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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 5h

Ohio, today is the last day to register to vote for November’s election. Register online or drop off your voter registration form at your county board of elections office TODAY by 9PM. For more information, head to iwillvote.com/OH.

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I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 5h

At exactly 0 times in my entire adult life have Democrats in Congress done what's actually necessary to hold Republicans accountable. I'm hoping this streak will be broken starting in January. But it's easy to see why Republicans think they can just keep getting away with it.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

pope leo thank you for blessing the chicago white sox but i would also like to be able to get an abortion if so desired

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are you going to be at the For 2026: New Republic, New Worlds Conference at the OIEAHC on October 23-24? Do you have an idea for Commonplace piece that you want to pitch or just find out more about Commonplace? Do want fun swag? I will be there to chat, so please reach out to set up a meeting.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Getting to see a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and genuinely world-class musician, Rhiannon Giddens, in Cork was an unreal treat.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Anthropic settlement is an absolute clusterfuck that feels like it's being managed by AI not lawyers. If this is the future, opt me out!

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am honored to say that my book *Freedom Ship* has been awarded the 2026 Marion Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History by the Maryland Center for History and Culture.

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Cory James Young @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are the 29 active Zillow listings that invoke the Underground Railroad as part of their sales pitch. I don't entirely know what to make of this, but you'd better believe I'm going to get to the bottom of it with my class this afternoon.

A Zillow page listing 29 properties for sale where the listings contain the keywords "underground railroad." The map shows results from Massachusetts in the east to Iowa in the west.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In my head, the next thing he said was HOW D'YA LIKE THEM APPLES

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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine a kind of study focused on cultivating one's humanity. We'd just have to come up with a name!

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

State of the Martini, 1952 (according to the Los Angeles Times):

"the Martini is by far the most popular of mixed drinks, and Martini addicts are the biggest cranks in the world. Their fussiness knows no bounds.
Bartenders cater to their foibles as an attendant in a high-class lunatic asylum to the hallucinations of his charges."

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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Iowa has ranked 48th for personal income growth on average over the last 3 years and our wages are the least competitive in the region. A decade of one-party rule has left Iowa families behind & my opponent will be just more of the same. Here's how I'll get done: robsand.com/priorities/

robsand.com

Rob Sand's Priorities for Iowa

Rob Sand for Iowa Governor. Rob is only beholden to the people of Iowa, and Rob stands up for what's right, even when it's hard.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wonderful to see my book in the hands of so many readers. Tuesday is the official publication day for A GLORIOUS FATE with @uncpress.bsky.social. #booksky

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Stuart Anderson-Davis @srd212.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks @thejerpano.bsky.social for the chance to write about #informationwarfare in the C19. Similarities between tactics in the 1830s and 2020s is pretty incredible. Instead of #AI and #socialmedia its newspapers and voluntary associations, but the deceptions and harms remain pretty consistent.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I recommend the work of @bds77.bsky.social, a superb Grant scholar. Grant appears in my biographies of others, and I've written some essays on him. I think my best take was an essay on Grant's memoirs in the @nytimes.com Book Review, from 2017. On to episode 2! 7/7 www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/b...

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The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs (Gift Article)

T.J. Stiles discusses a new, completely annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, edited by John F. Marszalek, with David S. Nolen and Louie Gallo.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

* Here's the Bookshop.org page for Brooks Simpson's books: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.com

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Film screening at NYU on Monday, Sept. 28 at 7:00 pm: *Becoming Benjamin Lay* will be screened in the Espacio de Culturas auditorium, King Juan Carlos Center, 53 S. Washington Square. Please help us spread the word for this free event. Please register here: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

needle in the right direction, it makes sense to me to lessen the severity of Covid illness with an updated shot. Whether that prevents any one individual from ending up really sick is impossible to guess."

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the population I try hardest to reach. Last season’s shot cut hospitalization risk by 53–59% and ER/urgent care visits by 48%. In terms of how sick people get with Covid, sniffles to hospitalization to death exist along a continuum… so if updated shots are clearly bending the

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Short Answer: Yes Long Answer: Yes, especially if you are 65+ "The bottom line is that updated Covid vaccines halve the risk of serious outcomes, and no new safety concerns turned up. "Older adults (65+) still have the highest hospitalization rates and account for about 88% of Covid deaths.

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Should you really get a new Covid shot in 2026?

Most of my patients are either getting updated Covid shots routinely, or summarily waving them off. Sometimes they stop me mid-sentence as I recommend them, their eyebrows furrowed, with a look of…

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/09/2026

I really wonder about this. Why do so many journalists who write or opine about the university do so from a position of deep hostility to the people who do the teaching and research? Most of these writers are college educated and not stupid.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This stuff is specifically mentioned in The Declaration of Independence as a reason for rebellion against tyranny.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"One of the most frustrating things about the capitulation of elite institutions to Donald Trump—from law firms to universities to media companies—has been that the logic of the situation so clearly counseled the opposite." @gregsargent.bsky.social on the efficacy and power of collective resistance.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy.

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our students had a great visit today from @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social talking about--argggh--pirates. Juanjo now wants to move to Oregon, which is of course, as our students pointed out, the home of the Goonies.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My god everything is so bad and it just keeps getting worse.

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Antonio RB @antonioreyesb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good News! It's not ALL of humanity. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m teaching a workshop this weekend about how historians research. #Skystorians, what are your favorite or most important research tips and tricks? What is your favorite method for finding archives and archival material?

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s almost beyond comprehension how every person who leads an institution in this country is profoundly unfit for it

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven’t laughed this hard in a minute…“We thank our glorious administration for their brilliant technical solution to a social problem. This is how it should be, because all social & political problems definitely have a technical solution, and usually we just need to pay for something involving AI…”

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a tendency to talk about people who receive support from the state as though they are somehow a completely different group from the rest of us: ‘taxpayers’ over here and ‘benefit claimants’ over there. My piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/non...

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None of us knows what is around the corner

A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“In thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty….I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.” #FuckAI #FrederickDouglass

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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

re: Xi statement to Trump today

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OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This weekend, the University of North Texas removed the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive. We are proud to host the Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project by Nancy Lee Marquis. These oral histories are also housed at UNT. Explore the exhibit on OutHistory: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literal hooting and hollering in the reading room as we come across a partially used box of condoms in a collection being processed

A box of natural lamb condoms among pamphlets

Wider shot of archival box with files, ledgers, pamphlets, envelopes, and condoms

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Warin @brotherfuture94.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is incredibly sad. Kudos to this man for doing what he can to help his wife and the person that started the Gofundme. But he really should not be in this position.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the soulless cretins that think Trump, the vainest and most cowardly of leaders, arranged to be nearly shot in the head... Remember that Butler had a human cost of now two. RIP Jim. We probably agreed on nothing but you shouldn't be dead. Neither should Corey Comperatore.

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Man injured in 2024 Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania has died

A man who survived the shooting at President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died. Jim Copenhaver was critically injured in the 2024 attack.

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