Anne Sarah Rubin
@annesarah.bsky.social
Historian of the American Civil War and the South, writing about food and famine.
Maybe a mean girl
Dissent is Patriotic
Trans rights are human rights.
Maybe a mean girl
Dissent is Patriotic
Trans rights are human rights.
Pinned
Anne Sarah Rubin
@annesarah.bsky.social
· Aug 21
“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?”
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
A song that starts with Lincoln's Lyceum Speech and ends with William Lloyd Garrison?! On a Civil War-themed concept album?! I realize this is from 2010 but I heard it for the first time yesterday and I can't stop listening. Speaks to the present moment as well.
open.spotify.com/track/2FErbk...
open.spotify.com/track/2FErbk...
A More Perfect Union
open.spotify.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A song that starts with Lincoln's Lyceum Speech and ends with William Lloyd Garrison?! On a Civil War-themed concept album?! I realize this is from 2010 but I heard it for the first time yesterday and I can't stop listening. Speaks to the present moment as well.
open.spotify.com/track/2FErbk...
open.spotify.com/track/2FErbk...
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"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
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OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Taylor said the free market will ultimately determine where the value is and which AI players have the best products.
cnb.cx
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 PM
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Reading is magical. It's a gift that everyone deserves to have.
At the Rikers Jail, the Women Have No Library. But They Have a Book Club.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Reading is magical. It's a gift that everyone deserves to have.
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Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
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Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
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Apply To Graduate School For Free! - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
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January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
Apply To Graduate School For Free! - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
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umbc.edu
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Interested in getting an MA in Historical Studies at UMBC??
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
Apply this week for free: umbc.edu/admissions/g...
We specialize in US History, Early Modern Europe, Asia, and Public History. We also have expertise in 20th Century Europe and colonial Latin America. Reach out for more information!
🗃️
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Hey everybody, it’s the 250th anniversary of Common Sense, whose luminous author Tom Paine, figured centrally in the American Revolution, the Enlightenment and the movement for Democracy still sweeping the Earth. The times hath found us.
January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Hey everybody, it’s the 250th anniversary of Common Sense, whose luminous author Tom Paine, figured centrally in the American Revolution, the Enlightenment and the movement for Democracy still sweeping the Earth. The times hath found us.
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
The past is never dead. It's not even past. 🗃️
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy
The thread of partisan power and control is stitched through America’s public...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The past is never dead. It's not even past. 🗃️
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Does this mean I will live forever?
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between dark chocolate and slower aging. A natural cocoa compound called theobromine was found in higher levels among people who appeared biologically younger than their real age.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists find dark chocolate ingredient that slows aging
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between dark chocolate and slower aging. A natural cocoa compound called theobromine was found in higher levels among people who appeared biologically young...
www.sciencedaily.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Does this mean I will live forever?
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Niche content, but hilarious
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Niche content, but hilarious
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if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
Epic thread. 🥪⚖️
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Epic thread. 🥪⚖️
"All along, this effort has been absurd; there is no way to kill someone without some element of torture, either psychological, physical, or both. "
Horrifying. The world, and this country, is so cruel.
Horrifying. The world, and this country, is so cruel.
Tortured to Death in Alabama
The state killed Anthony Boyd last night, and the process was anything but humane.
www.theatlantic.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"All along, this effort has been absurd; there is no way to kill someone without some element of torture, either psychological, physical, or both. "
Horrifying. The world, and this country, is so cruel.
Horrifying. The world, and this country, is so cruel.
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Let me state this as clearly as I can:
It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.
We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.
It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.
We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Let me state this as clearly as I can:
It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.
We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.
It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.
We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.
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Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans
www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...
www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...
The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode
Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.
www.polygon.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans
www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...
www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...
Thank you @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for this important piece!! Those who push back against uncritical AI boosterism are not Luddites— and sometimes the Emporer does not have any clothes.
My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
www.chronicle.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thank you @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for this important piece!! Those who push back against uncritical AI boosterism are not Luddites— and sometimes the Emporer does not have any clothes.