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Karen Graubart

@kbgraubart.bsky.social
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Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 1h
My god. The whole fucking hemisphere has decided to throw it all away.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Police attacking peaceful protesters in Spain. Just remember that the nation won’t save you. Look across borders for solidarity.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 4h
Might have to rethink the whole blue book essay thing
Terrible pencilled handwriting in a blue book also obscured by my polydactyl cat's massive paw.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026
ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 5h
I realize you all like football but I need the news from Brazil.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 15h
Grateful for this recognition! Also a shout-out to Reviewer 2, who caught a big error in an earlier version, peer review is a gift.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The definition of cruel and unusual punishment.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I no longer know what is real.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026
"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
University of Texas at Austin will eliminate 4 majors—African & African diaspora studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. Faculty in Social and Culture Analysis Department received no explanation as to why they are being cut.
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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors
Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.
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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MUMPS
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh she's serious about running for statewide office in NY
TikTok screencap of AOC in Syracuse wearing Bills gear
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Santiago Schnell is a keynote speaker at a Notre Dame conference on AI and Ethics on Friday. Wonder if he will address the damning evidence that his WaPo column was AI-written despite his attestation (WaPo process) that it was not. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Herron and Levin: Our Independent Evaluation of Provost Schnell’s Washington Post Column
This analysis identifies substantive errors and omissions that are characteristic of AI-generated text and that would be practically inconceivable if the column had been written by a human expert in t...
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum ending the appointment of civilian faculty to tenured positions at service academies.
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Hegseth ceases to end civilian tenure at service academies
The defense secretary called for hiring plans that “prioritize institutional flexibility and faculty contribution to the warfighter mission.”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...
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Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh my god, the Florida AG's motion v. Open AI is brutal and brilliant!
Florda AG filing against Open AI opens with an ad by ChatGPT stating "Built with safety in mind". Beneath it the AG's point 1: Not so.The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they provide a service without fully knowing how it works. This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued survival of humankind. Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.
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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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coolingjets.bsky.social @coolingjets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A stately University run by the Ivy League Mafia.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About time. End it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026
Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
I hope people can see that this is the logical end point of the "measure the value of disciplines by ROI were R is conceived solely in terms of $" thinking that has, quite frankly, been enthusiastically embraced by both parties, to the detriment of students, faculty, and democracy itself.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Polydactyl murder mitt
White fluffy cat window seat, only a black ear tip above and a huge polydactyl paw stretching below are visible.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, she might be going for Senate instead
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AOC test-runs a Senate bid in upstate New York
She says her goal is to "transform the state."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
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