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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In case you missed it, we've launched the newly expanded Drafting the Past, a publication devoted to nonfiction history, with book reviews, interviews, publishing news, and more. Check it out: www.draftingthepast.com

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Drafting the Past

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Pssst. No, really. ) Wikipedia is *almost always* a good, basic place to start. Sometimes it's awesome. And they are fighting the scrapers like mad. $10.40 goes a long way! I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, & 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation

Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodnight Blue Sky

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 19/09/2026

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: Even as some in the GOP condemn Bo French's statements as racist and divisive, others in the ascendant far-right are lining up to praise the fascist candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner including one who lauded him for “pushing the Overton window on immigration.”

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Not All Texas Republicans Are Condemning Bo French

While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee's latest racist screed, another assortment of Lone Star conservatives has stood behind him.

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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Historians and catalog enthusiasts: some hero has digitized Sears, Montgomery Ward, and JC Penney catalogs, 1930-2017. christmas.musetechnical.com

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Catalogs & Wishbooks

A collection of US retail Seasonal Catalogs & Christmas Holiday Wishbooks

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I cannot believe I missed this Texas-based #HATM!! I have so many thoughts about this movie & history.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And even then Bob Bullock remained in office until 1999. Still, I don’t know if it was purple or more a slow shift of the state party constituents to align with national parties.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not one president after FDR is on his list. Guessing he (or someone in his admin) copied it and added his name to the top.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So no Reagan, George H. W., George W. , JFK, LBJ, Truman? Don’t tell Roger Stone that Nixon isn’t on the list.

List of presidents ranked from greatest to failures by Trump.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Eddie Bernice Johnson’s ghost is coming after them now

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/07/2026

ABC accused the FCC on Thursday of trying to chill free speech rights through the agency’s review process, the latest development in the unusual clash between the company and the Trump administration.

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ABC Formally Rebukes F.C.C. for Review of TV Licenses

The network’s comments are part of its efforts to push back against the F.C.C.’s review of its local broadcast licenses.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Those pushing the Save act with these examples ignore the vast canyon between showing an ID & the burden of having to prove citizenship (birth certificate, marriage certificate, name change documents, etc.). And, most people do not need to show ID to buy medicine or groceries.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Grace Kelly Classic Elegance

ALT: Grace Kelly Classic Elegance

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Did you know that Puerto Rico became a U.S. laboratory for reproductive control, sterilization, eugenics—and the birth‑control pill? It's true. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory digpodcast.org/2019/05/12/c...

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Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

In 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to en…

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Work gets in the way of research—so little time. Besides, would anyone want a documentary on that when they can watch it play out daily on the evening news? (Now hearing folksy fiddle in my mind, which happens anytime someone mentions Burns).

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is news to me. Have any more details? Dm me if you like.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

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Courses will be required at University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom

University of Iowa Students will now be required to take classes from the new Center for Intellectual Freedom in order to graduate.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I *never* would've thought a large group of Trump supporters in D.C. would refuse to follow law enforcement officers' instructions. So unexpected. 😐

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In his 1792 tract “The Rights of Man, Part 2,” Thomas Paine proposed a graduated tax in which the top marginal tax rate would be 100%. He pegged that top income at £20,000 per year. That would be roughly $4 million in today’s money.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And Texas wins again. Texans lose again. Over 190,000?–extraordinary. Voting matters, so don’t give up yours rights that people fought & died for.

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Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD @kuehlerwalters.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I hope they all wear this as a badge of honor.

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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.