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Maddie Collins

@collins1129.bsky.social
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Lukewarm takes on medieval/public history, museums, books & indie bookstores • they/them • Views my own. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴🌹

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excited to receive an advance copy of @realmandeville.bsky.social's The First Witches, out with Penguin in Feb 2027. Beginning with the 14th-cent. Kilkenny witch-hunt & spreading across Europe, this book traces the early manifestations of what would eventually become the so-called "witch craze".
An advance proof copy of Anthony Bale, The First Witches: An Extraordinary Story of Magic, Strife and Tragedy, forthcoming with Penguin in February 2027
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the second essay in CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW is out! Thanks to @realmandeville.bsky.social for ‘The Middle Ages as Creative Topic’, check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Artwork by Kristen Haas Curtis for Creating the Medieval Now, special issue of the journal Public HumanitiesThe Middle Ages as Creative Topic, essay by Anthony Bale
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 28/09/2026
Cathy Renna of the National LGBTQ Task Force says the rollback weakens protections for trans students, women and girls, and students who experience sexual violence.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/07/2026
‘Perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. Nolan is doing his best to get the general public reading again.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
When visiting either store, we hope you will experience our affirmation of the critical role that independent bookstores play in supporting the free expression of ideas, through public discourse and the printed word, at a time when such discourse faces increasing challenges.
A graphic with a photo of a building at 33 Union Street in Boston Mass. Text reads: The new store will occupy 3,500 square feet in the historic Yankee Publishing Building in the city’s oldest commercial district. Adjoining the bookstore will be a 1,500-square-foot café operated by Lakon Paris Patisserie. Together with our flagship store in Cambridge, Harvard Book Store will continue to offer the same extraordinary combination of academic and popular books, customer service, author talks, and community engagement that make us a destination for book lovers from around the world. We are excited about the prospects ahead and look forward to welcoming you when you visit the store this fall.
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Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Super excited that The Medieval Lincoln Jewry has now been published by ARC Humanities Press! Featuring myself, Christopher Johnson, Emily Rose, Julie Mell, and Natasha Jenman. Collectively, we explore some of the sources for the most important of England's medieval provincial Jewish communities.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 29/04/2026
@massgovernor.bsky.social agreed to meet with us and hear our concerns in further detail. Stay tuned for updates! plug in and take action @ stoponlineIDchecks.org/MA
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Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18/04/2026
Hampshire College is closing in December after decades of offering unconventional, student-driven education. Its collapse reflects a broader shift in higher education toward vocational training and away from experimental learning.
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Hampshire College’s demise is yet another blow to creative, outside-the-box options in higher education
Hampshire College’s studen-driven, unorthodox approach to education has roots in the early 1900s and a belief that students should be active, engaged learners.
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My cat has excellent taste in books. Check out her staff rec at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Did you know you could pre-order a copy of The Public Scholar from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social? Help a local bookstore. Help a local author. And if you want it signed, I'll drive over. We're about a month out. :) moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...
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The Public Scholar by David M Perry | Moon Palace Books
A practical guide for scholars ready to write beyond the academy.Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions.
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Is there any congressperson willing to actually introduce articles of impeachment rather than just logging on to yell?
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Do we have any lawmakers willing invoke the 25th rather than posting about it?
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research - Climatic Change
Climatic Change - A major challenge in the interdisciplinary study of past climates is ensuring that evidence and data relating to different disciplines are analysed effectively using appropriate...
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Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wonderful new open access book on Hildegard of Bingen by Minji Lee! #medievalsky #HistSTM nursingclio.org/2026/03/18/r...
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Review of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)
I teach a course called “Women and Medicine” that explores the history of women as medical practitioners, patients, and objects of medical knowledge from the ancient Greeks to the present. Early in…
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 18/03/2026
The information for our #IntelligenceProject's map of U.S. hate group flyering was compiled using a combination of social media platforms, news articles and tips. Have you seen any disturbing flyers or other hate activity? 📲 Submit a tip and review our map of incidents: bit.ly/3H0jMK6
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The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Today on AOH, Dr. @sarahebond.bsky.social, an associate professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, discusses her book 'Strike' and the evolution of labor unions from ancient Rome to modern times, the future of classics & the impact of AI on jobs, and the significance of empathy in humanities.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
wow, this is like a Legion of Doom of anti-trans researchers – spread the word!
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Digital Fourth @digital4th.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We filed comments to the Cambridge City Council on the 2026 Annual Surveillance Report, that seeks authorization of around 75 surveillance technologies. We object to 8: ALPR, ShotSpotter, CCTV at Central Sq, BRIC, Magnet Forensics, Covert Cameras, police use of Sprout Social, & remote meter readers
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, its history is being erased from our National Parks. Learn more at: pen.org/purging-hist...
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Removal Of Slavery, Racism Exhibits Highlights Ongoing Effort to Purge History From National Parks
This purge is among the most notable moves by the Trump administration to erase facts that the president doesn’t like.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/02/2026
Voters don’t think the Democratic Party is too progressive, they think it’s weak and ineffective www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/02/2026
Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have deployed ever more Nazi imagery and rhetoric, and espoused ideas associated with the Nazi Party, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. He examines how this dark fringe reached the center of the GOP:
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Call Them What They Are
The Republican Party has become a haven for Nazi sympathizers.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
BEOWULF BY ALL: "Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation." FREE OPEN ACCESS PDF DOWNLOAD: www.arc-humanities.org/978164189471...
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Beowulf by All - Arc Humanities Press
This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth centu...
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/02/2026
The Israeli government has advanced the registration of territory in the occupied West Bank as state land in a move that Palestinians have decried as “de facto annexation.” cnn.it/46bUqmd
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Maura Healey cannot be allowed to have another term in any public office.
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Seconding that I was there on this day, and noted multiple officers (snipers?) also watching the crowd from the roof of City Hall. A drone (operated by a civilian or police, I am unsure) also stayed over the scene. Helicopter behavior felt like an intimidation tactic and military show of force.
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 12/02/2026
Still open: The Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, in memory of the beloved activist and author, honors lesbian/queer-identified women and trans/gender non-conforming nonfiction authors with at least one published book. Learn more and apply at www.lambdaliterary.org/special-awards
A blue background. Text overlay reads: The 2026 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction $2,500. Submissions now open. Deadline Feb 20. lambdaliterary.org/special-awards
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This
Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.
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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 11/02/2026
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City Council looks to codify ICE response
Councillors look to preempt possible future actions against residents by limiting cooperation. They also are trying to ban future hiring from select federal agencies.
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Protect our communities from ICE in Massachusetts courts. Sign here to pressure Gov. Healey to work on something that substantially protects our neighbors: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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Protect our communities from ICE in Massachusetts courts
Re: Stop ICE Operations at Massachusetts Courthouses Dear Chief Justices Kimberly Budd and Heidi Brieger, Senate President Karen Spilka and Speaker Ron Mariano, We, the undersigned organizations, co...
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MassLive @masslive.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Endangered whales at risk after Trump ends Cape Cod sanctuary’s fishing ban, NE Aquarium warns
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Endangered whales at risk after Trump ends Cape Cod sanctuary’s fishing ban, NE Aquarium warns
On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back protections for a marine national monument off the coast of Cape Cod.
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gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Juan David Quichimbo, originally from Ecuador, has been in Plymouth’s ICE detention facility for nearly two months. Quichimbo, a Springfield resident, has no criminal record, but is in removal proceedings anyway. bit.ly/4qkAhlb
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Legal tug-of-war keeps Mass. man applying for labor trafficking visa in ICE detention
Worries of deportation growing as legal options become limited
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/02/2026
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
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Who is Leqaa Kordia, the Columbia protester still in ICE detention?
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 07/02/2026
The White House press secretary has said she "can't guarantee" that ICE agents will not be at polling locations in November.
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Karoline Leavitt Refuses To Rule Out Using ICE In Elections
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 07/02/2026
At least 556 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since a U.S.-brokered truce came into effect in October, including 24 on Wednesday and 30 on Saturday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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The Gaza ceasefire began months ago. Here’s why the fighting persists.
Since the U.S.-brokered truce came into effect, four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza, with more injured.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hey #BookSky Moon Palace in Mineapolis is running a book drive for Spanish language books. Buying a few is a great way to support them! Gift Registry 21_pburk7u4 | Moon Palace Books share.google/ddfS1aWbCRGJ...
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Moon Palace Books
Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/02/2026
Of the 184 universities that made faculty diversity pledges, at least 108 have fully or partially rolled them back after a year under the Trump administration, according to a Post survey and analysis. Explore your university's diversity data here:
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Before Trump ban, universities were slowly making faculties more diverse
The number of Black and Hispanic faculty increased at large research universities after a wave of commitments. Now these pledges are being rolled back, a Post analysis found.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.
Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/02/2026
“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast. trib.al/0lWZSnj
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“The question is not whether we will be extremists,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail in Birmingham, “but what kind of extremists we will be.” @lilygeismer.bsky.social on the history of calls for moderation in our forum with @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social:
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Moderation was always deeply flawed.
Lily Geismer responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is the collaborator platform. If the ask is “follow law that created this inhumane, ineffectual, evil system, but with more funding for surveillance tech,” then the platform is really just “add more funding to the inhumane system to make it eviler.” No votes for collaborators.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Sign the petition and let your legislatures know that you want Massachusetts to be a sanctuary state! Check out the Safe Communities Act and sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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Safe and Affordable Communities Now!
To the Massachusetts legislative delegation, We demand that immediate actions be taken to ensure the protection of all residents of Massachusetts. Instead of spending money to guarantee free health...
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Anti-vax ideology is eugenics ideology, so that tracks.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/02/2026
The doubts sewn over the loss of Palestinian life laid the groundwork for shielding Israel from accountability. interc.pt/4qU6gJQ
A photo of an aerial view of the burial in mass graves of 111 Palestinians who died due to Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, the occupied Gaza Strip, on Nov. 22, 2023, overlaid with the headline, "Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It?"
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Maddie Collins @collins1129.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Let’s get this straight: •More funding for DHS •More surveillance on the streets •Knowing that they are being filmed clearly hasn’t deterred agents from shooting innocent citizens, anyway. This is a win for DHS.
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