Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I just want to retire and go live in the woods with my dogs and hex anyone who ventures onto my land with boils in their armpits 0264
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Democratic lieutenant governor resigns after a report accused him of sexual harassment and ethics lapses. 1842495
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Join us for a telethon on Thursday for a great cause? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comFreedom to Read Orgs, Authors to Host TelethonAnti-censorship groups, authors, librarians, and others will host a livestreamed telethon, Show Up, Speak Up! Vote for the Freedom to Read, on September 24, with special guests including Judy Blume, J... 09740
Reposted by Sarah J. Purcellemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...nytimes.comHaitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. 12830991995
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellKaren L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Librarians are heroes. That is all. 0122
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell 2433256355145
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’nbcnews.comJudge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment. 818283246022
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.meidasnews.comNot Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple ShipsSince MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service 1769173648362
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/202670 percent of Microsoft's AI revenue is coming from a single customer — OpenAI. I have to ask: is the AI bubble about to burst?youtube.comBrace Yourself for the AI BubbleAre we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster? 1251572549
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt. 1156169155245
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Rand Paul and The Rs on Homeland Sec committee, which just voted on straight party lines to refer Fauci for contempt, are an absolute kangaroo court. The Hollywood 10 were convicted of contempt during McCarthy days; and this will go down in history as a similar moment of opprobrium and insanity. 598130343841
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports. 136159414676
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause. 883040636
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Last call for the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference happening this week! Registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, August 5, at 12pm ET. For more information on the sessions and to register, go to: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference 02111
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...newrepublic.comMan Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket HomeThe man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico. 32585144515
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence. 1088226779796
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Dang they really got a category for everything 203285735476
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Chicago’s got the prettiest Odyssey. (And, I legitimately think, as a longtime Odyssey reader who has read several translations, the best. Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation is gorgeous, faithful, and clever, the notes incredibly helpful and interesting.) 1110622
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAlicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone! Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️ 15427
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Someone is going to die. This is insanity. 2620059
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it? 11547108
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAbraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗share.inquirer.comTrump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portraitThe Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site. 211135571
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellJoshua Zeitz @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Some faculty committee stalwarts are about to be schooled on parliamentary procedure and Roberts Rules of Order. 001
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 25/06/2026AAAAAAHHHHHHHH 0253
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellEsther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This is a good start "..ask all the questions. Don’t settle for answers that you get from the media. Question incentive structures, question where you’re getting the information from, and just don’t stop going down the rabbit holes when you’re doing experiments or asking questions." 02213
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 19/06/2026“It happens all the time but I can’t prove it.” 871373221
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars. 8153382302
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done. 262783743
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMichael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme 5736461115
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 16/06/2026Looking for historical context on tariffs? Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on C-SPAN, featuring historians Douglas Irwin, Sharon Ann Murphy, and Eric Rauchway. They explore how federal tariff policy has shaped domestic & global economies. 🗃️c-span.org 153
Reposted by Sarah J. Purcellkim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026omg ffs we just want healthcare 1393753821
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Makes the drunken Jackson supporters who trashed the White House in 1829 look classy. 1378
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.” 1223109784
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellDr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Trump likes to point to what he did in Venezuela as a success. The thing I find strangest about that whole debacle is how little everyone else has to say about it. He kidnapped and arrested a foreign president and his wife. At the very least, we should be keeping track of what’s happening to them. 10431111
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11/06/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH 0349
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026This morning, I spoke to families with loved ones in Delaney Hall. They told me about an appalling lack of access to healthcare, violence and intimidation by guards, and horrible living conditions within the facility. I’m going back to Delaney today to continue the fight to shut it down. 17842197
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026We're hiring an editor to lead our new California hub! If you're interested, check it out here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... 316190
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellLaura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026#hatm if you love #suffs history, check out the @maryelizaproject.bsky.social, a digital humanities project researching the *54k women* in Boston who rushed to register to vote between August & November 1920. Their stories will surprise & delight you! And our dataset is there for YOU to explore! 03318
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/05/2026Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”theguardian.comUnauthorized ICE ‘wellness checks’ by police at Ohio schools draw outrageCommunity members and rights groups criticize police arriving at Cincinnati schools on behalf of ICE 11130598
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like. 562272600
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.” 133136384612
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellTyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/05/2026🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below) 14754335
Reposted by Sarah J. PurcellMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is proving more true every singe day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...democracydocket.comDemocrats must gerrymander to save democracyRedistricting is, in nearly every respect, a zero-sum game. When you remove a guardrail, the consequences are immediate and trigger others. 571499546
Reposted by Sarah J. Purcellonion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026funniest thing i’ve ever seen 433241385345