Virginia Reinburg
@vreinburg.bsky.social
Historian. Feminist. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). NO KINGS
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Virginia Reinburg
@vreinburg.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Boston fighting tyranny for 250 years (April 18, 1775 through today, April 18, 2025)
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
Dr. Abedini was detained on November 22 by ICE before boarding a flight to attend the MESA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
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November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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Those two little words — a low among lows for sexist comments from a sitting president — speak volumes about how Trump views women. They should also be a warning sign about the rampant normalization of misogyny in U.S. political culture, and how it could affect our democracy more broadly.
Why Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ comment should be seen as a warning
The president's vicious and casual comment represents the normalization of misogyny in U.S. political culture — and is a potential threat to democracy.
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Those two little words — a low among lows for sexist comments from a sitting president — speak volumes about how Trump views women. They should also be a warning sign about the rampant normalization of misogyny in U.S. political culture, and how it could affect our democracy more broadly.
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Whistles have become essential in the fight against federal immigration overreach in Chicago. Folks in every city facing the same nightmare should read this @dansinker.com whistles 101 piece with info on sourcing, distribution & tactics.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Whistles have become essential in the fight against federal immigration overreach in Chicago. Folks in every city facing the same nightmare should read this @dansinker.com whistles 101 piece with info on sourcing, distribution & tactics.
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The best way to understand how fast and complete this process was is to read 'Defying Hitler: A Memoir' (Geschichte eines Deutschen) by Sebastian Haffner. It was written in the 1930s after he left Germany and transports the atmosphere of the time very well. Great book!
Hitler was appointed - not elected - Chancellor in January 1933. The Enabling Act, allowing laws to be put in place without the legislature, was pushed through in March.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
53 days.
So, yeah, pretty much overnight.
No it didn’t lol they didn’t just wake up one day & say we’re going to have a third Reich & by the next day it was there ffs
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The best way to understand how fast and complete this process was is to read 'Defying Hitler: A Memoir' (Geschichte eines Deutschen) by Sebastian Haffner. It was written in the 1930s after he left Germany and transports the atmosphere of the time very well. Great book!
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It would be so helpful if you could RT my post above about my Etsy shop. I haven't been able to work for more than half the year due to severe depression/a breakdown. If you see this & could spare a few moments for a RT it would help me put my designs in front of a few more eyes. Thankyou so much🌿
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It would be so helpful if you could RT my post above about my Etsy shop. I haven't been able to work for more than half the year due to severe depression/a breakdown. If you see this & could spare a few moments for a RT it would help me put my designs in front of a few more eyes. Thankyou so much🌿
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In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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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
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...
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
hls.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
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Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
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Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
Revolutions
Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter P...
www.versobooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Out now! Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
"This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times."
- Rana Mitter
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Scholarship is a profound act of love for humanity.
ACLS invites you to share your stories of scholarship as an act of love—deep archival research, teaching difficult subjects, reaching students, meaningful community collaborations, and breakthroughs that led to positive change: bit.ly/49ZTNi3
ACLS invites you to share your stories of scholarship as an act of love—deep archival research, teaching difficult subjects, reaching students, meaningful community collaborations, and breakthroughs that led to positive change: bit.ly/49ZTNi3
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Scholarship is a profound act of love for humanity.
ACLS invites you to share your stories of scholarship as an act of love—deep archival research, teaching difficult subjects, reaching students, meaningful community collaborations, and breakthroughs that led to positive change: bit.ly/49ZTNi3
ACLS invites you to share your stories of scholarship as an act of love—deep archival research, teaching difficult subjects, reaching students, meaningful community collaborations, and breakthroughs that led to positive change: bit.ly/49ZTNi3
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OTD, 1863: Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time.
The greatest Memorial Day speech is only 271 words long. And it wasn't delivered on Memorial Day.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
OTD, 1863: Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
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A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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This. This all day.
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This. This all day.