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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just a Friendly Reminder…..

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching the Ohio State vs Iowa game, which means I have to watch two sets of Senate ads. This should be illegal.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The official name of the place is the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, which gives you some sense of the significance of this place for believers. 🧵🗃️

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2003, which was 10 years ago, and February 2020, which was 35 years ago

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maps from the past often look really confident (not to mention beautiful), like this 1606 map of the Strait of Magellan. 🗃️🧵

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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When will the age of peak TV return?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Stéphane De Greef captured this video in 2014 near Angkor Thom in Siem Reap, Cambodia, part of a study on 'blue ants' in genus Leptogenys. The ants hunted this Thyropygus millipede as a group, paralyzed it with venom & are forming chains to haul it back to their nest. 🧪 (📷: Stéphane De Greef)

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

By the 1890s, Singapore was a booming city, a key node in the British imperial trade network. Some colorized photos from that period: 🗃️🧵

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me, seeing a bunch of Truth Social screenshots, to the President of the United States:

I just want you to stop saying odd shit,

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let's enjoy some early maps of the Strait of Malacca! #1: a rudimentary Portuguese map from 1502 🧵🗃️

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

[Zach de la Rocha voice] they try to stop me but I'm having rice for lunch they try to stop me but I'm having rice for lunch they try to stop me but I'm having rice for lunch they try to stop me but I [two beat dropout] [pit explodes] RICE FOR LUNCH RICE FOR LUNCH C'MON RICE FOR LUNCH

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

excuse me what

A white defensive back from Valparaiso University named Kaiser Wilhelm

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Earlier today, a bunch of people swam across the Dardanelles (aka Hellespont). The swim is meant to be a feat of endurance in the face of difficult natural conditions, a reenactment of an ancient Greek myth, and a celebration of Turkish history. 🗃️🧵 www.hellespontswim.com

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Hellespont Swim Of Legend - Historic Cross-continental Swim

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare

Darline Graham, new Republican candidate for Senate in South Carolina, told a crowd last night that government-run health care is a terrible idea and then told everyone her parents had to work at their liquor store even if they were sick, and her mother and father died when she was 11 and 12, respectively. Apparently as an argument against healthcare.

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I really like maps of the Bosporus. 🗃️🧵

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

America’s complicated relationship with Iran dates back to 1946, as UN delegates in a basketball gym wrestled with one of the Cold War’s first crises. 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-iran-a...

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How Iran and the US Learned to Distrust Each Other

The first Cold War crisis still resonates today

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is correct.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Temple of Time, by Emma Willard, from 1846. Which begins with the Creation on, er, 4004 and takes us forward from there through a fascinatingly partial history of human affairs.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is what we see. Mugshots don't come with sociology explainers; spread enough images of Black criminals and white victims and a kind of project is off and running. even lies exploit this architecture: JD Vance makes up something about cats and suddenly Haitians have ankle monitors. 9/

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It was, at first, the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which there was nothing to see. 🧵🗃️

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's long been a stereotype: Southern Italians talk with their hands. But why? In the 1700s, an intrepid priest tried to find out... 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

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The Man Who Cataloged How Italians Talk With Their Hands

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

we went to a highly recommended pizza restaurant in Formia, Italy. the fact that the menu consisted of gorgeously made Italian pizzas with fresh local ingredients, and then also contained this monstrosity called a "pizza Americana" is S-tier trolling by the Italians

a pizza topped with fries and hot dog slices

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You may have seen a bit of coverage lately about the global significance of a small body of water called the Strait of Hormuz. This week I looked at previous struggles for control of the strait between global powers and the people who live there. 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

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The Struggle over Hormuz

Five centuries of conflict over one of the world's most important chokepoints

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What happened when ancient superstitions, racist pseudoscience, urbanization, and changing attitudes toward animals collided? A war on dogs in cities, that’s what. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/worldhis...

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The Long War on Urban Dogs

Beware the spitz!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The caddie literally just tosses a fucking ball on the ground for Trump while never looking back

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The model planes crack me up... He really is 12 years old

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kublai Khan, at the peak of his power, tasked a monk with inventing a new universal system of writing. It didn’t catch on, but something like that writing showed up on European paintings long after the Mongolian Empire fell. What gives? 🗃️ worldhistory.substack.com/p/why-is-mon...

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Why Is Mongolian Script on Renaissance Paintings?

Pseudoscripts and globalization

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Recap.at @recapat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Attila actually kept detailed Roman diplomatic records and corresponded in Latin - pretty organized for a "barbarian."

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week (although I'm headed back to Boston later today), here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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#ScholarSunday Thread 286 (7/26/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week, here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add mor...

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We know all about the Huns, right? They were untamed barbarians...🗃️🧵

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026