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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Changeling (1980) absolutely traumatized me. Last year I showed it to my (at the time) 12 year-old son and he made fun of me afterwards.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Had a great time at the most recent Mormon History Association Conference, where I presented on the relationship between President Andrew Johnson and the Latter-day Saints in Territorial Utah.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Just discovered that Mormon missionaries have been utilizing the “flirt to convert” method since at least 1843! From “The Post,” a Knoxville, TN paper dated April 18, 1843.

Text from a newspaper that says “ the Mormon delusion is not likely soon to come to an end - for it is said that Joe Smith has recently sent out a large number of female preachers, a great talent and surprising beauty. They will do more to keep up the delusion, then could all men in Christendom.”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This past Thursday I had the wonderful opportunity to help judge papers written by students throughout East TN. The students chose their own topics based on the theme “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History,” and the students who participated should be proud of their submissions.

A picture of a piece of paper that says “2026 East Tennessee History Day” co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Dept. of History and the East Tennessee Historical Society.” There is also a large circle at the top with the words “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Last night I attended an amazing lecture by @kendradboyd.bsky.social where she discussed her recent book “Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit.” I very much look forward to reading it!

The photograph is a person holding the book “Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit.”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t this be considered socialism? truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Post from Truth Social where Trump says, “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning
over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Spending my Labor Day preparing for class when I came across this in my readings. There’s some real Hunger Games vibes going on there, and reading this on a day set aside to celebrate labor unions and the working class makes it especially salient. “The Monied Metropolis” by Sven Beckert, pg. 255

A screenshot from “The Monied Metropolis” by Sven Beckert. A highlighted portion reads: “Starting in 1898, annual Christmas feedings for the poor in Madison Square Garden attracted the rich and powerful, who would sit in the galleries and private boxes staring down at the city's lower sorts (a full 20,000 of them) who ate below them.”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This reminds me of my LDS (Mormon) pioneer heritage. Except my ancestors fled to Utah to escape the US after their leader was murdered, and where the federal govnt spent the next 50 years persecuting them until they abandoned their religious practices. So what heritage are they referring to?

Post from Homeland Security with the caption “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage” over a painting of a white man and woman holding a baby in the back of a covered wagon, with another covered wagon in the background. The painting is “New Life in a New Land” by Morgan Weistling.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Is that a Manx, by chance? I once had a Manx cat that looked exactly like yours and would sit in the weirdest positions.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

www.sixonefivesoccer.com/nashvilles-l...

Attendees in the stands at a Nashville Soccer Club game holding a sign that reads “We are not all here.”

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If @smbrnsn.bsky.social added Queen’s Jazz album he could get the best of both worlds.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Says the man holding a red lightsaber.

A muscular version of Trump holding a red lightsaber while wearing a black and brown jedi attire. There are Bald Eagles and American flags in the background.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

JFK had to assure Protestants that the Pope wouldn’t influence him if he was president, and Trump is here saying “why can’t I be both?” But I can’t tell if he is trolling liberals or Christian nationalists who are seeing this and thinking, “No, not like that!”

A picture of Trump as the Pope that President Trump shared from his Truth Social account.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As someone who has practiced disability law for over 10 years I can tell you with full confidence that undocumented immigrants are not receiving Social Security or Medicare. Just another example of DOGE screwing and cutting off essential services for the disabled, lower class, and marginalized.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The TN Federation of Republican Women considers Hitler to be an "Intelligent Leader" when it comes to indoctrinating our youth. This has since been scrubbed from the website, but you can still find it if you download the second reading list .pdf. tnfrw.org/education-fo... tnfrw.org/wp-content/u...

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! While I loved and appreciated all my gifts this morning, my absolute favorite has to be the history book my daughter made for me.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That actually pretty much checks out.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Although I have heard and read quite a bit about the Haun’s Mill Massacre, nothing compares to reading the firsthand accounts of those who survived. Just absolutely horrific.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

A picture of the First Vision, or a pamphlet from my extermination company? You decide!

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Finished “Race, Religion, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky” by Luke Harlow. My major takeaway from this book is that many of the arguments used to justify slavery are the same religious arguments that we see today on social issues in terms of what is biblically sanctioned and what isn’t.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

You can take the boy out of Utah, but sometimes you can’t take Utah out of the boy.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry Christmas! Got some more history books to go through, but my favorite has to be the one my daughter got me. Glad to know that she is absorbing at least a little of what I am sharing with her.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Reading the last volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Journals. Joseph Smith being served with a warrant for telling Higbee that he was so infected with a veneral disease that JS couldn’t go near him has to be my favorite tidbit that I’ve learned thus far.

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Devin DeVore @ddevore1295.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

The cherry on top is the person in the crystal ball is none other than the main character from the “I Spy a Nephite” books that were made back in the 90’s.

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