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Studying 20th century Central European history. Bibliophile. Spinster🐱mom. Just a midwest gal screaming into the void. She/her. Insufferable STL sports fan. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🟧

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · Feb 4

I think we all need to hear this today, RIP John Lewis 💛

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Morgan Freeman Reads the Last Words of John Lewis

Podcast Episode · Into America · 07/31/2020 · 7m

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 16h

The Senate has defeated a plan from Democrats to block President Trump's use of National Guard troops in various cities - if local officials oppose their deployment from other states.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 15h

Didn’t even make it a whole period before I’m screaming at the TV, hockey is back y’all and the blues still suck 🥲

b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 16h

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 19h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 17h

ok idk who this lady is but that url killed me so let's check out "heaven is fun dot com"

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 23h

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 21h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 17h

I hope she eats him and his prosecutor for lunch

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 19h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 23h

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 17h

I knew there was an assassination that provoked the same kind of martyrdom and white-washing as Kirk’s did, instead of Wessels (which isn’t a good example) Eisner was a socialist but the description given here is timely. Also possibly the beginnings of neolibs.

Excerpt from “Hitler” by John Toland, pg 78, section 8, pp 1-2

“What Eisner was attempting to establish was not Communism or even socialism but a unique kind of radical democracy. A poet among politicians whose dream of a reign of beauty, illumination and reason was more in keeping with Shelley than Marx, he was already on the path to oblivion; the January elections had brought a resounding victory for the middle-class parties and an overriding demand for his resignation.

Early in the morning of February 21, realizing his cause was hopeless, he wrote out a statement announcing his resignation, but en route to the Landtag to deliver it, he was assassinated by Count Anton Arco-Valley, a young cavalry officer who had been turned down by an anti-Semitic group since his mother was Jewish. Eisner would have been out of office in an hour, his regime replaced by a middle-of-the-road government. The assassination brought about what Arco-Valley most feared, another surge to the left. Eisner, so recently despised and rejected by almost everyone, became an instant martyr and proletarian saint, and the revolutionary move ment was resuscitated. Martial law was declared and a new all socialist government headed by a former teacher, Adolf Hoffmann, was appointed by the Central Workers' and Soldiers' Council. A general strike was called, a 7 P.M. curfew imposed, and the University of Munich closed since its students were already acclaiming Arco-Valley as their hero.”

b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

This is rad

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

There are moments when I truly do love this country an the people that inhabit it, this is one of those moments.

Rock on Portland 🖖🏼

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

This is absolutely the correct response

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

Clayton / St. Peter’s / Chesterfield

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 3d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

If you are over 70 you shouldn’t be running for any public office.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

77-year-old Maine Gov. Janet Mills has apparently been coaxed into jumping into the Maine Senate race, challenging Graham Platner in a Democratic primary.

The 40-year-old Platner has become a favorite of progressives and Democrats wanting a more muscular response to Trump. He has raised millions.

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 2d

On Roblox, extremists are turning play into propaganda. The “Blueshirts,” modeled on Patriot Front, stage virtual protests, harass players, and use Discord to coordinate hate campaigns targeting children.

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Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda

A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 2d

At some point, lawyers arguing before SCOTUS must make clear - possibly even during oral argument - that SCOTUS is corrupt, led by a corrupt CJ, & acting in a manner entirely inconsistent w rule of law.

I love Madiba Dennie, & wouldn't disagree w anything said here, but this moment requires more.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 2d

Hockey is back y’all 😎

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 3d

Ron Johnson is a Russian puppet

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Ron Johnson: "Quite honestly, by now it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy. It's President Obama, it's President Biden."

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Gina Warren @gina-warren.bsky.social · 3d

Time to read. Thank you, @jeannakadlec.bsky.social for writing this! 💖💐

Heretic by Jenna Kadlec A Queer Revolt Against Evangelicalism, Empire, and the Lies We Are Sold.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 3d

wtf is this fluff piece on Cheryl Hines @cbsnews.com is doing?? Letting her dance around whether she supports vaccines or not. Absolute bullshit.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 3d

The eugenics bullshit never stops does it? WTF is this @cnn.com

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh