Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
Public and academic history & geography in action. She/her. Sometimes cake, sometimes politics. In the distance, sirens. https://kristen-noble-keegan.com & https://bywaterhistorical.com/
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I am once again reminded that I'm the weird one for thinking that database design and editing is pretty straightforward and doable.
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
I have achieved perfection, my guesses about how to print this postcard were 100% wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have achieved perfection, my guesses about how to print this postcard were 100% wrong.
2 pages of the 1872 mortality register for Gloucester, MA list the men lost at sea. Here, "Lost in Sch Messenger on Western Banks," 12 men. On the schooner Franklin Snow, 14 men. Two each from the George O. Hovey and the John Smith. On and from the Matchless, 14.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
2 pages of the 1872 mortality register for Gloucester, MA list the men lost at sea. Here, "Lost in Sch Messenger on Western Banks," 12 men. On the schooner Franklin Snow, 14 men. Two each from the George O. Hovey and the John Smith. On and from the Matchless, 14.
I learnt a new word! (zugswang). The rest of this is depressing but convincingly obvious. (To everyone but most economists, apparently.)
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I learnt a new word! (zugswang). The rest of this is depressing but convincingly obvious. (To everyone but most economists, apparently.)
News from October 1872.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
News from October 1872.
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One moment that sticks in my mind from the early Robert B Parker Spenser novels is when Spenser notices an attractive lady and then realizes that she's a teenager. He immediately looks away and banishes her from his mind.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
One moment that sticks in my mind from the early Robert B Parker Spenser novels is when Spenser notices an attractive lady and then realizes that she's a teenager. He immediately looks away and banishes her from his mind.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
Ya know, when non-elite people pull this kind of stuff it's reported as a sign of their moral degeneracy. I guess now we know why.
Keith Olbermann is now also a character in this? The NYT newsroom was apparently Woodstock but with no music and really bad drugs
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ya know, when non-elite people pull this kind of stuff it's reported as a sign of their moral degeneracy. I guess now we know why.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Had a bit of a scare this morning when the dough was in its first proofing and my husband thought the oven was *on* - but all is well.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Had a bit of a scare this morning when the dough was in its first proofing and my husband thought the oven was *on* - but all is well.
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/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
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"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
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For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
Germansplaining: No, we don't need to study Hitler's DNA
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
/19
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A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
Basic science for the win! Hopefully. I think it remains to be seen whether it's safe to use in organisms like humans.
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Basic science for the win! Hopefully. I think it remains to be seen whether it's safe to use in organisms like humans.
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I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
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Starting a 🧵 of based quotes from Naugatuck, CT war memorials.
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Starting a 🧵 of based quotes from Naugatuck, CT war memorials.
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
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A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
I'll play: Governments should fund replacement or conversion of all gas-powered vehicles on a sliding scale. Stretch it out over 10 years so the vehicle makers can finish adjusting to EV only production, and gas station owners can get EV hookups installed.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'll play: Governments should fund replacement or conversion of all gas-powered vehicles on a sliding scale. Stretch it out over 10 years so the vehicle makers can finish adjusting to EV only production, and gas station owners can get EV hookups installed.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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one day, Kim Davis’ casket will be lowered into the deep earth and gay people will still exist. Her life has had no meaning, no impact, no great purpose.
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
one day, Kim Davis’ casket will be lowered into the deep earth and gay people will still exist. Her life has had no meaning, no impact, no great purpose.