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Todd Moye
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 4m
[October] gurls do so much
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 14h
Trump has gotta be pissed that he didn’t think of that one.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 1d
This was the girlfriend of the founder of antifa. 🗃️ www.nps.gov/people/margu...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 3d
It's October 7, so it's almost time for them to insist on wearing shorts then complain that the car seats are too cold.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 7d
The point is that there are no places that are free from this madness unless everyone fights back in solidarity.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 7d
And go where, Florida? UNC? Columbia? Better to stay and fight.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8d
All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 9d
UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org

AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 13d
🗣️🗣️What is happening at Texas Tech is part of a national campaign to erase the existence of trans people. Faculty and academic leaders across the country must stand up now: this suppression of #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom will not be confined to Texas!

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...
Texas Tech’s limits on gender identity discussion deepen fears of politics breaching academic freedom
Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.
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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 15d
POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
Cover of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 14d
Falcons fans: But it’s a dry heat.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 15d
The best negotiating tactics are the negotiating tactics you announce are negotiating tactics. That’s the art of the deal.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15d
President Trump’s furious rhetoric toward Russia is “a negotiating tactic” intended to pressure the Kremlin, a White House official said, a day after Trump delighted Ukrainian leaders by embracing Kyiv’s ambitions for a defeat of Russia.
Trump’s blast toward Russia is a ‘negotiating tactic,’ White House says
The president’s escalation in rhetoric is a marker of Trump’s frustration toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a senior White House official.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 15d
I’m so fortunate to have had Bill Leuchtenburg in my life, and I’m honored to help extend his legacy with a donation to the WEL Fund at UNC Press. Please join me in donating, and support the kind of public-facing scholarship he championed.
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 15d
"I can't think of a better way to honor Dr. Leuchtenburg's scholarship, mentorship, and friendship than by donating to the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund.” @moye.bsky.social
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 15d
Texas AAUP-AFT’s open letter to administrators
Upholding Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom & Due Process
WEB SITE: aaup-texas.org
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 17d
News you can use
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d
A dog in Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" has long delighted viewers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Now, researchers say they’ve solved the mystery of what inspired the furry figure.
What’s the Dog in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’? A Longtime Mystery Is Solved.
What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 19d
a mascot in a green and yellow outfit is walking on a football field
ALT: a mascot in a green and yellow outfit is walking on a football field
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 25d
Look at our Mean Green
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 26d
I’m in Krakow for a conference, and I can already tell that the score at the end of the week is going to be
The Polish Language 962
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
About 200 people, including 50+ high school students, helped celebrate. I’m so fortunate that I got to participate.
It reminded me that this work matters. A lot.

Shouts out to the great community of Indianola and the wonderful folks at the Mississippi Humanities Council who made this possible!
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
In the medical literature, Dr. Battle is remembered for successfully delivering conjoined twins at their home in Indianola at a time when conjoined twins usually died. Lydia and Linda attended the unveiling yesterday. They turn 70 on Sunday—and they should have their own tv show. They’re hilarious.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
It honors Dr. Clinton Battle, an important and hitherto unrecognized civil organizer who was also a wunderkind of a family practitioner.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
Last year the NAACP chapter in Indianola, the county seat, applied for a historic marker from the state’s Freedom Trail program, and they asked me to write the text for it. It was approved, and they unveiled it yesterday.
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
I wrote my dissertation and first book 20+ years ago about the civil rights movement in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Fortunately, people there liked it. (Black people, at least. White folks… less so.)
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Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · 27d
It felt very meaningful to be doing it this week, for me at least. Here’s why:
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 27d
It does feel meaningful to be teaching history right now. We do what we can.
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Ben Johnson @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 28d
5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1

www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...
OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”OAH | OAH Issues Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”
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