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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 1h

On my first day of training as a teaching assistant in grad school, they told us that they could not legally tell us to not date our students but they recommended we wait at least until they weren't in our classes anymore.

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Steve Carell as Michael Scott's Awkward Face

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2h

For LOTS OF REASONS I don’t think it is ever okay for a professor to date a student in their own department. It’s an obvious power imbalance and potentially disastrous for the student’s education and career. So it is real jarring and not fun to see it portrayed as a cute happy romance in a novel!

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18h

Shut every fraternity down.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really interesting Substack by an urban historian in Houston about the city's earliest Jews. I wrote about this stuff years ago, but as you always hope will happen, Jon's gone way beyond my initial research. bnjd.substack.com/p/jews-in-ni...

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Jews in Nineteenth-Century Houston

Starting briefly with Orthodoxy before Reform

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I keep seeing this Tiffany’s ad with Natalie Portman, which only makes me wonder… who wore it better?

In left, Natalie Portman in a black turtleneck with gold Tiffany chain necklace. On right, the Rock in a black turtleneck with silver chain and tissue under elbow while holding Fanny pack

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026

WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING Latino voters argued Washington's 2022 legislative map gave them too little voting power — the GOP challenged the remedial map as a racial gerrymander. These cases could be the next major attack on the Voting Rights Act after Callais.

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🚨 New Filing in Garcia v. Hobbs

Read the latest filing in Garcia v. Hobbs.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know how they think AI is going to take over the grocery shopping when most people aren't satisfied with another human doing the shopping on Door Dash/Instacart.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.

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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...

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HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a hoot! Fun ride with a charismatic cast. Loved it and will watch it again. And I'm totally adding the musical theme to my playlist of Western Themes. 🤠 Thanks for a great pick for #HATM tonight.

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HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

- [whispers] The Americans were crossing the Atlantic the entire time. #HATM - Boo, down in front! Yay Brits blowing up Nazis!!! #HATM

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HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TIL that Mack the Knife is originally a German song composed for The Threepenny Opera (1928). I had no idea... and I'm loving this version of the song. #HATM

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Mack the Knife - Wikipedia

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But the lipstick matches the nail polish, Jason. That takes planning! Show some respect. lol #HATM

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Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've just realized what this film looks like. It looks and feels like a graphic novel about a real WW2 event. That's why it's got a fun, unreal feel to it. It does not take itself too seriously. #hatm

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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 28/09/2026

Boo on this little "we need to suspend the laws of war" trope. #HATM

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HistorySmith @historysmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If we attack that [Spanish] colony, the rest of unoccupied Europe will side with the Nazis." Um... I don't think that's actually a valid argument in 1942. 🤔 #HATM

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Andrew Harrell @harrell76.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the screen version of Eiza Gonzales’s character is inspired by the WW1 spy Mata Hairi . I’m surprised we haven’t gotten a recent movie about that woman in all honesty. #HATM

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped in Bataan a.co/d/0hSEjmg6 3. Creamy butter beans www.bytheforkful.com/creamy-butte... #HATM

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And while we are waiting, make sure to subscribe to our podcast RECKONING WITH JASON HERBERT, which comes back in just a couple of weeks! #HATM podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Reckoning with Jason Herbert

History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Reckoning with Jason Herbert is a long-form conversation podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are. Each episode features historian...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Johnson 2028

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

100k registrations in a blue year in urban areas? Gee hard not to be conspiratorial about that given recent polling.

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

I am very sorry that this has happened to sarah but this is an incredible thread and “diversion to iceland is not a reasonable threat model” is an incredible sentence

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The CFP is up! I've been helping to organize a conference called Constitutions, Everywhere! with others interested in constitutions and the many ways early Americans used them. Please check it out, #Skystorians, as we would love to have you join us and participate.

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Constitutions, Everywhere! Practicing Constitutionalism in Unexpected Times and Places in early modern North America and the British Empire – The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Ariella Baker-Archer @ariarch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Check out all of the amazing scholars. If you look closely you’ll see some of our cherished #HATM community. Congratulations to you all! 🎉🎉

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This Sunday at 8pm eastern. Netflix. #HATM Tell a friend. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/the-minist...

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

This week’s Historians At The Movies watch party selection

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm honored to be a part of this amazing group of historians! Thanks @oah.org 🗃️ www.oah.org/lectures/lec...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks, @cliocontemporary.bsky.social, for the opportunity! 🗃️ And thanks to the Community College Writing group for their support and @phdrachel.bsky.social for giving me a push! Working on this piece was a tremendous experience.

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social offers an excellent take on Bacon's Rebellion on the anniversary of the burning of Jamestown. This one has special meaning for me as I'm a descendant of John Ingram who became the leader when Bacon died. He was hung when the rebellion failed. youtu.be/VXtAWUihfCU?...

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Bacon’s Rebellion

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’re starting out with body horror though #HATM

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The fact that "Seven Minutes in Heaven" was reduced to two minutes is an example of the ongoing weakness in the Reagan economy was still uneven, especially in the Midwest. #TeenWolf #HATM

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1. I’ll go Marty McFly b/c that’s the only one I’ve seen 2. Ask me in a couple of hours lol 3. Bertoli frozen pasta meal- super easy #HATM

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While we're waiting, make sure you're subsribed to our podcast, RECKONING WITH JASON HERBERT. We're coming back in just a few weeks so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss a thing! #HATM 4/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Farce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 20/09/2026

In two hours, we're watching TEEN WOLF over at #HATM. Join us!

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If society polices gender to discriminate against trans women, then all women are subject to gender scrutiny & discrimination. I’ve had security called on me when going to a restroom with butch friends who don’t wear makeup several times. It’s never happened when I was w/ my actual trans friends.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did they just Stanford prison experiment the AI?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Let’s talk Minor v Happersett (1875) for National Constitution Day, when SCOTUS ruled that voting was not a right guaranteed to citizens or limited to them by the constitution. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83K4vEp/

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Let’s talk #voting rights, woman #suffrage and #noncitizen voting in U.S. #history & the #Constitution in Minor v Happersett (1975)

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Let’s talk #voting rights, woman #suffrage and #noncitizen voting in U.S. #history & the #Constitution in Minor v Happersett (1975)

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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

multiple people have come into my comments on TT to defend the students who didn’t know 9/11 was named after the single day it happened (no hate to them; they learned better in our class) by claiming the war of 1812 wasn’t in 1812. It was though, and I have no idea where this rumor started. 🗃️

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Confused White Cat Asks Why

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