Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD
@kuehlerwalters.bsky.social
aka @KatinSATX. Historian, researcher, editor, educator, & museum & archive worker. Studies race & gender in US South & Texas, structural racism & violence, Black activism, TX 20s Klan, & voting rights.
Views expressed here are my own. RT≠endorsement.
Views expressed here are my own. RT≠endorsement.
Make this happen. Hear me out—this might help my parents & others dissociate MAGA with the Reagan-era GOP that forms their core political identity. Chip away at their party allegiance to a party that no longer exists.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Make this happen. Hear me out—this might help my parents & others dissociate MAGA with the Reagan-era GOP that forms their core political identity. Chip away at their party allegiance to a party that no longer exists.
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“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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Who controls the past
The BBC is restricting access to its archives
app.the-tls.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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"Universities must resist the temptation to reduce the library to a digital archive and study space and ensure that these structures remain spaces for rigorous research, critical reading, intellectual discovery and knowledge creation, rather than just digital repositories or study halls."
"...what I am witnessing is the unfortunate proletarianization of the library profession, with access to tenure increasingly restricted and librarians being treated as peripheral to the academic mission."
Lots to think about. Read more: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Lots to think about. Read more: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
What’s gained, what’s lost in the evolving university library
What’s gained, what’s lost.
www.insidehighered.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Universities must resist the temptation to reduce the library to a digital archive and study space and ensure that these structures remain spaces for rigorous research, critical reading, intellectual discovery and knowledge creation, rather than just digital repositories or study halls."
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AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->
www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing
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This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
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Mappy Geography Awareness Week! 🗺️
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mappy Geography Awareness Week! 🗺️
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
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Great article on images of Boston Massacre and how abolitionists added Attucks back in: daily.jstor.org/crispus-attu... #HATM
Crispus Attucks Needs No Introduction. Or Does He? - JSTOR Daily
The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.
daily.jstor.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The unemployment rate exists, but the White House is going to pretend its unfavorable results don't exist.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The unemployment rate exists, but the White House is going to pretend its unfavorable results don't exist.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Lines at food banks are long—filled with everyday Americans including military families—and one man can be a trillionaire?
If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
This is his part-time job
This is his part-time job
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Lines at food banks are long—filled with everyday Americans including military families—and one man can be a trillionaire?
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Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
This is featured on the official White House website.
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
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I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
Reposted by Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD
Reposted by Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD
We all pay for Trump’s scam
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We all pay for Trump’s scam
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
This is concerning—especially with redistricting & conservative intimidation & consolidation of many mainstream media sources, including TikTok.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official
abcnews.go.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is concerning—especially with redistricting & conservative intimidation & consolidation of many mainstream media sources, including TikTok.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
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We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.
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I'll note here that Clinton County Jail has been holding ICE detainees since February. The jail probably holds around 20 people on behalf of ICE right now.
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
September 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'll note here that Clinton County Jail has been holding ICE detainees since February. The jail probably holds around 20 people on behalf of ICE right now.
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
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WATCH - @kylie-oversen.bsky.social : “SNAP benefits are being cut (by the Trump regime). To stop taking this hunger data now is an effort to hide the impact these cuts will have on families that need this food assistance… rural communities are often hit most hard.”
September 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WATCH - @kylie-oversen.bsky.social : “SNAP benefits are being cut (by the Trump regime). To stop taking this hunger data now is an effort to hide the impact these cuts will have on families that need this food assistance… rural communities are often hit most hard.”
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Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about!
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about!
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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NBC News confirms: JD Vance will meet tonight at his residence with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top Trump officials to discuss the Epstein scandal. @msnbc.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I hate everything about this, but WHY THE COMMA?!??!
DHS is still promoting “heritage” and manifest destiny themes on social media.
July 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I hate everything about this, but WHY THE COMMA?!??!
I’m beginning to think this guy is actually a full-size, hand-up-the-back, muppet-style puppet.
Bessent: "Newspapers like the Wall Street Journal are not used to a high-functioning executive president. They are used to perhaps President Obama, who was not as economically sophisticated as President Trump."
July 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m beginning to think this guy is actually a full-size, hand-up-the-back, muppet-style puppet.