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kim coles (she / her)💙

@kimcoles.bsky.social
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I live in the past. I write for the present. 16th and 17th c. English Lit. Critical Race Studies. If we have sense, we're outlaws in TX. Bad Humor: www.pennpress.org/9780812298352/bad…

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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A special issue of American Quarterly which will appear in September 2027. Myself, Jodi Byrd, Sharon Holland, and Greta LaFleur will be editing an issue which will span the historical periods of the 16th-20th c. Deadline for abstracts is December 15.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Yes, please! And thank you!
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
One year ago.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
theguardian.com
The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing
Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
No. I do actual research and refuse your lies. Get that.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I have a PhD in English from Oxford. I'm not afraid of words. But I don't make up facts. And no: a reaction to lies does not prove them true.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Says the guy who is pulling "facts" out of his ass.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025
If only woke leftists hadn’t used the Time Machine to change the past.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A man who is in the country illegally has been arrested for the theft of Kristi Noem's purse. Who's taking bets that she paid him?
nbcnews.com
Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem's purse is in the U.S. illegally, official says
Noem’s bag was stolen by a masked man Sunday night while she was having dinner with her family in Washington, D.C.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In an infuriating legislative move, the U of I senate was "demoted" to an advisory body only. The budget bill passed in the legislature effectively got rid of tenure, faculty governance, and academic freedom in one fell swoop. Legal challenges are coming.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The UMD Senate just voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Big 10 Mutual Defense Compact. Ohio State was 15 minutes before us. The makes half of the Big 10 that have signed on.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
On it!
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The president’s son Eric Trump posted this. Chilling. He deleted it - but here it is
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Ready everyone?!? Our bill—done w/ @aaup.bsky.social, @aftunion.bsky.social, @afthighered.bsky.social, @aftmaryland.bsky.social—for collective bargaining for ALL faculty & librarians in the USM system just dropped: Its here: mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills... What is it & why is it important? 🧵
UAM-UMD collective bargaining bill screenshot from MD legislature website
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 28/02/2025
Blue Warriors #FBR Meet Greet🐦‍🔥 Let's grow our community. Simply make a comment, or drop a meme, or a🩵 Connect with Blue Warriors, and lets fight together to save Democracy 🌊 #ResistanceReborn #StongerTogether #BlackOut Like🩵 Please Repost 🔁 Vet 🐾 Follow🌊
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Good job, TX Observer. As legacy papers like WaPo cede their responsibility, local papers are stepping up.
texasobserver.org
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical deta...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I just think he's too stupid to know how tariffs work.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
How it's done.
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
BREAKING 🔥🔥🔥
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This was Thursday. I have never seen a government official hold a press conference with a drink in their hand. But it's worth noting that Pete Hegseth can't get through a professional event without a bourbon.
Pete Hegseth drinks bourbon from a highball glass during a press conference.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The origin of Musk's 150-year-old social security phantoms? Stupid.
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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE need to REFUSE TO VOTE for this VISCIOUS TAX BILL that is AGAINST THE MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASS AMERICANS! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Please share. Everywhere.
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is not a drill.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. (Gift Article)
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
if Canada wants to do something with some bite, they can stop letting u.s. oil companies build 100's of miles of pipelines to transport oil from their provinces to the states it would break less Indigenous treaties, reduce MMIWG2S victims, & cause less environmental damage in the short & long term
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Nasty Woman of NY// CALL YOUR REPS ☎️(202) 224-3121 @ultramarine13.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
#craftsky #craftivism 🧶 Be aware and push back against this shit
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Don’t be gaslit. If it writes an op-ed like a Nazi, Tweets like a Nazi, hosts a Nazi on a Twitter Space and salutes like a Nazi, it’s not ‘autism’, it’s Nazism.
Pic of various instances of Space Twatzi Elon doin’ Nazi things.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The face of a Marvel Comics villain.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A little good news.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'm so sorry. But yeah, I think you should give yourself time and space before you decide.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos. Satire has literally died. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Elon Musk has changed his X profile. His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists. His name is a Latinisation of “Kek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis. Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists. The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about.
Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Something even the right wing British Telegraph wouldn’t do. The German #Welt has completely lost the plot.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Don’t be naive enough to assume those who support fascism that aren’t white just haven’t realized that white supremacists don’t like them yet. They believe in white supremacy, that’s why they support it.
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Quick Duck @quickduck.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Excellent #costco. Wish other companies had the same backbone.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The better AI gets, and the more trainable on individual writing style, it seems the only way to intervene now is with in-class writing.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Trying to think of a new way to grade. I'm starting to consider, tho, no grades as one way of disincentivizing the use of AI: what if we ask students to grade themselves at the end of term?
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Time to double-down.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
You know it's bad when a professional woman feels the need to start bringing her husband to work.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Public service announcement.
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kim coles (she / her)💙 @kimcoles.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. --W.S. Merwin
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