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Bron Larner @numabiena.bsky.social · 23h

'Without reliable data, governance can no longer be judged by results, and all that is left is how a leader makes people feel. This is governance by vibes, where legitimacy comes not from outcomes but from the projection of strength. prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#HistSTM & #HistSci friends: Did you enjoy Sponsel & Sutton's @jhistbiol.bsky.social article on Photograph 49? If so, I highly recommend @byjessicadavies.bsky.social's essay on the subject, which features additional pages from Franklin's notebooks & Wilkins's correspondence! #WomenInSTEM #DNA 🗃️📜🧬

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Photograph 49: The X-ray Watson did not see — Jessica Mills Davies

Elementary, my dear Watson.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Propaganda is not reality, agreements w Ukraine torn up like JCPOA. Putin is now your friend GOP. Helping kill US in Iran. Under Reagan USSR wasn't a friend. We cheered the wall falling! Clinton/Ukraine disarm broken. Ukraine continued to lessen corruption for democracy. WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY!

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reason Donald Trump can fiddle with DC's public spaces is that they're controlled by the National Park Service. That wasn't never inevitable, and the story of how they ended up under a big brown campaign hat says a lot about Progressive-era paternalism. 🗃️

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Who made NPS the boss of DC?

Et in arcadia, Hoover.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's Monday! Let's start week off with a map & some eels! Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread) Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5 🗃️🧪

A map of of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. It is quite busy with roads, and towns, and counties. There are monsters in the sea, and several ships. There are 2 large insets, one showing the a view of the city of London and one showing the city of Edinburgh. There is a smaller inset above the Edinburgh one showing the northern tip of Scotland and the Orkneys. Above the inset for London is the coat of arms for the Order of the Garter, with a lion and unicorn. The arms have the order's motto around them: "honi soit qui mal y pense" (shame on him that thinks ill of it), and below it the popular Puritan phrase, "Semper Idem" (always the same). It is a very detailed and pretty map.

"Always the same" and "shame on him that thinks ill of it" is strident rejection of the Growth Mindset ideology, and I am here for it.

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD in 1944, Thomas Akio Hoshino is fined and sentenced to three years and three months in federal prison for failing to report to induction into the Army. Hoshino and 33 other Nisei men from Minidoka were convicted for draft evasion. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD

"Seattle Jap Draft Evader Sentenced"

BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 28.--(AP)- United States District Judge Chase A. Clark today sentenced Thomas Akio Hoshino, 25 years old, Seattle to pay a $300 fine. and serve three years and three months in a federal penitentiary for failure to report for Selective Service induction.
Hoshino was one of 34 Nisei from the Minidoka Relocation Center Hunt, Idaho, convicted or pleading guilty to draft violations. One was acquitted.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

110 years ago, on the 29th of September 1916, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller became the first American billionaire. This happened five years after the Supreme Court had ruled that Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company company had illegally monopolized the oil industry. #otd #history 🗃️

Rockefeller as an industrial emperor, 1901 cartoon from Puck magazine

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You (we all) should care for eels because one of the most fascinating animals on Earth will disappear simply because a luxury market, dressed-up in tradition, does not care about extinction and society is unable to stop the rich destructive whims Please, do care theconversation.com/eels-have-fa...

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Eels have fascinated us for ages - now we need to stop eating them

No one would think of eating an endangered animal like the Iberian lynx. So why do we still eat eels?

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.

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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have a cold in 1896? Parke, Davis & Co. has an Rx for you--opium, strichnine, and nightshade 👀 🗃️

Scanned page from a historical pharmacy formulary (Parke, Davis & Co., p. 198) listing compressed tablet formulas with pricing. The highlighted entry, "Expectorant (Tonic)," lists its ingredients: Strychnine sulphate, Tinct. Digitalis, Terpin hydrate, Powdered Opium, and Ext. Hyoscyamus.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It wasn’t enough that a targeted campaign was used to defame and damage me by deliberately mischaracterising one cartoon. Now those same obsessive bullies are using other people’s posts about that cartoon to destroy their careers. Are we living under the Stasi now?

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The best piece of news, after a relentless and brutal attempt to destroy a decent person and make an example of her, to scare others to silence. No thanks to the mainstream, which said and did nothing to defend the principle of press freedom and her right to report fact and express an opinion.

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Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rochester, NY, has a monument at the place where Susan B. Anthony cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election. Although she’d talked a registrar into adding her to the voter list, she was convicted of voting illegally and fined $100. 🗃️

An outdoor monument depicting a 19th century ballot box

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost? Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.* Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval colored drawing showing a figure in a small boat with a large green fish attached to his head. A second fish has a grip on his oar. The figure is likely a man, but this is uncertain. His name is even less certain, but we'll call him Yedward. He seems like he's in trouble, honestly.

Yedward is wearing a long orange shirt, and is paddling his boat across a body of blue water. There are clouds in the background. He might have been wearing a hat at some point, but if he was, the fish has eaten it. He seems very concerned, and you would too. That fish on his head is no joke.

The fish has it's jaws around Yedward's head, and is arching its back so far that its tail will soon touch the top of its head. It's fins are thrust out, and it looks very graceful. We can't really see the other fish much; just it's head, with it's jaws locked around the end of the paddle in the same way that a toddler's eyes lock onto a bag of halloween candy.

It's unfair to name the man but not the fish, so we'll call the head-fish Merwena. She was raised on tales of Jonah & Moby Dick, & longs to be like her literary heroes. She's going to eat this man if it takes all day. He can't paddle forever. Especially with a hole in his head.

The oar-fish (different than an oarfish) is likely named Intercesilly, and seems like someone who's good at sudoku but not parties.

Meme text reads:
"It's gonna be a long fall"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

God/Jesus: "Flatter me and I will save you." Human: "Save me from what?" God/Jesus: "Me."

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The .. market has gone to private equity". Claudia Weisenberger investigates the insiders cashing in on the NDIS while govt swings the axe at the disabled #auspol #NDIS michaelwest.com.au/inside-job-h...

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Inside Job. How former insiders and corporateers are cashing in on the NDIS - Michael West

Government has swung the axe at the NDIS but corporations are cashing in. Claudia Weisenberger investigates the revolving doors

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

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September 11 Docs

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Uninvited. My @smh and @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Three people on a couch watching tv. In the middle is a buff guy in sport gear with TShirt marked “SPORT BET FAST”. His feet are up on the coffee table and he’s hugging the others, Mr and Mrs in their team jerseys, uncomfortably close.
Mrs says, “I still don’t understand how he got in here…” Mr says, “It’s probably my fault - I didn’t opt out.”

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The decline continues.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

939 years ago, on the 9th of September 1087, William the Conqueror died. Both his sons had already left his side to go claim their inheritances. Nobles and prelates left as they feared anarchy and servants emptied the room of valuables, allegedly leaving William naked on the floor. #otd #history 🗃️

William is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry during the Battle of Hastings, lifting his helmet to show that he is still alive.

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Bron Larner @numabiena.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026

So far.

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know there's not much of a chance newspapers will print this one but you can't have a word like 'ballroom' and expect me not to do a joke about it.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them. michaelwest.com.au/sydney-marathon-…

Sydney Marathon. Who told NSW Police to run bodyguard for Israel’s army?

The point is bigger than six runners. Up to 40 current and former IDF soldiers were admitted to Australia without any apparent screening, for a fun run, in the face of public anger at who they were and what they had reportedly done in Gaza.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/09/2026

Rain or shine, sun or snow, you can now break bread outdoors year-round. Thanks to @cmrestler.bsky.social’s work, our favorite restaurants will no longer have to tear down and rebuild their setups each year. It’s official: Outdoor dining is here to stay.

Mayor Mamdani and Council Member Lincoln Restler celebrate the signing of the outdoor dining bill. Caption: New York — we have good news on the menu. Year-round outdoor dining is here to stay.

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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Although I’ve stopped most of my business dealings with America (as a Canadian), I will still support PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). I watch PBS news & I watch enormous amounts of PBS Programs. PBS viewers are the good Americans, (like family to me). Support PBS.🇨🇦 www.btpm.org/commitment-t...

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Buffalo Toronto Public Media's Commitment to Canada

As a truly binational public media station, Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) has proudly served the people of Western New York and Southern Ontario for over half a century, providing a community-su...

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