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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So my local cable company no longer has sports packages. I have to figure out how I'm going to be able to watch out of market baseball games, because I'm considered in the Pirates market.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Remember, the last time a member of the British royal family was arrested, they beheaded him...

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

No matter how bad your birthday is, it's still probably better than Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's was today.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Having a lovely discussion on another social media platform with someone who claims to be a direct descendant of George Washington, who had no children.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I know there was a football game televised yesterday. But it conflicted with US mixed doubles curling...and a lovely Hershey's gold medal commercial.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Finally, football is over. More importantly, pitchers and catchers report on Wednesday.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Pitchers and catchers begin to report to spring training on Tuesday, February 10.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Reading a manuscript submitted for an academic journal. Really nice story worthy of publication, except it lacks citations...which we really, really like to see in history journals.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If Pam Bondi had been Attorney General for Richard Nixon, we probably would have never heard about Watergate...

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

On Alan Alda's 90th birthday, I have to watch "Sweet Liberty." Best film about the American Revolution, especially the way it exposes how Hollywood misrepresents history. However, I do not recommend reenacting the roller coaster scene.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Between stalling with the Epstein files and refusing to release Jack Smith's report on the documents Trump "hid" at Mar-a-Lago, the DOJ certainly is not being very transparent in its actions.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social If the SAVE Act passes, will the current VP have a problem voting because the name on his birth certificate doesn't match his present name?

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

So the first two days of my last full semester of teaching will be snow days...

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If the Biden DOJ were truly weaponized against Republicans, Donald Trump would be in Allenwood and not destroying public property in DC.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Classes start on the 26th. I guess I should start working on syllabi, especially for the course I have never taught.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's that time of the year when instead of segue I see segway on applications.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I think the only thing that might happen from that Trump-Putin phone call is the hockey game between the U.S. and Russia. But it must be played in Lake Placid...

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Someone needs to convince Trump that the consumer pays the tariff, not the originating country--and tell him that Charles III might have something to say about him annexing Canada since it's part of the British Commonwealth.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Andrew Garfield (aka Spider-Man) made an appearance on several exam responses as students think he was (a) president and (b) assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Looks like the Trump bobblehead will be relocating next to the two-faced Benedict Arnold statue on Monday...

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thanks to reward points, I bought 18 eggs for $2.99 today. I feel like I won the lottery.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Rearranged the bobbleheads in my office this morning, hoping that by putting Trump between Washington and Jefferson some of their patriotic mojo might rub off. If that doesn't work, I might have to move him next to Benedict Arnold.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Carton of eggs in the fridge dated tomorrow. Just informed my mother how much that carton cost ($5.99). Told her to do something with them besides throw them out because they expire tomorrow.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Well...apparently one student thinks that emails to me should be addressed to Mr. Guenther. That's my father, and he died in March 2017. There will be a long wait for a response from him....

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Didn't have "call 911 because my mother fell and couldn't get up" on my to-do list for today...but they sent a police officer to help her to her feet, and she's fine now. Just a bit embarrassed that I couldn't help her (with the drain, I have a weight limit for lifting, and she weighs a bit more).

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Perhaps instead of sending troops to Canada, Trump should watch this movie first...

imdb.com

Canadian Bacon (1995) ⭐ 5.9 | Action, Comedy

1h 31m | PG

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

RIP James Kirby Martin, mentor and friend. He chose to serve as dissertation advisor to a student with a troubled academic background and over time became a trusted friend. I treasure that I was his first doctoral student that he hooded.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I'm almost at the point when I wish I still had the trophy from the 11th grade Geometry contest to display in my faculty office to show that historians can also do STEM.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Well, I won't be asking my dissertation advisor to speak to my American Revolution class, as he's hospitalized with heart issues. #JKM

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I have decided to be benevolent Dr. Guenther this semester and give all students 100% for attendance, even if they didn't always attend. That way, I don't have to worry about properly calculating that grade while waiting to escape from the hospital.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

One final exam has a bonus question on it. All the students had to do was watch a video assigned in class to answer it. So far, 1/3 didn't attempt it, 1/3 got the right answer, and 1/3 have had the exact same wrong answers.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Heading back to campus today for the first time in a couple of weeks--and I wouldn't be going today, except my home scanner has decided it doesn't want to communicate with my laptop.

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Dr. Karen Guenther @drkguenther.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have decided after the past couple of weeks that the greatest thing I ever did was film the lectures in my classes in case I have to miss class because of bronchitis.

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