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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯)

@profbrooks.bsky.social

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Historian, active voice extremist, lack of influencer, and author of some books about US, Chinese, and Asian American history. Forthcoming in 2026: The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 23h

Questions/inquiries =objects now?

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Vet’s daughter here. That is far too polite. I have only expletives.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 3d

@nytimes.com really reporting the most important story of the day here. I’m expecting multiple pieces on Joe Biden’s mental acuity too.🙄

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 4d

Also, women people BAD. Not even people!

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 4d

Millard Fillmore is the real problem—everyone knows that.

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 4d

Also, an Adams endorsement is not really a plus—corrupt sellout endorses sex pest sellout

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 8d

On to you, @governor.ny.gov. CUNY and SUNY need you to say “hell, no”

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

Yes. One description fits Vance in particular, and others ring true

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe time to “pause” our blue state taxes.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 10d

If government workers need to be fired during the shutdown here are six candidates

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

I was told that TikTok would be helpful in promoting my book. I found it so unappealing that I deleted my account just days after I posted for the first time. It’s like the child of Crazy Eddie and ShamWow

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

Also extra points for a baseless lie that is racist

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 11d

From Secretary of Defense to Secretary of War Crimes

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 11d

Next week: Newt on family values…

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 12d

Sand in the gears—that’s exactly what all of us can and should do now

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

Also he doesn’t give a damn about women’s health. Or healthcare—unless he can find a way to rip it away from vulnerable people

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

Good lord. We are trying to indoctrinate them in writing full sentences and doing the reading.

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 17d

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 17d

Wow, thanks for sharing. I met him as a very young Asia Society Hong Kong Centre program assistant 30+ years ago.

Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 19d

At my grandmother’s funeral, the minister went on and on about how she had long ago accepted Christ as her personal lord and savior—which was sort of funny for an atheist. Her brother’s wife, a hardcore evangelical, had arranged the service to get the result she had been attempting for years

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 19d

In between everything else in the world, I have a book coming out with @ucpress.bsky.social. Preorder is available now for The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution, a family saga of six Chinese American siblings and their spouses.

The Moys of New York and Shanghai by Charlotte Brooks - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · 20d

The guy who claims that immigrants are inherently criminal.