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If you're a fan of cattle pastures full of giant tree stumps, I've got a first-round election result for you.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 15h

China is already the top trade partner for most of S. America. But polls show, despite our imperialist legacy, most people throughout Latin America feel closer to the US than to China, and don't like how China does business. It's a tremendous own goal by Trump to get to this point.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15h

I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.

Fostering this civic orientation does not mean teaching students the “right” way to think or act
according to a preferred political or moral perspective. A transformative education is premised
on developing sound judgment, not on delivering correct conclusions.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Inspiring words. He was simultaneously backing a bill to strip the brand new federal minimum wage from Puerto Ricans.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Ron, love the silver birch especially

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was raised on The Guardian but I find the sports section to be overwhelmingly male. Stories of female athletes all too often "human interest" oriented.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/

A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just taught this exact thing with gradual abolition in Cuba and Brazil 1870-80s. Agency of women to get free asap all over the archives; kin of all kinds allied with them. They would even delay baptizing children until free so that document recorded child's free status.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This week a friend described a non-work presentation I gave as "subversively benign". Got a radical message across without getting yelled at, possibly without its radicalism being noticed. Another friend described it as shifting what's possible to say in that particular space. 😊

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@morelle.house.gov we want meaningful Court reform not Third Way skim milk

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My bad! I didn't read closely enough

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

iCe violated federal judge's order in removing Mexican citizen and restaurant chain owner from Puerto Rico into detention in the metropole. She's a 3-decade job creator.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I laughed at the sportsball own goal too but this is the real headline

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NYT Games' Letterboxed doesn't have "bitch" in its word bank but Wordle has the 100% racist/misogynist "squaw" in its wordbank. NYT-G has repeatedly justified keeping it in response to my complaints. Gross. #Letterboxed is a far more mentally interesting game anyway.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First and foremost! But also rank monolingual segregationist as federal judge, i.e former Governor of South Carolina en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

en.wikipedia.org

Robert Archer Cooper - Wikipedia

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's take a moment to note that New Dealers treated Puerto Rico like the colony that it still is.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The second I got tenure I got made Advisement Coordinator, back when we had 450 History majors. The second I made full prof I took on being chair, trying to get the numbers back up.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aspiring autocrat Dr. Francia de Rodriguez in mid-19th century Paraguay made public school mandatory through age 14 but banned all further education.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🙂 Of black walnuts hailing down and needing to be raked up

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This man is a walking PSA for the importance of Humanities education

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026

Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My daughter's partner majored in Chemical Engineering with a minor in History. Now he works for an engineering company in NYC. He sometimes does deep dives into property histories prior to starting environmental engineering projects on those properties. Jealous that his "archives" are digitized!

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's possible to write KBJ (or Sotomayor) a supportive note and USPS it to the Supreme Court. 1 First Street NE, DC, 20543.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you "Victor" and coworkers. Thank you to Dolores Huerta's @ufw.bsky.social for teaching us to honor their labor.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Over a year ago, farm workers across Southern CA endured weeks of illegal, racist raids. The UFW & our partners fought back. Last week we won a preliminary injunction against the Trump Admin’s DHS aiming to prevent them from making warrentless arrests. Watch to learn more.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get these teachers some free brisket!

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A change is as good as a rest!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

UPDATE: They steal billions from us to build robots that kick the crumbs out of our mouths.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At the regional public comprehensive where I work, students routinely have to miss class to drive parents, grandparents, siblings to medical appts. They juggle so much. They need to be seen and given grace.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of my profs was working class Glasgow and retold his sanitation worker dad's verdict on his first sabbatical: "Sounds like a bloody vacation to me."

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm really moved by the outpouring of stories on this thread. I always start the semester telling students that my parents were the first in their families to go to high school and university and became profs, *because* Britain opened up higher Ed to working class kids in the 1940s. Policy matters.

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Belizean-American parents do this too.

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