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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19h

Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 20h

I genuinely thought "dafuq?" when I read it. Not performance benchmarks, not revenue benchmarks, but *version number* benchmarks. Why. What does this even mean.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 21h

I have a lot of reasons for angst right now but I could *really* do without angst over turning 57 in a few days. Where did this even come from?

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I'm thinking about an obvious epigram: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"When she was good / she was very good indeed / But when she was bad she was horrid."

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hang on, this Trumpist's surname is literally Overton? Tell the writers' room I want to lodge a complaint. We don't need to be beaten over the head like this.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And done. Excluding Boston (has its own database done previously), MA people died of smallpox or smallpox-adjacent causes in these numbers: 251 in 1872 365 in 1873. In Boston, the 1872 toll was 927. In the first 4 months of 1873, it was 292. I'd forgotten I only did Q1, so I'm not done. Sigh.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in unusual 1873 deaths, the form contains a whole short story about the death of Frederick Knowlton, age 27 (married). See the alt text.

Cause of death: "Accidental - by the parting of a rope attached to an elevator, while hauling goods to an upper story, he being under said elevator." (Workplace safety measures were not a thing in 1873, my friends.)

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me, thinking: "Wooster." Me, typing: "Worcester." Just feeling amused by New England / English place names.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The longer this goes on, the clearer it is that we don't come back from this period unless there is a thorough set of consequences and definitive actions to address the things that let it happen. Pretending it's all over and we can just move on won't cut it.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Random and NOT depressing news item from 1873! (I was looking for something depressing, of course, but came across this.) Fourth of July ballooning in Pittsfield, Massachusetts!

News item: "Prof. Spencer, of Winsted, is in town with his big balloon, completing the arrangements for his ascension July 4th. The balloon holds 22,000 feet of gas, and the filling of it will be done from the main pipe at the east end of the park, from which place Mr. Spencer will start for his trip among the clouds. The ascension will be made at 2 o'clock, and it will be the Professor's 21st aerial tour."

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"They're stabbing inflatable boats on it to try and sink them so the unarmed innocents onboard drown" is shit that 200+ years of high seas/naval tradition would answer simply with "cutlass, possibly grapeshot"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thys! "a model that assigns value primarily on the basis of whether a degree program can be mapped to high-paying jobs overlooks the value of other work that universities perform...." mississippitoday.org/2026/09/18/w...

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Ole Miss students translate World War I letters - Mississippi Today

The Ole Miss students' translation of the World War I letters reminds us that a university education cannot always be measured in salaries or job placements, writer says.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@thereisawayjose.bsky.social please remove me from this starter pack, I am not interested in "boosts" or whatever this stuff is about.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils? I suppose. But that suggests that sometimes you don't have to. And we should expect to not have to. And we should keep criticizing those who force others into evil choices, until lesser evils are no longer the ones who decide about good & evil.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sure I'm putting together data about smallpox mortality, but it won't hit your soul until you read this one doctor's detailed description of the horrific process of dying from it.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ya know, I expected he was gonna do it, yet I'm still capable of being shocked that he's gonna do it.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The thing about combing through mortality schedules looking for people who died of smallpox is that at least I can say "At least nobody dies of smallpox anymore."

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Back to the small dramas of 1873. The word "murder" in the mortality schedule always catches my attention. Here, Oliver Doland (the mortality schedule says Daland for some reason) was murdered by his roommate at the Westford Almshouse on December 14, 1873.

Clip from the mortality schedule, giving the details of Oliver F. Daland, Male, Married, age 72, murdered at the Westford Almshouse.

Newspaper clipping about the murder - Oliver Doland murdered by his roommate, Samuel Hildreth (age 69), by a blow to the head and then being cut with a razor.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No shit, 100% agree here.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He's ... talking about the COVID Paycheck Protection Program, which ended in March 2021, and was established during the first Trump administration, as if it's hot news. It's now (checks notes) September 2026. Surely there's some new fraud they could be looking into?

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, today was going well until I opened up a new bag of flour and found it infested with bugs. Evicted with prejudice! Fortunately I had other bags of flour on hand.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

Laws are not pre-existing agentive structures, waiting in the firmament to be discovered and then causing effects in the world by the mere perception of them. Laws are made by people and people can unmake them. That is what Congress is and is for. This can be changed, again.

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📣 SING IT, GEN Z! 📣 From the Editorial Board of The Daily Campus: UConn’s AI for ImpaCT initiative does more harm than good. dailycampus.com/2026/09/14/u... Every word of this is 🔥🔥🔥

Quote from article: Our university claims that AI for ImpaCT is designed to “support interconnectivity among teaching, learning, research, innovation and societal impact and to encourage safe, ethical and responsible use of AI.” There is, however, no safe and ethical use of AI when every prompt is harmful to humanity. There is no responsible use of AI when you’re relinquishing your own brainpower to a machine. There is no sensible use of artificial intelligence in education, least of all pouring university funding into a dedicated initiative.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Flashback to the penultimate draft of my diss: My advisor said "You've shown there's no point in modeling this. Lop off that chapter, write up the conclusions & you're done." (paraphrase)

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I suggest that a future Reconstruction trifecta pass bills like The Taking Foreign Emoluments Was Unconstitutional When The Corrupt Donald Did It And We're Restating That While Clarifying Standing To Sue About It Act. 2/

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sigh, we used to have this thing called "legislation" that could address major public issues and problems like predatory business models.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another sign that the "entertainment industry" is cooked. It is now just another money-making industry. And in conclusion, business schools were a mistake.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.

metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyone in Connecticut have any good/interesting/troubling/dramatic/compelling stories about BEARS? I'm reporting on human-bear conflicts in the state, would love to hear from you. DMs open or email cpolansky at ctpublic dot org, thanks!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”

He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More evidence that the US healthcare system is both cruel and inefficient in allocating resources

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m reminded of that old saw: “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much.”

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 30/08/2026

Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, “A.I. IS DẠTA
& CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO.”

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DSB @dsb000.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Within consulting we spent a *lot* of time with smart people within our company, manufacturers, and trade lawyers trying to figure out how you can make a good strategy or response to tariffs, but ultimately the response to the current admin is just getting sucker punched and trying to ice the wound

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

:stares at the camera in US Board of Geographic Names:

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Duille @duille.com · 28/08/2026

On this day in 1833 The British Slavery Abolition Act was passed freeing more than 800,000 enslaved people across the British Empire. Abolition Teapot. Josiah Wedgewood. c.1770. Image: BMAG. Wedgwood was a lifelong anti-slavery activist.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan @knkeegan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Someone on here is talking about something they really like that I really do not like. I am not sending them a comment about how I don't like what they like. See? It's easy.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Both Tim Curry and Dolly Parton played a crucial role in society as people who were unapologetically and publicly different, fiercely loving and inclusive, and also defenders of their own privacy. Losing both so close together is a travesty, and it's on all of us to be those things in their honor.

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Boo-ryan D. Boo-rown @coolmojo.com · 26/08/2026

Watch the documentary on Beanie Babies (which is quite good) and one of the takeaways is that the hysteria around crypto is indistinguishable from the mid-90s hysteria around Beanie Babies

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

IWW poster, 1917. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Bright red print. THIEF! across the top in negative, then an image of children working a cotton mill machine, while a wealthy man stands to the right. written below: "The worst thief is he who steals the playtime of children. - WD Haywood" Join the IWW and help put the thieves to work.

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