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Greg Koos
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Irish immigrants in the 19th century Midwest, local history museums, not-for- profit boards, historic preservation, cooking, vegetable gardening, golden age Hollywood, omnivorous reading.
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Midwestern rural Irish study.
In Vol. 117, Iss. 4 of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, @gjkoos.bsky.social studies New Orleans as a key point of entry for Irish immigrants who moved up the Mississippi to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other midwestern states. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/ar...
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment

Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.

New piece:
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦: 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆

𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱)
Edited by Julia Lewandowska & Araceli Rosillo-Luque

More info: bit.ly/4rk4LVU

#Women #Gender #WomensStudies #Religion #ReligiousHistory #History
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 46.1 on @projectmuse.bsky.social , Anne Guillard argues that theology has a role to play in public reason, but only if theology is understood as a form of critical rationality and not a set of truths
muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Happy Pub Date to BECOMING ST. LOUIS: Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920 by Sharon Hartman Strom!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

#AfricanAmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #LaborStudies #Midwest #Religion #UrbanStudies #WomensStudies
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How SCOTUS works to suppress democracy.
Crucial analysis from @kevintmorris.bsky.social. Required reading, really, for anyone who works / opines on recent US history and the current political moment - and for anyone who seeks to understand the Right's assault on elections.
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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tbf, this is Trump's entire schtick
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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First day of the @aarweb.bsky.social & @sblsite.bsky.social annual meeting!

Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all religion books with code AARSBL at checkout!
www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/aa...

#AARSBL2025
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As a scholar, whose work is heavily based on access to digital collections, this movement is welcome.
!!! Three more organisations have joined the global #OurFutureMemory movement!
* @iua-official.bsky.social Librarians’ Group (IUALG)
* Boston Library Consortium
* @libraryfutures.bsky.social
🔗 Full announcement: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/11/21/t...
🔗 Promote the campaign: ourfuturememory.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best

(Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I have no words
I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The Great War Meeting of August 1862 is a heretofore unappreciated part of the president's strategy to mold public opinion for the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Learn more from Jeffrey Boutwell in Journal of the @ala1809.bsky.social 46.1. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jala/art...
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Jed Shugerman & Gary Lawson: Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II Michael Ramsey – The Originalism Blog buff.ly/zQ322x5
Jed Shugerman & Gary Lawson: Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II Michael Ramsey – The Originalism Blog
The Blog of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego School of Law
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trumpublicans you've been had.
The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Moller on Incidental Jurisdiction

Mark Moller (DePaul University - College of Law) has posted Incidental Jurisdiction (14 Texas A&M Law Review __ (2026) (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Federal courts have incidental, or implied, powers. On this there is general agreement among…
Moller on Incidental Jurisdiction
Mark Moller (DePaul University - College of Law) has posted Incidental Jurisdiction (14 Texas A&M Law Review __ (2026) (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Federal courts have incidental, or implied, powers. On this there is general agreement among originalist researchers. But there is also wide consensus that, whatever incidental powers Article III courts enjoy, these powers do not include incidental subject matter jurisdiction.
legaltheoryblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Announcing Ethnomusicology Vol. 69.2, with 6 new articles, plus Frank Gunderson's review of the film "The Beatles: Get Back" and his case for why we might watch the film as ethnomusicologists. cc: @sem-office.bsky.social @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
These are hilarious.
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM