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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5d

The President is disgusting and a disgrace.

And he’s clearly rattled by yesterday’s turnout.

Keep speaking out. The power belongs to the people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 10d

New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
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The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s - Volume 64

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 23d

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 23d

See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29d

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

Can We Spot It?
(Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? )
An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive.
They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism."
Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25d

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.

GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · Sep 24

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The American system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders

What we are witnessing right now is the rise of two Americas. One for the billionaire class. And one for everybody else

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 22

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

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Trifid Duane of Canada🍁🇨🇦 @trifidofcanada.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 18

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 15

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Without question.

Shout out to the women this week. Just…shout out to yall.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · Sep 13

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cabinet secretaries, lying on the record

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

VARNEY: Do tariffs have anything to do with the slowing jobs market?

LORI CHAVEZ-DeREMER: Tariffs are working ... unemployment is still holding steady. Statistically, it's nonexistent.

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · Aug 25

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August 23, 2025

“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...

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margauxaf @margauxaf.bsky.social · Aug 21

🙌🏽

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 21

What Danielle said.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2%

Let me put that another way.

President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · Aug 21

A thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high.

The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · Aug 18

They want to erase the violence and dispossession of the past, but enact it in the present. The history JANM tells is more important than ever, especially as the full history of Japanese American internment may disappear from national parks sites and the Smithsonian.

Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is after he spent the spring slashing Fulbright awards. Same guy

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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · Jul 18

📢New in JBS!

Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · Jul 19

It seems like an excellent time for @stephencolbert.bsky.social and the journalists at @60minutes.bsky.social to start talks with @pbs.org fir several new shows. I suspect donations would roll into public broadcasting

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 16

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

Amazing.

jacksimon.bsky.social @jacksimon.bsky.social · Jul 16

Whoops
Don't ya just love live TV?

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Jul 17

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization.

In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Read our new book review by Tammy Proctor! Proctor reviews Cormac Ó Gráda’s The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars (Princeton, 2024).
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The Hidden Victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · Jun 28

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