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Michelle Nickerson

@micnick.bsky.social
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Historian of twentieth-century America who lives in Chicago

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In my office right now hearing helicopters circling over the Columbia office. This is why--DHS impersonated NYPD officers to abduct a student from her apartment.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
History shows us the prophetic power of Lent… which is a perfect antidote to fascism and other things vexing the body of Christ right now www.commonwealmagazine.org/nickerson-ic...
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Ashes & Solidarity
Worshippers at a Chicago-area Ash Wednesday Mass bore witness to atrocities unfolding on U.S. soil. For these Catholics, Trump's cruelty against migrants is nothing less than a spiritual crisis.
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Just Nancy @justnancy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I was so excited to talk to Bill Ayres about my book on Catholic radicals. You can find the podcast here😊
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Fox News is going to keep the deflection machine going as long as I can:
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Good point, @nellstra.bsky.social my response to this, though, is that things change really fast. It feels too early to start planning for how to deal with that situation. I would love to hear what other people think, however
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Really looking forward to this event at Villanova!
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Congratulations on finishing your dissertation, that is huge? Where are you now and what are you up to?
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So are you PhD’d?
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hi Colin, thanks for getting in touch again!
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is a great thread. And it it comes from the great State of New Jersey
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2025
was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
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Deacon Drew @deacondrew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“The Disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.” Preach! Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Troops could choose “voluntary separation”. Yuck
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I wonder if some of the Cardinals voted kind of like Canadians… Where #PopeLeoIV was sort of like an anti-Trump vote?
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Habemus Papam. The only thing better than getting off the plane at O’Hare to hear that we have Pope names Leo is that said Pope Leo is a Chicagoan
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 05/05/2025
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious 
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous 
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I have been a feminist forever. I have a born-male child. I get what your saying, but I also felt like I spent my kiddos elementary school years trying to get him to “behave” in ways that were, looking back, impossible
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This is basically what trump is doing for everything now
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Primping for the warrior ethos
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
They can rant about woke science, but the truth is that people are interested in cures, discoveries, and breakthroughs. If American researchers are not doing it, the $$ and the treatments will move outside our borders.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ha!
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I am relieved that he is still with us
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League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · 17/04/2025
The only thing standing between voters and voter suppression is the U.S. Senate. If 60 Senators vote for the SAVE Act, millions of voters will be disenfranchised and we're headed down the path of one-party-rule. We can't let that happen. Call your Senator or message now: bit.ly/4hZ7B…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump
Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I have been wondering this myself
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Yes! Let’s see more of this!
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I highly recommend checking out the documentary, as well as this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_(2...
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1971 (2014 film) - Wikipedia
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 29/03/2025
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 28/03/2025
Prices are soaring, your 401k is in the tank, Social Security phone lines are hours long. Instead of addressing any of that – this administration is picking a fight with Denmark.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Why would you ride down there to get to campus?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you. Be safe! Shop somewhere else.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
SIGN: Thank Georgetown for standing up to Trump: Dean Treaner of Georgetown Law School recently stood up to Trump's illegal DEI crusade. Let's show our support and thanks. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/georget...
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SIGN: Thank Georgetown for standing up to Trump
Dean Treaner of Georgetown Law School recently stood up to Trump's illegal DEI crusade. Let's show our support and thanks.
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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hey @schumer.senate.gov time to wake up and get this constituent out of the dark side
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“DO YOUR JOB!” TEXAS: @RepKeithSelf’s turn
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.
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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
coming on KSTX tomorrow, February 25, to talk about my new book "Texas: An American History." At noon CST with the great @texasnewsdude.bsky.social. www.tpr.org/kstx-89-1-fm...
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KSTX 89.1 FM- San Antonio
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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
can't stand the sound of my voice, but if you can, this is a pretty good interview I think. Grateful to Steve Hausmann @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for this interview. newbooksnetwork.com/texas
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Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I heard it was fantastic!!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Book paints the Camden 28 as 'Spiritual Criminals.' But were their actions effective? www.ncronline.org/culture/book...
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Book paints the Camden 28 as 'Spiritual Criminals.' But were their actions effective?
A book like Spiritual Criminals has the potential to offer a significant contribution to U.S. Catholics' understanding of our history and provide inspiration for political activism today.
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My book “Spiritual Criminals is the lead story in the National Catholic Reporter.” This is a fantastic review by religious journalist Renee Roden www.ncronline.org
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Front page
The Independent News Source
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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Ha!!!!
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