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Susan D. Amussen

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by Susan D. Amussen

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Not a weirdo. Tell them what’s happened.
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I see what you did there! And James on cricket is so good!

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Well, as the AHA says, everything has a history!
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How do you cheat when choosing a topic? You choose what you care about!
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Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
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@uofcalifornia.bsky.social systemwide Academic Council today:

"There can be no clearer attack on academic freedom than [Trump's] attempt to dictate curricular content, research priorities, hiring decisions, & admissions standards."

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by Susan D. Amussen

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Yes, he could write, and he *cared* about writing! And a very distinctive voice, which became increasingly personal over time.
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@davidveevers.bsky.social and others discussed historians who could write but the name 'David Underdown' did not appear in it, regrettably @sdamussen.bsky.social
_Start of Play_ by David Underdown
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by Susan D. Amussen

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Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous. Or Keith Wrightson Ralph Tailers Summer. Both great microhistories that are good reads but open up worlds - so methodologically helpful
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I still turn to it when I can’t cope with the news. Comfort watching.

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It’s bread week. Something is always claggy!
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by Susan D. Amussen

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He loved the game so much!
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The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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"Handled too roughly"?

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Here is Senator Alex Padilla's entire full statement after being detained by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security.

Like he said, if they're doing this to a sitting Senator, imagine what they're doing to other people.

Unconscionable.
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This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on.

They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.

This is authoritarianism.
Image of Senator Alex Padilla being physically dragged away by the DHS secretary's security.
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by Susan D. Amussen

sdamussen.bsky.social
Is there a reason you cannot take a question from our elected Senator?
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AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social

Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov
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Why protest on Saturday? www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-p...
‘No Kings’ protests suddenly take on a greater urgency
The rampant militarization of immigration raids makes the stakes clearer than ever
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profjennyshaw.bsky.social
An English mother (Mary Morgan) in India in 1779 writing to her aunt about the importance of “inoculating” her toddler son against smallpox: “the catching of it is very dangerous.” Yep.
Someone might want to tell RFK why vaccination matters 🗃️
Handwritten (cursive) letter - black ink on stained beige paper - from Mary Morgan to her aunt Jane in 1779.
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.
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by Susan D. Amussen

sdamussen.bsky.social
I did! That's what made me remember it. Pinter had been invited to do something at Brown (honorary degree, I dunno) and they appear to have forgotten until too late that his wife was a scholar and writer. So David went downtown and had coffee with her, and then Pinter joined.
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Funding The War on Yourselves talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fundi...
Funding The War on Yourselves
Donald Trump announced today that he will begin “winding down” FEMA after...
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Reposted by: Susan D. Amussen, Nils Gustafsson, Terrence Lyons , and 1 more

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NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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by Susan D. Amussen

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The VCH is the best!
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by Susan D. Amussen

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David was introduced to Pinter once (he’d been brought in to talk to Lady Antonia) and Pinter assured him (c 1981) that Yorkshire would rise again when the Asian kids born in Bradford and Leeds joined the team.
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by Susan D. Amussen

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Indeed. Many stories. Past games, current life, you name it.
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by Susan D. Amussen

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David used to tell stories about when Somerset came to Wells for a match. Gimblett especially was his childhood hero. @hunderdown.bsky.social has heard all the stories too, and he continues to follow cricket.
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by Susan D. Amussen

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Now I'm getting all soggy thinking about those days--and all the people I went with have now passed on and are watching Harold Gimblett in the great beyond. (For time, David's father once played with W.G. Grace.)
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by Susan D. Amussen

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THe NEH was first gutted 40 years ago... But this is just tragic and stupid.
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