Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️
@phdrachel.bsky.social
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Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️ married to SNEH; Views=my own. On #TikTok she/her http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
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Welcome to "Forgotten America" Historians at the Great Courses! At 7pm CT his play on the first lecture in the series, "Smallpox in the American Revolution"
#HAGC #HATM
phdrachel.bsky.social
If you're up for supporting me & watching some cool history, join me on my birthday, Friday May 9 at 7pm CST, as we live-post the 1st two lectures of my new series with The Great Courses, “Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation"
#HAGC Historians at the Great Courses
#HATM
Rachel in a black dress and red lipstick eating a birthday sprinkle cookie.
Text says: Join me on my Birthday Friday, May 9 at 7pm CST on Blue Ský to live-post the 1st hour of my Great Courses series using #HAGG
Historians at the Great Courses."
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective
dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people
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kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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craigipedia.bsky.social
If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.
Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas
With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.
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phdrachel.bsky.social
Loved this sequel as well. Good on its own with plenty of Easter eggs for fans of the OG film #HATM
swordsjew.bsky.social
we're doing a double feature with the criminally underrated sequel, Doctor Sleep (which is so much better than that book it's not worth comparing)
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joolia.bsky.social
The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.
sarapartridge.bsky.social
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.
phdrachel.bsky.social
The fact that Gein is the basis for Silence of the Lambs, TX Chainsaw Massacre, & Psycho tells you how little connection to his reality there is in these films. #HATM
tribimagin.bsky.social
Ed Gein was the inspiration for Leatherface, that much is true. But Buffalo Bill? That's so much of a stretch, it feels like REED RICHARDS was involved in the production of this stinkburger.

Seems like someone tried to have their cake and eat it too, as it were.
a drawing of a naked man with a blue light behind him
ALT: a drawing of a naked man with a blue light behind him
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juliaserano.bsky.social
apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...
Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience
plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic
juliaserano.medium.com
phdrachel.bsky.social
Something’s Gotta Give is a great romantic comedy too
phdrachel.bsky.social
I was going to say The Family Stone until I got to your last line. 1st wives club is a classic and if you’re not belting out “you don’t own me” by the end, something is wrong with you.
three women in white suits are dancing in a room
Alt: Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, & Goldie Hawn in white suits are dancing in a room
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phdrachel.bsky.social
#HATM
scottpb.bsky.social
Sometimes I’ll rewatch Manhattan just for her hilarious, un-self-aware monologues.

Sometimes I’ll rewatch Shoot the Moon, just to watch her smoke that joint in the bathtub and sing “If I Fell”.

Sometimes I’ll rewatch Mrs. Soffel just to look at her looking at Mel Gibson.

RIP Ms Keaton
Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79
The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died
www.theguardian.com
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
For non-US folks: IDEA is the rule that dictates that disabled kids are to have equal opportunities for a public education. Taking away the people who fund and enforce it is basically leaving disabled kids and their families to fend for themselves.
annabookwriter.bsky.social
Vought’s daughter has cerebral palsy, and while she may not require “special” education, she would need adjustments if she attended any school.

Obviously, he is evil and does not care about hypocrisy, but I want people to remember: they’re taking this away from US, not themselves.
sarapartridge.bsky.social
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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The introduction of AI into so many of the tools I use regularly, especially the informational tools, makes my job noticeably harder, and adds to the time it takes to accomplish certain tasks. My job is information-based and requires coding, two things AI is vaunted to be helpful with. It isn't.
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grahamformaine.bsky.social
Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.
sahilkapur.bsky.social
SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."
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matthewstiegler.bsky.social
Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.
murshedz.bsky.social
“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
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mccrum.bsky.social
This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress
leahlitman.bsky.social
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
phdrachel.bsky.social
Do you know what is stupid… a 54 year old man so obsessed with how 18 year olds do their hair that he goes on national television to complain about it.
acyn.bsky.social
Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.
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ritterton.bsky.social
My man, you are a danger to my wallet - lol

Bought something with that discount

www.book2look.com/book/ekTGvld...

#HATM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.