Professor KPA 🗃️😷
@kpanyc.bsky.social
Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
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if one journalist involved in this had been willing to do actual journalism RFK might really not have been confirmed.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
if one journalist involved in this had been willing to do actual journalism RFK might really not have been confirmed.
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I posted something similar earlier. Peaceful protesters have danced, wore funny costumes, made certain their protests are peaceful. Trump getting impatient to declare martial law, so orchestrates this shooting.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I posted something similar earlier. Peaceful protesters have danced, wore funny costumes, made certain their protests are peaceful. Trump getting impatient to declare martial law, so orchestrates this shooting.
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
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Wild how we have studies to show that hoarding wealth and being ultra rich literally poisons your brain, and we can observe how selfish behavior is treated in other species (literal shit like banishment, murder, coups) but in humans we have to remind others how dangerous it is for us to let happen
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Wild how we have studies to show that hoarding wealth and being ultra rich literally poisons your brain, and we can observe how selfish behavior is treated in other species (literal shit like banishment, murder, coups) but in humans we have to remind others how dangerous it is for us to let happen
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I'm going to share this classic from 2019.
It was created on that other site by a Wall Street Quant, and from what happened since, it looks to be incredibly accurate.
#JeffreyEpstein
#Epsteintapes
#Republicans
It was created on that other site by a Wall Street Quant, and from what happened since, it looks to be incredibly accurate.
#JeffreyEpstein
#Epsteintapes
#Republicans
July 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm going to share this classic from 2019.
It was created on that other site by a Wall Street Quant, and from what happened since, it looks to be incredibly accurate.
#JeffreyEpstein
#Epsteintapes
#Republicans
It was created on that other site by a Wall Street Quant, and from what happened since, it looks to be incredibly accurate.
#JeffreyEpstein
#Epsteintapes
#Republicans
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Reminder that the president of the united states can't read.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Reminder that the president of the united states can't read.
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I'm going to say something that is going to sound brutal and cause a lot of people to unfollow or unfriend me.
They never should have deployed or obeyed illegal orders. I have no sympathy for them.
They never should have deployed or obeyed illegal orders. I have no sympathy for them.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'm going to say something that is going to sound brutal and cause a lot of people to unfollow or unfriend me.
They never should have deployed or obeyed illegal orders. I have no sympathy for them.
They never should have deployed or obeyed illegal orders. I have no sympathy for them.
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I avoid my email bc I get a lot of hate mail. My assistant is going through my inbox + organizing it for me. She just texted to say ONE dude has sent me 250+ hate emails this year and should she give him his own folder. 😫
How sad and scared and powerless these dudes must feel.
How sad and scared and powerless these dudes must feel.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I avoid my email bc I get a lot of hate mail. My assistant is going through my inbox + organizing it for me. She just texted to say ONE dude has sent me 250+ hate emails this year and should she give him his own folder. 😫
How sad and scared and powerless these dudes must feel.
How sad and scared and powerless these dudes must feel.
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I found it too and my jaw is on the floor. If it’s true, how did he sit on it for a year (during which RFK Jr was confirmed at HHS)?
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I found it too and my jaw is on the floor. If it’s true, how did he sit on it for a year (during which RFK Jr was confirmed at HHS)?
Very familiar in academia
nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Very familiar in academia
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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What I'm saying is that, even with the best intentions and no intended malice, this app (and others like it) don't usually lead to efficient or productive conversation.
Simply because we're adding to seemingly joint discourses while in reality very few people have the same baseline.
Simply because we're adding to seemingly joint discourses while in reality very few people have the same baseline.
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
What I'm saying is that, even with the best intentions and no intended malice, this app (and others like it) don't usually lead to efficient or productive conversation.
Simply because we're adding to seemingly joint discourses while in reality very few people have the same baseline.
Simply because we're adding to seemingly joint discourses while in reality very few people have the same baseline.
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What fucking workload?
When was the last time a Republican successfully introduced, negotiated for, and advanced viable policy? When was the last time a Republican lawyer belonging to a government designed by and built for lawyers tried to write needed legislation for the good of the 99 percent?
When was the last time a Republican successfully introduced, negotiated for, and advanced viable policy? When was the last time a Republican lawyer belonging to a government designed by and built for lawyers tried to write needed legislation for the good of the 99 percent?
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
What fucking workload?
When was the last time a Republican successfully introduced, negotiated for, and advanced viable policy? When was the last time a Republican lawyer belonging to a government designed by and built for lawyers tried to write needed legislation for the good of the 99 percent?
When was the last time a Republican successfully introduced, negotiated for, and advanced viable policy? When was the last time a Republican lawyer belonging to a government designed by and built for lawyers tried to write needed legislation for the good of the 99 percent?
All that not knowing anything or seeing anything is hard work, apparently.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
All that not knowing anything or seeing anything is hard work, apparently.
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When Democrats propose a bill limiting the President’s power to deploy National Guard troops on US soil they should name the act after the guardsmen who tragically lost their lives today because of Trump’s capricious decision to deploy them to DC for no good reason.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
When Democrats propose a bill limiting the President’s power to deploy National Guard troops on US soil they should name the act after the guardsmen who tragically lost their lives today because of Trump’s capricious decision to deploy them to DC for no good reason.
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National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
National Guard soldiers didn't sign up to be deployed as local police indefinitely as part of someone else's political stunt.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
They're not set up to be local police, they never should have been deployed.
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TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
Regimes of state repression & violence breed violence every damn time without fail.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Now I know a colleague in my field used ChatGPT for a rec letter and I'm so grossed out. Also, the letter is BAD. So bad. Sounds like it was written by a 10-yr-old. Who does this? How do they have jobs when so many real scholars don't? 🤮
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Now I know a colleague in my field used ChatGPT for a rec letter and I'm so grossed out. Also, the letter is BAD. So bad. Sounds like it was written by a 10-yr-old. Who does this? How do they have jobs when so many real scholars don't? 🤮
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
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Pretty wild to make it so the *only* conclusion people could honestly trust is the most damning one.
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Pretty wild to make it so the *only* conclusion people could honestly trust is the most damning one.
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Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had her nephew's mother deported right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother.