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Ann Youngblood Mulhearn
@aym42.bsky.social
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historian | writer | political gadfly

short, loud, and opinionated

(opinions expressed here are my own)
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He got rolled. #trumptarriffs #resists #nogaslighting
Image from MeidasTouch showing how Trump caved on tariffs after markets nose-dived: Mexico and Canada did not agree to do anything they weren't already doing.
February 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Tennessee is a bellwether. We need to stop this. Now.
February 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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The winner of the 2024 election was apathy. (Assuming these stats are correct.) #notamandate #resist
Graph showing that 38% of eligible voters did not vote. That is the largest share of the electorate.
January 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#thismachinekillsfascists #woodyguthrie #resist
"This Machine Engages Fascists in Respectful Debate" said no Woody Guthrie Guitar Ever
January 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed her cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump." from @borowitzreport.bsky.social newsletter.
Ann Telnaes. Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed this cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump.
January 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Unearthed as I declutterred my desk to start the new academic year. #messy #skystorians
30 Day Declutter Challenge Checklist
January 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"The real tragedy here? This isn’t a revolution; it’s a full-scale retreat—into misinformation, self-serving delusions, and the comforting fantasy that ignorance is strength. You didn’t save the Republic; you handed it over for a slogan scribbled by a snake oil salesman." #politics #resist
pic of FB post by Carlston Floyd that says, "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s greatest trick isn’t just peddling anti-vaccine propaganda or dabbling in conspiracy theories—it’s convincing a nation awash in white-trash bravado that his snake oil is a cure for their self-inflicted woes. The same America that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump—the self-proclaimed savior of the "forgotten man"—has now found its intellectual soulmate in Kennedy. From claiming vaccines cause autism to inventing COVID-19 ethnic targeting, Kennedy’s platform isn’t just medically illiterate; it’s a masterclass in rebranding ignorance as enlightenment. His anti-vaccine crusade, dressed up as rugged individualism, has cost lives while lining the pockets of the very elites he rails against. Whether you’re chugging raw milk or worshiping at the altar of ivermectin, Kennedy’s America is a place where science is optional, and stupidity is a badge of honor. Let’s not kid ourselves—this isn’t some fringe movement; it’s a nationwide plunge into the white-trash ethos of trading principles for paranoia, truth for cheap conspiracies, and progress for the illusion of rebellion. Figures like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel fueled the fire, banking on the public’s willingness to abandon democracy and public health for a fleeting sense of defiance against the imaginary “elites.” And then there’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., peddling not solutions but scapegoats, spinning tales of fluoride conspiracies and Nazi-era analogies for basic health measures. The real tragedy here? This isn’t a revolution; it’s a full-scale retreat—into misinformation, self-serving delusions, and the comforting fantasy that ignorance is strength. You didn’t save the Republic; you handed it over for a slogan scribbled by a snake oil salesman."
December 7, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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I feel this to deep down in my teacher soul. AI is just the new essay/test bank on fraternity row. #skystorians
carton from bizarro.com "Advanced A.I." It depicts a robot selling an essay to a student in a dark alley. The robot says, "No one will suspect. I threw in some typos and bad formatting."
December 3, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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This. All of this. #skytorians #history
Image of a older tweet from Dr. Jaqueline Antonovich: "Like many historians, I cringe when I hear people saying, "This is not who we are." Because historically, it is who we are. Again and again. I think it's better to day, "This is not who I want us to be." And then ask yourself what you can do to change that?"
December 2, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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It's a little more philosophical than I anticipated but actually really accessible. Well, as accessible as the the idea of subjective truth can be. :)
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)
November 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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All the best people are #antifascist
I think I knew first what side I was on when I was about five years old, at which time nobody was safe from buffaloes. It was in a brownstone house in New York, and there was a blizzard, and my rich aunt--a horrible woman then and now--had come to visit. I remember going to the window and seeing the street with the men shoveling snow; their hands were purple on their shovels, and their feet were wrapped with burlap. And my aunt, looking over her shoulder, said, "Now isn't this nice that there's this blizzard. Now all those men have work." And I knew then that it was not nice that men could work for their lives only in desperate weather, that there was no work for them in fair. That was when I became anti-fascist, at the silky tones of my rich and comfortable aunt. - Dorothy Parker, "Not Enough,"1939
November 15, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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This is surprising considering how we constantly hear that the federal bureaucracy is stifling growth and innovation.
chart depicting the decline of the size of government (local, state, and federal) since 1939. 1.9% of total employment for federal government and 14.8% for all governments - the lowest since 1957. Originally a post from Guy Berger
November 14, 2024 at 5:23 PM