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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

I can scarcely imagine a more un-Christian thing than live-streaming an execution for the public.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 6h

They're playing on my work league basketball team.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 13h

Love letter that opens into a small art gallery (1913)

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chris quixote @chrisquixote.bsky.social · 8h

Let’s gooooooooooooo!

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 19h

Wooden tools crafted by Neanderthals at hunting sites have been found before. For the first time, there's now evidence from a domestic context too. “We know what was happening in the kitchen, in the sleeping areas,” says @iphes-cerca.bsky.social's M. Gema Chacón. “It’s like a snapshot.” @science.org

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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16h

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Guardians set a franchise record for strikeouts (19) in a nine-inning postseason game today.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is some regal pose right there.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's an interesting counter to Charles Buckles Falls's 1918 "Books Wanted" poster, part of the American Library Association's campaign to put books in the hands of troops at home and abroad.

Poster image of a World War I soldier in battle helmet and gear holding a tall stack of books reaching above his head. He looks at the viewer. At lower right corner, printed in which are the words "BOOKS / WANTED / FOR OUR MEN / IN CAMP AND / 'OVER THERE' / TAKE YOUR GIFTS TO / THE PUBLIC LIBRARY". Poster background is black; soldier's uniform is dark olive drab; book covers range from brown and gray to orange and beige, with white punctuating page edges.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A plea to all Sr. scholars: please give credit to PhD students & early career scholars when you use or are inspired by their ideas, approaches, or topic. There's nothing more painful than seeing another scholar use your work & claim it as their own! The principles of academic research apply to all!

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for posting! My research wheelhouse: In 1919 this poster appeared in libraries & gov't employment bureaus. American Library Association's #WWI campaign to get books in training camps led to postwar campaign to encourage veterans' use of public libraries to expand employment opportunities.

Newspaper item entitled "Knowledge Wins." Text reads: "'Knowledge Wins," is the title of a poster which decorates the home service offices. The poster is the work of Dan Smith and bears the legend that "public libraries are open to all." The picture on the poster is an overseas soldier in the act of discarding his gun and starting a climb up a staircase made of books to success, depicted as a prosperous city in the painting. The poster is for the purpose of enacting the reading of books by soldiers who visit the offices." From the Ogden Standard Examiner, November 12, 1919.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Want this to happen, for each of my work colleagues and me, and at least on every Monday morning.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, what a fabulous idea! I have seen/own all the versions on DVD.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Why is it important for journalists, librarians and community members to collaborate on local information and storytelling initiatives? What becomes possible when librarians and community members practice journalism together rather than simply consume it?"

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Stronger Together: A Webinar Series for Librarians and Journalists

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's a virtual tie between Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and the 1951 The Thing From Another World. 🗃️ #HATM

Color film poster. Text reads "HOWARD HAWKS' PRODUCTION / THE THING / from another world! / STARRING / JAMES ARNESS / AS / THE THING. Films actors appear at bottom right and left of the rectangular poster. "THE THING" appears in red; the humanoid vegetable matter that was The Thing appears in ectoplasm green at center.

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it

Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This perked up my mood after the Guardians' loss. Les Flake is the GOAT! The experience of going to the game requires buying a beer from "The Beer Guy."

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Mary Mangle" (or "Mary Mangler") is sure to become the name of a character in any murder mystery set in the 1840s I would write. From 1897 Long Island City, NY, death register.

Screenshot of ledger entry reading "Mary Mangle [or Mangler]."

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations! Planning on seeing it when I take nearly all my PTO in December!

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The catalog for “Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame” at the Cincinnati Art Museum is available for preorder and comes out next Tuesday! It includes essays by CAM curator Julie Aronson, @michaelbierut.bsky.social, Julie Zickfoose, and yours truly: www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/art-...

The cover of Charley Harper Creatures Wild and Tame showing a stylized polar bear’s face and with a cardinal perched on his head, yellow type on a glacial blue background.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m going to be doing an event with Richard Kurin next week. I have lots of questions to ask. Will be interesting. www.eventbrite.com/e/history-by...

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History by a Hair: Richard Kurin on Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings

Discover how DNA science and a single strand of hair reshaped the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Summer is dead. Winter struggles to be born. Now is the time of soup.

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TIMELINE CLEANSE!!! Sound up for the mooooo!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...

Cover of the book The Styrofoam Mummy https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870

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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Highly recommend working @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Using my tax money, the state of Tennessee attempted to lethality inject a woman with a known vascular condition using the doctor who botched the state's most recent execution. After two attempts Christa Pike did not die, but she does have brain damage. Call it what it is: state-sanctioned torture.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NICE: Elizabeth Ellis has been awarded a MacArthur ’Genius’ Grant: Her book The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (Penn, 2022) is powerful/wonderful. 🤓

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The Great Power of Small Nations – Penn Press

A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf SouthIn The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. El...

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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 29/09/2026

Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My copy was also a Scholastic Books edition, very, very well read. It's a great read.

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