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Shawn Hudson

@stludson.bsky.social
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History teacher, dad, writer, cook. Loves to build long bridges. I write a history newsletter for my generation of folks who got not great history at school - badanalogytheater.beehiiv.com

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🗣🗣🗣Polarization Is Not the Problem🗣🗣🗣
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great from @mcsardo.bsky.social: “an opportunity for professional political scientists to engage in proactive collaboration with educators at the secondary level, rather than simply bemoan the civic knowledge or writing skills of incoming undergraduates.” www.liberalcurrents.com/jefferson-ma...
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Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Smith: The College Board Adds a New Founding Father
On the politics of canonization in academia.
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Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's something very sad about racism for the racist: it's a self-imposed severance from others, from knowing and learning and benefiting from all manner of people, of refusing to partake in the lives and stories of others for the sake of your personal hatreds and bigotry, a self-impoverishment
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026
The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm trying to create more (drawing is new, always been a writer), really considering finding a spot to do an adult history lesson night for my 50th bday just because I think adults would enjoy my class. Applied to Lectures on Tap, going to a voice rec'ing/audiobook narration class week of my 50th.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Title 18 US Code 597: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate...if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is one of the things I try to emphasize in US history over and over. Slavery was a choice. Compromising with the South over and over as they whined and complained was a choice. Allowing Jim Crow was a choice. There were always alternatives, it didn't need "modern" views, they were always there.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Behold! Postcard from my collection, no date.
Sepia toned black and white photo of a scruffy medium haired dark tabby kitten being held aloft by a white male hand coming from outside the frame. The kitten look proudly into the distance and has a light colored ribbon bow around its neck.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Whimsy is actually a form of resistance against a world that wants us to be miserable. Says Skeletor trying to keep the whimsy even when the world is truly miserable.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 02/09/2026
MORE BREADS LESS DATA CENTERS the rallying cry for a New America
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I love the words no one else has found today bit. Thanks volleyball (that's not the word lol). I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 824 points · 10 rare words. Only 15 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/ZQ35RG
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OUTLIER · Day 95
stludson scored 824 on Day 95 — can you beat them?
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Great Make-A-Wish Presidency continues unabated
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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Historians speak truth of the dead. Whether that truth is good or ill was up to them.
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Get bent Chuck. Jeez.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"and another thing: i haven't lost the Mandate of Heaven. please don't put in the newspaper that i lost the Mandate of Heaven."
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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:
While John Adams and fifty-five men in Philadelphia debated a resolution on independence and the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, the people of Boston declared their own independence from smallpox. The measures taken in both cities provided hope that America would not only be a republic free of a king but also a country free from disease. On July 3, 1776, a day after independence was declared in Philadelphia, the Massachusetts General Court voted to allow inoculation. Despite the dangers of infection, the people of Boston and the surrounding areas cheered the news. Ezekiel Price, a court official and insurance broker, declared “Liberty is given for to inoculate for the small-pox; many begin upon it this afternoon.” Hannah Winthrop described the scene: “Boston has given up its Fears of an invasion & is busily employd in Communicating the Infection. Straw Beds & Cribs are daily Carted into the Town.” She wrote that “Men Women & children eagerly crowding to inoculate is I think as modish as running away from the Troops of a barbarous George was the last year.” Dr. James Warren wrote to John Adams that the “rage for inoculation” had “whirled me into its vortex.…”  Warren and his wife Mercy Otis joined Abigail Adams and her four children who had been invited to be inoculated at Abigail’s uncle’s house in Boston along with Abigail’s sisters Elizabeth Cranch and Mary Shaw and their families. Even though Boston was teeming with the sick, the prospect that the city could conquer smallpox made it "a scene delightful indeed." Cotton Tufts was satisfied that he could now "take my leave of Earth, satisfied that the Day of American Redemption was at Hand."
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Schoeppner @schoeppner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verde destroys Argentina in goals per capita.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I mean the existence of a "January 6th" is express evidence that election results didn't happen instantaneously, and the fact that it wasn't until 1936 that we even moved the inauguration of the president to within touching distance of TWO MONTHS after the election... Just count votes FFS.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
the president can negotiate with congress. the president can offer proposals and suggestions. but the only direct control the president has over lawmaking is his ability to veto! once something is signed into law, he is constitutionally obligated to "faithfully execute" it!
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 28/06/2026
Some Sunday Black Boy Joy
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The previous 45 times the Trump said he had a deal with Iran, he was wrong. That’s why I think he’s right this time
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So let's see... Ted Cruz (Astros/Longhorns) was the first sign... now Trump (Knicks) had enough bad juju to make the Knicks lose their only game in, like, forever? Hmm, hmm.. that's two signs. Dems, let me sell you on my "GOP is bad for spoartsball" campaign. It's a winner! Vote for sports! Right?
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
the knicks win, thus proving zohran mamdani has the mandate of heaven
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 14/06/2026
A chart showing the US birth rate from circa 1990 to 2026A chart showing the share of net worth held by the top 1%
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Shawn Hudson @stludson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *breathes* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *cries, deep sigh* We're doomed.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to read books and eat pastries in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 19/05/2026
Win won
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Arseblog News @arseblog.news · 19/05/2026
Arsenal are Premier League champions
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Arsenal are Premier League champions
My friends. Arsenal are champions. Man City drew with Bournemouth and we have won the league after 22 years. I have a lot more to say in due course. But I wanted to just say I love you all, thanks for being here with all the Arseblog crew through the ups and downs. There were […] The post Arsenal are Premier League champions appeared first on Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site.
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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Gov Jeff Landry, 2026: "No one gets extra rights." President Andrew Johnson, 1866, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message: "safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race."
On ‘60 Minutes,’ Gov. Jeff Landry defends Louisiana redistricting: ‘No one gets extra rights’
BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer 20 hrs ago  
 2 min to readThey establish for the security of the colored race safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race. In fact, the distinction of race and color is by the bill made to operate in favor of the colored and against the white race.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian 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.”
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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 09/05/2026
Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.
Painting: "The Last Moments of John Brown," by Thomas Hovenden (1884), depicting John Brown being escorted from his cell to the gallows. He kisses a black child being held up by his mother as he descends the steps.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born
left to right:

1. John Brown by W. E. Burghardt DuBois 

2. The Legend of John Brown. A Biography and a History by Richard O. Boyer

3. Fire on the Mountain. What If John Brown Had Won At Harper's Ferry? The Classic SF Novel of a Black Utopia in the American South by Terry Bisson
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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/04/2026
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
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