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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · 3d

Good point, @nellstra.bsky.social my response to this, though, is that things change really fast. It feels too early to start planning for how to deal with that situation. I would love to hear what other people think, however

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really looking forward to this event at Villanova!

The Lepage Center @lepagevu.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sept 17 | Film Screening: “The Camden 28”

How far would you go to stop a war?

Join us to explore an iconic Vietnam War story of faith, resistance and betrayal. Featuring historian @micnick.bsky.social and filmmaker @truecrimesny.bsky.social!

🔗 Register: bit.ly/camden28

The Camden 28: A Story of War, Faith, Resistance and Betrayal

Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 5:00 p.m. in Villanova University’s John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts, Topper Theater, for a screening of “The Camden 28,” a documentary by Oscar-wi...

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 24

Congratulations on finishing your dissertation, that is huge? Where are you now and what are you up to?

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 23

So are you PhD’d?

Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 23

Hi Colin, thanks for getting in touch again!

Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 14

This is a great thread. And it it comes from the great
State of New Jersey

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 14

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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lvnvrcd.bsky.social @lvnvrcd.bsky.social · May 12

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 11

was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · May 11

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC.

The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

Email dismissing the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, that begins "Carla..."

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Deacon Drew @deacondrew.bsky.social · May 9

“The Disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · May 9

Since there's not much going on in the Catholic world, I thought it'd be a good time to make my debut as a contributor to Catholic Women Preach. Get ready with me for Good Shepherd Sunday! www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/05...

Fourth Sunday of Easter: May 11, 2025

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly reflects on the readings for Fourth Sunday of Easter. Acts 13:14, 43-52 | Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 | John 10:27-30

www.catholicwomenpreach.org

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 8

Troops could choose “voluntary separation”. Yuck

Reuters @reuters.com · May 8

Exclusive: US military to start kicking out transgender troops next month, memo says reut.rs/4m6AqaP

Exclusive: US military to start kicking out transgender troops next month, memo says

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued internal instructions to the Pentagon to start kicking out transgender troops who do not elect to leave on their own by June 6, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 8

I wonder if some of the Cardinals voted kind of like Canadians… Where #PopeLeoIV was sort of like an anti-Trump vote?

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 8

Habemus Papam. The only thing better than getting off the plane at O’Hare to hear that we have Pope names Leo is that said Pope Leo is a Chicagoan

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · May 5

FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER

Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · May 4

I have been a feminist forever. I have a born-male child. I get what your saying, but I also felt like I spent my kiddos elementary school years trying to get him to “behave” in ways that were, looking back, impossible

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · Apr 27

This is basically what trump is doing for everything now

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · Apr 23

Primping for the warrior ethos

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · Apr 22

They can rant about woke science, but the truth is that people are interested in cures, discoveries, and breakthroughs. If American researchers are not doing it, the $$ and the treatments will move outside our borders.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 22

So here we have a guy whose main achievement is spreading lies on Russian state television trying to block life-saving American medical research and intimidate American scientists.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump administration targets academic journals with attorney letter, proposed funding cuts

Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ha!

The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 17

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

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Michelle Nickerson @micnick.bsky.social · Apr 18

I am relieved that he is still with us

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League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · Apr 17

The only thing standing between voters and voter suppression is the U.S. Senate. If 60 Senators vote for the SAVE Act, millions of voters will be disenfranchised and we're headed down the path of one-party-rule. We can't let that happen. Call your Senator or message now: bit.ly/4hZ7B…

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

www.theguardian.com

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