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Hugh Agnew

@hughlec.bsky.social
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Historian of the Czechs and the Habsburg monarchy, amateur musician (choral and some woodwinds), sourdough baker, married to a cat rescuer 😻

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
One of the amazing things about Tom Homan taking 50k is that Trump has made 3 billion off the presidency. Kushner made 100s of millions. Stephen Miller is invested in Palantir. JD is a made man in the PayPal mafia. But their top dog ICE man is bribing for 50k.
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a man wearing a black headband and a gray jacket says this game is rigged man
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SeekingTheRoot @seekingtheroot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
September 3, 2025
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September 3, 2025
[Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Amen!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 28/08/2025
From Poland to South Africa to the United States, unions have been the most effective check on oligarchs and autocrats. If we want to save democracy, we start by rebuilding them. Michael Podhorzer explains.
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The One Single, Proven Constraint on Oligarchy and Autocracy
By Michael Podhorzer
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Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.fuseliterary.com/happy-ebook-...
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Happy eBook/audiobook birthday to HAZE by Katharine Kerr | Fuse Literary
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Weekend Update #146: A Deal To Destroy Ukraine
Europe Will Have To Choose Soon; The Pokrovsk "Collapse" Was Nothing Of The Sort
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The Organization of American Historians has issued this statement condemning Trumps efforts to whitewash US history by illegally controlling what the Smithsonian Institution puts in its museums. www.oah.org/2025/08/14/s...
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OAH | Statement on the White House Review of the SmithsonianOAH | Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Who could possibly have predicted this?
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files. Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office. One side dodges accountability. The other fights for democracy. Repost @djmelodie
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
July 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025
First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 20/07/2025
An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...
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“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years
As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/07/2025
Genocide "doesn’t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."
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"I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United…
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is one of the most important pieces I've written and I hope you'll read it. Politicizing the military is dangerously destabilizing for democracy-learn more from the vantage point of people who have served. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Why We Don't Politicize the Military
When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 16/07/2025
In 1936 & 1937, 35,000 people came from around the world to defend the democratically elected Spanish gov't against fascism. 3,000 volunteered from the U.S. They would found the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social @globalexchange.bsky.social
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Fighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Thousands left their homes in the United States to stand against Spanish General Franco and fascism. This is episode 58 of Stories of Resistance.
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The more ridicule that can be heaped on him, the better.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/07/2025
The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law. 157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo. No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
No notes.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/07/2025
Russia’s frozen assets must be used to rebuild Ukraine, says Zelenskyy, as he hits out at ‘terrorism’ of daily attacks – Europe live
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Russia’s frozen assets must be used to rebuild Ukraine, says Zelenskyy, as he hits out at ‘terrorism’ of daily attacks – Europe live
Kyiv said Russia launched around 400 drones and 18 missiles against Ukraine overnight Zelenskyy also repeatedly thanks partners for their help so far, saying it is thanks to their help it was able to start building a modern air force. “We’ve done it in record time. No other country has switched from Soviet aircraft to F-16 and Mirages this quickly,” he says. I urge all our partners: increase your investments when Russia increases its attacks. Continue reading...
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Today is the feast day of SS Cyril and Methodius, the "Apostles to the Slavs." This is a section of the Alphonse Mucha window in Prague's St. Vitus cathedral. At the top are the two saints baptizing Borivoj, below is St. Ludmila and her grandson, St. Wenceslas (Vaclav).
A detail from a window in Prague's St. Vitus cathedral, painted by Alphonse Mucha, showing the spread of Christianity among the Bohemian Slavs (Czechs). To the top are the two Apostles to the Slavs, Saints Cyril and Methodius, baptizing Borivoj. In the lower half Saint Ludmila prays with her grandson, Saint Wenceslas. Cyril wears a monk's habit in somber brown, while Methodius is garbed in a bishop's vestments. Ludmila arms outspread in prayer, is wearing a gown of light yellow-green, belted with gold, and a red apron, while young Wenceslas wears a vibrant red tunic and has his hands clasped in front of him.
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just read Charlotte Clymer's excellent 4th of July thread: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-mr-ra...
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What Mr. Ramirez Taught Me
July Fourth means community.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/07/2025
No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed | Moira Donegan
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No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed | Moira Donegan
The bill steals from the sick, elderly and hungry, and gives to billionaires and jackboots. But Republicans will follow their leader anywhere
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“Morph into a system”…? Shall we call it the GULAG archipelago?
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Gee. Who could have predicted this?
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
And yet, and yet, the suicide attempts seem to be unsuccessful.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2025
Operation Stormy Daniels. Haha
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Including mine and many of my colleagues'.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/06/2025
While the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
While the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Juneteenth matters. The moment it represents in this nations history matters. The generational trauma of slavery can’t be waved away. Our fellow Americans deserve to be honored and celebrated. Freedom is a precious gift.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth To All !! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So happy to see some common sense emerging in my natal state, which seemed to have gone completely off the edge into MAGA mania.
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@kitkerr.bsky.social reposted a favorite page from a favorite comic strip of my childhood, and it really seems appropriate for our times.
A four panel "Pogo" cartoon from 1953 by Walt Kelly, featuring Porky the Porcupine reading the Emma Lazarus poem that is on the base of the Statue of Liberty, to the mole character (Mole MaCarony, later called Molester Mole - read to rhyme with pollster), and two cowbirds masquerading as doves.
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Hunter @statisticurban.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
In some countries, like the UK, there’s a (relatively recent) tradition of letting the party of any lawmaker killed in an act of political violence run unopposed in the by-election. It lets people know violence cannot change the balance of power. It would be good for the US to do this.
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
IMO, Mango Mussolini & Miller-Goebbels, along w/ others, are the intellectual authors of this crime.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
April 20, 1939: A massive military parade attended by hundreds of thousands of spectators is held in Berlin for the Führer's 50th birthday. The lavish spectacle is designed to wow the domestic audience, intimidate foreign observers, and prepare the nation psychologically for the coming war.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The @aaup.bsky.social stands with David Huerta and @seiu.org
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hey you Devil Dogs "deployed" to California, remember this? "...first to fight for right and FREEDOM and to keep our HONOR clean..." After this shitshow ends, will you be able to sing the next line?
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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here's a bright spot, and not perhaps a totally small one.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The bottom line on the Trump-Musk feud www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
For years, commentators have talked about how Trump reshaped the Republican Party in the populist mold. Indeed, Trumpism has seen Republicans abandon many of their publicly held commitments. The GOP says it champions fiscal discipline while growing the debt at every opportunity. It talks about individual merit while endorsing discrimination against groups based on gender, race, national origin, and sexual orientation. It blathers about free speech while using state power to engage in the most sweeping national-censorship campaign since the Red Scare. Republicans warn us about the “weaponization” of the legal system while seeking to prosecute critics for political crimes and deporting apparently innocent people to Gulags without a shred of due process. The GOP venerates Christianity while engaging in the kind of performative cruelty early Christians associated with paganism. It preaches family values while destroying families it refuses to recognize as such.

Yet the one bridge that connects Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush to Donald Trump is slashing public services while showering tax cuts on the rich. This is the Republican Party’s most sacred, fundamental value, the one it almost never betrays. Whatever else Trump and Musk may fight about, they are faithful to that.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 09/06/2025
Since the beginning of his first term, Trump has publicly glorified police brutality, directly encouraging officers to behave more violently than they already do, and making it one of his biggest laugh and applause lines at rallies.
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'American Death Squads': Inside Trump's Push to Make Police More Violent
Donald Trump wants to push cops to be as brutal as possible and shield them from accountability.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Very important apnews.com/article/nih-...
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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 09/06/2025
"Extension of the democratic franchise to women, the unpropertied, and racial and ethnic minorities in the 20th century cracked open the unjust privilege of representation of rich men for rich men. This struggle continues as the political right continually seeks to exclude disfavored minorities."
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Free Trade, Free Movement, and the Cosmopolitan Coalition
Theirs was a vision of a world united in peace, in a federation of democratic states (if not a world state), with no barriers to the movement of goods and free, enterprising human beings, the baleful ...
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