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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 11m

Well, specifically, I was talking about my op ed in Nature.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 48m

Nah. They’re just going to make us all have multiple jobs.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 49m

Agreed. A mid-grade official at DSTL attempted to bar me from speaking at an international conference

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

a few years ago I talked to some admins here (different university) about student harassment of faculty and they listened politely then did nothing so that's fun

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 54m

Yes I know.

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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Further arrests made over ‘shocking’ arson attack on Peacehaven mosque www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Further arrests made over ‘shocking’ arson attack on Peacehaven mosque

Four people have so far been arrested as part of police investigation into attack, which caused ‘significant damage’

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

This sounds like they're gearing up for a violent crackdown. The talking points obviously went out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1h

I never reckoned on Sharia in Idaho. But live and learn

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot believe we live in a place where this is even a QUESTION

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats

From my colleagues @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats

The temporary ruling stems from a lawsuit filed this week by news organizations, unions, independent journalists and protesters against the Department of Homeland Security following tense interactions...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

the gop is going to try their damndest to make it illegal to be a democrat. and this is why as effective as the health care attack is, it cannot be the only thing democrats talk about.

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

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1h

Let me know how it works out for you. I’m genuinely curious. Send me a report

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'.

But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

MAGA is not taking the María Corina Machado Nobel win well.

Without so much as a paradox in the world, Laura Loomer has even accused her of "stoking and promoting violent regime change" while Trump is working to end wars

Comically desperate stuff

The irony of @MariaCorinaYA winning
the Nobel Peace Prize is that her
actions are actively stoking and
promoting violent regime change in
Venezuela and she is on Fox News
everyday hoping we pay for it despite
being loaded with cash. How come
nobody ever talks about how wealthy
this woman is!? Where did she get her
money?

How is her push for regime change
peaceful?

Trump is actually working to end wars

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Posh Nigel @nigel-hewlett.bsky.social · 1h

The USA is letting a Muslim country build a military base on US soil.

MAGA must be doing their nut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 5h

Trump only really wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize for one reason – and you guessed it: it’s Obama

Trump only really wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize for one reason: Obama

www.independent.co.uk

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

New in PN: The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

"Trump’s confusion isn’t just darkly comical (and a troubling reminder of the president’s growing senility) — it’s a stark illustration of the whiplash-inducing disconnect between his rhetoric and the reality on the ground."

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

www.publicnotice.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Maria Bartiromo claims Americans being able to afford healthcare is "small potatoes" compared to Trump's dealings with Israel and Hamas.

What happened to America first?

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h

Kinda fun watching these Republican toadies completely debase themselves for Trump's attention. At least when the stakes are comparatively low.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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