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Liz Loveland

@lizlgenealogy.bsky.social

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Historian & pro genealogist originally trained in anthro & archaeology. M.A. in History of the Family. Some of my research interests—slavery in northern colonies/US, early modern era, women's history, African-American history, genocide. Travel, art history

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're ever feeling helpless with a few minutes to spare and are decent at reading old handwriting, may I suggest you channel your helpless feelings into indexing a few cards for this project making documents on the victims of Nazi persecution more accessible: arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...

#everynamecounts | Arolsen Archives

#everynamecounts is a crowdsourcing initiative of the Arolsen Archives: In cooperation with hundreds of thousands of volunteers throughout the world, we’re building a digital memorial to the victims o...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 8h

this is truly good news. what a relief!

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

The latest news from colonial Boston.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 23h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 1d

I want to hear from you. Tell me in the replies how Trump's cuts, corruption, and chaos are impacting you.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 11h

Well, the international press cares...

Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 20h

As usual these days, so glad I stopped to check my notifications while in the middle of doing something else 🫠

Screenshot of a push notification:

“Breaking News
8m ago
Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed”

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11h

Really alarming -- a move designed to subvert democracy and local sovereignty. I think these threats to jail politicians are not evoking the concern they should (esp among politicians!).
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor

The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.

www.wsj.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 12h

Florida Highway Patrol said this back over the summer -- people who stare at a cop OR who look away; if you speed up OR slow down; if you look TOO relaxed or TOO anxious.

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 12h

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 18h

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11h

So they didn't let me use any barnyard epithets, but here's a fuller discussion of why it would be illegal to deny pay to furloughed federal workers at the end of a shutdown. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 12h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 12h

If I have to email you asking what time your a capella group's concerts are because neither your season programming page nor your ticketing pages say, it seems to me that you've failed somehow

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12h

There is one central, core truth to hold on to:

Most Americans don't actually know most of what's happening. But they still don't approve of the slice they do know about.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13h

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio.

The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization.

Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing.

The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

The Schiff-Kaine resolution is up for a vote in the Senate today.

This resolution aims to strip President Trump of his constitutional authority to protect Americans by authorizing military strikes against narco-terrorists, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies. This is dangerous — it puts our children, citizens, soldiers, and allies at risk.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 14h

The judge finds that because "defendants' conduct likely violates the First Amendnent," factors weigh in favor of entering a restraining order against them.

She will not limit the order to the Broadview facility, but will limit it to the northern (court) district of Illinois.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 15h

Wherein "citizen" is now a dog whistle for "white," and wherein the white supremacist patriarchy continues its 250-year-long project of attempting to scare white women into fearing non-white men, so that white men will find it easier to gain & maintain power over non-white men.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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