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Nancy Wingfield

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Habsburg historian, occasionally, some Successor States; fan of cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Under contract to write a book that stubbornly refuses to write itself. I've been awarded a medal! .. more

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 13h

Obama?

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 21h

I disagree there. He's principled enough lunatic, imo, that he sometimes gets things right & causes some pain. Very rarely, but I think it's happened.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 21h

Is Rand Paul the only GOP Senator who gets this?

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 21h

👇👇👇 They can't all be in the Epstein files, can they? I guess they're figuring nonwhite lives don't matter...

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 22h

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 21h

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

It figures that an emblematic case of ICE’s gross abuse of civil rights would involve targeting a man named Miranda.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 21h

IKR. Fairly sure the decision about the Obama Peace prize wasn't made in the last 48 hours. 🥰

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 22h

What's the over-under on Mango winning the Nobel/Obama Peace Prize? I'm thinking that committee can't be bought...

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 22h

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

It figures that an emblematic case of ICE’s gross abuse of civil rights would involve targeting a man named Miranda.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

*face job, but race job works, too. I think the hair dye works its way into their brains with bad results, but that's just a conspiracy theory.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Hate to break it to you, but plenty of ppl consider him telegenic. I mean, he doesn't wear orange makeup or maybelline mascara, hasn't had a Mar-a-Lago race job, doesn't have a Goebbels face, what's not to like? Oh, and he speaks in full sentences with subject-verb agreement.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Funny, When I lived in Paris, I could always hear English accents, women's southern English accents. Never men's, but they may not have traveled in groups... Full disclosure, I'm an American.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Fraternal Order of Police, You're a reason ppl want to defund you. You support fascists. Do better.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Democratic Senators & Representatives, Why aren't you all over this?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Which one do you mean? Fairly complicated in Germany, given RC & Protestant churches...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily fascist news. If you're related to one of these mysogynist, racist thugs, consider doxing 'em. Of course, they might shoot you...at the least, SHUN them!!!

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Blurbs are in! I am eternally grateful to Dr. J. Drew Lanham, Dr. Andrea Roberts, and Dr. Ed Baptist!!
My book is out on October 2, 2025 from Bloomsbury Academic.
#newauthors #writers

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure to call the masked soldiers what they are: hired guns, vigilantes, etc. The people for whom they work, not only Stephen Goebbels, are not Christians. Learn the 10 Commandments, ppl Will history will look back on this era as one of schism, of a war on Christianity from within?

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

Trump spiritual advisor, this one? How come they all like little girls/boys? Odd, just odd.

Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 5d

Texas megachurch founder and wealthy MAGA donor Robert Morris has pleaded guilty to child sex crime charges. Not surprising, birds of a feather.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

That's a though. Ewwww.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

And, your point is?