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@kayt81.bsky.social
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Time-traveling swordswoman, maker of textiles from thread to garment (with never-too-many books), experimental horticulturalist. I can kill you with my garden.

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Martha Ballard @marthaballard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
28 Sept 1799. Clear. I was Calld at [1]h morn to go and See mrss Atkins. arivd at [Day] Break, found her Deld by mr James Hinkleys wife. I Came home after Breakfast. I brot home 24 yds Cloth that mrs Page wove for me. I pickt the fethers of my Old Ducks &C.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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ArnFinnArneson @arnfinnarnesson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem pushed open doors not just for herself, but for literally millions of women behind her.

She wasn’t going to be an astronaut, but she made it possible for Sally Ride to be an astronaut. She wasn’t going to play college sports, but she stood behind the women in Congress who passed Title IX. And she wasn’t on the Supreme Court when Roe v. Wade was decided, but her voice and her activism was behind that advancement for women's rights. 

Gloria was, at heart, an optimist. Her activism was rooted in optimism, and that’s a moral choice she made every day. 

I want her voice to remain in our heads. It’s wonderful to do what you can to further your own future, to get the best education you can, and to pursue your dreams. But it’s even better to bring other people along with you.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Duval (our new book review editor)! Dr. Duval's book, The Home Front, was recently awarded the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's Mary Kelley Prize in Gender and Women’s History. Her work was also co-awarded the SHEAR Book Prize. Amazing work!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026
REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐
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Mayday @advocatemayday.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“The chatbot’s tendency to perpetuate health misinformation and associated stigma regarding self-managed medication abortions poses a threat to public health and reproductive autonomy.” #Disinformation #Abortion #CodifyRoe #WomensHealth #MedicalMisogyny
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Martha Ballard @marthaballard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
28 Jul 1799. Clear. mr Ballard and Cyrus attended worship foren, we all were there aftern. mr Brown Came and tarried all night with us. I Drest his feet. mr Livermore here to See him. [at meeting and at Son Lambds. mr Brown here.]
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Joe Mama ™️ @joemama123451.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Planned Parenthood of Michigan @ppofmi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
POV: Your bestie finally tells you about PPDirect. 💅 Birth control? ✔️ Emergency contraception? ✔️ Medication abortion? ✔️ UTI treatment? ✔️ Visit PPDirect.org or download the PPDirect app to get the care you need today!
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Mayday @advocatemayday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Abortion! Abortion! Abortion! #CodifyRoe #VoicesForChange #PoliticsOfControl #signalboost
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Since we're talking about the difference between 1976 and today here's a link to a piece about Jesse Lemisch's amazing collection of "bicentennial schlock," currently housed at the Beinecke. (gift link) 🗃️
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How a Radical Historian Saved the Schlock of ’76 (Gift Article)
Yale’s Bicentennial Schlock collection offers a window into the star-spangled commercialism that swept the country 50 years ago.
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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🥳 today is ❤️🧡💜💛💚💙💜 #ObamaAppreciationDay 🎈
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Hey Jane @heyjane.com · 09/06/2026
BIG NEWS: Hey Jane is now in Arizona 🧡🌵 ⁠ We’re proud to officially launch in Arizona—helping to expand access to safe, fast, affordable reproductive and sexual health care in the Grand Canyon State.⁠
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 27/05/2026
The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...
Screenshot of a PatriotTakes post on X describing a 6-minute Republican opposition video outlining Ken Paxton's corruption, originally distributed by the NRSC, that has since been made unlisted on YouTube. The post includes a still from the video showing a black-and-white image of Paxton with a graphic reading "2011 - TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE" and text describing Paxton soliciting investments in a technology company called Servergy while serving in that role.
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vanresia.bsky.social @vanresia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Someone Australian summed it up nicely- “fuck I’m glad we got the convicts and they got the Puritans”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Presidementia attacks Pope Leo as "WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy" as one does in the wacky, backwards, upside-down Bizarro White House. Bonus Pic: Messiah tRUMP raises Jeffrey Epstein from the dead (a downright miracle considering he's never been to church before)! #25/47_ASAP
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
JUST. MUST. REPOST. THIS.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
WATCH: “Proof the SAVE Act = voter suppression… if you’re trying to exercise your right to vote, Republicans want you to jump over all these hurdles + pay💰— but if they want to draft you to die in Trump’s war of choice, they’ll automatically sign you up.”
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Mayday @advocatemayday.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Did you know that Google saves all your searches and keeps them both in your Google account and in their servers?” “Google, Facebook, Amazon, your cell phone service provider, your internet provider, any app with access to your location data — keep records of what we do.” #privacy #digitalsecurity
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Are you a married woman who enjoys exercising your constitutional right to vote? This afternoon, Senate Republicans and Trump hope to make it much harder for you. Call your senator and tell them to vote NO on the "SAVE" Act. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-go...
Post from Patty Murray: Republicans' SAVE Act will make it HARDER and more EXPENSIVE for certain groups to vote
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Here's an example of fraud in a previous election for Speaker Johnson: Arizona Republicans caught in the act of signing fake elector forms in 2020. It would be a shame if many people saved this receipt--and reposted (the crap out of) it.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Among other things, the U.S. objected to discussion of “gender ideology”—in a resolution for women’s rights. They’re literally trying to erase things that threaten white male rule. Heaven forbid we discuss race or gender—in history or otherwise.
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thxchef.bsky.social @thxchef.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation." RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nailed it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Hi friends, As many of you know, ICE is operating in ways that tear families apart, enter homes without warrants, and traumatize innocent people. This is not law enforcement — this is terror and an abuse of power.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/02/2026
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Holy crap. I was going to call out the idea of creating a higher ed “overseer,” but that’s hardly the worst of it. Absolutely destroying higher education.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Don’t let this story disappear. www.koco.com/article/ice-...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Fucking hell. The cherry on top of this hideous confection of race-baiting brutality is, of course, immigration agents targeting Native Americans. Say it slowly: Native Americans. This isn't about immigration. It isn't even about immigrants. It's all raw white supremacy.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/11/2025
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
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Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
apmreports.org
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
FOX GUEST: “Food prices are up. There’s nothing you can say about it.” As Lawrence Jones tries to parrot Trump’s misleading lie 🤥 about Walmart’s Thanksgiving basket being cheaper — apparently not understanding it’s because this year it has LESS IN IT, AND CHEAPER STUFF.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
As Republican TN-7 nominee Matt Van Epps boasts about Trump growing jobs, here’s the reality:
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Speaking as a political historian, these are danged interesting times. I’ll discuss some of this tomorrow AM on my podcast, “History Matters:” Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The administration has pulled the plug on IRS Direct File, a tool that helped eligible taxpayers file for free. This decision comes despite Direct File’s immense popularity with its users.
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Direct File won’t happen in 2026, IRS tells states
The free service that allowed taxpayers to file online directly with the IRS was used by hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in 2024 and 2025, who gave it high marks — although tax prep companies and R...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Friday on my live podcast History Matters: What Did We Just Learn? More than you might think. In SO many ways. Join us! Friday 10AM EST NCHEteach.org/conversations
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