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Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
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Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade
Professor: Communication of Science & Tech
Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database
www.buildersanddefenders.org
www.AngelaSutton.info
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · Aug 20
✨ Book Deal Announcement ✨
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
Under Contract: Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City, edited by Angela Sutton and Learotha Williams, Jr. with support from the Friends of Fort Negley, Vanderbilt University Press
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eladn.bsky.social
Every single win is a big deal, and we should celebrate and uplift them no matter how bleak things may feel. We need to realize how huge of a deal it is to win battles against fascists with such immense power.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Tomorrow! After decades of fighting and preparation we are breaking ground tomorrow.
hoodline.com/2026/02/fort...
Fort Negley Glow-Up: Nashville Kicks Off Long-Awaited Park Makeover
Phase one of Fort Negley’s revamp begins this Thursday.
hoodline.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Right! The only real power Nashvillians have to stop developers from destroying our history is shame and public opinion.
betsyphillips.bsky.social Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 5h
It's really aggravating to realize that, for all the bellyaching developers do about historic overlays, what it amounts to is a small additional fee for clearing a lot in the overlay.
February 18, 2026 at 4:41 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Developers in Nashville just showing maximum disrespect to the city. The Groove was in a historic overlay, and no one got permits to knock it down.
Will the Developers be held accountable or will they get a fine so small it doubles as permission slip?

www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
www.wkrn.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Do not want.
February 18, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)

A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭

Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
peoplesfabric.com
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Everybody stop and watch Flavor Flav living his best life.
flavorflav.bsky.social FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 2d
Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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adambonin.bsky.social
Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.)

TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Some escaped to freedom, including Oney Judge. The President’s House displays recognized Oney Judge and focused on how her struggle for freedom represented this country’s progress away from the horrors of slavery and into an era where the founding ideals of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” 165 could be embodied for every American. And yet, in its argument, the government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove and hide historical accounts on taxpayer and local government-funded monuments within its control. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984, where: The largest section of the [government’s] Records Department . . . consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of the Times [a newspaper] which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophesies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions [for workers in the Records Department] . . . never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed; always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.166 The government here likewise asserts truth is no longer self-evident, but rather the property of the elected chief magistrate and his appointees and delegees, at his whim to be scraped clean, hidden, or overwritten. And why? Solely because, as Defendants state, it has the power. At oral argument, Defendants insisted: Although many people feel strongly about this one way, other people may disagree or feel strongly another way. Ultimatel… . . . [T]he message that the Government chooses to convey is for the Government to choose. I don't get to choose what that message is. And it's our position that the City doesn't either.167 An agency, whether the Department of the Interior, NPS, or any other agency, cannot arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership, regardless of the evidence before it. Accordingly, the City is likely to prevail on its claims that the removal was arbitrary and capricious
February 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
read that first paragraph if nothing else:
adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 2d
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy Presidents Day.
MEMORANDUM OPINION February 16, 2026 “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.” George Orwell, 1984' As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum… CONCLUsION For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place. Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Highlights include having ChatGPT single out "DEI-sounding" NEH grants that were already awarded through an act of congress to cancel.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70243...
The Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1:25-cv-03923 - CourtListener.com
Docket for The Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1:25-cv-03923 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
www.courtlistener.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
This one is going to be so good!
pastpunditry.bsky.social Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 2d
Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!
Publishers Marketplace book deal notice, which reads “Author of PARTISANS and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University Nicole Hemmer's IMPUNITY, a history of how the American right has systematically destroyed political accountability over the last 50 years, in a deliberate, decades-long campaign to protect power and privilege, to Brian Distelberg at Basic, by Lisa Adams at The Garamond Agency.”
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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molly.wiki
Their "more efficient" process than having writers write:

• AI identifies possible stories
• Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
• Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
• Another person fact-checks/edits
• Reporter reviews
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.

Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”

You can’t make this shit up.

www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
By Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer A college student withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom this week because of how we use artificial intelligence. It reminded me again how college journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce. I mentioned this in a column before, and readers asked me to explain
February 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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drangelasutton.bsky.social
I'm a military brat who used to teach Sea Power in History to NROTC students from TSU, Belmont, and Vandy at yes,Vanderbilt
This whole thing is so distressing to me.
How dare he?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
UPDATE: Hegseth has included VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on a list of schools off limits for tuition assistance for military officers as part of his campaign against schools he describes as “biased” against the US military.🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
February 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
alexip718.com
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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adamgolub.bsky.social
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
hollyanderson.bsky.social
Have yet to encounter a single person freaking out over the 2028 nomination who’s doing anything remotely serious to protect the needs of the vulnerable in 2026
February 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Have you seen this?????
It's just as we suspected.
DOGE boys really did just ask ChatGPT to identify NEH grants that "sounded like DEI" to cancel.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
I'm a military brat who used to teach Sea Power in History to NROTC students from TSU, Belmont, and Vandy at yes,Vanderbilt
This whole thing is so distressing to me.
How dare he?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
UPDATE: Hegseth has included VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on a list of schools off limits for tuition assistance for military officers as part of his campaign against schools he describes as “biased” against the US military.🤔 www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
February 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
Have you seen this?????
It's just as we suspected.
DOGE boys really did just ask ChatGPT to identify NEH grants that "sounded like DEI" to cancel.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Angela Sutton (she/her)
wolvendamien.bsky.social
…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
wolvendamien.bsky.social Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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diggybaby.bsky.social
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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laurenfklein.bsky.social
How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
drangelasutton.bsky.social
According to my followers, I live in the American Political Journalism corridor, on the Resistance Peninsula. You?
theo.io Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 9d
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 15, 2026 at 2:54 AM