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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1h

‘In this afternoon’s performance the role of Évita Peron will be played by the USA’s Attorney General.’
Release the Epstein Files

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14h

Did the FBI find photos of Trump with young women in Epstein’s files?

AG Bondi: *deflects*

Yes or no?

AG Bondi: *crickets*

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1h

Preach.

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 19h

We should have regulated social media like newspapers and other publications, with publishers having to take responsibility for published content, and we wouldn't be in the shit we're in today. Let's not make the same mistake again. Make them pay for content they use.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14h

Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...

Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen

Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1h

In the Olden Days of bad cosmetic surgery, all actors and actresses tended after a while to look like Joan Rivers. In the Age of Killer Christianity, 47's molls all tend toward ICE Barbi after a while: Kind of sandblasted. Melanoma alone maintains the Joan Rivers tradition: Facial paralysis helps.

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1h

Science, as every Republican knows, is a matter of belief.

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1h

We hate the Yankees here in RI and the Canadians did our job for us.

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 8h

Release the Epstein Files yet

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Andrew Sheehy @andrewsheehy228.bsky.social · 9h

The Toronto Blue Jays will host Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday Night at Rogers Centre in Toronto against either the Seattle Mariners or Detroit Tigers. It's a guarantee that the Blue Jays will host a team that is close to the border for their fans to travel.

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 9h

Blue Jays!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 13h

Haverhill.

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 13h

Yes this is real. But don’t expect much help from Ice Barbi, who was unable to explain habeas corpus in her confirmation hearing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20h

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, "you are an illegal rabble rouser who came in from some other country to do us harm. I only heal American citizens."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 19h

Excellent book. Highly recommend. (Sold as Abortion: A History in the UK.)

Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 19h

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 16h

Word.

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d

every recipe can be a one bowl recipe if you're not a coward

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 21h

Obviously, like all ambitious MAGA supporters, a man for all seasons. But not in a nice way.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Before Pete Hegseth Joined Trump’s War on DEI, He Advocated for Educational Equity as a Harvard Student | News | The Harvard Crimson

In his first nine months as Secretary of War, Pete B. Hegseth has railed against “woke garbage” and diversity programs. But in 2013, as a Harvard Kennedy School master’s student, Hegseth advocated for...

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 22h

‘I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man and so’s Lola.’

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 23h

You aren’t alone in knowing this! Mass deportation is the most obvious example of racial hygiene. Major Douche’s ‘Crusader’ Armed Forces is another. That some humans are more worthy of health care and social inclusion than others is indeed the most telling.All done in the name of The Lord of course.

Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is ridiculous. What a wonderful way to demonstrate that. Stay safe and keep laughing at them. Bullies hate that.

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 1d

It's #WorldOctopusDay! These beauties from our collection are both by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800-65).

Octopus vulgaris - the common octopus, which can grow to 9kg and change colour to match its surroundings.

Common octopus with brown and yellow colouring with hints of blue. It has yellow eyes and fills the image.

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t mean to imply you did! But there certainly are a lot of people who do and they have serious problem.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

Love to hear @sethrockman.bsky.social talking about this critical history w @lizcovart.bsky.social

Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 1d

How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?

Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.

🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #MaterialCulture #USHistory #Skystorians

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.

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 1d

Open Access!

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 1d

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 1d

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

awesome job lol

H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 1d

FEATURED JOB: Historian, International Spy Museum - District of Columbia, United States

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69269/i...

#edusky #academicsky #history #education

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

I've long been obsessed with government documents. What do they communicate and to whom, how and when and by whom were they printed and circulated? The @jcblibrary.bsky.social has a terrific collection of the many printed journals of Congress, fr 1774. Started a weekly series on IG to discuss. 🤓

Title page of Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress held at Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Philadelphia May 10, 1775. Tattered, with an image of three fellas wearing swords in a circle.

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