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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD

@klhkhistorian.bsky.social

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Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in arts & humanities communications; public humanities & alt-ac/post-ac advocate; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom. 📍Cville

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 21

In 2005, I found a wooden box tucked under a chair in my grandparents' living room. Inside were letters from the U.S. Civil War. I write about some of them here, and about the cross-generational efforts to save America from those who would destroy it.

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On Mud-Turtles, Flowers, and America

Flowers sent by Charles Wilkins to his sister Henrietta in 1862 In 1842, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne moved into the Old Manse—already a historic building at the time—in Concord, Massachusetts. F…

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Doing comms work for billionaires slowly melting their brains must be quite a job.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h

Never had a trans student disrupt my class in even the smallest way. Had plenty of very-gender-conforming Overly-Assertive-Main-Character students be disruptive - monopolizing discussion, talking out of turn, that sort of thing.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 8h

1) yeah it's BAD bad when not even a senator can look inside

2) people who were complaining that Dems should go down and protest, get arrested: will this do?

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 8h

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

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30 Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to help fund public television stations

Ross “dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone.”

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 Breaking: WGN Video Producer arrested for doing what she does — in Lincoln Square. 1/2

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 15h

How many people's lives are going to be upended by this administration? 🤬🤬🤬

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White House says 'substantial' layoffs of federal workers have begun, with few details

The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It's not clear how many agencies are affected or how many people.

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 21h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 22h

If you march, protest, call, write-
Be sure to remain peaceful. Nothing pisses off republicans more than decency & civility.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19h

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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pberr.bsky.social @pberr.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, this seems like it could be bad.

poppy1234567.bsky.social @poppy1234567.bsky.social · 22h

This is bad, why is no one talking about it
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Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 19h

Look at this incredibly funky Z (for 'Zelentides', birds that eat plagues of locusts) from the Hortus Sanitatis of 1499. #rarebooks #GLAM 📚

A captial letter Z made of four elongated tear-drop shapes. If you didn't know it was from 1499 you might think it was from the 1970s.

Woodcut illustration of two birds on a rock above some text in Latin starting with the funky Z.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8d

"Keep on reading the big and badly written book, they said. It'll be fun finishing it, they said. It is totally worth the time, they said..."

A human skeleton reading a big book. The image is a detail of a larger print showing the Last Judgement interpreted by Johannes Wierix in 16c Europe.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 21h

“The compact does require schools not to punish, intimidate or incite violence against conservative ideas.” What you describe as punishment, intimidation, or incitement of violence is most often “Hmmm, tell me how you got there. Where does the text support that claim?”

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 6d

#UVA faculty senate calls on Board of Visitors and Interim President to repudiate the utterly draconian, authoritarian, anti-intellectual, anti-freedom so-called “compact” concocted by the department of injustice: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 1d

Another stunning MAGA victory!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Three @wsj.com headlines from the past three days. 👀

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Important FYI for UVA folks

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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