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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 04/09/2026

There appears to have been some sort of industrial accident at the subtext factory

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026

NEW: Seven faith leaders were arrested in Vermont this morning while blocking entrances to a building that houses a group ICE uses to target its efforts. Two clergy were physically carried out as they were arrested. religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...

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Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center

(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

oh look, it's again that time of the month where half of bluesky discourse is metadiscourse about bluesky

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I always feel in my heart sink when I see posts like this. The Democrats have failed to capitalize on so many obvious angles of political attack in my lifetime. Whenever some really basic strategy is explained, I imagine them staring like a dog who doesn't understand pointing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Big day for those interested in AI dystopia and for anyone called Sarah Connor...

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

kleptocracy

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I sent the historian an article about how Nazi ships  have been emerging  from the Danube as extreme heat causes the rover to shrink,  and the historian replied  that these days  there seem to be Nazis  emerging everywhere.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

The police are defunding public health. The police are defunding us. Going to keep saying it.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Adan" is harvesting onions in Fresno county. We begin working at 4pm. "It is extremely hot at that time - at times the temperature is 100°. We earn $1.50 per sack which can weigh up to 70 lb. It takes three bucket of onions to fill a sack. " #WeFeedYou

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Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Broadly enough defined that it could include Asian Art History

Position description

The Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Arts of the Medieval World, tenure-track, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027.

The Department seeks candidates maintaining an active research agenda in the study of the Arts of the Medieval World, broadly defined. The position is open in terms of geographical and chronological focus, welcoming a range of local, regional, transregional, or comparative approaches to the study of art and the built environment in Africa, Asia, and/or Europe from the 7th to the 15th century. Candidates' teaching and research might also engage historic trade routes, sites of pilgrimage, axes of scholarly exchange, or itineraries of conquest and enslavement, such as the Trans-Saharan Trade, the Indian Ocean System, or the Silk Road. The department seeks applicants whose scholarship advances new insights on circulation, transmission, translation, reuse/adaptation, and material cultures across overlapping medieval worlds. Candidates' teaching and research should demonstrate engagement with the changing dynamics of the discipline both methodologically and topically, including, among others, studies of race, disability, empire, ecology, gender, sexuality, and the digital humanities.

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

eating fresh, housemade Turkish Delight in a Taipei cafe and thinking, no, still not remotely good enough to sell out a sibling and her funny faun friend for

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Let's remember for a sec the role of philosophy in one of Dundee's (and the world's) greatest scientists in the 20th century: D'Arcy Thompson. This mindless vandalism of academia needs to stop

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

Robert F. Kennedy Jr © K
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FDA's war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🧠 What if #LongCovid is, in part, a disorder of dopamine? Our new commentary explores how disrupted dopamine signaling may help explain fatigue, brain fog, and autonomic dysfunction, and what this could mean for future therapies. Open access link: shorturl.at/vLAfU

Article at eBiomedicine:
Dopaminergic vulnerability in long COVID: striatal PET imaging at the brain-body interface

Eric Guedja, Danielle Beckman

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

UCLA police own sonic weapons capable of 160 decibels. Permanent hearing damage begins at 120. They deployed them 71 times last school year. All 71 times: protests and demonstrations. San Jose State owns tear gas grenades not authorized under state policy. CalMatters, July 9.

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‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They intend to signal "Weimar Republic was bad because it led to Nazism" but then hate on the very aspects of democratic republicanism and a diverse, tolerant society (with its corollary social tensions) that the NSDAP and other nationalists like DNVP hated, and glaze "illiberal" far-right strongmen

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The cherry on the sundae is that she's a policy wonk for Heritage, so getting this sort of coverage is part of her job, but it also speaks to how the NYT's culture pieces are basically, 'journalist interviews their friend in the same elite circles.'

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

More Feminist countries have higher birth rates

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

most of the time it's the fault of the 19th century

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 06/07/2026

Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯

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NYT Wrote Five Stories on the Trans Athlete Ban Decision. Not One Quoted A Transgender Person. - Assigned Media

The paper of record continues to diverge from other news organizations in its coverage of the transgender community.

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Rebecca LeGrand @rlegrand.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The White House attack on the Smithsonian is nuts. It slams an 11 YO girl, calls Toni Morrison "an anti-white activist," and criticizes an exhibit that mentions women "bobbing their hair" for encouraging women to embrace "more masculine dress and hair styles." www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...).

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Saving America's Story

Saving America's StoryDownload

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Whenever members of Congress are unable to cast votes, they should be required to file illness or injury reports, just like pro athletes, detailing their condition and expected return date

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 06/07/2026

In light of...everything...here's the best explainer that has ever been or will ever be on what America is going through. Please replace "socialism" with "communism" at will.

The American Chopshop Motorcycle thing meme about socialism.

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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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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Technology by its very nature is in a constant state of flux. It's foolish to train young people in skills that are *currently* useful and which may become outmoded by the time they join the workforce

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Want to write a peer-reviewed, Oxford Intersections article on the #EnvHist of disasters? Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections offers a quick, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 02/07/2026

This is horrifying on several levels: a, that common writing techniques stolen by genAI are now all but *owned* by genAI; b, that scant evidence is enough for a checker to call it 100%; and c, that we're again granting a program better judgement that a human* *with training, anyway

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 01/07/2026

Twin Peaks and how to get back up when evil roams your streets aftermath.site/the-work-twin-...

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

platform.dsausa.org/democracy/

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026

The Supreme Court still didn't define sex, they just added an adjective in front thinking that's enough. Given the novelty of DNA and genetic testing in 1972, would the ordinary public meaning of sex at the time really mean genetics or observed external characteristics? We know it's the latter.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Jesse Singal (@jessesingal). The text reads: "The question of which arguments took root within trans activism, how they quickly became unquestionable within liberal settings, and how profoundly they failed at every level *outside* of liberal settings... it seems important! Haven't seen anything quite like it."
The post is quote-tweeting another user, Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank), whose post reads: "To understand how the trans athletes lost even the liberal justices on Title IX, recall how their lawyer got massacred by Alito on the question of how you can have girls sports teams without knowing who is & isn't a girl:"

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Bookish “basically cis” Murderbird 🌹 @femineagle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The idea that “biological sex” is easily defined isn’t really founded in biology. Life is far more complex than bigots would like to pretend, there is no reason for this ruling other than hate.

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📣 We're looking for new members to join our International Advisory Board! 📣 🌍 We're particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America & the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe

Call for new members of Urban History’s International Advisory Board.

Urban History seeks to appoint new members to its international advisory board.
This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research. Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews. Our growing submissions are becoming increasingly global and chronologically diverse and we seek to appoint an additional members of the international advisory board to reflect these developments and to further broaden our geographical range in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
About the role
Members of the International Advisory Board are expected to promote the journal through their networks and to encourage high quality submissions in the field of urban history. Board members support the Editorial Team (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Domenic Vitiello, Roey Sweet and Rosemary Wakeman) as requested on submissions that fall within their field, undertaking peer review where appropriate or providing suggestions for specialist reviewers within their field. All board members are expected to attend the annual meeting of the International Advisory Board (held online) where there are opportunities to provide advice and suggestions for the future direction of the journal.

We are particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America and the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe.

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Essential qualities (to be used in shortlisting)
• Expertise in urban history or a cognate discipline (candidates with expertise in the areas listed above may be preferred)
• Evidence of active participation in urban history networks
We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians and colleagues from cognate disciplines – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education.

How to apply
Those interested in making an application to join the international advisory board should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk)
• a CV (no more than 3 pages)
• a summary of up to 500 words outlining your interest in the role and what you would bring to it.
Enquiries
Informal enquiries about the role can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk
Deadline
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 11 September 2026
We expect interviews to take place in October 2026 and that the new board members will start their term of office from January 2027.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sex is not binary no matter how often people in authority say so.

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Gotta love someone who claims gender is biological and then cites the journal Philosophical Studies in support of the point.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The real shame here is they're likely cutting low level admin jobs that employ actual community members rather than any of their dozens of Assoc. Vice Deans of Blahblah. Also, maybe not surprising given how extensive/ gratuitous admin's recent RE investments have been? share.google/PgoNY4HoLzcc...

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The Misuses of the University - Public Books

Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some food history friends and I are putting together a panel on food history, environmental history, and pedagogy. Give a shout if you think you might have something to present!

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

SCANDINAVIANS
No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant
brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So
strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits,
likes and dislikes.

This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born."
It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and
absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The 2014 fiction underestimated the heat and overestimated the time it would take to arrive. We are in deep trouble; with many solutions, but corrupt media and politics.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The way they are sold (the smart computer from that movie you liked) bears almost no relation to what they are (magic 8 ball and autocorrect had a baby).

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Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org) on the topic of "The History of Chinese Food Culture" with my former advisee Wandi Wang. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊: Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 - Volume 10 - History of Chinese Food Culture

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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just came across this illustration of an imaginary meeting among the authors of the Four Books 四書 in a 1907 print of the 四書集註. Interestingly, it features Confucius 孔子, Zisi 子思, Yanzi 顏子, and Mengzi 孟子... So Zengzi was replaced by Yan Yuan 顏淵. #ChinaBooks #Sinology #ChinesePhilosophy

Four masters standing and sitting around a scroll that says 監本四書.

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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

⏰Reminder: the deadline for the Joel A. Tarr #Envirotech Article Prize is coming up fast, so be sure to get your submissions in before July 1, 2026! #envhist #histtech

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