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Kathleen Belew

@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
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Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I study the apocalypse and this is the surest sign I've seen
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IGN @ign.com · 24/09/2026
Kraft Dinner Canada has revealed a new limited-time cream soda with a "subtle hint" of its iconic mac & cheese flavor, in collaboration with with Solly's Craft Soda.
Kraft Dinner Has Launched A Mac & Cheese Cream Soda
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
First day of school! And no printers are working on all of campus! hahahahahahhajSDHfkzshbg;kjdafb;lz
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SO GOOD YOU GUYS (minor spoiler in comment below)
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
youtu.be/XLbLy0WQYiQ?...
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Self Evident (live)
YouTube video by Ani DiFranco - Topic
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Honored to share this space in a @nature.com piece with the great @derekgeographer.bsky.social , on how the recent UN vote to move beyond the Mercator map projection to Equal Earth may change education, public perception & hopefully social justice for Africa. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change
What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
mood
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anybody post/notify students of their grades without using an online system like Canvas? Do you like it?
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in power, Ms. Gloria Steinem. None of us would be here without you.
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My theory: survival stories and true crime are actually photo negatives of each other, because in true crime, someone's dead who should be alive, and in survival, someone's alive who should be dead, and in both cases you're trying to figure out why
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A whole section where Odysseus says he thought Inception was overrated
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The new episode of What to Carry, What to Burn, is a bit different from the others -- it takes place on a deserted island, yes, but that's not the greatest danger that our hero faces. It's a story of how someone can get trapped in abuse, not in spite of her toughness but because of it.
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Ep 6: Adam and Eve Crusoe
Podcast Episode · What to Carry, What to Burn · 7 July · 59min
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If, like me, you like the danger of a true crime podcast but do not like the gore and grief, may I recommend What to Carry, What to Burn with @blairbraverman.bsky.social --it's AMAZING, the best pod I've ever heard. Survival stories that priorities communities of care. www.whattocarrypod.com
whattocarrypod.com
What to Carry, What to Burn
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
lake america
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Lol
ALT: Lol
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a... This is the longest and most heartfelt obit I think I've ever read, and they didn't even get to how Dolly tucked an eagle sanctuary inside of Dollywood & provided free books to every child in Tennessee & managed to stay kind through everything. Our queen forever.
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New from me: The Trump Regime keeps coming for SPLC. Their latest indictment is chock-full of salacious details designed to isolate Heidi Beirich from Civil Society. But since they couldn't even get her job title correct, I don't buy it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/revenge-of...
altrightdelete.news
Revenge of the White Supremacists
In solidarity with Heidi Beirich
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown
Prosecutors charge Heidi Beirich with financial crimes as part of case against the Southern Poverty Law Center
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691102...
penguinrandomhouse.com
Home at the End of the World by Kathleen Belew: 9780593448519 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An acclaimed historian turns her eye toward the 1990s and the Columbine shooting that shocked the national conscience, revealing this moment in her home state of Colorado as the crucible of the fears ...
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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
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The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Good morning to everybody except this article draft i have to finish
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lots said already about the problems with this presentation, but please remember that when we're looking at terrorist attacks and plots by the white power movement, they go down when the attackers find sympathy, or jobs, in the halls of power.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
God, I hope so
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The book is in!
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Doubly excited to be in translation in the same batch as @kkdumez.bsky.social and @jeffsharlet.bsky.social !
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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pues preparaos para esta barbaridad de @kathleenbelew.bsky.social que nos explica la historia del supremacismo blanco y el movimiento paramilitar de extrema derecha en EEUU y que publicamos en noviembre, en la semana de las elecciones de medio mandato en EEUU. Si las hay. 'Traed la guerra casa'.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Really excited for the Spanish edition of Bring the War Home, coming to you from @capitanswing.bsky.social this November!
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“We question the ‘study’s’ purpose in a time of institutional capture by political actors that prohibit independent inquiry and dissent.” New at PB: Iván Chaar López & @erinmcel.bsky.social on Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin’s critique of American Studies.
publicbooks.org
Who Benefits from Distorting American Studies? - Public Books
“There is a movement undermining, constraining, and eradicating those who document, understand, and name the experiences of systematically marginalized communities in US history.”
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 16/06/2026
A key takeaway from @kathleenbelew.bsky.social's "Bring the War Home" is that the policy goals of 70s neo-nazis, especially on immigration and reproductive rights, are now the mainstream ideology of the Republican Party.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Solidarity with migrants and people of color in Northern Ireland. This fascist street violence is horrific.
theguardian.com
‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#amwriting
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Kermit The Frog Typing
ALT: Kermit The Frog Typing
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
good grief www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
smh.com.au
‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers
Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/02/e...
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Ex-WGN Staffer Who Was 'Violently' Thrown To Ground, Held By Feds Files $10 Million Claim
Debbie Brockman said the incident “profoundly impacted my life on a day-to-day basis, leaving me uncertain of my future, my neighbors’ futures, and quite frankly the future of the United States."
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: My look at how a recently-retired top immigration official getting celebrity treatment at a conference of outright fascists, and admitting to a friendship with a Nazi like Martin Sellner, should be a giant giant giant scandal talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/greg-bo...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Document by San Diego mosque shooters reveals neo-Nazi beliefs
Two teenagers in San Diego appeared to have been inspired by leaders and figureheads associated with the now defunct Atomwaffen Division.
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Geraldo Cadava @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ada Ferrer's new book, "Keeper of My Kin," is a beautiful memoir about how history both broke and made her family. And her experience is hardly singular. It's happening to thousands if not millions of families right now. I promise you'll want to read it. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
A History of ‘Utterly Ordinary People’
The historian Ada Ferrer’s new family memoir retells the story of Cuba through the individuals who matter most to her.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... In stark contrast to our ebola outbreak response
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US claims ‘emergency refugee situation’ as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans
Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners facing genocide with costs of resettling them at $100m
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I will give you a dollar if you can fast forward me to the end of spring quarter
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Girl Exhausted on Swing
ALT: Girl Exhausted on Swing
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Everything is a trash fire except for all the students booooing pro-AI graduation speeches ❤️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026
critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🚨APPALLING: Minnesota Republicans are literally hiding legislation in a desk drawer to prevent it from coming up for a vote. One of Speaker Lisa Demuth's deputies just admitted that he was "instructed not to report" a bill banning assault weapons/high-capacity magazines the Senate already passed.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What a joke. In certain respects, this something to be thankful for. From WSJ.
Graph based on Library of Congress House of Representatives data. Congress is struggling to do the bare minimum. Comparison of congresses from the 93rd to the current Congress, showing that the current Congress has hardly passed any legislation.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You know what else, is if Canvas outages do this to the University, maybe there is a teensy problem with overreliance on AI and other tech. Again, what I want is a room full of typewriters
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
what a super great time for a cyberattack on Canvas, which manages all grading, assignments, and communication in all my classes
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
went to a museum and met Woody Guthrie's daughter and granddaughter, which was delightful also student curators who did a fab job despite a university administration that prefers its antifascism confined to museum exhibits
theguardian.com
‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation
A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
From the Johns Hopkins Measles tracker, an alarming acceleration of the outbreak. It took ~12 months for case counts to reach 2,000 in 2025. We're on track this year to hit that by May. Link here: publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc... Let's dive in a little on what's at stake in our response.
Cumulative measles cases reported in the United States by year, showing flat curves for 2018-2024 except for 2019 which was record high, then showing how 2025 is inflected up at the end, and sits above 2019.

2026, on the other hand, is almost straight up, with a downward inflection in the last few weeks.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... Important perspective on the SPLC story from @willcarless.bsky.social (Will is excellent and it is not his fault that USA Today has added an "AI Overview" section up top)
usatoday.com
FBI: SPLC paid informants without donors knowing. Feds pay them too
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for allegedly paying sources in hate groups without donors knowing. The FBI also pays informants
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.thebulwark.com/p/america-ju...
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America Just Shrugged at the Largest Mass Shooting in Years
A horrifying massacre in Louisiana can teach us a few things, but first we need to pay attention.
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