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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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

A long time ago, my book won a prize that came with a check. A colleague told me if possible not to spend it on housing or food, but something lasting I wouldn’t otherwise get. I got a watercolor that hangs on my wall and a necklace that I’m wearing right now. They both still bring me such happiness

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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 one is gonna force me to teach them” ???

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

Damn it. Last night Jon Miller just said Kuip was “on assignment.” I haven’t lived in the Bay Area in almost 30 years & I still watch Giants games when Kruck and Kuip are in the booth, because they’re masters at their crafts. I’m so glad he expects to be on hand for the weekend celebration at least.

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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 · 18/09/2026

Now Alan, you’re letting accuracy get in the way of him declaring victory!

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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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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Cat Distribution System is working as it should :)

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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.

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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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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was just talking about this study with my neurologist today

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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...

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

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Basketball season isn’t far off!

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a pretty ridiculously long streak (and therefore extensive basis for comparison!)

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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...

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

I didn’t get any pushes either, and when I asked my pretty politically tuned in son, he didn’t know it had happened (I only knew because someone else heard about it here on bluesky and shared.)

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

Cultural historians (if there are any) won’t believe anyone who says they didn’t realize, given this kind of evidence

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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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