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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 13h

periodic reminder that uchicago press will give you a free ebook every month and most of them are pretty interesting, including this month’s.

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New free ebook every month from the University of Chicago Press ebook

Get a new free ebook every month from the University of Chicago Press. We publish over 5000 ebook editions.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always a delight to read... • Mary Oliver •

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jane Kenyon, “Portrait of a Figure Near Water”

Rebuked, she turned and ran
uphill to the barn. Anger, the inner
arsonist, held a match to her brain.
She observed her life: against her will
it survived the unwavering flame.

The barn was empty of animals.
Only a swallow tilted
near the beams, and bats
hung from the rafters
the roof sagged between.

Her breath became steady
where, years past, the farmer cooled
the big tin amphoræ of milk.
The stone trough was still
filled with water: she watched it
and received its calm.

So it is when we retreat in anger:
we think we burn alone
and there is no balm.
Then water enters, though it makes
no sound.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026

To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Historians: Roger Taney’s Supreme Court was the worst in history, with the Dred Scott decision directly fueling the Civil War. John Roberts: Hold my beer🍺 …

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Use Social Security Info To Screen For Noncitizen Voters

The unsigned decision overrules lower court decisions that blocked the data-matching across government agencies.

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau [ . . . ] The initiators of the Heidenau ban argue that, while remembering Holocaust victims is an essential task, the placement of stones leads to 'passersby walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.'" My thoughts below.

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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau

Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can't wait for this book. It's going to be so good.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 21/09/2026

The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system that has Americans’ lives in its hands. I’m calling on the FAA to immediately suspend use of this AI system at Washington area airports until its safety has been established. My full statement:

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting, hadn’t realized that.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026

The letter, signed by 120 UMC pastors and a UMC Bishop, says: "When you attack Adam’s pastoral ministry, his home congregation, and our denomination as a whole, you sow seeds of division and dissent. You tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two visions of America going forward: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts vs. Sniper Enclave Triumphal Arch.

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For those of you not in the DMV: the proposed Triumphal Arch is in a complicated traffic circle fed by several commuting routes & lane shifts (it was several years before I knew which lane to get into, to avoid recrossing the bridge). Adding drones/snipers will make DC commuting even more exciting!

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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Blessed are those who pre-order books, for they believe in the future and believe in art and conduct themselves accordingly.

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

QTs disabled, but the people from history who we remember from moments that paralleled today's are the ones who fought for human dignity and what was right, not who calculated at the margins and triangulated while abandoning basic decency. bsky.app/profile/shar...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you!

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On this Friday afternoon, a brief moment of sanity.

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Morning walk. I’ve been walking past these wildflowers for the past few weeks, and they just keep getting bigger!

Early autumn forest photo, blue sky and some wispy clouds behind the trees. White and yellow wildflowers in the foreground.

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Paula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a recipe for life.

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Augustave was arrested during a traffic stop… At the time, he was making food deliveries for DoorDash, his family said, a job he took after losing his Temporary Protected Status in late July, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end the deportation protection."

miamiherald.com

Haitian pastor with pending green card application pulled from ICE deportation flight

Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 89 Haitians on Thursday.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026

Two notes here: 1. Hard to convey how unusual it is for an admin to be pitted against this many religious groups in *so many different ways* all at the same time in court. The Trump admin is an outlier here. 2. I’m a religion reporter, but unclear why this trend hasn’t gotten more attention.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When an old woman dies... • Kenneth Steven •

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve going through old (really old) photos & rediscovered this snapshot I took in 1980 in Gladbeck-Zweckel, a coal mining village in the German Ruhr valley where I lived for 2 years: a chimney sweep, with top hat, broom & ladder who cleaned the chimneys on our street. #photography

Black and white photo, taken in 1980 in a small German village, of an old-style chimney sweep. He’s wearing the traditional black jumpsuit, top hat, and gloves, and carrying a long ladder under his right arm. He’s grinning (he thought it was funny that I asked to take his picture) and standing on the sidewalk next to a long row of German duplex houses (originally built for coal miners, and many retired miners still lived there)

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I totally get why Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian, but I am also very worried and very sad for what may come. All of the nation's history is in peril, and who knows what kind of historian may be coming to lead it under this administration

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

According to @dpa.com "Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) said the election result should shake up the whole of Germany. She noted that the Saxony-Anhalt AfD had been classified as confirmed far-right extremist by the domestic intelligence service."

yahoo.com

German churches, trade union voice concern over AfD state victory

German churches expressed deep concern on Monday at the victory secured by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the election to the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt. The large Verdi service...

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Call for Applications! 🎓 Each year, the GHIL offers research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden, and postdocs at German universities, providing an great opportunity to conduct research in the UK! 🇩🇪✈️🇬🇧 1/2

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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great series of posts today by @vl1959.bsky.social of Labor Day songs that every American should know.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Summer is over upon the sea. Elizabeth Bishop, from Complete Poems (1969)

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Summer is over upon the sea. The pleasure yacht, the social being, that danced on the endless polished floor, stepped and side-stepped like Fred Astaire, is gone, is gone, docked somewhere ashore.
The friends have left, the sea is bare
that was strewn with floating, fresh green weeds. Only the rusty-sided freighters
go past the moon's marketless craters
and the stars are the only ships of pleasure.

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