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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 2h

Taking the lead here in game 1 feels huge. The Brewers need this game to gain the confidence to win this series.

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Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A surprisingly hopeful panel last night on 50th anniversary of Jonathan Ned Katz’s book Gay American History. John D'Emilio noted 50 years ago there were no gay history books to ban. At @nyhistory.bsky.social w/ Am LGBTQ+ Museum #gaybooks #gayhistory #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqhistorymonth

Five panelists sit onstage at a New-York Historical event presented with the American LGBTQ+ Museum. One speaks into a microphone while the others listen. Behind them, a large screen displays the cover of Gay American History.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Someone posted the epilogue scene from Atonement on social media and it just reminded me how absolutely devastating that movie is. It’s been done on #hatm right?

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First Kansas last week, now Bowdoin. No sport does historical memory like College Football.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Missouri’s absolutely apoplectic response to Kansas invoking abolitionism is…interesting.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 12/09/2026

Eli Drinkwitz referred to Mizzou's Civil War history as a "complicated past" during his press conference tonight and said it was "bullcrap" of Kansas" to bring it up "on 9/11." There is no sport like college football

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CoCo ✌🏼💛🕊️ @coco.sheshed.rocks · 07/09/2026

The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association, founded by Sarah Bagley in 1844 ~ America’s 1st permanent women’s labor union. * Campaigned for a 10-hour workday. * Used the Voice of Industry to promote labor reform & women’s suffrage. * Prompted an historic 1845 investigation into factory conditions.

"The Bobbin Girl"
Created by Winslow Homer, featured in Song of the Sower by William Cullen Bryant, 1871.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Huevos rancheros made easier thanks to mink whisk from @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!!!

Partially beaten eggs in a bowl with a mini whisk.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Traditionally, when the USPS gets to decide who gets what mail, it’s not for a very good or positive reason. It’s more for stopping abolitionism and maintaining slavery.

Lithographic of the 1835 anti-abolition mail riot in Charleston, SC.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I mean, how else will they be ready to use their little hands to fix the inner workings of the power loom?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What makes this even more grotesque is that Doris Miller was denied the medal of honor when he was alive just because he was black. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And because of how true this is, we’ll never escape this dystopian, post-truth, flash over substance world anytime soon.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tessa Wahlquist is incredibly brave. (Of course, that I’m even thinking that is an absolute travesty. She is, of course. But heavens.)

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Why you can’t trust the AI: it’s pro-Cavalier. Probably wasn’t in favor of the Protectorate.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sure, but if Dems say “Chocolate chip cookies are the true American dessert” they’ll say we want “Open Borders.” This is a party that accused Haitian immigrants of eating dogs to win an election. We cannot make decisions based on what they might say.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Or, and hear me out, we take that $20 million and reinvest in the existing colleges we’ve slashed funding to. It’s a crazy idea, I know.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Any #history colleagues working on syllabi: if you need or want anything on social movements, abolitionist, civil rights, Civil War, Reconstruction, or queer history let me know, I have old syllabi, readings, etc…

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This isn’t a dig at the lovely @bencarp.bsky.social, but I really miss working on syllabi. It gave me an opportunity to think about new stuff, nele topics, new readings. I don’t really get to do that anymore. Made me excited for the year.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I continue to be fascinated by the use of "radical" in U.S. politics and social movements. It's what my first book is on. I had planned, perhaps, for it to be what my second book would be on.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️

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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.

The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

He perpetuates actively harmful views of higher ed that are part of an ongoing project to destroy it. Precarity is itself a part of that project. Plenty of academics have been willing bedfellows (if they get theirs) and far more have just been unwilling to admit what was happening. For years.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also, this is what happens when you do away with liberal arts education. This right here. It’s obviously not true, but without critical thinking…

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s the problem we’ve had in Connecticut for years and years. They just don’t care.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

there are more than twice as many museum workers in the US than there are coal miners

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I, for one, failed because I never prioritized research. I hoped (thought?) that a terrific teaching and service record might save me at a 4-4 or so teaching college.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Alright, I'm putting a line in the stand: No more 'why I left academia' takes from dudes that never got their monograph out (in book fields). 'oh sure, I got a gold-plated academic job and bailed out in advance of the tenure decision without a book out, but it was BECAUSE OF WOKE!!' Sure, buddy.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I plan to ask my students: “Why would a group of people interested in money and power want to force you away from studying the Humanities and social sciences? What’s in it for them?”

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I mean…Eversource is pretty bad.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of mine is MAGA, the other is a Zohran-loving Dem Socialist. So…

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/08/2026

Centrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What the public believes about academia and its reality are as different as the earth is to the moon.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I set a tea bag on fire in my kitchen just now. So, the start of the school year is coming.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The absolute best of McSweeney’s

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh my, I only knew two. One was the FIFA World Cup Official Song (from 2026). The other was Wonderwall which is…not from 2026.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

oh is it caravan season again it always comes around so fast

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Trigger warnings is a better description and joke than I came up with.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I did not know that Doug Jones was running again. I can’t imagine how different our lives would all be if he, and not Merrick Garland, became AG in 2021. Single biggest game changing move in modern politics, in my opinion.

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Kevin Vrevich @kevinvrevich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bolsheviks now. Well, alright comrades.

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