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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 9h

Can you imagine the tripe! Very true.

Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 10h

Nothing to say except solidarity😩

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 1d

Dictation keeps producing "merkey" instead of MURKY. What are we doing here, Apple

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!!!!! 🥳

Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 2d

Alternative title for this book that I'm working on is definitely "95,000 rabbit holes" #skystorians 🗃️🥴

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 5d

secondhand on RealReal, sorting low to high 😆

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 6d

I know this is not exactly what you're asking for, but Keegan Boyar's dissertation on the history of policing in Mexico, “Ordering the Unruly City" (University of Chicago, 2022) is completely brilliant.

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful references! Many thanks!

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 8d

Not only does that argument fail kindergarten morality, as you note... Who has time before class? You literally have time as you're finishing class. WIPE IT. A curious student will come up and ask a question at the same time. Two birds, etc.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 8d

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 8d

ohhhhhhh.... 😵‍💫 so that's why

Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 8d

Unreasonably excited for a title to pass on every time someone romanticizes piracy (on top of the beautiful writing and research)!

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 11d

Dictation also does not know the word ENTENTE and not for lack of trying

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12d

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11d

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish

"That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

www.reuters.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 13d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 14d

Very interesting discussion!

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 15d

Unlawfully detained for 2+ months in an Eswatini prison with no charge, no counsel.

The Legal Aid Society @legalaidnyc.bsky.social · 15d

A Major Victory: Orville Etoria Is Free.

We’re relieved to share that Orville Etoria has been released from an Eswatini prison and safely returned to Jamaica.

More: legalaidnyc.org/news/orville...

Orville Etoria Released From African Jail, Returned to Jamaica

The United States government had deported Orville Etoria, who has Jamaican citizenship, to a prison in Eswatini, a country he had never been to and with which he had no ties.

legalaidnyc.org

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 15d

Yay, the void is perforated! Heh. So far, I've found great-looking books by Angela Pulley Hudson and Karl Jacoby on passing as someone else, but nothing about fraud or spectacular thievery yet. Hopefully others will chime in. 🗃️

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 15d

And a related query - writing about famous criminals or street legends (excluding murderers), 1860-1910? 🗃️

Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 15d

hey, void! Historiography on Gilded Age frauds and tricksters?

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 15d

and the automatic 8-pt spacing 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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