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Sarah Chinn

@sarahchinn.bsky.social
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Teaches 19th century US lit at Hunter College, CUNY. Lives in Brooklyn, with all the contradictions that implies.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate
Meme edited version of classic tweet from "Lauren (@notabigjerk"):

"I'm not falling for that *Atlantic article*. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at"
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Feeling this hard.
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good thing we turned off the faucet while we brushed
TikTok video by Camden Garcia
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Literal dick-head.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yes! Sending love from NY, home of a successful nurses’ strike
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Same same same.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
American women won the World Cup 4 times....
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I used this image in my book about Reconstruction. It has been grievously wounded over the years, but the 14th Amendment is still worth celebrating l!
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh, and I hate it here.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BTW, Jackson's concurrence to the birthright citizenship case is gorgeous. She focuses in large part on the fact that minoritized people are most often the ones in favour of universal rights, whereas dominant majorities are more likely to oppose them.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A lot fewer people will be enraged by this, because it feels wonky — but I want you to think about how much harder it is to run progressive candidates when there’s even fewer restrictions on how these rich assholes can throw around their money.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Five to four to preserve birthright citizenship???? Did these four oafs not read the 14th Amendment?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Explain?
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
YALL, the photos from Lubbock Pride are everything. When I was growing up in Lubbock, the second most “conservative” city in America, I would never have expected this— but I am SO HAPPY to be wrong.
A booth at Lubbock Pride
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the things I want most and the long-term project that I dream about is creating a National Museum of Reconstruction
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sad but true.
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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Thank you #SUNY #FCCC for the time to speak about Academic Freedom at your plenary! @csvacin.bsky.social @diverdanna.bsky.social @eialongo.bsky.social #madc cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu *Establish a NY State MADC: Promote collaboration between CUNY and SUNY to defend against political attacks. ✊
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's crazy to me how unadorned this all is. There's zero pretense that the FCC should be impartial, or that the media are here for both our entertainment and meaningful information. It's true that on the whole Carr's efforts have been a dismal failure, but the ambition is alarming in and of itself.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#nokings
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Because of a cancelled flight last night, I'm heading into Nashville at lunchtime, which means missing No Kings in NYC and in Nashville. Not the end of the world, but not what I'd wanted my weekend to look like.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
CROCKETT: Professor, are you saying you believe it's constitutional for the US to blow up people that are accused of being drug traffickers? "It's not going to be a yes or no answer" CROCKETT: I'm going to stop you there. It's unconstitutional.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is just so grim.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When someone tells me that they’ve taught my work, it’s inexpressibly thrilling.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
True: since Ford pardoned Nixon, almost everyone seems to get a "get out of jail free"/ don't go to jail in the first place card. Iran-Contra, Abu Ghraib, fomenting an insurrectionary riot etc etc etc. and no real consequences.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Guest artists: the US Colored Troops marching into Galveston to liberate the remaining enslaved people there, and elected Black federal members of Congress and Senate from the 1870s.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sure scared the hell out of me.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yes — it was a joyous celebration of community above all.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why have these people not learned that standing up to bullies works more often than not? And even if you get beaten up, at least you have your pride.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026
If you're local to Ann Arbor or Ypsi Nextdoor, here is the link. nextdoor.com/p/rNNGzY3cn7...
nextdoor.com
Ice is at Washtenaw Community College pulling kids out of class.
Join Nextdoor, an app for neighborhoods where you can get local tips, buy and sell items, and more
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
User @backintimeag: 
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Holy fuck they actually did it
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This, my friends, is what welcoming immigrants and sharing with them can do.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Lucy Dacus singing Bread & Roses for all the SLAC alums in the crowd.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’m not crying! You’re crying!
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yup, it all comes back to Reagan.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I'm Thomas Chatterton Williams, and as the reality of our entire political and cultural elite's deep enmeshment with pedophilia and sex trafficking goes from obvious to undeniable, I will be writing about how it's bad to have principles.
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Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
One year ago
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I know it's a small part of a much larger story, but can we talk about how godawful hideous that ballroom is going to be?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"I never thought they'd eat *my* face...."
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
And this is why we can't have nice things: all the billionaires who have monopolized pretty much everything (I'm typing on an Apple computer, our university has moved us all over to Microsoft 365, our student tracking software uses AWS servers etc etc) are bankrolling these delusions of grandeur.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
What the actual fuck? A 70s style Black pimp? Injection sites for CRACK???? It's hard to tell that this is an actual ad rather than a parody of a Cuomo spot. Who on earth would be convinced by this? And is the Mamdani figure at the end AI? Isn't that, um, illegal?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Just saw this. WTAF? Are they just plucking people off the street?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this. That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What what what? Plus, is he so stupid that he doesn't realize that he should probably take that down if he's in a zoom meeting, or at least blur his background?
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Sarah Chinn @sarahchinn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Well, this isn't great.
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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
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