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Dr. Antje Gamble

@drantjegamble.bsky.social

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Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · Oct 18

Holy new followers batman!
Welcome everyone!
I’m an art historian, who also organizes with her UCW chapter. I research Italian modern art stuff and exhibitions (check out my book 📕). I post about politics and academia and art and whatever strikes me.
Be chill or be blocked ✌🏼

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 6h

Nearly 100,000 Kentuckians who signed up for health insurance through the state exchange (kynect) will likely have to grapple with increased health insurance premiums, as federal tax credits for Affordable Care Act plans are set expire at the end of the year. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org

Nearly 100K Kentuckians could see higher health insurance premiums

Kentuckians who get their health insurance through the state exchange will likely see their premiums go up if enhanced federal tax credits tied to the Affordable Care Act expire at the year’s end.

www.lpm.org

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 6h

Me reading another article uncritically stating that “90% of US farms are small farms & approximately 99% of them are family farms”.
- Many small farms are residential operations often used to reduce taxes;
- Family farms can be owned by individuals or corporations, the term is meaningless.

a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

ALT: a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 6h

This is actually an important point. Often fascist identify real problems correctly, but then they blame the scapegoat instead of the actual cause.

Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 6h

Fox news is on the tv at the car dealership (I’m getting an oil change). I rarely see this. They are *so close* to the point (they are talking about the California fires). It would be funny if they weren’t actively working to dismantle democracy.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 21h

The millennial mantra

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 19h

These were the days. If you know, you know.

Image of Homestar Runner (cartoon dude in blue hat and red shirt that has a white star on it).

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 20h

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has issued a report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The report highlights the catastrophic impact of the ongoing genocide on healthcare, with hospitals under siege, clinicians working without basic supplies or power, and at least 772

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 21h

Dolly rules and non parents probably won't know this, but she has a book club for little kids and she will just send them books for free. my kids have loved them. it's a good excuse to stop doing something and just hang out and read a book with them.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s where to go vote.gov #registertovote 🗳️

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

"Dozens of rare Jewish religious books, some believed to have belonged to the legendary Library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, were recently discovered in the basement of a Jewish-owned building near the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw." www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...

Rare pre-Holocaust Jewish books found in Warsaw basement

Books bearing stamps from the legendary Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva—lost during the Holocaust—were found in poor condition in Warsaw; Polish experts are working to preserve the mold- and fungus-damaged te...

www.ynetnews.com

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 1d

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

benfranklinsworld.com

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 2d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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👻darth jericho👻 @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 1d

just out: some thoughts about "global early modern art history" in the context of two recent very important books published by @psupress.bsky.social including a banger by our own @periodeye.bsky.social (even tho I had beef with the title my excitement is abundant)

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The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe, by Stephanie Porras; and A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600, by Alessandra Russo

Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 107, No. 2, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Jan-Werner Müller: Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them.

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 1d

This is another reason visual literacy is so important in our image heavy world. This is a 30 year old image. Even if you didn’t know that starting out, there are tells (just like with ai). When’s the last time you saw a newly painted payphone sign? Or gas under $3? Even the image quality is a tell.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · 1d

We just got a $50 a month increase this year.

Really sick of having to pay through the nose for the power needs of multi billion dollar companies.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 2d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 1d

If we don’t stop frump/miller/etc, this will become common here too. (Mussolini also had people thrown out windows.)

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Mysterious

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window

The veteran publisher died on Saturday. Police are investigating the 'strange death'.

metro.co.uk

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

History, Literature, Art History

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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