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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 14h

What a collection to have at your fingertips!

LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 2d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 23h

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 12h

Fantastic event hosted by Maynooth University - Scholasticide in Palestine and the responsibilities of Western Universities. 21 October, in person and online. Not to be missed! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western

The Israeli state has systematically targeted and repressed Palestinian education since the 1948 Nakba. Over the past two years, Israel's perpetration of ‘scholasticide’ against Palestinian scholars,

www.maynoothuniversity.ie

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 23h

A friend is looking for submissions to her panel for #QTHC26 - if your work fits, send the requested materials to [email protected]

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting… that would be potentially more informative than stunted growth, which seems a repetition of “underdeveloped”. But possibly they also just did not know quite what to make of the individual!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Amazon is convenient. But in this racist capitalist dystopia, $$ talks. So maybe stop giving billionaires your bucks until he pays all his workers living wages and changes his exploitative monopolistic business model. That’s my 2 cents.

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 4d

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 4d

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For my audiobooks - essential to my daily commute - I switched to libro.fm. 10/10 recommend. If you use my referral code, I get a free book! libro.fm/referral?rf_...

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you all! I think that's exactly it!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5d

It's from a mental hospital intake form!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5d

Help? Trying to figure out what the two words bracketed in red are. The rest of the clip says

Physically underdeveloped
______________ -- No development
secondary sex. characteristics

Any guesses?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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SCARE-in Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah, roller derby fighting transphobic laws. How inclusive our local league is makes it so welcoming.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 5d

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

apnews.com/article/n...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now.

apnews.com

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 5d

A week from today, @historians.org is holding a History Behind the Headlines webinar on the history of government shutdowns and the budget. Free and open to the public, so please share with friends, family, students, and whoever else wants to know how we got to this point in Washington. 🗃️

History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and the Federal Budget – AHA

Threats of a US government shutdown have become a staple of the federal budget process during the past few decades. In this hour-long History Behind the Headlines webinar, hear leading scholars discus...

www.historians.org

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 6d

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate abortion and reproductive health care despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023 ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/08/o...

Ohio Republican lawmakers look to regulate abortion, push against constitutional amendment • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate abortion and reproductive health care despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 7d

Can anyone recommend some histories of old age and the body, specifically those that look at leakiness and focus on the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries? Aware of stuff on the menopause but want to check I'm not missing something!

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 12d

This is how you journalism

Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 14d

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

www.wbez.org

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 14d

When the House of Guinness comes knocking, I guess I answer?

Or at least reporters writing on it www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/h...

House of Guinness' same-sex relationships and real history explored

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to one historian about same-sex romance in 1880s Dublin

www.mirror.co.uk

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Dig: A History Podcast @dig-history.bsky.social · 16d

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition

How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a…

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition

How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a history we definitely need to unpack. Transcript for: Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition Researched and written by Averill Earls, PhD…

digpodcast.org

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 19d

The minimum number of vaccines in order to attend school in Ohio through 12th grade without an exemption (not counting combination products):

Hep B - 3
Varivax - 2
MMR - 2
IPV (polio) - 3
DTaP - 4
Tdap -1
Meningitis - 2
Total - 17

Not required:
Hib, Prevnar, HPV, Hep A, Rota, MenB, Flu, Covid

A tweet from DefiantL's:

RFK Jr: "A compliant child must take between 69 and 92 vaccines to stay in school in some states, and not one of them has been safety tested in a pre-licensing placebo-controlled trial. And that is just malpractice."

There is an image Of RFK Jr wearing a suit while speaking on CSPAN.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20d

i think trans people should be able to piss and shit in whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable using without harassment or restriction and also i think if you are a uk politician the definition of bathroom should be expanded to include your entire home and office

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