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Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you to faculty at my alma mater for this act of solidarity. Means the world to me and my family 🙏🏽

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 4h

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 8h

About 12 years ago, @clipo.bsky.social and T. Hunt introduced the #WalkingMoai hypothesis 👣🗿 about how the sculptures on #EasterIsland Rapa Nui may have been moved from the quarries to their final locations, combining oral tradition and #ExperimentalArchaeology:

🏺 youtu.be/YpNuh-J5IgE

Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic

YouTube video by National Geographic

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org

NO KINGS
For the love of America

OCTOBER 18
www.NoKings.org

Picture of Statue of Liberty with American flag in the background

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 22h

'What Mamdani’s doing isn’t complicated. He’s saying trans people deserve to be treated like human beings worth protecting, and he’s backing it up with actual policy. That this feels remarkable says more about the Democratic Party than it does about him.'
www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare.

Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

www.readtpa.com

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

A fitting tribute to Columbus on Indigenous People’s Day.

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

apnews.com

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 22h

I encourage everyone to support r. Hall's efforts. I have her first book, Wake. It's very well done. A historian who learns about women-led slave revolts through the archives.

Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 23h

I know I’m trying:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wak...

Wake Productions

An AfroFuturist Education Project in the Black Radical Tradition

www.kickstarter.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 23h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 1d

Giancarlo Esposito

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes from a library’s children & young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday… “I don’t regret standing up for the First Amendment in any way”

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 1d

Our brunch place is showing antifa propaganda smh.

Restaurant TV showing Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indy and Sallah in the "bad dates" scene.)

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle
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Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d

Huh. A Qatari Air Force facility in Idaho….such a grab bag bullshit day after day.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 3d

Same. Should I go as Barney or Garfield?

Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 4d

Was debating going to my local Oct 18 protest, but hell now I'm googling inflatable Halloween costumes to go as.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

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