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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, Amazon is convenient. But in this racist capitalist dystopia, $$ talks. So maybe stop giving billionaires your bucks until he pays all his workers living wages and changes his exploitative monopolistic business model. That’s my 2 cents.

Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5h

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 5h

I have been Amazon free for almost a full year. No Audible, no Prime Video, no Prime Day buying.

For my audiobooks - essential to my daily commute - I switched to libro.fm. 10/10 recommend. If you use my referral code, I get a free book! libro.fm/referral?rf_...

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you all! I think that's exactly it!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 9h

It's from a mental hospital intake form!

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 10h

Help? Trying to figure out what the two words bracketed in red are. The rest of the clip says

Physically underdeveloped
______________ -- No development
secondary sex. characteristics

Any guesses?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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SCARE-in Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 19h

Hell yeah, roller derby fighting transphobic laws. How inclusive our local league is makes it so welcoming.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 19h

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

apnews.com/article/n...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now.

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 19h

A week from today, @historians.org is holding a History Behind the Headlines webinar on the history of government shutdowns and the budget. Free and open to the public, so please share with friends, family, students, and whoever else wants to know how we got to this point in Washington. 🗃️

History Behind the Headlines: Government Shutdowns and the Federal Budget – AHA

Threats of a US government shutdown have become a staple of the federal budget process during the past few decades. In this hour-long History Behind the Headlines webinar, hear leading scholars discus...

www.historians.org

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 1d

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate abortion and reproductive health care despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023 ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/08/o...

Ohio Republican lawmakers look to regulate abortion, push against constitutional amendment • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate abortion and reproductive health care despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 2d

Can anyone recommend some histories of old age and the body, specifically those that look at leakiness and focus on the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries? Aware of stuff on the menopause but want to check I'm not missing something!

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 7d

This is how you journalism

Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 9d

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

www.wbez.org

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 10d

When the House of Guinness comes knocking, I guess I answer?

Or at least reporters writing on it www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/h...

House of Guinness' same-sex relationships and real history explored

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to one historian about same-sex romance in 1880s Dublin

www.mirror.co.uk

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Dig: A History Podcast @dig-history.bsky.social · 11d

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition

How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a…

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition

How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confessed witch? Does the suggestion conjure visions of fire, torture, and lots of murdered women? You aren’t alone - but this is a history we definitely need to unpack. Transcript for: Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inquisition Researched and written by Averill Earls, PhD…

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 14d

The minimum number of vaccines in order to attend school in Ohio through 12th grade without an exemption (not counting combination products):

Hep B - 3
Varivax - 2
MMR - 2
IPV (polio) - 3
DTaP - 4
Tdap -1
Meningitis - 2
Total - 17

Not required:
Hib, Prevnar, HPV, Hep A, Rota, MenB, Flu, Covid

A tweet from DefiantL's:

RFK Jr: "A compliant child must take between 69 and 92 vaccines to stay in school in some states, and not one of them has been safety tested in a pre-licensing placebo-controlled trial. And that is just malpractice."

There is an image Of RFK Jr wearing a suit while speaking on CSPAN.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15d

i think trans people should be able to piss and shit in whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable using without harassment or restriction and also i think if you are a uk politician the definition of bathroom should be expanded to include your entire home and office

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Ugly Mugs Ireland @uglymugsie.bsky.social · 19d

Thankfully a history has been written @aearls.bsky.social

Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972

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Dig: A History Podcast @dig-history.bsky.social · 20d

We're officially members of the very cool #Amplify network - joining a small group of scholars with a collective commitment to the Mandate of the Amplify project: open scholarship and critical pedagogy rooted in anti-racism and feminist social justice. www.amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/sustain-stream

Sustain Stream — Amplify Podcast Network

www.amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27d

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 29d

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...

White and purple cover of Averill Earls' book "Love in the Lav"

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 29d

Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!

New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 29d

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · Sep 9

Somehow I've written / edited three books that've all been published within 11 months. So here's #3: It’s Here! The Nursing Clio Reader Is Available Now! nursingclio.org/2025/09/09/i...

It’s Here! The Nursing Clio Reader Is Available Now!

Today, Nursing Clio publishes its first book, The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice, with Rutgers University Press. Below we are sharing the preface for the book, whi…

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICYMI: A recording of our book event yesterday with @aearls.bsky.social is now available to view on our Youtube channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-1...

You can also check out recordings of our past events on our website here: www.nacbs.org/event-record...

Love in the Lav with Averill Earls

YouTube video by North American Conference on British Studies

www.youtube.com

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