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Theresa M.
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librarian (retired), historian, UK mystery fan
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indivistwincities.bsky.social
Our recommendation for this evening. Community is everything. ICE OUT NOW!
Shine a light for Minnesota. Tonight at 7pm CT step outside and light a candle. On our street corners with our neighbors. For out communities and Alex. ICE OUT NOW. Sat Jan 24, 7pm CST
January 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
We represent the Lollipop Guild
The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop Guild
We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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patrickiber.bsky.social
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse- ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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jrakove.bsky.social
As a longtime historian of the American decision for independence, this is brilliant, worth reading from start to finish.

www.againstallenemies.net/p/a-declarat...
A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King
It's time.
www.againstallenemies.net
January 20, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
*From “Who Goes Nazi?” by Dorothy Thompson, Harper’s, 1941 (read it, it will blow your mind) harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health."
As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will be
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.

By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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timothynoah.bsky.social
The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
tmudrock.bsky.social
“Doesn’t seem that hard,” an eighth grader in Memphis said, shrugging her shoulders. “Just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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editorialboard.bsky.social
More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.
September 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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muellershewrote.com
So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump?
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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stevenmazie.bsky.social
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
tmudrock.bsky.social
Guess it's 1650 again...
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…
nursingclio.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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mluckovich.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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mkn.bsky.social
Read this, Blueskis!

"Let’s stop referring to Trump’s 'interpretation of American history.' He doesn’t have an interpretation of anything remotely related to history. What Trump has is an authoritarian agenda that demands control over how Americans remember history." @civilwarmemory.bsky.social 🗃️
Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary
Yesterday I urged you to remember that ultimately we are in control of how we teach and commemorate our collective history. I still believe this to be true, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that...
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
No one should believe a single economic statistic produced by the US government under Trump after this. www.axios.com/2025/08/01/t...
Trump says he will fire labor statistics chief after weak jobs report
Trump is turning his ire about poor jobs numbers on the number-crunchers.
www.axios.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM