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John O'Keefe

@johnokeefe.bsky.social
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Historian of migration and citizenship at Ohio University Chillicothe - author of Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A cryptocurrency super PAC funded primarily by Trump-aligned billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss is pouring almost $3 million into the Ohio Senate race to help block Sherrod Brown from returning to Washington. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Crypto PAC piles on Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate race
The new spending by a super PAC launched by Trump-aligned billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss will support GOP Sen. Jon Husted.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Prepping some other materials and re-found this gem: A Chinese description of the #brooklynbridge with an illustration made by someone who only looked at the description. Love the #minarets which, from an 1892 Chinese perspective, are a generically "foreign" architectural element #skystorians
bridge crossing river diagonally, with minarets at left and center. land at far end appears mountainous
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration has banned Christians fleeing persecution, and many people of faith don't know it. I talked with Matthew Soerens of World Relief about how it happened. Listen here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social
Quote card. Austin Kocher, from his post President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution: “It’s not opinion or conjecture to call this a Trump ban. The president unilaterally sets the number and priority for refugee resettlement.” austinkocher.substack.com
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in 12 Illuminated Manuscripts Michelle P. Brown newbooksnetwork.com/illumino #illuminatedmanuscripts
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Michelle P. Brown, "Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts" (Reaktion, 2025) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her by Shannon McKenna Schmidt newbooksnetwork.com/you-cant-cat... #lbj #firstladieshistory #electioncampaigns #womenshistory #womeninpolitics
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918 by @ladyburglar.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-secret-l...
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Eloise Moss, "The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918" (Bloomsbury, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War by @jeffwhyte.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-birth-of...
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Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
time for a few more podcast eps
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We now know that the university’s processes ultimately left five of the seven students accused free to graduate. Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art Holly Black newbooksnetwork.com/the-story-of... #arthistory #printmaking
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Holly EJ Black, "The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art" (Yale UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers Benjamin Robert Siegel newbooksnetwork.com/markets-of-p... #painkillers #publichealth #drughistories
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Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America Thomas Doherty newbooksnetwork.com/how-film-bec... #documentaries #filmhistory #primarysources
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Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe Ruth Balint newbooksnetwork.com/destination-... #migrationhistory
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Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a few more podcast eps
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connected to Tufts, Medford, or Somerville in any way? Then you should sign Tufts library workers' petition calling on the university to recognize the brand-new Tufts Libraries Union. ➡️
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We Support the Tufts Library Union!
On September 8, 2026, Tufts library staff made the brave decision to publicly announce their union with SEIU Local 888. The Tufts Library staff maintain Tufts' collections, support student and facult...
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aldenlibdigital.bsky.social I was fascinated to read the blog post about Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952 and their plan to conduct #sitins at local Athens restaurants. sites.ohio.edu/library-arch... #civilrightshistory #ohiohistory #studentactivism
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Reblog: Meet an Early Multicultural Student Organization: Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952 – OHIO Archives
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 28/09/2026
Worker files lawsuit one year after orphan well explosion in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/21/w...
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Worker files lawsuit one year after orphan well explosion in Ohio's Wayne National Forest • Ohio Capital Journal
A year after an orphan well explosion in Wayne National Forest killed two men, a worker who sustained severe burns filed a lawsuit against the companies involved.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic by @visualplague.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/how-plague-g... #plague #rats - Book on rats and plague is #opensource
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Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026) - New Books Network
This provocative book shows how zoonosis emerged as a politically charged concept in the context of empire and pandemic crisis. It is a powerful history of how science, society, and colonialism converged around a creature now inseparable from the story of epidemic disease.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy Timothy McCall newbooksnetwork.com/making-the-r... #genderhistory
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Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation Weipin Tsai newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-o... #postalhistory #chinesehistory
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Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Middlebrow Musical Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America James O'Leary newbooksnetwork.com/the-middlebr... #musicals #performancestudies #theaterhistory
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James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time for for some more podcast episodes
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Okay, #skystorians , I am drafting a lecture on #judicialreview , and I'm mainly using Friedman's History of American Law, 3d ed. It's not providing the most helpful narrative to work with. Any suggestions for something I can use that's brief, clear, and informative? #legalhistory
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years Robert B. Marks newbooksnetwork.com/deep-time-in... #monolake #sierranevada
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Robert B. Marks, "Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History Over the Last 10,000 Years" (U California Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Taverns, and Alehouses in Cracow During the Jagiellonian Dynasty Peter Paul Dobek newbooksnetwork.com/the-public-h... #pubs #polishhistory #socialhistory #krakow
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Peter Paul Dobek, "The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty" (Lexington Books, 2024) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory by @sharronwconrad.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-trinity-... #jfk #lbj #civilrightshistory #publicmemory #africanamericanhistory
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Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War Kate Dannies newbooksnetwork.com/conscripting...
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Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War" (Edinburgh UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926 Jonathan Schneer newbooksnetwork.com/nine-days-in... #generalstrike #laborhistory #coal #britishhistory (an informative look at a general strike and the tactical and strategic issues that arose as the strike unfolded )
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Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
time for some podcast episodes
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you need more capybaras in your life (and not just as a reminder of adding ALT-TEXT to your Bluesky images), there's now this about ancient capybaras in the Atacama Desert: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A screengrab of Fig. 3D from Gutstein et al. 2026 on evidence for the Late Miocene Capybara in the Atacama Desert. Caption: Histogram of δ¹³C values comparing modern C3 plants (ref. 42, n = 1,615; ref. 78,
n ~ 500), diet-corrected mammal tooth bioapatite (n = 143)43, and Miocene Atacama soil carbonate nodules from this study
(n = 2, red bar).A post from @catsofyore.bsky.social reminding folks to use ALT-TEXT when posting images on Bluesky. The image shows "A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head."
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you aware that the AI-generated online encyclopedia #Grokipedia is creating and publishing entries on academics and their work? I recently found my entry, and some is correct, some is wrong, and all of this is collected from various websites only. #academicchatter grokipedia.com/page/Daniel_...
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Daniel Bellingradt — Grokipedia
Daniel Bellingradt is a German historian and communication scholar known for his research on early modern media history, book history, paper markets, and the materiality of communication flows. He spe
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more disturbing #ai scan-and-shred with #books - this time in Japan www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up ...
Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 21/09/2026
I didn’t know Beehiiv had a program to support independent journalists. Members get access to tools, a health insurance stipend, legal protection, and waived hosting fees. Oh, and they don’t proudly host Nazis like Substack. ✌️ [niemanlab.org]
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Beehiiv is the latest platform to try to lure independent journalists with perks
These types of programs are likely to continue to come and go, as the needs of journalists and the platforms’ businesses evolve.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Taught the Bill of Rights today and while prepping the new lecture, and am fascinated by the story of Josiah Philips - Thos Jefferson drafted a bill of attainder declaring Philips and "50 unnamed associates" allowing anyone to kill them - no trial or anything else. #billofrights
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial The Collected Writings edited by @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/thomas-paine...
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Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Home Front Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence Lauren Duval newbooksnetwork.com/the-home-fro...
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Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (UNC Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution Nicholas W. Gentile newbooksnetwork.com/enemies-to-t...
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Nicholas W. Gentile, "Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution" (U Mass Press, 2025) - New Books Network
Nicholas W. Gentile complicates our understanding of the American Revolution through a microhistory of one Massachusetts town in his new book, Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution (U Mass Press, 2025).
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England Sam Fullerton newbooksnetwork.com/sexual-polit...
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Sam Fullerton, "Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
so catching up with the backlog here a bit
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm way behind in podcast episodes
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
By Tom Hodson from @athensindy.bsky.social athensindependent.com/oped-260917-... #unions #ohiouniversity #uaou #aaup #aft #unionbusting
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OU’s bullying tactics are simply union busting
It is clear to me that the university administration and the board of trustees want no faculty union, period, writes Tom Hodson.
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Athens County Independent @athensindy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
United Academics of Ohio University still don't have a fair contract with the university, and recently took to College Green to amplify the issue. athensindependent.com/rally-on-the...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is why using questionable data to investigate voters should concern everyone. Bad data doesn’t just create a bad spreadsheet. It can put an American citizen into a federal law enforcement system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. These “shadow docket” decisions have let the Trump admin. bypass lower courts on deportations, ICE stops and more — often with little to no explanation.
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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Continuing to work on my paper - looking forward to the conference! 250 Years: The Promises and Legacy of the Declaration of Independence www.ohio.edu/cas/central-... #ohiouniversity #america250 #ohiohistory
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Central Region Humanities Center Biennial Conference | Ohio University
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Commentary New Trump rules upend legal student visas. The consequences for Ohio will bring lasting pain ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/09/n...
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New Trump rules upend legal student visas. The consequences for Ohio will bring lasting pain • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio is a state whose international students contribute an estimated $1.3 billion a year to the overall economy, and support almost 11,000 jobs. New Trump rules against student visas are a self-impose...
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