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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you all really telling me that I stayed off line for a day or so and missed all the glee about a Republican senator making a fool of himself in a hearing? Joy is so fleeting these days

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m honestly surprised he didn’t say “mutilization” like his cult leader does Also, how do you mutilate gender in a hospital? He’s too prissy to name specific body parts but can’t even say “genitalia”? Soon he’ll be talking about “unmentionables.” We need more mentioning and less fetishizing.

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Larry J. Simon @larryjsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring … and it blossoms in the summer … and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone … just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops." mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...

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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once the archives become available decades from now, long after I've gone to that great study carrel in the sky, future generations of diplomatic historians will form on the topic of Trump studies, examining how foreign governments analyzed our mad king problem. What is Xi thinking?

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Many more headlines thus am breezing past historical scholarship of decades — and Hemings family history — to trumpet a new DNA study that simply confirms what we knew. My bar is low but even I’m depressed by how science always has to be “news” and journalism has so much trouble reporting history.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My husband is back in the hospital. Please do anything you believe could be helpful.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, “our worst misfortunes” are not, in fact, “gifts.” That’s just a way to tell people in pain and in need that they don’t deserve help. That they should be thankful, even, for whatever catastrophe has befallen them. Monsters. All of them, monsters.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who is/will be responsible for more deaths: Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, or Elon Musk?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This will form part of a defensive perimeter denying enemies access to Washington, to be known as the MAGA No Line.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Millions? I guess Martha’s Vineyard is more crowded than I realized.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My quote of the day From Plantiffs v. NIH, Bhattacharya, HHS, Kennedy, and DOGE, filed September 16, 2026

The Challenged Policies violate the First Amendment by imposing viewpoint-based bars or penalties on government funding designed to facilitate private speech. Defendants are discriminating against Plaintiffs and the proposed class by inhibiting their ability to fairly compete for or retain NIH funding based on the fact, or Defendants’ perception, that Plaintiffs’ research-related speech will communicate disfavored views concerning (1) DEI, (2) gender identity, (3) climate change, (4) vaccines, and (5) misinformation.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Trump admin is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias. The National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000, according to a letter from the Interior Sec'y.

theatlantic.com

The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian

A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a brooklyn bodega cat was stolen on Sep 10. residents promptly built a tip network and organized people to check leads day and night. he was successfully recovered today. democrats have spent billions trying to figure out how to make people care this much about anything. should've tried cats.

White cat with gray-black patches on its head, back, and tail lounging on a small cardboard scratcher shaped like a couch.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 16/09/2026

Steve Bannon is one of the worst human beings in US history. A transnational advocate for fascism. If you think he’s OK now because he’s talking to Bernie Sanders you need to get a fucking grip.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. 1 in 5 people gone from NIH. More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC. Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ. ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...

ourpublicservice.org

The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A North Carolina professor in the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: "I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” Here are more voices from the region: 1/x lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...

lailluminator.com

University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our system has not completely collapsed but we are living through an attempted fascist takeover of the United States. If you’re not on the target list today, you will be tomorrow. Nobody gets out of this undamaged. The only path forward to save our democracy is accountability and overhaul.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have had this quote by Lonnie Bunch from the back cover of The 1619 Project on my office door for ages.

Let us use history to inspire us to push a country forward, to help us believe that all things are possible, and to demand a country lives up to its stated ideals.
LONNIE G. BUNCH II
14TH SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Not the original back cover, my image of that is blurry. I dolled this one up in canva- white serif font on blue starry background

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A disproportionate number of AfD supporters suffer from Restless Arm Syndrome, public-health officials report.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is my maternal grandmother, Ida Sledge Engeman. She was an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in the 1930s, making good trouble in Tupelo, leading to headlines like “Memphis Society Girl Escorted to Town Line.” I always like to pay tribute to her on Labor Day ❤️

Studio portrait of a white woman in her early twenties, dating from the 1930s. She has dark eyes, strong brows, and dark hair with a wave that is styled across her forehead from a side part and pulled back and up. She is either wearing a dark shirt or a dark photographer’s wrap, just visible on her soldiers. She has no jewelry. She is smiling slightly with her lips closed. It is a senior yearbook photo, and below the picture it says “Ida T. Sledge 1753 Overton Park Ave. Memphis, Tenn.”

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

THREAD/Today marks the 86th anniversary of "Black Saturday" - 7th September 1940, what would prove to be the first day of the London Blitz. The docks, the East End, Woolwich Arsenal and the entire eastern half of London suffered most on this day. Here we see the first of two photographs taken by...

The Surrey Commercial Docks and the East End ablaze on Black Saturday, 7th September 1940. Photograph taken from London Bridge by Edward E Creffield of the New York Times

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Demonstrably also true in the US (even - especially! - when the guys covering their faces are employees of the government)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026

Perspective.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

West Africans practiced smallpox inoculation long before Europeans had ever heard of it, and brought the knowledge with them to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Elise Mitchell examines how these stories were “forgotten” amid the hardening of racial ideologies in the 19th century

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The world has spent centuries forgetting the African history of immunisation

Historian Dr Elise Mitchell re-examines the early history of smallpox inoculation on both ends of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Military folks: we have reason to believe this is a US navy aviator’s lid from the 1920s. Does that seem right to you? All help much appreciated!

An old-looking drab green military-type cap with a brown brim sitting on top of the worn wooden top of a chest.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/09/2026

Any telling of A Christmas Carol should make you fear immediately and urgently for your own mortal soul lest you end up a miserable shitbag asshole whomst everyone who has ever known you thrills at the thought of pissing on your grave, you should desire to do anything at all to avoid it

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Military folks: we have reason to believe this is a US navy aviator’s lid from the 1920s. Does that seem right to you? All help much appreciated!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That's not how I look at it. I look at as we have about two and a half years to convince all federal elected Dems that opposing this means your career is over. Right now? A ton. To me, it's an Apollo 13 situation. You figure out how to get it done.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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vomitgoblin.bsky.social @vomitgoblin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Idk how anyone can listen to these people talk so casually about people dying and not think they're some of the most evil assholes on the planet. Truly just no empathy whatsoever, anyone not in their immediate circle is trash to be thrown away.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Even if his grotesque lies were true, the co-morbidities he’s dismissing affect hundreds of millions (including himself, since age is one of them). People with “co-morbidities” still deserve to live, you eugenicist ass.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2026

This should be setting off alarm bells. Service members trying to leave the military on moral grounds have surged to SIX TIMES the normal rate since Trump’s war with Iran began in February.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does anyone know of any memoirs, autobiographies and histories that focus on the experiences of people who lived through both First and Second World War occupations in Europe?

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"There are definite and clear biological differences in people that have Long COVID. There are several potential mechanisms that can be leading to them [including]...viral persistence, inflammation within the tissues, potential autoimmunity.." www.latimes.com/0000019b-c3f...

latimes.com

Dr. Amy Proal and Dr. Timothy Henrich on Long COVID, Oncogenic Viruses, and the Latest Research

Explore the latest Long COVID virology with Dr. Timothy Henrich and Dr. Amy Proal. Discover if the virus has oncogenic potential and what UCSF’s LIINC study reveals.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.

Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Muppets pay tribute to the eternal Dolly Parton, who was named an Honorary Muppet in 1986 🦋 “There will never be another quite like Dolly Parton … She filled the world with light and we are so grateful for every second we got to spend with her onstage and off.”

Black and white photo of Dolly and fellow icon, Miss Piggy.

“There will never be another quite like Dolly Parton. She was the ultimate singer, songwriter, actress, performer, and philanthropist.
She filled the world with light and we are so grateful for every second we got to spend with her onstage and off.”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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