Chelsea D Chamberlain
@cdchambs.bsky.social
Historian of modern US disability and childhood.
Teaching the Progressive Era today I said “I tend not to weigh in on current issues in class but I beg all of you to honor these reformers by only drinking pasteurized milk.”
New Mexico Department of Health investigators have been unable to detect the precise cause of the Listeria infection which killed the infant, but said unpasteurized milk the infant’s mother drank during pregnancy was the “most likely source.”
NM health officials warn against raw dairy products after infant death • Source New Mexico
State health officials are urging New Mexicans to avoid consuming raw dairy following the death of a newborn from a bacterial infection.
buff.ly
February 3, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Teaching the Progressive Era today I said “I tend not to weigh in on current issues in class but I beg all of you to honor these reformers by only drinking pasteurized milk.”
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I like to quickly check quotes that sound too perfect. But sometimes, someone just says the absolutely right thing.
“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I like to quickly check quotes that sound too perfect. But sometimes, someone just says the absolutely right thing.
I'm glad the author had this experience, and find it an interesting read...think mileage may vary semester to semester though!
“The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I'm glad the author had this experience, and find it an interesting read...think mileage may vary semester to semester though!
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this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking immigration protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, allowing them to remain in the U.S. legally
Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Ending Legal Protections for Haitians
The Department of Homeland Security had moved to end the protections for Haitians under the Temporary Protected Status program.
on.wsj.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking immigration protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, allowing them to remain in the U.S. legally
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teach dog to use toilet how
February 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
teach dog to use toilet how
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
it takes a lot these days to shock me but this one did.
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
it takes a lot these days to shock me but this one did.
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Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
ugh it might be time to abandon reading responses and embrace in class reading quizzes. I HATE THIS. TEACHING USED TO BE MUCH MORE FUN.
January 29, 2026 at 2:54 PM
ugh it might be time to abandon reading responses and embrace in class reading quizzes. I HATE THIS. TEACHING USED TO BE MUCH MORE FUN.
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i gotta get a new winter coat if i’m
gonna keep doing this lol
gonna keep doing this lol
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM
i gotta get a new winter coat if i’m
gonna keep doing this lol
gonna keep doing this lol
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go ahead. keep screaming “Write Your Own Thoughts” at me. it only makes my opinions more fake
Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.
To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI
Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.
nbcnews.to
January 28, 2026 at 4:44 PM
go ahead. keep screaming “Write Your Own Thoughts” at me. it only makes my opinions more fake
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This security state could have been an email
They spent billions on creating & running DHS when all they needed was the different departments (FBI, CIA, Military, etc) to work together; face-to-face, and encrypted phone calls & emails.
January 28, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This security state could have been an email
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Rode the elevator yesterday with a DoorDasher delivering a paper bag of Taco Bell and. Listen. I am devoted to Taco Bell. But it is 20° and the streets are snow walled and you have this man fully risking death so you can reheat a thirty-four-dollar six-dollar crunchwrap in your microwave
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Rode the elevator yesterday with a DoorDasher delivering a paper bag of Taco Bell and. Listen. I am devoted to Taco Bell. But it is 20° and the streets are snow walled and you have this man fully risking death so you can reheat a thirty-four-dollar six-dollar crunchwrap in your microwave
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it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
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Alex Pareene byline alert
I have a great idea for retraining ICE agents: defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
I Have A Great Idea For Retraining ICE Agents | Defector
The several thousand federal agents currently running rampant in the Twin Cities have so far achieved little in the way of legitimate law enforcement objectives, but they have been rather more…
defector.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Alex Pareene byline alert
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pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
also RSV can kick rocks.
January 26, 2026 at 5:08 PM
also RSV can kick rocks.
We got almost two feet of snow yesterday and the weather app says another two feet next weekend. If that happens we are all going to need skis to get around.
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We got almost two feet of snow yesterday and the weather app says another two feet next weekend. If that happens we are all going to need skis to get around.
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man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 AM
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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I just feel like if my career was chasing down screaming children in the snow with the goal of throwing them in the back of my vehicle and taking them to a facility where they might die... I'd quit
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I just feel like if my career was chasing down screaming children in the snow with the goal of throwing them in the back of my vehicle and taking them to a facility where they might die... I'd quit
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prayers up for the real boys in blue (jeans) over the next week
January 24, 2026 at 12:14 AM
prayers up for the real boys in blue (jeans) over the next week
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Robert Moses on Fannie Lou Hamer:
"[S]he starts singing and she never stops. ... like she knew every song that anybody had sung in a black church. What was actually happening was she was really driving away fear. The people were really immersed in the messages of the song and that was Mrs. Hamer."
"[S]he starts singing and she never stops. ... like she knew every song that anybody had sung in a black church. What was actually happening was she was really driving away fear. The people were really immersed in the messages of the song and that was Mrs. Hamer."
January 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Robert Moses on Fannie Lou Hamer:
"[S]he starts singing and she never stops. ... like she knew every song that anybody had sung in a black church. What was actually happening was she was really driving away fear. The people were really immersed in the messages of the song and that was Mrs. Hamer."
"[S]he starts singing and she never stops. ... like she knew every song that anybody had sung in a black church. What was actually happening was she was really driving away fear. The people were really immersed in the messages of the song and that was Mrs. Hamer."