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Rebecca Brückmann

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi and thanks, new followers! I can't keep up at the moment, so not following you back is just me being slightly overwhelmed. Welcome to posts about Black and gender history, the history of white supremacy, these histories' political implications, light sarcasm, elephant GIFs, and love of pastries.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2h

Man, I love Chicago. 👑

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 15h

I actually gasped (silly me).

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 16h

Another month-long week, I see.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Clio ❤️

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

"Antwort auf Fragen
wollen alle dir geben.
Du mußt es tragen: ungesichertes Leben.
Kreuz und rasselnder Ruhm –
Nicht mehr.
Befreiendes Menschentum –
Noch nicht.
Noch ist es nicht so weit.
Denn wir leben –
denn wir leben
in einer Übergangszeit –!"
Kurt Tucholsky (Theobald Tiger), in Weltbuehne, 1932.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the display name was why I followed in the first place, haha. Oh well.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

What we don't talk about enough is the dignity harm suffered by women who have to share the public sphere with guys who go around talking about our bodies like we're a public resource whose use and distribution they're qualified to determine.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, same. Followed and unfollowed within a span of 15 minutes last week.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

If people could not be natalist weirdos and/or straight up misogynists for one second, that would be great.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

JFC.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

I need hourly PSAs on this here in the Upper Midwest.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t play with my heart like that, Freida.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Freida Parton
“I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

I have read complaint posts about Blacksky on here from, uh, certain folks. Perhaps interrogate that core belief of yours that you’re entitled to (consuming) every space on the planet. It’s quite telling.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

#AstronomySky www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars. 

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .

Alt: a man in a military uniform is standing in a room with flags and says `` right to jail , right away '' .

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

We’ll continue with the second half later this week, focusing on (layers of) agency and “reading along the bias grain,” and I’ll have to also torture students with more Hegel (🫣) because the master/slave dialectic, recognition, and relational consciousness are important concepts to discuss. 🗃️

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

Today in our philosophies of history class, we discussed Hartman’s conceptualization of “critical fabulation” with narrative restraint as well as the first half of Fuentes’s “Dispossessed Lives” in regard to the production of (archival) power, epistemological violence, and “mutilated historicity.” 🗃️

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift seriously saying that her fiancé “puts his life on the line” any given Sunday and Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck publicly hanging out again are all the pop culture news that I can take for today.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 3d

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

With all of this, it is important to also remember that tear gas, which is now regularly deployed in residential neighborhoods, seems to be an abortifacient, according to multiple studies, e.g.: www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...

New study suggests link between tear gas exposures and adverse reproductive health outcomes - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota

In the wake of nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, anecdotal reports of irregular menstrual cycles emerged among

www.sph.umn.edu

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

I completely agree. But this must then go hand in hand with decentering cars in our environment, making everyday amenities, services, and community accessible to everyone, and drastically expanding and improving public transport. Unsurprisingly, that would make for a better life at any age.

Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 4d

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 5d

What James Baldwin said (generally). Happy Sunday!

Black and white photo of James Baldwin. He is wearing a tweed jacket and dress shirt underneath, a silk scarf cravat, slightly oval sun glasses, and is smoking a cigarette. There is a black bag strap over his right shoulder and he is wearing a ring on his left ring finger.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 6d

Scoop by the - wait for it - Minnesota Star Tribune: "Anthony Salisbury, a deputy to White House top policy adviser Stephen Miller, sent the texts over the private messaging app Signal while traveling in Minnesota and in clear view of others." www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

www.startribune.com

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 6d

How could a man who never set foot in a library until he was in college create what is considered the most extensive online collection of global Black history?

Maybe it had something to do with the story Dr. Quintard Taylor's father told him when he was a young boy.

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Remembering Quintard Taylor: Historian of the Black West and beyond

Dr. Quintard Taylor taught history at the University of Washington and created BlackPast.org, an online collection of global Black history. He died Sept. 21, 2025, at the age of 76.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 6d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Manchester synagogue attack victims 'always smiling' and 'kind'

Tributes are being paid to Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby, who were both killed in the attack.

www.bbc.com

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