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Nancy Wingfield

@nmw1.bsky.social

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Habsburg historian, occasionally, some Successor States; fan of cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Under contract to write a book that stubbornly refuses to write itself. I've been awarded a medal!

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 8h

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14h

*face job, but race job works, too. I think the hair dye works its way into their brains with bad results, but that's just a conspiracy theory.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14h

Hate to break it to you, but plenty of ppl consider him telegenic. I mean, he doesn't wear orange makeup or maybelline mascara, hasn't had a Mar-a-Lago race job, doesn't have a Goebbels face, what's not to like? Oh, and he speaks in full sentences with subject-verb agreement.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

Funny, When I lived in Paris, I could always hear English accents, women's southern English accents. Never men's, but they may not have traveled in groups... Full disclosure, I'm an American.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Fraternal Order of Police, You're a reason ppl want to defund you. You support fascists. Do better.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 16h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

Hi Democratic Senators & Representatives, Why aren't you all over this?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

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.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

Which one do you mean? Fairly complicated in Germany, given RC & Protestant churches...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

Your daily fascist news. If you're related to one of these mysogynist, racist thugs, consider doxing 'em. Of course, they might shoot you...at the least, SHUN them!!!

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 17h

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 18h

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 19h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 17h

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Professor Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Blurbs are in! I am eternally grateful to Dr. J. Drew Lanham, Dr. Andrea Roberts, and Dr. Ed Baptist!!
My book is out on October 2, 2025 from Bloomsbury Academic.
#newauthors #writers

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 17h

Make sure to call the masked soldiers what they are: hired guns, vigilantes, etc. The people for whom they work, not only Stephen Goebbels, are not Christians. Learn the 10 Commandments, ppl Will history will look back on this era as one of schism, of a war on Christianity from within?

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.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump spiritual advisor, this one? How come they all like little girls/boys? Odd, just odd.

Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 4d

Texas megachurch founder and wealthy MAGA donor Robert Morris has pleaded guilty to child sex crime charges. Not surprising, birds of a feather.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

That's a though. Ewwww.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

And, your point is?

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Spits in their food? They better hope nobody pees in it.

Eric Jacobson @ejacobson.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to all the #Chicago restaurants and other businesses that are denying service and restroom access to Kristi Noem's ICE goon squad... #AbolishICE

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

He'll only be happy w/ the Nobel Obama Prize. 🥰

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

Should have gone to Trump for his pioneering work in detaching actions from consequences.

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

I think they're simply evil. There, fixed it for you! 🥰

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

I think they’re simply pro-evil.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ATLANTIC: “Miller, like Trump, appears to believe his side stands for what is right and good, and his opponents stand for what is evil. Any methods used by Trump are ipso facto justified, and any methods used against him illegitimate.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

👇👇👇 Don't eat the rich; just tax the h*ll out of 'em. 90% on all personal wealth over $10 million. 1950s rates for corporations. No CEO making more than 99 x more than the lowest-paid employee.

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 3d

Gift article: Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, "The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities" (NYT; #academicsky). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

And, that's only TX! Now do other red states!

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 2d

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d

"We," the US? Always late to wars...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d

And, this would be correct. Too bad our DoJ hasn't the b*lls to charge her...

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d

If Cowlyd wants to stay, he can, yes?