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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. And I believe it was Darragh Gannon who reported that Irish delegates at the Paris Peace Conference conversed with Egyptian delegates in French, masking their discussions from English observers watching their movements.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent brief essay on the importance of multi-lingual skills to the Irish Revolution

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support

The multilingual skills of the revolutionary generation helped them to amplify Ireland's cause on the world stage

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 18d

🧵This work looks so exciting. Thanks for calling attention to it.

Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 20d

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21d

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com

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Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery

By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Aug 31

He lost the supermarket but found his thesaurus

Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Aug 17

An important essay to consider. The argument is specific to UChicago, but its lessons to a greater or lesser degree apply to many American higher ed institutions, particularly R1s.

The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · Aug 17

The crisis in US universities goes far deeper than Trump. Debt-driven leadership, privatized research, and the abandonment of education are undermining institutions like the University of Chicago, turning them into tech incubators instead of centers of learning. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking forward to the return for season 2 of this terrific series!

Kate O'Malley @kateom.bsky.social · Aug 1

Listen to #IrishImperialLives RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday, 8pm, or wherever you get your podcasts. 📻🏴‍☠️🌎☘️ @rteradio1.bsky.social

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dear Americans,

This is not true: "The European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%".

This is true: Americans will have to pay 15% extra for goods from EU.

You're welcome and thank you for your attention in this matter,

Is Mise,

GnaM

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal
The White House
July 28, 2025
MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

The deal marks a generational modernization of the transatlantic alliance and will provide Americans with unprecedented levels of market access to the European Union.
The deal bolsters America’s economy and manufacturing capabilities. The EU will purchase $750 billion in U.S. energy and make new investments of $600 billion in the United States, all by 2028.

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As part of President Trump’s strategy to establish balanced trade, the European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15%, including on autos and auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors. However, the sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper will remain unchanged—the EU will continue to pay 50% and the parties will discuss securing supply chains for these products. This new tariff regime will generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue annually and help to close the longstanding trade imbalance between the United States and Europe by encouraging local sourcing, reshoring production, and ensuring that foreign producers contribute their fair share to the American economy.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jul 27

Trump hiring Oddjob to caddy for him because…of course

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 27

Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jul 26

Proud of you, lad. 😁

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 19

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jul 11

Or was something…found? 🤔

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Jul 8

1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · Jul 8

😍😍😍

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jul 5

I just hope he said thank you

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 30

The reverse Robin Hood: take from the poor to give to the rich.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 29

I am so sorry Julia.

Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 27

Fabulous cover!

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 26

Amplify this analysis. 🧵 from @asharangappa.bsky.social

Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Jun 26

As usual, @asharangappa.bsky.social sees through the media fog to the actual rogue elephant in the room
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Jun 25

Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 24

This would seem to be very bad: the National Archives belong to the people of the United States.

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 24

Long 🧵. Read to the end. Links throughout as well. GRMA, a Rothaí!

Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · Jun 23

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.

It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jun 22

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems, leading historians reminded the nation that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made back then were good or bad.

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Jun 14

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families

Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · Jun 8

I wonder if he realizes those words hang in the Oval Office…

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