Jurretta Heckscher
@jurretta.bsky.social
Cultural historian & writer; ret. Early American Specialist, Main Reading Rm., Lib. of Congress. Orthodox Christian; politics follow Matt. 25:31-46. Lover of arts & natural world (N. America & Brit. Isles). Stop climate change, or little else will matter.
Pinned
A tragically premature loss. Peace to all who love her. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35
www.bbc.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A tragically premature loss. Peace to all who love her. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Merry Christmas, everyone— and joy to all, whether or not you celebrate the feast!
Don’t forget to feed your animals first tonight, since they came first to the manger (Russian folk tradition).
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Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Don’t forget to feed your animals first tonight, since they came first to the manger (Russian folk tradition).
bsky.app/profile/anto...
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone— and joy to all, whether or not you celebrate the feast!
Don’t forget to feed your animals first tonight, since they came first to the manger (Russian folk tradition).
bsky.app/profile/anto...
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Don’t forget to feed your animals first tonight, since they came first to the manger (Russian folk tradition).
bsky.app/profile/anto...
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
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Christmas Eve, John Everett Millais, 1887. ~ a favourite of mine.
December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Christmas Eve, John Everett Millais, 1887. ~ a favourite of mine.
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😝😝😝🤣🤣🤣
Donald Trump, the whole world is laughing at you now.
Donald Trump, the whole world is laughing at you now.
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
😝😝😝🤣🤣🤣
Donald Trump, the whole world is laughing at you now.
Donald Trump, the whole world is laughing at you now.
So, they went ahead with this noisome policy even after claiming they’d backed off it. But no: apparently it’s too important.
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So, they went ahead with this noisome policy even after claiming they’d backed off it. But no: apparently it’s too important.
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
Really nice surprise to catch @agordonreed.bsky.social on CNN with Anderson Cooper just now, cutting to the heart of the matter, as usual.
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Really nice surprise to catch @agordonreed.bsky.social on CNN with Anderson Cooper just now, cutting to the heart of the matter, as usual.
Have historians made a huge mistake? We assume we know how people felt in past times: pretty much the way we would under the same circumstances. These maverick scholars make a powerful case that our assumption is fundamentally unwarranted.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Have historians made a huge mistake? We assume we know how people felt in past times: pretty much the way we would under the same circumstances. These maverick scholars make a powerful case that our assumption is fundamentally unwarranted.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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NEW: Infectious diseases like malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose a major challenge to global health.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led
www.ox.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: Infectious diseases like malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose a major challenge to global health.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
The study warns that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create a rising crisis - a potential 'creeping catastrophe' if ignored.
Busted!
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Busted!
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What if Mamdani was *too* charming and Trump starts calling him all the time and inviting him to parties at Mar A Lago and he has to go hang out with him constantly because otherwise Trump will nuke NYC.
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What if Mamdani was *too* charming and Trump starts calling him all the time and inviting him to parties at Mar A Lago and he has to go hang out with him constantly because otherwise Trump will nuke NYC.
So it’s now okay to display swastikas and nooses in the Coast Guard.
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So it’s now okay to display swastikas and nooses in the Coast Guard.
Oh, no.
From the Washington Post:
From the Washington Post:
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh, no.
From the Washington Post:
From the Washington Post:
Morning on North Carolina’s Outer Banks….
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Morning on North Carolina’s Outer Banks….
Was I the only one who read this headline and thought, “What?!? The music he wrote is glorious!”
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Was I the only one who read this headline and thought, “What?!? The music he wrote is glorious!”
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November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Beautiful Tulip Staircase at the Queen’s House in London
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Beautiful Tulip Staircase at the Queen’s House in London
I did not know that Oxford now has a center (centre) called the Environmental Humanities Research Hub.
Its existence delights me.
Its existence delights me.
Our inaugural flagship lecture with @brdemuth.bsky.social was an absolute banger: co-working between humans and dogs, fish who punish humans for their hubris, and the political work of advocating for a transboundary landscape caught in the cross-hairs of US-Canada relations. We all learned so much.
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I did not know that Oxford now has a center (centre) called the Environmental Humanities Research Hub.
Its existence delights me.
Its existence delights me.
Women guarding the Earth! What a powerful inspiration!
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her woo...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Women guarding the Earth! What a powerful inspiration!
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indi...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indi...
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"Traditional" cultural criticism feels like a dying art, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily. He talks with Spencer Kornhaber about where the medium goes from here:
The Forces Changing Music and Film Criticism
The industry is being transformed in the era of YouTube video essays and TikTok screeds.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"Traditional" cultural criticism feels like a dying art, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily. He talks with Spencer Kornhaber about where the medium goes from here:
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What makes Canadians different?
Here's an example: excited fans celebrate the Blue Jays' victory by pouring onto one of the busiest intersections in our biggest city (Toronto), then politely moving to the sidewalks to allow traffic to continue by unimpeded.
Here's an example: excited fans celebrate the Blue Jays' victory by pouring onto one of the busiest intersections in our biggest city (Toronto), then politely moving to the sidewalks to allow traffic to continue by unimpeded.
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
What makes Canadians different?
Here's an example: excited fans celebrate the Blue Jays' victory by pouring onto one of the busiest intersections in our biggest city (Toronto), then politely moving to the sidewalks to allow traffic to continue by unimpeded.
Here's an example: excited fans celebrate the Blue Jays' victory by pouring onto one of the busiest intersections in our biggest city (Toronto), then politely moving to the sidewalks to allow traffic to continue by unimpeded.