Reposted by Steve McCluskeyJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10/09/2026New from us: Anthropic just published scenarios for AI’s possible economic impacts, which range from minimal, to explosive GDP growth of 15% by 2030 as knowledge-worker unemployment hits 18%. I sat down with their co-founder Jack Clark to pick his brains on how they’re thinking about all of this. 7118551
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 07/09/2026USCCB Labor Day Statement: “Pope Leo expressly acknowledges the great risks of AI for workers: de-skilling, surveillance, rigid and repetitive tasks, reduced agency and creativity, unemployment, job insecurity, concentrated power, and increased inequalities.” 04616
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“Trump … and his band of truculent lackeys won’t be around forever, but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for their mistakes for years to come.” 000
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Devastating news — the SBE started my career both in grad school (history of science) and a young faculty grant (hos and anthropology) 010
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This church sits in a rather wealthy neighborhood of Chicago, and I’m reminded of John Chrysostom’s words: "If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice." 1219061
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyCommonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 22/08/2026The West still pictures India as rooted in Gandhian tradition. But it is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s radical nationalism that drives Indian politics today. Shiv Parihar: 'India Without Gandhi' www.commonwealmagazine.org/india-withou...commonwealmagazine.orgIndia Without GandhiThe West still pictures India as rooted in Gandhian tradition. But it is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's radical nationalism that drives Indian politics today. 021
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyMichael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026New Column: The answer to the question my headline poses is a little more complicated than most people are allowing. newrepublic.com/post/214367/... via @newrepublic.comnewrepublic.comWhy Don’t Leftie Candidates Do Better Among Working-Class Voters?It isn’t that non-college voters are more “moderate.” It’s something else entirely, and it will probably take about a decade to fix, if it’s fixable at all. 4218
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Important historical thread on the bombing of Nagasaki, showing it to be more bureaucratic inertia than a decision by the president. Read the whole thread 121
Reposted by Steve McCluskeymburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 01/08/20265 stars to @wellerstein.bsky.social fantastic book on Truman and the atomic bomb. I'm really glad it finally arrived on the top of my queue, in partnership with the Hiroshima accounts from my short story book group. www.burrowedbooks.com/book/the-mos...burrowedbooks.comThe Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age — Burrowed BooksA review of The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age by Alex Wellerstein. 1133
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026WaPo changed perspective with new headline and lede: 2 U.S. service members killed, 1 missing after Iran attack on Jordan, military says Iran launched a wave of attacks on U.S. allies Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain as the U.S. military hit Iran, in the seventh consecutive day of clashes. 010
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Good investigation of ICE officers by the Times. 000
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Forensic Architecture just published an in-depth investigation into the Minab school bombing in Iran that's well worth a read and watch forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...forensic-architecture.orgForensic Architecture 215075
Reposted by Steve McCluskeySeb Falk @sebfalk.com · 16/07/2026Since I completely forgot to post about my own presentation beforehand, here's the abstract. Thanks to everyone who came and/or chatted about the project with me afterwards. It was really useful to air some new ideas to a friendly crowd! Even more excited to get writing the book now! 3152
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“The Church has a preferential option for the poor.… It’s a formal doctrinal position,… It means a living wage is not a socialist plot but a human right. Catholic social teaching insists on this point so often and explicitly that you have to work hard to miss it. Vance works hard to miss it.” 094
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Fine historical meditation on the Manhattan Project and its implications. 010
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Fine, detailed account by noted Vaticanist, Nicole Winfield. 000
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“Precision weaponry that widens the gap between soldier and enemy carries its own moral risks. Disembodied warfare is spiritually vacuous.… The way we conduct war today wounds those who fight it because they are kept from reckoning with the consequences of their actions.” 020
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyE.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Republicans have long claimed a monopoly on “values” issues. But this year, we’re witnessing a renewal of our tradition of moral engagement with our common life, the economy, social justice, technological revolution — and what we owe each other. My column www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A Different Kind of ‘Values Voter’ Will Power the 2026 Midterms 1284
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyMarianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026 OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social 01617
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyColleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This is a really lovely interrogation of the use of AI in astrophysics that gets to this fundamental question—are we doing science because we want to know the answer (by any means) or because we like doing science? + www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgAmid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their fieldResearchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor 13211
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Read this article in the Chicago Sun-Times all the way to the end. 120
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Reupping: "Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice." ---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict. 1014783
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyMassimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026in dealing with a quasi-king, one king (also head of a church) and the pope (also head of a state) have performed better than others 0213
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026King Charles:“Distinguished members of the 119th Congress, it is here in these very halls that this spirit of liberty and the promise of America’s Founders is present in every session and every vote cast. Not by the will of one, but by the deliberation of many” 000
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Beautiful rendering of a familiar figure. 000
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyHarriet Fagerberg @harrif.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social 14119
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕 231130443679
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 91147838504
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Micheál Martin to Donald Trump: “You cannot be a rogue state with a nuclear weapon.” 001
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...youtube.comNathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 1 of 6YouTube video by American Historical Association 672035592
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/03/2026Fantastic kicker from @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 13610
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess. Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks. 31754373
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyThony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Nicolaus Copernicus was born 19 February 1473. @karlgalle.bsky.social's biographical sketch of his life & work #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/p...thonyc.wordpress.comPublish and PerishAs I announced yesterday I am playing away this week with a tasty post on astrology and astronomy on the excellent Forbidden Histories blog site. However the substitute bank here at The Renaissance… 0159
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyRebecca Elliott @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social · 04/02/2026A giant wind farm in Wyoming died after facing permitting delays. In Indiana, a solar project stalled after the Trump administration blocked it from using a taxpayer-funded database. A federal permitting ‘blockade’ is hitting renewables projects hard. Story with @bradplumer.bsky.social:nytimes.comA Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide 22114
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents. 15785581513738
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired. 391378582
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyMohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Just shared by Samuel Gessner @sgessner.bsky.social via the Rete mailing list: The great programme of the international conference “Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in #Libraries”, 14–15 January 2026 at @mhngeneve.bsky.social. #histstm #histsci #medievalsky @stephenaj.bsky.social 043
Reposted by Steve McCluskeySeb Falk @sebfalk.com · 05/01/2026JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie... 2179190
Reposted by Steve McCluskeySeb Falk @sebfalk.com · 01/01/2026There's room for another historian (or anthropologist) at @girtoncollege.bsky.social ! 3-year postdoc research fellowship, apply by 12 January! www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...girton.cam.ac.ukResearch Fellowship in Arts 11817
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 22/12/2025Today, the AHA & CREW filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit against the federal government over the university’s ability to host foreign scholars and students. The brief conveys the importance of international scholars and students to American higher education. 🗃️historians.orgAHA Files Amicus Brief in Support of Foreign Scholars - AHAThe American Historical Association (AHA), in collaboration with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit again... 09031
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Of 107 democracies studied by @pewresearch.org, only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the US, that is, single-member districts drawn mainly by state legislatures: the Federated States of Micronesia, with a population of around 100,000. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...pewresearch.orgU.S. stands out globally in how it draws legislative districtsAmong 107 democracies, we found that only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the U.S. 37526
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Good first take on the rumored successor to Cardinal Dolan as archbishop of New York. 000
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/11/2025A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs! 22639731031
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/11/2025Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25 13533126
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025A judge ordered agents involved in the Chicago deportation blitz to have "visible identification … prominently displayed." But they've been missing in dozens of @chicago.suntimes.com photographs. From @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social, Anthony Vazquez and Ashlee Rezin: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...chicago.suntimes.comIDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officersIn dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during th... 39931536
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/10/2025“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” 171517632
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025“[T]o those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect.… You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.” 020
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyH I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 12/10/2025*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels 1536580
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyGregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025we can destroy that (aspirational) 192
Reposted by Steve McCluskeyRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Full homily text. adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...adw.orgMass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Homily Given by Robert Cardinal McElroy - Archdiocese of WashingtonHOMILY Mass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Given by Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC September 28, 2025 at 5:30 ... 3227