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Karl Jacoby
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
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Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Feb 11
A tale of racial passing and the US-Mexico Border

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A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border
The border blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America, something that Americans like William Ellis used to their advantage.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 31m
Oddly, this article did not mention artificial intelligence at all--although one suspects that Harvard students must be using it to do their assignments.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 19h
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 11h
America 2025:
The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1h
Cool, cool--history professor facing right-wing threats of violence has to flee to Europe.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1h
It's notable after all the voices loudly saying Trump should not be prosecuted for his crimes because he would target his political enemies, that there's no argument that Trump should not target political opponents because he will face any consequences. No one thinks he will face consequences.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19h
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 21h
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12h
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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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.
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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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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 16h
Reposting because this ought to get more views.
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 4d
At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
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Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social · Nov 9
For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf!

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Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*
Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centur
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12h
"To bend would also dishonor the legacy of those who did not bend. You got to stand, even when people say sit down."

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d
Gasoline sells at a DEEPLY subsidized rate of 12.3¢ per gallon in Venezuela, but costs more than $4 per gallon in Trinidad which is just six miles away from the coast of Venezuela. There’s a much greater chance that Trump murdered people bootlegging gas than drugs.
globalpetrolprices.com C ① GlobalPetrolPrices.com Countries Gasoline prices Diesel prices LPG prices = Venezuela Gasoline prices, liter, 01-Sep-2025 Venezuela Gasoline prices Liter Gallon VEF 0.840 3.180 USD 0.035 0.132 EUR 0.030 0.114 Venezuela: The price of octane-95 gasoline is 0.84 Venezuelan Bolivar per liter. For comparison, the average price of gasoline in the world for this period is 30.93 Venezuelan Bolivar. The chart below shows the price of gasoline in the country relative to other countries. Use the drop menu to see the prices in gallons. On the graph, the prices for the countries indicated with a * are updated on a weekly basis. The prices for the other countries are updated on a monthly basis because these countries have regulated fuel markets and prices do not change frequently. The subsidized price of 0.1 USD on the chart is for the first 120 liters a month only for people with a valid Fatherland Card. Purchases above 120 liters per month are charged at 0.50 USD per liter. Also, the price listed on this page is the official gasoline price. However, during times of fuel shortages in Venezuela, there is a black market for fuel with prices that can exceed substantially the average international price levels. Download data API Forecast
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spanishNY @spanishny.com · 3d
El Chavo del Ocho
Chaves
Saturday Night Live version
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15h
Does this even come close to offseting the energy spent crushing and transporting the basalt?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h
A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 19h
As far as I am concerned, Zohran is not radical enough: *all* public transit (including the subway) in the city should be free.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h
I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d
Masked Men: Ongoing project of isolating & editing stills from bystander videos of ICE. These agents just fired pepperball at a praying clergyman. Stylizing emphasizes the stylization that fascism seeks, to make it cartoonish or cinematic. An eerie juxtaposition that stresses unnaturalness.
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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d
Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d
One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d
Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 1d
The 'compact' sent to US universities is a fundamental threat to universities and their faculty. It needs more attention and opposition.

@brendannyhan.bsky.social & @lkfazio.bsky.social unpack it here.

Yield and be "forever subservient to the whims of the government"

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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 2d
University general counsel, university trustee, university president
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
“Since this new administration took office, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has increased at triple the normal rate of unemployment."

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.
The human costs of Trump's war on government
For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.
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