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Michelle Karnes

@mkarnes.bsky.social
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Medievalist and fan of cats.

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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A reminder that campus police exist to protect universities and cover up crimes.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just look at this adult female Harpy Eagle ... Absolutely beautiful‼️🤯
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviello
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Dolly, Josephine, And Me | Defector
Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The contrast with the endless strengthening of "stand your ground" laws is stark.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
They feel appreciated.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is always the way with the defenders of meritocracy. They define it entirely by whether they and other white men advance without impediment and faster than everyone else.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A good time to donate to Wikipedia.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
May your most toxic colleague soon retire.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
A protest group called The Secret Handshake placed a giant gold “Iran war participation trophy” for President Trump on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Vuvuzelas. Let's stock up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You know what "shackling" means, right?
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Unshackling the Presidency
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/06/2026
Reuters found that 96% of Trump's second-term clemency grants went to recipients who did not meet longstanding Justice Department guidelines, as access to an informal network of allies and advocates increasingly shaped who received pardons or commutations. reut.rs/4v3TMBH
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There might be an actuarial solution.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The flag for Christian-occupied Jerusalem is one of Hegseth's tattoos. He's made no secret of his desire to resume crusading.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Journals requiring authors to turn on track changes when they revise is a distasteful trend.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
And machine guns weren't around when the 2nd amendment was passed, but that doesn't bother him.
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Once again, Trump announces crazy plan on Friday after the markets close and rolls it back Monday before they open.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If you just look at the people who support our action, then support for our action is very high.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Epstein files seem to be kicking off a sort of metoo for survivors of child sexual abuse. lfg.
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Avoid touching the pox hands tonight and fill pockets with posies.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Not immunity? Insanity.
Picture of former prince andrew.
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My good friend Vinny and I I have created a new organization in our neighborhood called the Board of Intact Shop Windows. It’s comprised of principled people who care so much about intact shop windows that they’re willing to pay us $1000 a year to be a member. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
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What to Know About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Don’t know who made this but….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Shane Duarte @shaneduarte.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As usual, Michelle Goldberg gets it right. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
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Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Anyone would try to get away from a guy pointing a gun at their face.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"Let might help right and skill go before will and right before might." From the rebel letters of 1381.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 30/12/2025
tfw you forgot to register the domain name, and someone else snatched it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"Does he know that's not true" is a really good way to frame questions to Trumpistas.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Excellent tenure-track job in Old or Middle English lit at Case Western: apply.interfolio.com/175036
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer @sacjournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Wee Chaucer has been reading some exciting submissions on the culture and writing of late medieval Britain - and he's looking forward to seeing yours!* newchaucersociety.org/page/submiss... *submissions are usu. 9-15K words and may analyze texts in any language of late medieval Britain
A Chaucer finger puppet leans against the front cover of a previous SAC volume.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Same with WSJ's many editorials about how universities should raise standards, lower grades, stomo on the snowflakes. They're certain that white boys will rise to the top in any meritocracy. If they don't, then the system isn't meritocratic, then DEI.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This only happens to you once
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others: we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Fab image for the new NYT editorial.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 24/09/2025
A Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Is Removed From the National Mall The United States Park Police said it had removed the statue, which included lines from President Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender. By Ali Watkins www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
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A Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Is Removed From the National Mall
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Michelle Karnes @mkarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Who said it, Charlie Kirk or St. Paul: “the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"
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