Doug Sackman
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History
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one light, and two lights: red hats coming by land, by sea.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
one light, and two lights: red hats coming by land, by sea.
Yay for pistachios! Yay for "Raul"!
"Raul" share this photo from where they are pruning pistachios trees in the Huron CA, area. "This job is very tiring because we have to cut away thick, dry pieces of the trees. I work eight hours a day and paid CA minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yay for pistachios! Yay for "Raul"!
“Swim your way to a shore of rectitude”
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Swim your way to a shore of rectitude”
Reverse what now? Taylorism is inextricably linked with capitalism.
Full Stop.
Watch.
Full Stop.
Watch.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reverse what now? Taylorism is inextricably linked with capitalism.
Full Stop.
Watch.
Full Stop.
Watch.
A big beautiful wall....and Denmark will build it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A big beautiful wall....and Denmark will build it.
An Old Soviet Joke:
Man buys a newspaper, every day. Looks briefly at the front page, then throws it away.
The vendor finally asks: why do you look at the front cover but never inside?
I'm looking for an obituary.
Vendor: But the obituaries aren't even on the front page!
This one will be.
Man buys a newspaper, every day. Looks briefly at the front page, then throws it away.
The vendor finally asks: why do you look at the front cover but never inside?
I'm looking for an obituary.
Vendor: But the obituaries aren't even on the front page!
This one will be.
The only thing i'm more anxious for than Christmas is Donald Trump's obituary‼️🤣
Oh what an international P🎊Rty that will be‼️
Oh what an international P🎊Rty that will be‼️
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
An Old Soviet Joke:
Man buys a newspaper, every day. Looks briefly at the front page, then throws it away.
The vendor finally asks: why do you look at the front cover but never inside?
I'm looking for an obituary.
Vendor: But the obituaries aren't even on the front page!
This one will be.
Man buys a newspaper, every day. Looks briefly at the front page, then throws it away.
The vendor finally asks: why do you look at the front cover but never inside?
I'm looking for an obituary.
Vendor: But the obituaries aren't even on the front page!
This one will be.
The good writing allows us to see what is hidden, but revealed, in all those emails, e.g. "an archipelago of single subscriber Substacks." Definition of insightful, @anandwrites.bsky.social
Highly recommend reading this - yes in the NYT, for the insights as to where we are, controlled by the Epstein Class, entirely global, entirely non-national. The true elite now.
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Inside the Epstein Emails by Anand Giridharadas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The good writing allows us to see what is hidden, but revealed, in all those emails, e.g. "an archipelago of single subscriber Substacks." Definition of insightful, @anandwrites.bsky.social
Democracy dies....something something
So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Democracy dies....something something
glad that we got the kkkoast guard back
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
glad that we got the kkkoast guard back
So...we can take her seat?
Marjorie Taylor Greene RESIGNS from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
So...we can take her seat?
Lincoln, show me the spot…
Not to worry, Hegseth's coastal invasion of Mexico was just a "mistake." (But Pentagon sources say it was planned over several weeks). www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico
U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lincoln, show me the spot…
Name a film with a forest:
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Name a film with a forest:
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
AIn't gonna lie, I think it's the plagiarism machine.
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
AIn't gonna lie, I think it's the plagiarism machine.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
captain was a drunken noodler
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
captain was a drunken noodler
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Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
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Summers can rot. He also thinks Africa is "underpolluted." People there aren't worth as much, so they should be dumped on. He should be dumped.
Meanwhile, Vincent Brown, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Phil Deloria, Harvard historians, dropping knowledge in The American Revolution. #HATM #KenBurns
Meanwhile, Vincent Brown, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Phil Deloria, Harvard historians, dropping knowledge in The American Revolution. #HATM #KenBurns
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Summers can rot. He also thinks Africa is "underpolluted." People there aren't worth as much, so they should be dumped on. He should be dumped.
Meanwhile, Vincent Brown, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Phil Deloria, Harvard historians, dropping knowledge in The American Revolution. #HATM #KenBurns
Meanwhile, Vincent Brown, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Phil Deloria, Harvard historians, dropping knowledge in The American Revolution. #HATM #KenBurns
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
In the first episode of "The American Revolution," we hear from Phil Deloria, Michael Witgen, Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk, as well as Colin Calloway and Kathleen Duval. After a line from Paine, we start, powerfully in my view, within a Haudenosaunee Longhouse
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In the first episode of "The American Revolution," we hear from Phil Deloria, Michael Witgen, Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk, as well as Colin Calloway and Kathleen Duval. After a line from Paine, we start, powerfully in my view, within a Haudenosaunee Longhouse
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By contrast, 100% of the ICE agents involved can now be considered criminals.
"only 16 of them have been identified ...as a "high public safety risk"
"it runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated over the last several months, where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
"it runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated over the last several months, where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
By contrast, 100% of the ICE agents involved can now be considered criminals.
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Farm workers were hard at work the raisin drying process under the hot California sun. Thanks to their hard work we will enjoy raisins in our morning oatmeal and in our Thanksgiving stuffing. #WeFeedYou
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Farm workers were hard at work the raisin drying process under the hot California sun. Thanks to their hard work we will enjoy raisins in our morning oatmeal and in our Thanksgiving stuffing. #WeFeedYou
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I should have started even earlier with the caption of the case: not UC, but AAUP, v Trump et al.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I should have started even earlier with the caption of the case: not UC, but AAUP, v Trump et al.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
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And somehow, it's trans people who are the ones doing "surgical mutilation"
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
And somehow, it's trans people who are the ones doing "surgical mutilation"
🤬🤨
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