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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 7h

I’d like this more than once if I could.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 9h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 19h

Gene Tunney the boxer?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks very much for all the great suggestions. This has been genuinely helpful.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1d

We will NOT stand for Trump and Vought decimating our health sciences with RFK Jr's permission.

JOIN US FOR A RALLY AT HHS ON FRIDAY 10/17!

WE ARE TAKING BACK SCIENCE.

#ImpeachTheQuack
#GetOutTheVought
#TakeBackScience

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

EFF and 20 other organizations urge Congress: General counsels play too important of a role in the intelligence community to be appointed unilaterally. Maintain Senate confirmation and accountability for these roles. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft infuriates me literally daily on this score.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

‘U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan plan to introduce evidence in a trial that sheds new light on the 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia — and the alleged role of the Indian government in arranging the hit.’

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Court filing in U.S. murder plot trial sheds new light on killing of B.C. Sikh activist | CBC News

U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan plan to introduce evidence in a trial that sheds new light on the 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia — and the alleged role of the Indian government...

www.cbc.ca

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely possible though about this time the organization was looking for a source of reporting from Baghdad and that's the only place in Iraq I've seen mentioned in these records as of interest. Still, it's certainly worth putting Kirkuk on the plausible list.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

You're the second to suggest that. Ploesti is probably the strongest candidate presently in the field.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

This is a new one on me. Another strong possibility.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! I hadn't thought of that. That's a very good guess. This organization definitely ran operations in Romania. I like it!

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering about that. Running a source in the USSR and would have been hard in 1945 but it's definitely a plausible answer.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

We shouldn't assume that Oil City is in Turkey, I think. I see reading further that there was a source in "Ox City" which I'm pretty sure is Belgrade, who is also being paid in Turkish Lira.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

OK, Turkey experts, oil experts, historians, sleuths. I'm looking at a 1945 US intelligence document about a clandestine source in "Oil City." This source is being paid in Turkish lira. What do you think Oil City is and why?

I do not know the answer to this.

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AntiPolygraph.org @antipolygraph.bsky.social · 2d

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, October 11th from 2-4 PM Eastern Time to discuss polygraph-related topics: antipolygraph.org/s/oct-2025-m...

AntiPolygraph.org Message Board - Event Calendar

antipolygraph.org

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 2d

Hicks now introduces us to René Carmille ("the first ethical hacker") who broke computational systems to save French Jews following the Nazi takeover in WWII. His example demonstrates the important/protective role humans could play.

More on Carmille: daily.jstor.org/wwii-and-the... #SHOT2025

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

the greasy little shits are really itchin' to murder people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3d

Hey folks!

Tomorrow on my live webcast, History Matters:

On Lawlessness

The rule of law is being trampled.

What does that mean and what should we do?

Join us tomorrow.

Friday 10AM ET
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