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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁

@mandisbarnard.bsky.social

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Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly that. Spent a few years at Clemson reading what he thought. It’s all about the balance of Southern/RW interests no one else’s should be so fiercely protected.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

Tear gas in use during a strike in the 1930s

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · 1d

By today, nearly 11 million SNAP participants should have received *full* benefits for November. They haven't.

By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.

(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)

🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky

Stacked line plot illustrating estimates of how many SNAP participants should have received benefits by each day in November 2025. Each state is shown with a different color, illustrating how different states use different distribution schedules for SNAP.

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 23h

The word of the day is Tacky. - adj. someone acting in poor taste putting the name of the Oval Office on the west wing breeze way, promoting the club that it is. That’s Tacky.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 1d

Psst! Hey, Senate Dems, now would be a great time to demand concessions from GOP leadership.

Don’t end the shutdown unless they fully fund ACA, reverse the shutdown firings, undo some of the DOGE cuts, and have a vote to release the Epstein files.

You have leverage after last night. Use it.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 1d

I hope so.

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

London Lives

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 1d

If people let it. I’m worried the consensus behind it is failing.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 1d

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 1d

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

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Alaska Raptor Center @raptororg.bsky.social · 2d

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...

Here’s how many people use SNAP in Republicans’ districts

President Trump has announced (on social media, naturally) that his administration will continue to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds during the government shutdown despi...

www.pbump.net

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emma-briant.co.uk · 2d

This is newly updated and is among the FREE content available in my Patreon.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emma-briant.co.uk · Dec 1

In case you haven't seen my resources on #patreon - here is Dr. Emma L. Briant's #Propaganda Bibliography for your reading pleasure... www.patreon.com/posts/dr-emm...

Dr. Emma L Briant's Propaganda Bibliography | Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 2d

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here

Please share!

Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)

Duties & Responsibilities

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 2d

It really is great to revisit every few years.

💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 2d

It’s one to watch and rewatch, in order. Love it.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 3d

I thought it might be helpful to know which publications the AI articles I list are from, so spent part of the weekend adding that info. A slew of new links to the bibliography too: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3d

@kookaburrasakura.co.nz has offered to match up to $500, so your donation via his page will count double towards getting the Friends of Alf to our team goal!

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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 3d

At hidden hubs for the Seattle Public Library and King County Library systems, thousands of books a day begin their journeys across the region.

The secret lives of library books

www.seattletimes.com

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