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Christopher McKnight Nichols

@cmcknichols.bsky.social
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Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is going on here?! 🗃️
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shortly afterward the faculty senate there voted no confidence in the president of Bowie state (and in the Provost, again.) Yet those two are the ones making these arbitrary decisions to fire faculty, just announced — even as they hire more administrators on high salaries, as well as consultants.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yankees Red Sox, love a brutal contest wild card
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Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🗃️ Pleqse share, friends! www.artsactionfund.org/take-action-...
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“My unfounded belief that my political opposition is funded by a rival power is not a conspiracy theory” t-shirt is answering questions
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today! #America250
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Coming up Monday, September 28 at 4:45pm (University Hall) in the Center for Historical Research #America250 Program at Ohio State - Paul Barba, Leila Blackbird, and me chairing/moderating - free, public, w/registration, come on out!🗃️ history.osu.edu/events/slave...
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Slavery, Labor, & Unfreedom in the Age of the American Revolution - Panel 2
Panel 2: Challenging Unfreedom & Political Violence In the Age of RevolutionsRegister Here
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Justin Verlander MLB debut 7/4/05 Konnor Griffin born 4/24/06 Griffin is the first batter to face a pitcher who debuted before he was born since Bryce Harper (10/16/92 born) faced Miguel Batista (4/11/92 debut) on 6/6/12
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yup, there’s no full ‘path back’ | Allies will likely for a very long time view the U.S. differently in terms of continuity of international engagement and of likelihood of keeping commitments and following through on promises and threats
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Important historical summits have required lots of advance diplomacy, real issues to hash out, & much more... "Expectations were low entering President Trump’s meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping....Yet the summit’s stark lack of substance surprised even the closest China watchers."🗃️
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reported potential US military staging, assessing options and stockpile buildup in advance of action against Cuba is extraordinarily worrisome.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know your kid can be blind or have brain damage due to measles at birth? If Rubella pops off, then we can add deafness and severe birth defects to the list. Vaccinating your kids is so, so much less dangerous that the damage these diseases can cause, esp to infants sharing their air.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 25/09/2026
DHS claimed nearly 16,000 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. After further review: 185. Nevada checked those 185. All of them were citizens. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Shocker: Another voter fraud claim goes down in flames
The Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a staggering 15,903 noncitizens were on the voter rolls has completely collapsed.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In some ways the US's real superpower has historically been to suffer relatively modest domestic political blowback from remote wars, however misguided and costly, until ... now?🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | How Trump’s Iran War May Sink Republican Midterm Chances (Gift Article)
The president might be supercharging what already looked like a blue wave.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "Our lives are more important than the price on energy and between us, I mean, this doesn't depend on us. I'll be honest everyone it's the war in Hormuz has influence [on energy prices] not the war in Russia."
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Not Your Sharona @shar34.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I urge everyone to sign up. I pay for exactly one subscription — Public Notice. And it’s well worth the cost.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled and honored to be opening and keynoting Weds Sept 23 to discuss US history and #America250 for the Ohio State University Retirees Association 2026 Annual Conference #OSU #historymatters #OSURA oaa.osu.edu/events/keyno...
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Keynote "America at 250 — The Nation, The Founding, and The Ohio State University" by Prof. Christopher Nichols at the OSURA: 2026 Annual Conference | Office of Academic Affairs
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.
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Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban
Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's an attempt out there to REshape the media image of recent US gov't cuts, as hyper-rational, even humane, BUT once the totality is taken into view it is impossible to make that case, no matter how much the US fed deficit is your central issue - just consider USAID apnews.com/article/usai...
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What to know about USAID and the deadly impacts of US foreign aid cuts
The foreign aid landscape has changed dramatically since U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration dissolved the United States Agency for International Development, once the world’s largest humanit...
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As part of their protest, the student group challenged OSU’s policy that bans chalking on campus. We at AAUP-OSU stand with these students’ right to freedom of expression, including chalking — a long tradition at Ohio State.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unlike the advocates for so-called "ideological diversity" and even "absolute free speech," who say & do next to nothing re: actual issues of student speech, @aaup.org & @osuaaup.bsky.social are standing up for student free speech, (despite OSU chalking ban & threats!) + supporting academic freedom
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Nearly two millennia ago, a wealthy Roman commissioned an intricate, multicolored floor mosaic that depicted two beloved household animals: a cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean." 🗃️ #Archaeology www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog
A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sometimes you just need an armed arch
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oldest and youngest delegates at the Constitutional Convention?🗃️
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Which state didn't send a rep to the Constitutional Convention?🗃️
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 10/09/2026
As a student editor at a college newspaper in 2001, I remember this issue VIVIDLY
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's expensive and there's "out" or "none" and that is language American consumers in every era have rejected as a failure not of the markets but of officials and policy.🗃️
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Daaaamn that's a lot in one revelatory set of remarks...
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow (Sept 17) is Constitution Day (officially ratified 1788), and this is the 250th of the United States (at least since 1776 Declaration of Independence), so what would you like to know about the Constitution in light of the 250th?🗃️
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
120%!🗃️
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities: The McNeil Center will appoint one Barra Postdoctoral Fellow and one Barra Sabbatical Fellow for terms beginning in 2027. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4xvRz2j
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Check that
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As so often happens, the cost of foreign interventions, and their unintended consequences, exceeds important domestic markers, like ACA for all Americans, expanded SNAP access, or particular smaller tax credits for working Americans, or in this case, all three! Just. Not. Good. And historical. 🗃️
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 16/09/2026
Big lawsuit filed by the family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after being denied abortion care. Argues Texas' abortion bans violate the state constitution's right to life and should be struck down. More soon on @autonomynews.co abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u...
screenshot from page 60 of the complaint:
Not one of Ms. Walker’s medical providers sought to rely on the exception to Texas’s abortion bans or offered Ms. Walker’s life-saving abortion. To the extent Ms. Walker’s medical providers believed that she was never sick enough to qualify for the exception, Texas’s abortion bans, combined with the associated definitions of “abortion,” “reasonable medical judgment,” and “medical emergency,” are unconstitutionally vague in violation of the due course of law provision of Article I, Section 19 and thus unenforceable. See Paxton v. Annunciation House, Inc., 719 S.W.3d at 589.
208. In addition, to the extent Texas’s abortion bans and associated definitions were a proximate cause of Ms. Walker’s death, they violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution and are unconstitutional. Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. ch. 6-1/2; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 170A.001-170A.007; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 171.201-171.212; Tex. Health & Safety Code § 245.002.
209. Finally, to the extent Texas’s statutory scheme, taken as a whole, cumulatively denied Ms. Walker her right to life without due process of law, Texas violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution

https://abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Walker-Petition.pdf
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Existentialisnt @existentialisnt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Boss gets it.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oregon & PacNW friends, in a month - October 15 - I'll be in Portland, OR for a special event, talking about our current moment and historical comparisons, themes and meaning in terms of #America250, 10th anniversary of the SAGE Citizen Project, & more - free, public 🗃️ wearesage.org/event/250/
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A Nation at 250 & Our Shared Future — A Conversation with Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols | SAGE
Join us October 15 in Portland for a conversation with historian Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols on citizenship and democracy. Drawing on pivotal moments in American history, we’ll examine how Americ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Iran war advocates got exactly what they wanted. It just didn't work out how they imagined. For years, the argument for the US attacking Iran was that the regime was brittle, on the verge of collapse, and bombing would put them over the edge. That assumption was core to the case against JCPOA too.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson
The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.
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