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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D.

@crystaldhowell.bsky.social
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Teacher educator, researcher, daughter, wife, friend, runner, writer, and woman about town

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026
This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/09/2026
Sentences beginning “Guess what” are not questions, and thus don’t end with question marks. Ditto sentences beginning “I wonder.” #copyediting
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/09/2026
Silicon Valley's effort to destroy democracy is the biggest story of our political moment. Beware of those who have nothing to say about it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/09/2026
Leading medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — saying they hope to ease confusion caused by the Trump administration's changing advice. to.pbs.org/4i9BU4C
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Top U.S. doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion
Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — sayi...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And yn the nakid lighte Ich sawe Millions of people, maybe more People talkinge wythout speakinge People hearinge wythout listeninge People writinge songes that voyces nevir shared And no one dared Disturbe the reign of A.I.
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Even the moost canny listeneres notyce not the contradictoun yn the song "Peaches." The speaker seeketh to eate a lot of peaches by cause thei are movinge to the countrye and YET the peaches arryve yn a can ynto which thei are put by a man yn a factorye DOWNTOWN. What confusioun of rural and urban?
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Capricorn: All the stars will eventually burn out, leaving the universe in complete darkness for the remainder of time. Sorry, I can’t remember where I was going with this.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 14/07/2026
Just how hot has this summer been? DC is already tied for the eighth-most 100-degree days on record—and this week's forecast could push 2026 into the top five. Take a look at the numbers: www.capitalweather.com/upcoming-hea...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/07/2026
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said it's too easy for people to feed their families with SNAP benefits and suggested they should have to go to food banks so they feel embarrassed. The real embarrassment is lack of living wages stateline.org/2026/07/09/f... h/t @kelciemmorris.bsky.social @stateline.org
In the survey, 29% of states identified narrowing eligibility policies as a potential risk and 11% saw a wholesale withdrawal from SNAP as a potential risk. 

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, said churches, food banks and other organizations would ensure that people are fed there.

Stitt, the chair of the bipartisan National Governors Association, said he believes federal programs like SNAP are operated with “a lot of fraud and abuse.” He also suggested that the program had become too seamless, with cards that resemble credit cards allowing recipients to easily purchase groceries. 

**“Maybe it’s going back to the day where there was a little stigma attached and you had to actually go to a food bank and pick up commodity cheese and commodity groceries, and it had a little stigma so you were a little bit embarrassed,”** he told Stateline. “Maybe we should go back to a little bit of that instead of just making it so easy…”
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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mt Olive makes great pickles, is a great NC business, and has no time for bullshit. www.wnct.com/news/mt-oliv...
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Mt. Olive Pickle Co. exits Great American State Fair over Confederate flag
PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Mt. Olive Pickle Company has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. after a Confederate flag was included in an exhibit. The company told W…
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Having a library card increases a person's attractiveness by at least 63%
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
‘The future of children in a digital world, and particularly their chance to flourish in it, remains in doubt…’ Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’, with comment from @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social & more. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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‘The future of children in a digital world, and particularly their chance to flourish in it, remains in doubt’ | BPS
Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I find it fascinating that JD Vance - a man I have never, not once, not a single time, heard make an insightful or informed point on any topic - gets the presumption of "smart" despite ample evidence to the contrary.
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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D. @crystaldhowell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
More people have read this Reddit comment I wrote about gender-based pay discrepancy in professions seen as women's work than any scholarly article I've ever written. Can I put this on my CV?
Screenshot of Reddit thread showing comment with 13,227 views.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm regrettably not perusing a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"why use google?" webpage from 1999
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.
Senator Andy Kim runs into the street as an ICE armored vehicle behind him prepares to deploy chemical agents against protestors in front of Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, NJ. His hands are outstretched and he appears to be shouting.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/05/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In the next-to-last episode of Stephen Colbert's show, he gave his own responses to the "Colbert Questionert" that he'd often posed to guests. This recording was his answer to "You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life; what is it?" See you around.
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Songs Without Words, Book 1, Op. 19b: No. 1 in E Major, MWV U 86
YouTube video by Glenn Gould - Topic
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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D. @crystaldhowell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Super interesting thread about art historians’ nuanced work versus AI nonsense.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/05/2026
I’ll fetch a turn about the garden
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026
virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/05/2026
Misinformation is not harmless. Examples #1001 ... "Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth" www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"hottie with a body" implies the existence of other hotties, hotties beyond our mortal ken. hotties without form or substance
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Slight correction, their argument is that because racism isn't a problem anymore, if former Confederate states disenfranchise Black voters it definitionally can't be racist, which you may recognize as the same logic that our institutions employ every day to avoid confronting uncomfortable realities.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today in the family group chat Anna tells us she finished her last college class. Her mom asks if she's going to celebrate. Anna: "yea applebees happy hour is calling my name rn." Mom and me: "haha lol." Because she's obviously joking. Just looked: she charged $45 of Applebee's dranks to my card
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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D. @crystaldhowell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Coco typically hates the car, but even she was pumped to ride with all these new plants for the yard!
A chic and super gorgeous silver beige poodle looks over her shoulder at the camera from the backseat of a car while surrounded by plants. Human driver wearing sunglasses and a cap is unremarkable.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Mississippi has thee largest Black population by percentage in the whole country. But they have exactly ONE Black member of Congress today. After the Supreme Court ruling came down, one of those members had this to say
Republican State Senator Kevin Blackwell tweeted yesterday:

"It’s time to erase Bennie Thompson’s District."

right after the ruling came down
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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D. @crystaldhowell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Straight Fs for IU (which definitely earns those grades!).
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2026
CHRIS MURPHY: You fired half the department! LINDA McMAHON: That's hindsight MURPHY: What does that mean?
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/04/2026
The incompetent quacks entrusted with overseeing our public health system have blocked hundreds of millions of dollars of mRNA vaccine research, based on pseudoscientific drivel. Our money. The public’s money. Lifeblood for miracles like this one.
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Crystal D. Howell, Ph.D. @crystaldhowell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
BECAUSE I’M A NERD, I receive the USPS’s quarterly magazine about stamps, USA Philatelic. There are so many cool stamp designs available or coming this year, including figures of the American revolution, bald eagles, and Harriet Powers’s quilts. Go write a letter and get you a cool stamp for it!
The cover of the Spring 2026 USA Philatelic magazine. A photo of the new Figures of the American Revolution stamps. A photo of the new Bald Eagle: Hatchling to Adult stamps. A close-up of one of the four designs in the new Harriet Powers stamp set.
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