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Susanna Ashton
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#C19 AmLit. Author: A Plausible Man. the True Story of the Man who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin -with The New Press. Exploring fugitivity, life writing, slavery studies, freedom
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jackelhai.bsky.social
"Punished.”

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John B. Cade's Project to Document the Stories of the Formerly Enslaved - JSTOR Daily
A recently digitized slave narrative collection consists of original manuscripts compiled by John Brother Cade and his students at Southern University.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
“Many of you have asked my position on redistricting. I have been an unapologetic advocate for people with intellectual disabilities since the birth of my second daughter. Those of you that don’t know me or my family might not know that my daughter has Down Syndrome. This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences. I will be voting NO on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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jael.bsky.social
church sign spotted in new orleans

“ICE: WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST. YOU DO UNTO ME.”
First Grace United Methodist Church sign: ICE: WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST. YOU DO UNTO ME.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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nathankalmoe.bsky.social
If you needed more evidence that shared governance is a total myth sustained by admins in hopes that faculty & staff will be pacified by the illusion of input. 👇🏻
heidikitrosser.bsky.social Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 9h
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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halduncan.com
There are many things I love about Finland but somehow the fact it's the sort of country to make another country go "Who shall we send as ambassador...? I know! THIS guy!!!" kinda captures the essence of ALL of it.
batevladi.bsky.social bate Vladi @batevladi.bsky.social · 14h
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
Tucker Carlson, a white man in a checkered blazer and bowtie, giving a smug smirk. The caption says "Carlson, Tucker S.M., 3051 N. St N.W. Washington, DC 20007, History; Christian fellowship. 1 2 3 4 Jesse Helms Foundation. Dan White Society.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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carlosmorenofr.bsky.social
Go ahead toward a people-centred urbanism 💫
Thank you to our friend & crack @brenttoderian.bsky.social for this great Starter Pack 👌
Please share ⚡️
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Oct 16
Word on the street is that there are a bunch of new folks joining Bluesky right now, so it seems like a good time to re-share my first & biggest STARTER PACK of urbanists & city-making organizations from across the world. Hope you’ll consider following the excellent accounts here. And please share!
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
This is kinda brilliant
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5d
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place.

​Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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drcaromaldo.blacksky.app
CW fire. Be smart y'all!
cpsc.gov U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 5d
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Hey everybody, go check your mum's attic.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Superman edition found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new record after Man of Steel comic found in a California home is auctioned.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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calizaybak.bsky.social
Holy shit!
Grizzly attacks schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in Canada, injuring 11
Two people were critically injured and two had serious injuries, authorities said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“Some people have a therapist, others have close friends. If you’re lucky, you might have a fundraiser. For all three, Larry Summers had Jeffrey Epstein.”
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
Fruity au-pair role in Caribbean Costa Rica Hello, we are looking for a special person to become a part of our family here in this magical jungle and fruity paradise. We are in the beginning phases of visioning and dreaming into existence a fruit-centred inter generational village. We have a 7 hectare piece of land, opposite a maturing and sometimes abundant 5 hectare fruit-forest, a short walk from a beautiful and swimmable river. We have great quality and alive drinking water. We are looking for an open, consistent, reliable and earthy someone to immerse themselves into our lives and support us with our 5 children (0,3,6,10&12 years old). We simultaneously run a retreat centre dedicated to fruit based healing and detoxification as a tools for inner and spiritual transformation. You would be housed on the retreat lands and have your own private room, a short walk from our family home, where we plant to be eating communally, fruits, raw vegan meals and simple cooked foods. We are looking for someone excited by and dedicated to accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our busy family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our 2/2y family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. You should be comfortable with jungle living, resourceful, excited by community visioning and the prospect of being a part of this project, well educated and dedicated in fruit-based living. If desired, there are also opportunities to support and co-facilitate with our retreats. This is not a paid role, or a job advertisement. It's an invitation into something deeper, to become part of and co-create a wonderful vision, be in service to children, and immerse yourself into a beautiful fruity lifestyle, and being fully supported in transitioning to jungle life, and on your path of fruit-based living Message me directly or comment below
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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vscharff.bsky.social
A succinct history lesson for today.
hcrichardson.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8d
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.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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astrokatie.com
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause.
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
President Lincoln then delivered the following ded icatory speech Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [Applause.] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any other nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war; we are met to dedicate a portion of that field as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. [Applause.] The world will little note nor long remem ber what we may say here; but it can never forget what they did here. [Applause.] It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so no bly carried on. [Applause.] It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain. [Applause.] That the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that governments of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not per ish from the earth.” [Long continued applause.] Three cheers were here given for the President and the Governors of the States. After the delivery of this address, a dirge and the benediction closed the exercises, and the immense as semblage separated about 2 o'clock.
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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lisairontongue.bsky.social
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.

No contract? NO COFFEE!
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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mariwho.bsky.social
As it gets colder, please remember to NEVERRR plug a space heater into a power strip, which are not designed to handle the high current flow and can overheat or even catch fire! Directly into the wall outlet ONLY!
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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warren.senate.gov
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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inthesamesea.bsky.social
Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀

teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue
teol.ku.dk
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM