Encouraging young people to bypass learning how to read, think, and write is to harm them both mentally and physically. It is to deprive them of the inner resources they will need in their lives to deal with crisis. It is to imprison them in momentary trifles and distractions."
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Shane Landrum, PhD @cliotropic.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Holy shit, am I going to spend my entire professional future working for a tech company where everyone younger than ____ needs remedial humanities education? (as if we are not already there.)
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our new study: as ppl identified more strongly w/ neurodivergent movement, rated terms more/less appropriate: + neuro-(diverse, divergent, minority, type) - condition, deficit, disorder, illness, syndrome - developmental (non-aut only) *+ disability (aut only)* www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
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Neurodiversity movement identification and perceived appropriateness of terms used to describe autism
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One of the things I learned writing a book about global trade is that thing you got delivered next day started its journey *months* ago in China or SE Asia. A few months from now you will see an explosion of stories about empty shelves. It’s going to blow people’s minds.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's infuriating to see UK anti-trans activists claiming cis-passing trans men can be excluded from both men's and women's spaces as a consequence for our adult choice to change our bodies be cause every other time they mention us we're hapless girls, incapable of making our own decisions.
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