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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD

@klhkhistorian.bsky.social

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Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in arts & humanities communications; public humanities & alt-ac/post-ac advocate; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom. 📍Cville

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 21

In 2005, I found a wooden box tucked under a chair in my grandparents' living room. Inside were letters from the U.S. Civil War. I write about some of them here, and about the cross-generational efforts to save America from those who would destroy it.

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@womenknowhistory.bsky.social

On Mud-Turtles, Flowers, and America

Flowers sent by Charles Wilkins to his sister Henrietta in 1862 In 1842, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne moved into the Old Manse—already a historic building at the time—in Concord, Massachusetts. F…

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 18m

This Friday! Come for the UVA rally, stay for the @rarebookschool.bsky.social open house!

#Charlottesville #Cville

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 23h

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 20h

The longest federal government shutdown so far came during Trump’s first term - lasting 35 days.

As the Republicans continue to blame Democrats for the shutdown, remember that.

Shutting down the federal government is one of the Trump Party’s favorite moves.

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Shutdown 'barreling toward' one of the longest ever, GOP leader says

Lawmakers on both sides braced for a longer shutdown as the Senate prepares for another vote Tuesday to reopen the government.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 22h

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20h

See you on Saturday, Cville!

@indivisiblecville.bsky.social @50501virginia.bsky.social

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 22h

The Martian is a science fiction story, not because it takes place on Mars, but because it imagines a futuristic world where NASA still exists.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 21h

Find the 3-yr-old

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 2d

"My Senator is cooler than your Senator! @timkaine and @tommy_stinson playing This Land Is Your Land at a canvass launch for @JoshuaCole. 24 days until Election Day, Virginia. Let’s go!" - @Broder512 bluevirginia.us/2025/10/sund...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2d

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 2d

If George Washington heard Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” speech, he’d probably raise an eyebrow, according to an American history professor.

For Washington, real strength came from self-control and being morally grounded.

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Where George Washington would disagree with Pete Hegseth about fitness for command and what makes a warrior

Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage. That ideal built an army – and in time, a republic.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Almost the entire staff behind the CDC’s flagship publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has been fired. The report is typically one of the first places where information about U.S. disease outbreaks is disseminated before appearing in other journals and publishes information on a wide variety of critical public health issues.

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 2d

It has to be much harder to manufacture these obfuscations than it would be to simply report the facts.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

When we say “No Kings” this should include the nasty billionaires who use their money to control all media and the government.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

The police will always side with fascism over the population.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters. trib.al/4vE1zjf

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 2d

Why?

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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