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Tremendous turnout and energy at the Democratize Yale protest on Friday! Huge high five to hundreds of students, faculty, workers, and alums who are fighting for academic freedom and freedom of speech while telling President McInnis and the trustees NOT TO CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP!

Yale students smile and clap at a Democratize Yale demonstration - one holds a sign reading "TRUSTEES: LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you're an unhinged misogynist hungering to ruin a woman's life...

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As this thread explains, rightwing billionaires are shoveling millions of dollars to displace a system of knowledge and education that has almost no support, and yet still that lose when the terrain is even. Humanistic scholarship can withstand this assault as long as it gets more support.

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Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One cop accidentally recorded himself talking to a 17yo he stalked using flock/databases trying to show her a dead body to impress her and hitting on her. The other used flock/databases 381+ times to look up a woman he wanted to date who is 20+yrs younger than him. www.youtube.com/live/IkLoy1x...

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LIVE: 2 Pinellas County deputies arrested

YouTube video by FOX 13 Tampa Bay

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be fair, Nixon being the victim is the cornerstone of the moden GOP's politics. So this only makes sense.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“I couldn’t believe he was taken from us with the snap of a finger.” A clip from “FRACTURED: THE STORIES OF THOSE LEFT BEHIND” - highlighting the impacts of ICE across the country: youtube.com/@fracturedst... #AbolishICE

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026

Live press conference from witnesses at Christa Pike's botched execution. "My arm feels like its about to burst open."

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Live: Tennessee to execute death row inmate Christa Gail Pike, witness statements to follow

YouTube video by Tennessean

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Anyways, I say this all the time, but the best Nazi interview book to read is Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny. You want someone who grapples with what it means to see into a perpetrator and find a person there? Sereny’s your girl

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026

As part of the 1990s welfare reform, a federal fund was set up so poor single mothers could afford childcare for their kids while they themselves went back to work. Trump—possibly illegally—wants to raid that fund to instead give money to married couples who want a parent to stay home with kids:

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How to Mess Up Childcare. Brought to You by Trump.

A proposal the administration is preparing comes just as left and right were finding some common ground.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

South Florida is becoming what the Middle East and East Asia used to be for the neoliberal American university. The place to open a satellite campus, in this case to spread the "brand" to tech capital. Meanwhile, what of public higher ed in the state? www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/i...

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Vanderbilt in West Palm Beach

Expanding Our Presence Vanderbilt University is proceeding with a planned graduate campus in West Palm Beach and has launched a new $250 million phase of the fundraising campaign for the project. With...

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)

Cover of Logical Positivism: An American History

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting to talk @madeleineebaker.bsky.social's intellectual history of work culture with my graduate students today!

Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America by Madeleine Baker

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

me on how we know Trump doesn't have a magic button to win the midterms because he keeps thrashing around looking for a magic button. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-woul...

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Trump Wouldn’t Promise Cash If He’d Rigged the Midterms

He doesn’t have a plan.

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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Talk claxon! Mari is doing an a talk about record keeping in Parliament, and as a former archivist there, she is quite the expert! This is an online and in-person event on 29th October at 5pm and it's completely FREE! www.sal.org.uk/events/parli...

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A Tale of Two Towers: The History of the Parliamentary Archives - Society of Antiquaries of London

Dr Mari Takayanagi FSA tells the story of record-keeping in the House of Lords and House of Commons from c. 1497 to 1963 and the story of the two Westminster towers where the archives were stored - th...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One year ago this past weekend, @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I launched Black & White & Read All Over, our public scholarly website. One year ago today, Biscuits came home with us. Obviously one of those things is most important, so I'll start this week's blog thread with the site's page for her. +

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Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social

Photo of a box filled with multiple copies of the book. The cover is ochre, and has different images of Bacon, from manuscripts and printed books.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:

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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks

Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026

It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.

DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧪 postdoc with a kind PI, folks!

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In your class, there will be rape victims. We need to do more to confront this.

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New job: Associate or Full Professor of Indian Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies Stony Brook University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70458

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A harrowing inside look at the genocide we've been watching on our screens

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can you help intrepid indy video journalist Amanda Moore with a few bucks to cover Broadview 6 arrests anniversary? Newsletter: turtlediaries.net CashApp: cash.me/pancakesmmm Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/noturtlesoup17 PayPal: paypal.com/paypalme/pancakesmmm Patreon: patreon.com/c/franklin17

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m teaching a workshop this weekend about how historians research. #Skystorians, what are your favorite or most important research tips and tricks? What is your favorite method for finding archives and archival material?

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ever skeeted something silly? I just did! Always check your posts to make sure you aren't confused or misreading something. 🙃 I was saved by a guardian angel.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exciting day for US historians as the first book in the new @uchicagopress.bsky.social America Unsettled series is out today. I had a chance to read an advance copy of OUTED by @timothysw.bsky.social and it is fantastic. Check out the book and keep your eye on this series too.

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Outed

The story of the scandal in the LBJ administration that first brought queer life into the national political conversation in the 1960s.In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted adv...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stop blaming lead for people's bad behavior. It really doesn't explain crime or voting patterns.

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Casting a very narrow line, but... Are you a historian/filmmaker/artist/academic with a deep interest/expterise in any of the Universal Monster Movies... Who also lives in SoCal and would be interested in attending an event in October?

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is no new low that he will not sink

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026

Conservative billionaires, state legislatures, and compliant administrators have single-handedly made "free speech"-the right to promote discredited viewpoints by hijacking the institutional imprimatur of the academy-as the defining higher ed issue of our time. www.bridgew.edu/the-universi...

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Say It Loud

We live in a society known both for rampant disinformation, as well as information overload. Ideas, good and bad, fly freely across the internet and traditional media. Meanwhile, many complain cancel ...

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking at Ibrahim in this tent tears my heart apart.Hunger,infections & daily suffering in worn-out clinics are consuming his frail body as he loses weight.We fight just to breathe.Hear a mother's cry and save my boy from the same fate as his sisters.😭💔 Donate now🙏 chuffed.org/project/1914...

Baraa wearing a black facemask in a patterned dress stands beside Ibrahim, dressed in green and wearing a baseball cap, with hanging clothes behind them.

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Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the MOST important LGBTQ+ archive in Texas. Full of treasures, including ther records of the state’s first gay political group, founded in Dallas in the mid 1960s. Just heartbreaking. www.ntdaily.com/news/univers...

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University removes LGBTQ+ archive page after social media post by Texas representative

The university took down the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive, a collaborative project documenting queer culture and history, following a post on X by Texas Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian).

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congrats to this year's OAH lectures! It is a privilege to know so many of you. You all inspire.

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