Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
Public and academic history & geography in action. She/her. Sometimes cake, sometimes politics. In the distance, sirens. https://kristen-noble-keegan.com & https://bywaterhistorical.com/
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I am once again reminded that I'm the weird one for thinking that database design and editing is pretty straightforward and doable.
Boston, 1872. A quick search got no results on either "health-lift parlors" or the proprietor's name. Moderate exercise? Meditation? I have no clue.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Boston, 1872. A quick search got no results on either "health-lift parlors" or the proprietor's name. Moderate exercise? Meditation? I have no clue.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
Besides all that, how is it December already?
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Besides all that, how is it December already?
I think we have a winner.
I named my fists Thoughts and Prayers because they don't do anything.
I named my fists the Two Ronnies because it's goodnight from me and it's goodnight from them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I think we have a winner.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
This is especially true for Right Wing Authoritarian personalities. They prioritize "normal" and feel safest when their choices are simple (or made for them) and conform to the group. That level of comfort is easily threatened. Liberals tend to like novelty and choice and difference. Good video.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is especially true for Right Wing Authoritarian personalities. They prioritize "normal" and feel safest when their choices are simple (or made for them) and conform to the group. That level of comfort is easily threatened. Liberals tend to like novelty and choice and difference. Good video.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
White-tailed deer
Coyote
Thresher shark
Raccoon
Cottontail rabbit
(honorable mention: a possible bobcat, booking it across the street)
White-tailed deer
Coyote
Thresher shark
Raccoon
Cottontail rabbit
(honorable mention: a possible bobcat, booking it across the street)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
White-tailed deer
Coyote
Thresher shark
Raccoon
Cottontail rabbit
(honorable mention: a possible bobcat, booking it across the street)
White-tailed deer
Coyote
Thresher shark
Raccoon
Cottontail rabbit
(honorable mention: a possible bobcat, booking it across the street)
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
I realized today that I'm probably the only person at [redacted] who can read handwriting, which is a *problem* when the work involves the history of specific locations, and manuscript sources about them.
So, the week after next, I'll be getting on a plane and flying to visit an archive where I'll <checks notes> waste my valuable time trying to read some handwritten documents, and you know what? That's totally fine by me.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I realized today that I'm probably the only person at [redacted] who can read handwriting, which is a *problem* when the work involves the history of specific locations, and manuscript sources about them.
Important question: should I rush to make apple cider donuts (in muffin form) for T-day just because I want to?
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Important question: should I rush to make apple cider donuts (in muffin form) for T-day just because I want to?
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
I have achieved perfection, my guesses about how to print this postcard were 100% wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have achieved perfection, my guesses about how to print this postcard were 100% wrong.
2 pages of the 1872 mortality register for Gloucester, MA list the men lost at sea. Here, "Lost in Sch Messenger on Western Banks," 12 men. On the schooner Franklin Snow, 14 men. Two each from the George O. Hovey and the John Smith. On and from the Matchless, 14.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
2 pages of the 1872 mortality register for Gloucester, MA list the men lost at sea. Here, "Lost in Sch Messenger on Western Banks," 12 men. On the schooner Franklin Snow, 14 men. Two each from the George O. Hovey and the John Smith. On and from the Matchless, 14.
I learnt a new word! (zugswang). The rest of this is depressing but convincingly obvious. (To everyone but most economists, apparently.)
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I learnt a new word! (zugswang). The rest of this is depressing but convincingly obvious. (To everyone but most economists, apparently.)
News from October 1872.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
News from October 1872.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
One moment that sticks in my mind from the early Robert B Parker Spenser novels is when Spenser notices an attractive lady and then realizes that she's a teenager. He immediately looks away and banishes her from his mind.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
One moment that sticks in my mind from the early Robert B Parker Spenser novels is when Spenser notices an attractive lady and then realizes that she's a teenager. He immediately looks away and banishes her from his mind.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
Ya know, when non-elite people pull this kind of stuff it's reported as a sign of their moral degeneracy. I guess now we know why.
Keith Olbermann is now also a character in this? The NYT newsroom was apparently Woodstock but with no music and really bad drugs
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ya know, when non-elite people pull this kind of stuff it's reported as a sign of their moral degeneracy. I guess now we know why.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Had a bit of a scare this morning when the dough was in its first proofing and my husband thought the oven was *on* - but all is well.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Had a bit of a scare this morning when the dough was in its first proofing and my husband thought the oven was *on* - but all is well.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
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"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
🔥🔥🔥
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
🔥🔥🔥
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
Reposted by Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
Germansplaining: No, we don't need to study Hitler's DNA
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."