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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD

@klhkhistorian.bsky.social

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Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in arts & humanities communications; public humanities & alt-ac/post-ac advocate; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom. 📍Cville

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 21

In 2005, I found a wooden box tucked under a chair in my grandparents' living room. Inside were letters from the U.S. Civil War. I write about some of them here, and about the cross-generational efforts to save America from those who would destroy it.

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@womenknowhistory.bsky.social

On Mud-Turtles, Flowers, and America

Flowers sent by Charles Wilkins to his sister Henrietta in 1862 In 1842, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne moved into the Old Manse—already a historic building at the time—in Concord, Massachusetts. F…

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 5h

Check out this townhouse rental opportunity in Charlottesville! I can attest that it's a nice neighborhood & Judith is a good landlord. Available Dec. 8.
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

Come be my colleague! RBS is a great place to work!

Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 16h

Rare Book School is searching for a detail-oriented, self-motivated, and forward-thinking full-time Program Manager to assist in facilitating excellent educational programming.

Review of applications begins 30 October.

Details at rarebookschool.org/about-rbs/employment/

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Democrats and a federal union argue that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

FYI: Rev. Black (in the clip above) is one of several clergy who told me they've been shot with pepper balls by agents at that ICE facility, among other things.

Rev. Black now part of a lawsuit over it. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

Why are your healthcare costs higher?
Why is your electricity bill tripled?
Why is everything you buy so much more expensive?
Why are your neighbors gone?
Why can’t your mom get a cancer treatment?

Republicans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 18h

And what’s the bad news?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 22h

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

"Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard.”
William Zinsser, born on this day in 1922

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 19h

I’m supposed to fly this week, and I gotta say I’m not excited about that

Suzanne Kelleher @srkelleher.bsky.social · 1d

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.”

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Overstressed, Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers ‘Aren’t Fit For Duty,’ Says Agency Veteran

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

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savin dos louvadeus 🦗 @savcavalcante.behind.camera · Jul 1

fiquei obcecado, catei um catálogo do cara e vi tudo até esbarrar num louva-a-deus - é CLARO que ia ter um

temos um louvinha, uma efêmera e um inseto imaginário, muito simbolismo rolando

print de uma ilustração de Joris Hoefnagel contando um louva-a-deus verde, uma efêmera e um inseto imaginário que parece um dragãozinho de seus patas e quatro asas; todos em cores e feitos com realismo.

no topo, lê-se em latim:"privs locvsta bovem".

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

US ‘undermining global health’ by threatening to strip funding from aid projects that do not fit its political agenda

Trump administration reported to be planning expansion of ‘global gag rule’ to halt any initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 19h

"An English degree is a rip off" said by the people who are currently ripping everyone off. They don't want you to be literate, to understand the context, the references or the rhetoric they are using to scam you.

A rip off for THEM. If you can read, write and parse meaning, you're harder to fool.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 19h

All desperate to use Chatgpt to write a book so they can say they wrote something but my English degree is the rip off.

Okay sure Jan.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

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KURTZWEIL: Do not sign the Compact

Signing this Compact is a complete submission to federal control over a public university.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Plz note that NOTHING in here or their website when you click on it says "we are taking you to a third party website, and that third party is going to use chatbots and also train their robot on your data."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Y'all even if I trusted LLMS, in the day and age of These Fuckers Being in Charge, I do not want anything to do with my information becoming data they can use. Please stop it.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 19h

Bondi is an immense fucking loser

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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rawkitbawl @rawkitbawl.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't think "Scorched Earth Jimmy Kimmel" was in the realm of possibility.

Yet here we are. I'm now a fan of someone I thought about less than once a year about two months ago.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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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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