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Bruce Dorsey

@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social

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Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · Feb 23

Great thrill to be in conversation with Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social at the Charles River Museum @charlesrivermuseum.bsky.social for the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize celebration, awarded by the Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 8d

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland 🔥

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 4d

MIT is the first of the targeted nine universities to say "NO" - they wish to preserve "freedom of expression" and their "independence as an institution"

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 6d

I just watched CASABLANCA with a 24-year-old guy and gal, and they loved it SO MUCH. I showed it to another couple their age a couple of years ago and got the same reaction. That movie is great across multiple generations. Watching it now made me feel extra resist-y, too. Man, what a picture.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t not believe how hard it is to sleep when you’re watching your country, be dismantled by the dumbest people.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump administration’s deployment of ICE and others in the mass deportation effort has led to more violence and turmoil, and less safety and security for all, including US citizens. But that’s a feature not a bug. The chaos justifies further authoritarian crackdowns. The chaos is the point.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 10d

Exciting! A new independent, women-run bookstore (Celia's Bookshop) has opened in Swarthmore. Happy to be at the ribbon-cutting, and to see so many book-loving customers crowding into the beautiful and welcoming space. #Swarthmore

Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, anonymous Amazon reviewer, for appreciating what I was striving for in my latest book:
"Outstanding - non fiction but reads like fiction. The history, the slowly unfolding of facts. I loved this book."
bookshop.org/p/books/murd...

Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11d

Wanna know whose shutdown this is?

Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12d

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Surfer Planet @surferplanet.bsky.social · Aug 30

Surf & Peace 💙✌🏽
#AIForever
#Surfer

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing speaks better to how crazy air travel was back in the 1950s and 1960s. Would you like carton of cigarettes to go with your beer, Sir?

www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 18d

Back when they served beer “von fass” on Lufthansa flights 🍻#fridayfeeling

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18d

Fortunately, history does not work as Hegseth seems to believe. It is never "settled" and the government cannot (at least for now!) impose its interpretation of events on the rest of us--especially an interpretation so at odds with the historical record. 6/

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 20d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 23d

Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 26d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 29d

A delightful moment of joy amid unending difficult days.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29d

The actor Jeff Hiller, recognized for his role on “Somebody Somewhere,” was one of the night’s most surprising Emmy winners. His moving speech invoked the earnest warmth that made his show so special, Paula Mejía writes:
https://theatln.tc/rUHw4s1o

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · Sep 9

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