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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

As a WWII scholar-in-training, I’m appalled I haven’t found this book sooner. It is hard to read every word of the books we’re assigned, but I can’t put this one down. America is great because of our Black neighbors, and the equality and humanity they still fight for. Thank you Matthew F. Delmont!

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Anyone have lidar analysis tips? I’m having too much fun with it.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Albanian team is in my area and I wish I could hug them all Welcome to Kansas, Albania!!

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Oh, hey Bluesky. I’m back because I think Facebook may have deleted my account for constantly referring to the pedo president

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Just finished the book Fascism by Mark Neocleous. Curious about his updated thoughts and research, I looked him up. This is how you scholar! 💯 Scholars deserve pay, obviously. But understanding the shit show political world we’re living in should be free. Thank you Mark!

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You know, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any maga/ frump merch. The farms around me took down their weird hay bale shrine; the oversized trucks don’t fly the flags anymore. Wonder what the last straw was for all my red neighbors 😂

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Only 38 pages in, and I’m hooked. (And absolutely do not sense the origins of modern conflicts within these pages…/s) Upcoming course is “The Global War” and I’m thrilled to be learning more about the ‘fringes’ of WWII. (Aka, what isn’t taught in US schools)

Book cover of “Islam and Nazi Germany’s War” by David Motadel

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

My bestie and I spent years joking about what our ‘designated fbi agents’ thought about our texts. We even named them. The joke ended without any conversation on our part. It was funny before because we’re just harmless, goofy ladies. It stopped being funny when people started getting detained

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

“The new illiberal polity is a state only in appearance, for at its core is not the set of routines, codes, or institutions that comprise a genuine state, but a party-movement and its myths. At the heart of such pseudo-states lie camps, terror, and secret police.” -Ira Katznelson

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This interests me more than the grifters who do anything he wants.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the Attica Prison Uprising. Why did listening to the @bloodwork.show episode on it feel exactly like listening to the Beslan School Siege that @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social covered 🙃

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If you can tell me who Karl Polanyi, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin are (without looking them up), we would probably get along. (Though, we’d get along even if you don’t, so long as you respect humans, animals, and the Earth 💕)

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The cat distribution system struck again. Someone dumped off a black kitten. I named him Anakin. It goes well with Boba (cat), Ahsoka, Rex, and Leia (dogs). My family has never seen Star Wars. But I think they’re catching on. 👀 My suggestion for Vader before Anakin may have given me away…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is extremely important

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Perhaps I study genocide because it’s so horrific that it makes my own problems seem irrelevant. In other words, I accepted that I’ll never find love again, but who needs love when you spend your days trying to listen to the cries of millions?

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

They did way better than Pantone 😂 it’s relevant cuz it’s mostly all one sees online

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I deleted my Facebook to stop doom scrolling, so now I’m here, only slightly less doom scrolling.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin

Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#Ukraine and President #Zelenskyy, I am so sorry how you were treated by my country’s leaders. We the people still support you. They were right about an absence of diplomacy—but not from you, Mr President. Дякую за відвідування

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Or, and just hear me out, we can tax billionaires.

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Dr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Though I’ve been avoiding spending money since January (as much as possible) I haven’t quit Facebook. I just have all my friends and family there. But I deleted the app yesterday in solidarity with the blackout today. So, I might get to know Bluesky a little better today 😂

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fascist don’t like much pushback, historically.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Like, surely the creepy man doesn’t make much of his money from Tesla anymore. He’s getting it from us

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I think it’s weird to protest at Tesla. Boycott them, sure, but why tf are we wasting collective energy on Tesla when the government is right there? And since the Tesla protests ARE being covered by major media outlets… maybe that’s a 🚩🚩🚩

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The Boxer Rebellion was one of the most chaotic, unhinged moments in recent history

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 12/02/2025

Visited the Imperial War Museum yesterday and this note in their Holocaust gallery seemed relevant. . .

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Block them. Just block them. The people arguing for our fascist government are NOT looking for a conversation or debate. They’re looking to cause further disruption, confusion, and emotions. Block them. They have no power if they are not heard. Do not waste your precious time or energy.

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sonoranwildheart.bsky.social @sonoranwildheart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Now more than ever, we must unite, resist, and fight against oppression and tyranny. Our lives and the remaining life of the biosphere depend on it.

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If anyone finds Zul-Qarnain Nantambu’s social media, lmk. I would like to follow him because he’s my HEROOO

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Shoutout to my favorite podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social 😂 Found in “Stopping the Panzers” by Marc Milner

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@iwriteok.bsky.social I’m going crazy; I can’t find a podcast I swear you did over Bulgaria saving their Jews from deportation. It’s such a good example of pushing back against fascism… If this is an episode you remember doing, HELP A GIRL OUT 😅😭

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/01/2025

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The resolution by Historians for Peace that the APA vetoed. “After careful consideration” = $$$

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This is my cat, Boba Fett, the greatest bounty hunter and daimyo in the galaxy

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When I was small, I asked my mom if there was a career out there where I could just read. She didn’t tell me about grad school, but she should’ve

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Alisha Downs @jedihistorian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Friendly reminder that the US helped create what we classify today as terrorism

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