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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 19h

But, not me. Please don’t ask me. Lol.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And, after McKinley was magically converted to imperialism…

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Could we even get more guilded age?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With CNN and CBS in the hands of the Ellisons and Fox in the hands of the Murdochs, pressure mounts on NBC to sell itself to either Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel, or Elon Musk.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it needs glitter?? Lots of glitter.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I sometimes think Polis must be over his delusions, and then he acts like he can’t remember that he was banned from speaking at state Dem Party events for reasons.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IDK I’ll believe it when I see it. Every single ad on TV there is anti-Acton or anti-Brown, mostly with wild transphobic things and pictures of Mamdani and AOC, also baseless corruption smears against Brown and accusations that Acton is an alcoholic. I’ve never seen so many untrue ads.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just cannot anymore. How is this still happening?

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He is they are eating cats and dogs guy, but how can anyone possibly believe that school officials are putting students on hormones and puberty blockers and performing gender reassignment surgeries? I guess these are the same people who thought kids were identifying as cats and using litter boxes.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It really does suck. Goes back to the Telecom Act in the 90s. Gov‘t sold us out and we are the product.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haha, yes, living in a Bayesian world, and I am a Bayesian girl 😂. I mean, I have moved past it but my brain still has to go through that phase of thinking for everything.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Most of my colleagues who do academic survey work are now keeping the data on their personal computer with a lot of home data security because neither universities nor the internet at large have any meaningful controls on data mining by AI.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I‘m not sure what gen thinks this is an issue. GenX and I rarely go anywhere without my reusable coffee cup, my water bottle, or both. I have definitely done job interviews with each of them. People drink things? It is not like pulling out a ham sandwich or something. That one was just baffling.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is terrifying that there is a large group of people who actually enjoys the dismantling of democracy, and seems to have never learned anything about the Constitution, a free press, or any kind of rights at all.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Haha, yes that one was puzzling. Why would anyone even notice if someone had something to drink, let alone have an opinion on it?

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heard a lot this week from my honors thesis students and grad students about what is wrong with political science, and I have to say they are not wrong.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wish cardigan season would come to Colorado. It’s going to be pushing 80 today.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, and based on demographics the most optimistic possibility for Dems is 6-2 unless there is some kind of wild political earthquake (which is always possible).

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was just in Ohio and I am not sure I saw any ads that weren’t anti-trans. It was just wild. And disgusting.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excited to be presenting tomorrow at this conference hosted by my MA alma mater in my hometown! If ever there will be an audience for my nerdy little interests in George Washington and the Ohio Country, this should be it. If you happen to be in Canton, Ohio it is free and open to the public!

Picture of speaker and slide that stares: Ohio Presidential History and Politics Conference 2026.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would say the answer is no. Still not sure how I felt about it though. Don’t regret watching.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have these hopes for Ohio and then I find out my parents are mainlining raw sewage to their brains. Did you know Newsmax is better than Fox News? Also, the Dems’ campaign ads are paid for by George Soros and China. Also, the Fed should not raise interest rates because the war is basically over.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mean, I think we are all against bestiality and this is where we are. No need to even get into more controversial issues like data centers and the Iran war.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eek. I just don’t want to see any more about this.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just cannot even keep track of the factions anymore. So now moderate Dems and tankies have joined together to beat up on trans people??

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A lot of running here today at ORD, including me. But made my delayed flight from my delayed flight.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So tired of the emails pushing innovating with AI and then the emails warning us that basically no data should be entered into AI. Honestly just tired of all emails about AI.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have so many questions that I absolutely do not want answered.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have really seen enough of JD Vance’s calves for a lifetime.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Interesting (I mean, not really). I thought it was the Beyoncé country album that led to all the young women wearing $400 cowboy boots.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am working on a thing about colonial/revolutionary U.S. and the ways that concepts like nation-state, sovereignty, and colony were in flux at the time, which affected the political choices that led to formation of U.S.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wait, what? Thanks for sharing, working on something related to this right now!

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is another one of those days when the internet is trying to tell me I need to figure out who this Piker guy is and why so many people are talking about him, but you know, I’m not doing that. Maybe some other day.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They need to get on here right now to debate me about chemtrails and the dangerous 5G signals coming out of my neighbor’s Xcel box.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Feels like someone bought the wrong box. But who am I to judge, I enjoy changing my hair color.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seriously people, your boarding group is not an indicator of your self-worth…

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think I am going to buy everyone a book this year, make them a homemade bookmark, and print out a meaningful photo for them. We gotta put these phones down. Gonna read a book now.

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Janet Donavan @janetdonavan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We live in the stupidest timeline exhibit 6,000,000.

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