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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Getting my oil changed this morning and 7am is way too early for a “Leprechaun” marathon on SciFi in the waiting area

RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Alright going to start trying to use this app in earnest because I’m starting to think that all this screaming into the void isn’t working.

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Pete Hegseth 🤝 Lady Macbeth have some bad ideas for the soldiers weird handwashing thing

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2024

looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Something small to brighten the darkness: Boo, the feral cat I care for, let me scruff her and put her in my lap today. Big progress.

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

My university sent me this certificate congratulating me on my promotion to “tenured full professor” (I was promoted to associate with tenure), so I can just submit this as my next promotion dossier, right?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 09/11/2024

Good morning. I recently created a starter pack called Mutual Aid for the Rebellion, which includes folks in immigration law, cultural historians, abortion access, and much more. It’s below, but following in a thread of other starter packs in kind—wave to be added to mine: go.bsky.app/QRfTWhT

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

One of my graduate students, Christian McCord, wrote this terrific piece on community organizing in Cincinnati’s West End based on his original research in my Black Archives grad course! www.aaihs.org/organizing-i...

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Organizing in the Housing Projects of Cincinnati's West End

In 1948, the Cincinnati City Planning Commission published its “Metropolitan Master Plan.” It was an ambitious outline of the city’s future, promising “more health centers, more branch libraries, more...

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The Angelina Grimké diaries (from the Weld-Grimké Family Papers) are now online with full transcriptions and annotations by Anna Speicher. 🗃️ quod.lib.umich.edu/w/weldgrimke...

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Index | Weld-Grimké Family Papers, 1740-1930 | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

In G19 Collective's most recent forum, Dr. @rjboutelle.bsky.social speaks about his first book, The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny. Read the conversation here: sites.google.com/view/g19coll...

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The G19 Collective - on The Race for America

on The Race for America

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Teaching Moby-Dick at the beginning of the spring semester is dangerous because sometimes the early chapters line up with a snow day and then you have to make clam chowder

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Happy cats-on-heating-vents season to all who celebrate!

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RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

heated blanket is a big hit as we bunker down for the polar vortex

Two cats snuggled together on a couch, sharing a heated blanket

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