Dr. Antje Gamble
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her
drantjegamble.com
drantjegamble.com
Pinned
Holy new followers batman!
Welcome everyone!
I’m an art historian, who also organizes with her UCW chapter. I research Italian modern art stuff and exhibitions (check out my book 📕). I post about politics and academia and art and whatever strikes me.
Be chill or be blocked ✌🏼
Welcome everyone!
I’m an art historian, who also organizes with her UCW chapter. I research Italian modern art stuff and exhibitions (check out my book 📕). I post about politics and academia and art and whatever strikes me.
Be chill or be blocked ✌🏼
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
If you're out celebrating the excesses of capitalism, or taking advantage of the steep discounts to get needed items, DO NOT patronize Starbucks.
Your pumpkin spiced abomination is not worth crossing the picket line.
Your pumpkin spiced abomination is not worth crossing the picket line.
Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...
www.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If you're out celebrating the excesses of capitalism, or taking advantage of the steep discounts to get needed items, DO NOT patronize Starbucks.
Your pumpkin spiced abomination is not worth crossing the picket line.
Your pumpkin spiced abomination is not worth crossing the picket line.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Yep, Stephen Miller is racist and shouldn’t be given power. Long sigh of a 10 plus year plea from so many people of color.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yep, Stephen Miller is racist and shouldn’t be given power. Long sigh of a 10 plus year plea from so many people of color.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
For one-stop shopping, check out our eleven curated gift bundles: each includes 5 books for $5...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Am I saying that US “democracy” operates colonial systems of plunder & violence both within & beyond its borders? That “the border” constitutes an ideological weapon it deploys in both “domestic” & “foreign” spaces? Yes, yes I am.
What Is Fascism If Not Colonial White Supremacy Persevering?
Fascism grows out of colonialism. Stopping fascism means embracing anti-imperialism.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Am I saying that US “democracy” operates colonial systems of plunder & violence both within & beyond its borders? That “the border” constitutes an ideological weapon it deploys in both “domestic” & “foreign” spaces? Yes, yes I am.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
One of the most eye-opening courses I ever took in undergrad was a seminar on American immigration history & We read a number of very clarifying books. At least two students were immigrants who were forced to go back to school despite having foreign MDs bc the US wouldn’t take their credentials.
Trump and Miller want to turn the clock back to the era of American immigration politics I think few of us were taught honestly about in American public education, outside reading The Great Gatsby
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
One of the most eye-opening courses I ever took in undergrad was a seminar on American immigration history & We read a number of very clarifying books. At least two students were immigrants who were forced to go back to school despite having foreign MDs bc the US wouldn’t take their credentials.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
The pretend University of Austin teaches "Forbidden Courses" with zero pushback even as the real universities are forbidding courses due to political pressure
My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
www.dallasnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The pretend University of Austin teaches "Forbidden Courses" with zero pushback even as the real universities are forbidding courses due to political pressure
This. And I’m so over people acting like we can’t all tell. It’s so obvious.
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This. And I’m so over people acting like we can’t all tell. It’s so obvious.
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
extremely puritan colonizer voice: "stop doing human sacrifice so we can hunt witches"
native person: we don't do human sacrifice here
puritan colonizer: "ah, well, nevertheless..."
native person: we don't do human sacrifice here
puritan colonizer: "ah, well, nevertheless..."
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
extremely puritan colonizer voice: "stop doing human sacrifice so we can hunt witches"
native person: we don't do human sacrifice here
puritan colonizer: "ah, well, nevertheless..."
native person: we don't do human sacrifice here
puritan colonizer: "ah, well, nevertheless..."
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters.
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters.
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
A nation that cannot face its own history cannot repair its present.
truthout.org/articles/the...
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
"They say you stand before the nation each year and spare one of my kind. A miracle in the season of slaughter. I think of that moment often. But I do not wish the pardon. Mercy is for those who fear the end. I was born for the table. Your table."
A Syncophantic Turkey Implores President Trump to Eat Him
I’ve been bred fine, Mr. President. Finer than the rest. When the light comes up over the pens, it strikes my feathers like a torch, and I know it ...
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"They say you stand before the nation each year and spare one of my kind. A miracle in the season of slaughter. I think of that moment often. But I do not wish the pardon. Mercy is for those who fear the end. I was born for the table. Your table."
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
My annual traveling turkeys post! What do you do when a New World bird visits the Mughal court? Paint it in miniature, of course! This essay by Neha Vermani follows the Muslim reception of our feathered friends.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
The turkey's journey from the Atlantic to the early modern Islamic world | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My annual traveling turkeys post! What do you do when a New World bird visits the Mughal court? Paint it in miniature, of course! This essay by Neha Vermani follows the Muslim reception of our feathered friends.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
“A land acknowledgment is not enough. The land exists regardless of settler acknowledgment, which can only ever be the first step toward meaningful action. Next steps involve building relationships with that land as if it were your kin. Because it is.” —Joseph M. Pierce
Your Land Acknowledgment Is Not Enough
Land acknowledgment without action is an empty gesture, exculpatory and self-serving.
hyperallergic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“A land acknowledgment is not enough. The land exists regardless of settler acknowledgment, which can only ever be the first step toward meaningful action. Next steps involve building relationships with that land as if it were your kin. Because it is.” —Joseph M. Pierce
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
I was worried this was AI but it's real! www.walmart.com/ip/Playmobil...
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I was worried this was AI but it's real! www.walmart.com/ip/Playmobil...
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
Every time a US veteran snaps people fall all over each other to point out the effects of war and literal physical changes that PTSD triggers, but one Afghan veteran snaps and we’re going to shut down immigration for all Afghans forever and I bet they’re working on revoking parole wholesale
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every time a US veteran snaps people fall all over each other to point out the effects of war and literal physical changes that PTSD triggers, but one Afghan veteran snaps and we’re going to shut down immigration for all Afghans forever and I bet they’re working on revoking parole wholesale
Reposted by Dr. Antje Gamble
A not-small part of what is going on with Trump and Hegseth is that they get sadistic glee out of torturing service members.
Trump is a draft dodger and Hegseth got pushed out of military. They're both failures at what they see as a test of manhood. So they lash out at those who didn't fail.
Trump is a draft dodger and Hegseth got pushed out of military. They're both failures at what they see as a test of manhood. So they lash out at those who didn't fail.
Pete Hegseth says Trump has asked him to add 500 more National Guard troops to Washington D.C.
It's unclear why he seems to be smirking throughout much of this.
x.com/dowresponse/...
It's unclear why he seems to be smirking throughout much of this.
x.com/dowresponse/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A not-small part of what is going on with Trump and Hegseth is that they get sadistic glee out of torturing service members.
Trump is a draft dodger and Hegseth got pushed out of military. They're both failures at what they see as a test of manhood. So they lash out at those who didn't fail.
Trump is a draft dodger and Hegseth got pushed out of military. They're both failures at what they see as a test of manhood. So they lash out at those who didn't fail.