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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 10d

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Oh that headline looks super interesting in a non-intuitive kind of way! Let me click through to this article.

2 seconds later: Ah fuck it is Malcolm Gladwell. Nevermind.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 2d

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most interesting things about Christian nationalism to me is the following:

The *individual* can be conceived as a miserable sinner, but the *nation* is sinless and perfect.

What accounts for this mystery is simply that the (raced) nation has taken the place of the Body of Christ.

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2d

As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: "Bring back shame."

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 2d

A failing leader has two choices: 1) own up, or 2) lash out. Own and analyze the situation so as to do better, or blame others.

#AcademicSky

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 2d

I observed a colleague in class today. She had this coffee mug.

Coffee cup reading "It is in the syllabus."

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 3d

He is so damn good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · Sep 19

Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!

Save Our Signs - Photo Counter

Photo Counter

sites.google.com

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 3d

You are an inspiration and I am proud to know you. I just assigned this to my #publichistory class.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 3d

Today in heartwarming tales: A man posted this historic photo from his collection, with some Natives in a parade in Pendleton, to a regional history Facebook group. A great-great granddaughter of the man in the lead recognized him from family photographs. So the owner is mailing her the pic.

A vintage black and white photo of some Native Americans parading down the street of Pendleton, Oregon.

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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 4d

Ok this actually gets even more interesting. When you google the lede of this story, it pops up also as a story by Anita Hollier at KHQ. So did someone plagiarize? But then you search Anita Hollier and she has stories across the country, in Montana, in Charlotte, in Spokane.

Erin Hut @imerinhut.bsky.social · 4d

A story written by…. the City of Spokane Valley about the City of Spokane? With a photo of Spokane Valley City Hall?

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 4d

@bestofnextdoor.bsky.social

Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 4d

Kurt Vonnegut was a children's author.

Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 4d

Kurt Vonnegut was a children's author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 5d

#NextDoor has only two kinds of posts: 1. "Please help me find my lost pet Fluffy!" and 2. "Let's round up the homeless and send them to prison camps."

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 5d

I rejoined NextDoor to promote a local history event and 30 seconds later I am arguing with racists.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 5d

Same in the US. So much (very real!) doom and gloom at the structural level, so much joy in the classroom.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 5d

one of the astonishing things about working in a UK uni in the last decade is complete DISCONNECT between (on one hand) hostile media stories, ill informed govt policy, end of unis as we know them

and (on the other) the joyful work of actually talking w/students and discovering new things together

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 7d

In 1925 there *might* have been a racial covenant, it's worth looking for. And of course property covenants were never the only why or even the main way that racial housing segregation was enforced.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 7d

3/ But the other thing I will point out, and this is the most striking finding in our research, is that even in the peak years of covenant writing, the large majority of property developers did not include racial covenants. At least that is true in eastern Washington.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 7d

2/ The covenants on your property might be in your deed, but more often are on the plat map from when the neighborhood was platted. That might be online somewhere, I don't know about Massachusetts property records.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 7d

What year was your house built? As you see from the slide, 1926 to 1968 are when the vast majority of covenants were written, and 80-90% of those were from the '30s through the '50s.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 8d

Holding another workshop for homeowners to strike racially restrictive covenants from their property. They want extra forms for their neighbors! Here's our website: ewuracialcovenants.org #AcademicSky #RacialCovenants

Me standing in front of an announcement for our workshop.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 8d

Is it the original Port Huron Statement or the compromised second draft"

a man with a beard sits in a chair

ALT: a man with a beard sits in a chair

media.tenor.com

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 8d

Give that dog second walkies you monster.

Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 9d

Can anyone recommend a *specific* portable PA system for a #tourguide? I need something to amplify my voice over that of the traffic. I do not want one of those systems where each person on the tour gets a little headset, I just want a speaker that attaches to my belt. #publichistory #academicsky

Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks!

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