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Elizabeth Gonzalez
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Independent historian based in the DMV, Southern history/ women’s history/ Black club women/ lady managers/ late 19th early 20th c.
#AuDHD, she/they, many jumbled and random thoughts #womenalsoknowhistory
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faineg.bsky.social
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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frost.house.gov
Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay.

variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Man Arrested at Sundance For Racially Motivated Incident at CAA Party
A man was arrested at CAA's Sundance party after he declared he was proud to be "white" and allegedly punched a person of color.
variety.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman
frost.house.gov Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 23d
Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay.

variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Man Arrested at Sundance For Racially Motivated Incident at CAA Party
A man was arrested at CAA's Sundance party after he declared he was proud to be "white" and allegedly punched a person of color.
variety.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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polotek.bsky.social
White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS
AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals use it for writing, planning and teaching; universities are experimenting with embedding it into curricula. However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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civilwarmemory.bsky.social
Tomorrow at noon I will be speaking live with @johngmarks.com about the decision to remove a slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia. Hope you can join us. #NationalParks open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: National Park Service Ordered to Remove Slavery Exhibit In Philadelphia
Starting Jan 23 at 12:00 PM EST
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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qichin.bsky.social
When I was studying historical linguistics, one of the most mind-blowing things was just how often we had primary texts to research an extinct language because someone found a book at a library that nobody knew was there. Many libraries are so old and so big that we don't know what's in them.
December 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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adamhsays.com
David Graham, a day later: “Remember what yesterday’s attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol was like. Very soon, someone might try to convince you that it was different. Maybe someone already has.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Let Them Pretend This Didn’t Happen
The violence at the Capitol was incited, encouraged, and condoned by the president of the United States. Don’t forget it.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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
eagonzalez.bsky.social
I’ve been wrestling a lot with the Jan 6th anniversary

open.substack.com/pub/penguinp...
Five years later
January 6th
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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mkn.bsky.social
A sobering reminder, Blueskis.
rebeccafachner.bsky.social Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · Jan 6
As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in.

DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
US Governors Launch Multistate Public Health Coalition jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
US Governors Launch Multistate Public Health Coalition
This Medical News article discusses a new state-led coalition, called the Governors Public Health Alliance, to bolster disease detection and response as federal support wanes.
jamanetwork.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
eagonzalez.bsky.social
Having such an excellent time at #nwsa2025
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
eagonzalez.bsky.social
I’m so excited to be presenting at #nwsa2025 this week!
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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raskin.house.gov
Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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govwesmoore.bsky.social
Day 8 of President Trump’s shutdown:

I’m alarmed that federal workers, including TSA agents and air traffic controllers, will miss their first full paycheck this Friday because of the President’s federal shutdown.

This is no way to run a government.

https://bit.ly/4o8GVKv
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“I’m proud to be one of US… I’m ready to fight for US… the 🇺🇸 House of Representatives must be centered on US…”

MEMPHIS Rep. @Justinjpearson’s campaign for Congress launch video👇🏽 (which mentions #MedicareForAll as a policy priority 🏆 )
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
apple.news/ARCzJKbBbS4S...
Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude — WIRED
Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.
apple.news
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Oh yes, this is clearly now.
A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan ) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody ) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
Senate Republicans just voted to shut down the government — blocking our bill to fund it responsibly, protect health care, and stop Trump from getting a blank check for his lawlessness.

They’d rather please their Dear Leader than deliver for the American people. Shameful.
Senate Republicans just voted to shut down the government
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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profgardner.bsky.social
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...
September 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM