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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was interviewed for a podcast recently about a fun connection between a small town church in rural Wisconsin and the Rock of Cashel. It includes a colorful priest who was both a Civil War chaplain and the president of Notre Dame. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/4zeJ...

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A Stone From The Devil's Mouth

Weird Wisconsin · Episode

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This volume looks absolutely vital. Thanks for sharing the link @aoifeb.bsky.social

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

Very good by @davidfrum.bsky.social “wars are not decided only by the question Who can inflict more pain? Wars are also decided by the question Who can endure more pain?” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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How to Lose a Trade War

Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Irish-language research opportunity at the University of St Thomas (St Paul, MN): 8-wk funded research for early career scholar with interest in the Gaeltacht +/or contemporary spoken Irish. Details attached.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The essay will read as all too familiar to many across the US as well. Well worth a read using the author’s deep familiarity with their home institution at Exeter.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'Government investment in defence-related higher education recognises the need for engineering, computing, cyber, robotics and autonomous systems. But if universities educate the next generation of defence specialists while weakening subjects that teach conflict resolution' [continued] 1/3

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What universities count – and what they cannot afford to ignore - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Anna Zimdars, Christopher Playford, Eve Worth, Luke Graham, Joanna Merrett and Joseph Crawford, members of the Centre for Social Mobility, University of Exeter. He tha...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026

Visualized.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This looks terrific. Kelleher is absolutely one of the most important scholars of her generation. Really looking forward to this.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The impact of the Trump tariff regime seen in this report. Part of the drop was result of ‘front-loading’ exports ahead of tariffs last year, part because of slowed exports since. Shifting importance of UK trade also evident.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is so worth a read. What is happening has been hidden, and the veil is lifting.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Some wonderful new archival materials for Irish history made scale by the extraordinary @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team. Some great essays here too curating and introducing the archival materials provided by over 100 international partners

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🧵. Important discussion here, focused on UK & specific to that context, but it parallels discussions elsewhere. In US, discussion of higher ed too often based on attention to elite, usually private, schools, not regional public unis. As in this post, cuts to majors remove affordable options.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🧵Thoughtful, careful analysis looking across the island of Ireland at the violence aimed at migrants & differentiating b/t strains of fascism in RoI and NI

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Frankenstein (1910). Kind of wild to consider that its release is closer in time to the publication of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel than to the present day

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The brilliant @ciarab.bsky.social talking about the release of the 1926 Irish census and how census research opens windows onto both your family’s past and the state’s past.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#IrishDiasperialism Very interesting display coming next week at the @nmireland.bsky.social focused on the Catalpa Mission through which US-based Fenians rescued 6 from Fremantle in Western Australia. Links across Diaspora, Empire, & anti-colonial networks.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

US 📉 Good shout out to @chrischirp.bsky.social's "Trump Action Tracker" in the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social Democracy report. The tracker documents actions and statements of Trump and his administration: "704 directly undermining democracy, 459 weakening civil rights, 689 suppressing dissent"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A fun 🧵for those building out reading on the Great War

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

February 16, 2026
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”
George Orwell, 1984'

As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto
"Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government
has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain
over historical facts. It does not.
The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that
commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there,
including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National
Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and
information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House.
Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative
Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…

CONCLUsION
For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b
no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place.
Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any
kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“It feels like someone just lit a match on your eyelid and put out a match on your eyelid” This is a helluva reporting job by @nbcnews.com with videos, photos & eyewitness accounts of how the ICE rampage through American cities is inflicting "grievous injuries" on people. Read/share:

Hours after Pretti was shot dead while restrained and kneeling, Leon Virden and one of his sons joined a protest near the scene. Some chanted, “ICE go home.” No one was doing anything remotely threatening, Virden said. From a group of officers standing about 30 yards away, on the other side of a Dumpster, came a tear gas canister, which one of the group tried to kick away. Virden said he stepped forward to kick it farther, and a flash-bang soared toward him and exploded in his face.

Dazed and unable to hear well, Virden didn’t realize how badly he’d been wounded until he got to a hospital, where he got stitches in his cheek and his shattered jaw was rebuilt with metal plates and wired shut.

Bertrand, a musician and recording engineer, said he heard no warning when the officers opened fire from about 10 feet away. A rubber bullet hit him in the groin, then the shoulder and leg as he turned to run. He felt a heavy thud on his left hand and ducked behind a car. One of his fingers looked mangled. He thinks he was hit with something heavy, like a tear gas canister.

“It felt like a war zone where there’s only one side that has weapons,” Bertrand said. “The only weapon that we had was our speech, our voices.”

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

🧵The experiences of an attorney brought into immigration cases in MN over the past month. Describes the disregard for the law by DHS, abetted by AUSAs. Defiance of court orders, inhumane conditions for prisoners, &c.

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Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our History UK Pedagogy Forum returns for 2026, beginning with a timely online discussion on narratives around the 'Value' of a history degree (3-4.30pm, Tuesday 24 February 2026) Please do share, hope to see you there! #historyeducation #academicsky historyuk.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/events/2025-...

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2025-2026 History UK Pedagogy Forum

We are pleased to announce the return of History UK’s Pedagogy Forum. A new series of online discussions about different aspects of teaching and learning will resume in July 2025, with variou…

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🧵On the sites the DHS is purchasing to convert into prison camps for detainees. More than $500m spent already, & localities often learn of the plans after the fact. What are the entities who refit the sites? Who will run them? What about local infrastructure capacity (& tax implications)?

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This data deserves as wide an audience as you’ve got.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A useful guide to researching environmental history at the national Archives, UK.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Another? They’ve shot another Minnesotan?

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Apparently yesterday, while other non-violent actions took place around the Twin Cities. After clergy visited the site where George Floyd was killed, legal observers noticed vehicles following the bus carrying the clergy & began to follow and film. ICE officers proceeded to attack the observers.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you’re not watching Minnesota, you need to. This is what democracy looks like. This is what people power looks like. Bless them.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ignore the inevitable, instinctive, ad hominem, knee jerk hostility to a book on slavery and the monarchy in the right wing press. This is a better glimpse of @brookenewman.bsky.social’s new book: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The brilliant @anamariecox.bsky.social on the ground at the Minneapolis airport. Listen to her describe the reality of people organizing to support community in the face of what has come to MN. This is people power at its finest. Inspirational.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🧵Interesting from Carney in Davos

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🔥 MACRON (throwing shade at Trump): "We do prefer respect to bullies…. And we prefer rule of law to brutality. Having a place like Europe which is predictable, loyal, and where you know the rule of the game is the rule of law, it's a good place.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 15/01/2026

🔊 MN clergy got Target CEO Brian Cornell on the phone. Target’s motto: “Expect more. Pay less.” More like expect the bare minimum and get… hung up on? 🤔 We’re not leaving Target HQ until we get a meeting with Brian Cornell. #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Minneapolis yesterday. This. 🙏❤️

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m sorry. Dominant what? And that’s a good thing???

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, Bluesky 🎉 May peace, care for working folks, racial justice, access to universal healthcare, scientific & historical research, & empathy be our guiding lights.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A searching article from three outstanding historians in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social Thinking through how one moves beyond the statist view of history, in Ireland or elsewhere, is essential in the 21st century. I highly recommend this piece.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

That feeling when you’re traveling, and there’s a layover, and you think ‘I’ll just check what’s happening in the Ireland v Hungary match…!!!! #coybig 🎉☘️🎉

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🧵Important re: transatlantic nexus of this type of culture war demand

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A great pleasure to join Damian @irishacw.bsky.social and the Transatlantic podcast to talk about the Irish in Wisconsin & Milwaukee.

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