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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

photo from President Jimmy Carter’s funeral showing many dignitaries but hiding the tangerine tyrant behind a pillar

Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I rarely want to say anything on here. But one thing I do want to share with whomever is listening is that one of the loveliest things about Carter's memorial events is that they show that people of faith--including the Christian one!--exist across the political spectrum #momprof #Carter

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@newyorker.com Please, I need the cartoon for my personal countdown to January 20. For the sake of verisimilitude, let it be drenched in emotions. Thank you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The more your work is deemed successful, the louder the cries will become, the more they will fall like leaves on that path until it is hard to even see, just as your own thoughts are hard to hear in the clamor. But you must try to remember that purpose, that self, that path anyway. And do the work.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

No, they will be requests to be on panels, juries, to write things that are not the things you were born to write, go on book tours, support other works of art (and sometimes you should), but no one will haunt you to stay on your own path. Every request is a request to you to detour from it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

No one will email you persistently or message or call or text to urge you to do the work that is truest to yourself and deepest within your imagination, the work you set out to do.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As Dems reelect a spritely 74-year-old Chuck Schumer as Senate Leader, this is a reminder that U.S. politicians are the oldest of any democracy, despite the U.S. having one of the youngest populations.

Plot showing age of population and elected representatives in democracies.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

PBS is capturing the history of Muslims in America in a series of short episodes. Part of that history relates to interracial intimacies - South Asian and Latinx, Black, Creole, etc. and border crossing, law, family, & marriage. Catch us here with Asma Khalid! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-d...

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How South Asian Muslims and Mexican Americans United in the 1920s | American Muslims

YouTube video by PBS

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thrilled to see @modamhist.bsky.social here on Bluesky!

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I have lots of new followers but...no engagement. what gives? #boringbsky

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Officially de-activated over at X. Blergh. #momprof

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

so glad to see some new folx here at bluesky. I'll start posting again. maybe. #momprof

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

I don’t want to cause a panic, but the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is in Princeton right now

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

oh dear back at work back at complaints. remember when u used to review a manuscript & they'd send a nice paper copy you couldread over coffee? then it's one pdfs. ok fine. but must i really download & open NINE individual word docs of each chp of a mss to review for $200? I just. #papercuts

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

synagogue listserv: women: facts; (old) men: vibes. #momprof

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

hi academic bsky - anyone have experience with two-book queries and whether you need a full book proposal for both? asking for ... me. #momprof

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Re-reading my 2nd book before teaching it at Univ of Mainz &...1) I don't remember a bunch of it 2) analysis solid, research great 3)too many adverbs! #momprof #Germany #immigrationhistory

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

My time in Bisbee #Arizona is near anend but you can find me next month at the University of Mainz in Germany as a visiting fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational Studies! One of the events is a screening of #Bisbee17; another is a lecture abt #phelpsdodge so excited! #momprof #wiedersehen

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June 19 – Film Screening _Bisbee ’17_ | Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

OMG the old white guy energy of this: I just contacted an elderly amateur historian about source for an interesting claim he made in a book I am using & he flat-out admitted he made it up bc he "After a couple years of research I was convinced no one alive knew [X] better than me." 🫠 #nothelpful

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

World's on fire, heart aching for all the college campuses, but here in #Arizona let's hope this stupid 1864 #abortion law goes down in flames today. Thank you to the MANY #historians whose work informed this piece: I'm sorry I coudn't name you all time.com/6972237/ariz...

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The History of Arizona's Abortion Ban

Legislators look likely to repeal a near-total abortion ban enacted by a deeply unrepresentative territorial legislature.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Trans/gender non-conforming? In NYC, you have the right to be placed in your chosen gender cell. Thanks to @dreanyc123.bsky.social who achieved that outcome, now a rule police/C.O.'s must follow, in a case that took 10 years to resolve. I'm proud that my work + comrades helped. cont'd ––>

• If you are trans/gender non-conforming, you have the
right to be locked in the gendered cell of your choice.
• Do not unlock your phone for the cops.
• Do not accept drinks, gum, cigarettes, etc. while in
custody- the police use these for DNA samples.
• You might not be able to make a phone call in custody. If
you’re given a phone call, call NLG-NYC. Give the names
of your cellmates in addition to your own info.
• Feel free to bond with your cellies, but don’t talk about
anything that led to arrests - you could talk yourselves
into a conviction!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Do not unlock your phone at all! If you open your phone in front of cops, they'll take it from you and copy the contents. Memorize a phone number or write it on your clothes. If a cop offers you a cup of water, convert it to this question: Will you give the U.S govt your DNA? Permanently? con't

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

NYC. Many protections were gained by the labor of advocates and lawyers over DECADES of litigation. For normal protest arrests, expect to be in jail for less than 8 hours, longest 24. If you're very lucky, 2 hrs. It's illegal to be fingerprinted for most protest arrests. Only for misdemeanors. ––>

AFTER YOU’RE ARRESTED (NYC-SPECIFIC)
NYS law requires that anyone arrested be arraigned or
released within 24 hours. That said, when many people
are going through the system, these times can increase to
multiple days (currently 3 days on average).
Tell the police if you need medical attention/prescription
medications. They’re required to take you to the hospital
to get these. They may threaten you and tell you that you
will be held twice as long. You won’t be allowed to take
prescription meds that you have on you while in custody.
ONCE YOU’RE RELEASED
• Don’t talk to anyone except your lawyer about the
details of your arrest. Don’t post about it on social
media, email, text, or DM about it, don’t write it down in
your journal. Anything you document could be turned
over to the government and used against you.
• If you were injured by the police, photograph your
injuries ASAP and send the photos to your lawyer.
If you see a doctor, share your medical records with
your lawyer and keep the

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

A few highlights Being in custody isn't like TV. That tends to freak people out. Prepare. It's legal for police to lie to you. Don't talk to them except for name, ID, D.O.B, address. Invoke your right to silence + a lawyer. Never lie to police or fed agents. (If you're silent, you can't lie!)

IF YOU’RE ARRESTED
• If you do anything that the cops consider to be resisting,
you could get additional charges.

• If possible, note the names and badge numbers of the
cops who arrested you.

• The cops are not required to tell you why you are under
arrest. They are allowed to lie to you.The cops are not required to read you your rights unless they’re interrogating you while you’re in custody.

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

RT @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @adamrothman.bsky.social Friends, I'm scooping myself bc it's important to offer more context esp on #native sovereignty for the 1864 #Arizona #AbortionLaw. I lean on the outstanding research of fellow historians. Please circulate. #momprof docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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April 19 Long Version of Op-Ed: Arizona's 1864 Legislature Didn't Represent The People Then or Now

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

taking a break from shooting off space lasers here on the Arizona border. As a lady historian of, from, & on Arizona, I'm writing up a little something about the 1864 #Arizona #abortion law. stay tuned... #momprof big thanks to @adamrothman.bsky.social keep an eye out @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Over here on the border, where me and my jewish homies (and ancestors) are, this space laser technology is gonna be *lit* #momprof

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Hi-Re-upping exciting news that I will be part of a star-studded lineup of #immigration #historians at the #centerforjewishhistory #IRL in #NYC or zoom! cjh.org/jewish_migra...

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Sexual harassment and corruption are not "kind"

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Why/how in the year 2024 can the #NYT run this headline??? I just...

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

peak historian: 4:30 Fri, Arizona, I'm on sabbatical, most ppl watching basketball & I'm reading 1897 letters like this: "spent three days in Westphalia looking at the newest types of coke ovens and trying to shed some light on the purification of bituminous coal gas for use in gas engines” #yeesh

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

I... am not over reading death claims for copper miners in 1907/8 and the Anglos get $1500-2000 and the Mexican-American widow with three kdis gets...$550. #historymatters

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I'm "I have an idea for your PhD dissertation" years old. #momprof

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Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

I don't like to leave #Bisbee these days but I'm honored to be w/the finest historians I know on April 7 in New York @ the Center for #Jewishhistory. It's hybrid so come see us! www.cjh.org/jewish_migra... #momprof #immigrationhistory #historymatters @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & many others!

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