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Holly Brewer

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My week book ‘Magic and disability in the early modern world’ out with Cambridge is free to download until 15 oct 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element... It’s free , help yersel
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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 58m
the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 53m
it's a mistake to think about these things as unconnected, learning itself is the target, is the thing under attack
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 5h
Killing Anna, a new production by Bellingcat and Keo Films, will be broadcast in the Netherlands, UK and Latvia this month. The psychological thriller follows a Syrian academic who, using the alias Anna, befriends a former Syrian regime official suspected of involvement in the Tadamon massacre.
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 2h
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“Economic Civil War”: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability
Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h
The head of the state’s Department of Correction will leave the position this month amid scrutiny over the failed execution by lethal injection of Christa Pike. on.wsj.com/4xVfoAF
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The head of the Tennessee Department of Correction is resigning following the botched execution of Christa Pike
The head of the state’s Department of Correction will leave the position this month amid scrutiny over the failed execution by lethal injection of Christa Pike.
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ROROTOKO @rorotoko.com · 29/09/2026
From the archive, 2012: Carl Wennerlind on the South Sea Company, built to rescue England's debt with slave-trade profits, and what its investors chose not to see. rorotoko.com/micro-inter...
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Carl Wennerlind on Casualties of Credit - A close-up | Rorotoko
While chapter four, dealing with the debates surrounding the use of the death penalty for counterfeiting crimes, offers some revealing examples of how contemporaries understood money politically, I would steer...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 7h
Estelle Freedman devised an incredibly clever dh method to find and examine examples of women talking about the phenomenon in oral history interviews before the term was widely used. oralhistoryreview.org/ohr-authors/...
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Author Interview: Estelle B. Freedman on Oral Histories and Sexual Violence
In OHR’s spring 2023 issue,scholar Estelle B. Freedman shares her findings from a macro-level analysis of oral history databases in order to analyze women’s memories and responses to se…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the story: "A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing how senior DOJ and FBI officials handled the files."
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Judge Orders DOJ to Fast-Track Epstein Files Mentioning Trump and Mar-a-Lago | Law Commentary
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing...
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 8h
Dudes rock.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 8h
These Hoosiers are stuck in the past — on purpose Meet six historical reenactors who bring Indiana history to life. mirrorindy.org/indiana-hist... Includes Khabir Shareef, who portrays Major Martin Delany, and Ophelia Wellington, who portrays a composite schoolteacher, Miss Matilda Addison.
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These Hoosiers are stuck in the past — on purpose
Meet six historical reenactors who bring Indiana history to life.
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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 12h
Join us 8–9 October for "The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence" at The National Archives, UK, and online. Explore newly catalogued documents from captured ships that reveal wartime lives and a global conflict. Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-... #Rev250 #earlymodern #history
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The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence (Online)
An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9h
Re-upping @danielstone.bsky.social on OpenAI's Australia intrusion: www.techpolicy.press/when-ai-agen...
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When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h
Is an Iowa miracle possible? joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Five Questions with Iowa’s Democratic Senate Candidate, Josh Turek
Two recent polls show him in the lead
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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 17h
Indeed.
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 18h
A reminder that if not for the Supreme Court in US v. MORRISON, Jane Doe would have had access to the federal courts for a civil rights action. The Court said that rape is a local matter no matter how great the impact on commerce.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20h
A police search of Flock producing 50 individual records of a woman's whereabouts across the country for an entire month violated her Fourth Amendment rights, Judge Sara E. Hill of Oklahoma's Northern District ruled yesterday. "Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?"

To be sure, ALPR technology does not provide the same precision in
location information as cell phones. But it could still reveal a lot about a
person’s whereabouts, and it is easy to imagine the kinds of sensitive
information it collects. It could track and log a couple struggling to start a family at the fertility clinic. It could show how often someone visits a liquor store or casino. It could show which doctor someone goes to or what lawyer’s office someone visits. It also collects mundane information about people’s commutes, but it collects a tremendous amount of such information all the time. It is possible that a dedicated team of law enforcement officers could

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constitutionally collect this information about one car—and its driver—by following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the question of why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year, nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20h
This is the same Mike Pompeo that smeared Jamal in his book. This is who Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs believes should be teaching the next generation of global leaders. share.google/3e5Yp0xTLu8J...
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Washington Post blasts Pompeo's "shameful" remarks on Jamal Khashoggi
Pompeo made the remarks in his new book.
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Helpful thread on Artificial Intelligence by Illinois Congressman @seancasten.bsky.social. It hints at the political problem with enacting ethical regulation of AI: legislators faced with regulating a major source of campaign funds are susceptible to the industry arguments Casten rejects.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23h
This is cartoonishly evil, like something out of a silent film involving widows tied to railroad tracks by a Rudolph Rassendale knock-off.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Everything looking great in TrumpAmerica.
Job Approval Rating of the U.S. Supreme Court, 2000-2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23h
In his new book 'Profiles in Cowardice,' Jacob Weisberg devotes his final chapter to John Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b... -Preening to be seen as another John Marshall. -Destined to be known forever as this era's Roger Taney.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The demographic visual here is deliberate. All white men. The only color is in the blue suits or ties.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even the water bottles and screens are coordinated. One thing about the repubs at the moment. Their visual propaganda is organized and intentional
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
4. According to new reporting last night by MS Now, the text messages from 2024 from Smith's team that Eric Schmitt presented at Tuesday's hearing were provided by the US Department of Justice, which is to say, by US Attorney General Todd Blanche. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3. Schmitt's story is part of a broader attempt by the GOP to punish Smith for prosecuting Donald Trump's treason. If we say goodbye now, we miss a chance to say that.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is so cooked on this one.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LOL
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U.S. urges Europe to 'immediately' release diesel reserves as Iran war fuels record prices
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Friday, 2 Oct 2026 05:36 AM EDT
WATCH LIVE
• The Trump administration has urged Europe to release diesel reserves, saying U.S. consumers and businesses should not bear the burden of global supply disruptions.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This ⬇️ It’s like Guantanamo. It’s going to be *very* difficult to undo and repair these tens of thousands of removals of people to third countries where they have suffered arrest and detainment and worse.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yeah, i'm really angry. this isn't *policy* difference. we have a government detaining tens of thousands of ppl lawlessly, roaming the streets, surveilling our cities, & SENDING PEOPLE TO CERTAIN DOOM & the comfortable justices are just like, alright, let's schedule this for a hearing in the spring.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eligible voters of the United States, Have you checked your state or territory's deadline for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm elections? (SPOILER ALERT: They are coming up fast!) There's a guide for you at npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/10/2026
In countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Sweden, governments have issued manuals on what to do if Russian troops invade. These countries have dealt with regular Russian incursions since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch. We used our names and news organization email addresses, following each state’s rules.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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1926 News @100yearsago.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
[October 2nd, 1926] James Edwin Lough, a psychology professor at New York University (NYU), originally planned the "College Cruise Around the World [in] Eight Months," a groundbreaking educational experiment known as the "Floating University".
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Almost funny if it were not so awful. Laws surrounding charter schools need to be fixed.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The demographic visual here is deliberate. All white men. The only color is in the blue suits or ties.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.
Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But generally their theory of presidential power (the unitary executive theory) has so shifted the boundaries of what they think is acceptable that the prosecution becomes illegal and Nixon’s concessions become foolish. The argument becomes Nixon could legally do it all.
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