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Cinnamon Stephens
@artantiq.bsky.social
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Art and antiquities law, politics, race, horror movies and bad tv. The wit and wisdom of a grouchy gadfly. NOT my professional account.
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annadent.bsky.social
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
upshot.nytimes.com The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 13h
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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celesteheadlee.bsky.social
"A lot of proponents of the white backlash saw racial equality as some special gift, some special demand by African Americans, when it was simply a demand for social justice and equality.” (@larryglickman.bsky.social)

www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
A brief history of the origins of the anti-DEI movement
The sentiments from today’s leaders echo those from previous generations.
www.hr-brew.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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gauthamrao.bsky.social
Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."

Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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divyampersaud.com
New day, new week, we keep going, we keep hope alive. Right?

Amidst catastrophic abandonment at every stage—including here, right now, survival funds—Palestinians suffer the world's apathy more than ever. Change that. Give. Act.

Help six families: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep tehir families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. More than ever, they need our sustainable support. Click weekly to join: https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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jamellebouie.net
i was reading some ralph ellison recently and the idea that chatterton would compare himself to ellison is genuinely offensive
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...
Bari Weiss misplaces story that would be unfavorable to the Trump administration - Lawyers, Guns & Money
60 minutes was heavily promoting an important story about conditions inside CECOT, and that kind of thing is not going to fly at the Bari Weiss Broadcasting Network: All of these links went to promoti...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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snipy.bsky.social
awfully rich of JD to call someone out for being inauthentic. a yalie whose law prof helped him write a memoir where he threw his family under the bus in order to craft his up-from-appalachia persona before he toddled off to be a venture capitalist
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
JD Vance: "Jasmine Crocket -- the record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails."
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Please read this beautiful profile of Michele Reiner, which her family and friends cooperated with. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
A Life Rooted in Activism and Listening to Others
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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wesmolebash.com
There are artists whose art provides commentary on current events. And there are artists whose art provides escape from current events.

Both are essential.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) has come on a lot since this short introductory film was made, but it’s nice to look back at it m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR0...
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: Making, Understanding, Storytelling
YouTube video by UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture
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December 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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minisanctuary.bsky.social
If you've listened to our latest Patreon Podcast, you'll know that we need to urgently turn things around

Please support us for £1 a month- if 1/4 of our followers could, it would be the financial security we need!

Thank you - please share 🐴🐏

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December 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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lilithsaintcrow.com
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”

Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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pittsmike.bsky.social
Really good piece on the real world challenges of restitutions and a new museum in Benin City
apollo-magazine.com Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 3d
Violent protests marred the opening of the first exhibition at Museum of West African Art in Benin City last month. Hopes for the institution have been high, but too many people seem to have ignored the warning signs that have been there all along, writes @barnabyphillips.bsky.social
What has gone wrong at the Museum of West African Art?
With protests marring the opening of the first exhibition at the new museum in Benin City, Barnaby Phillips asks what went wrong
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December 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
When right wing American Christians start talking a lot about the Talmud, that is pretty much the definition of a situation that is “bad for the Jews” because none of this talk is coming from a place of earnest theological or literary curiosity.
December 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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hunterw.bsky.social
If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...
Undocumented Underground
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared.

A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming!
#fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2
‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot
Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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norton.bsky.social
Woodson taught us that all around us, “the rewriters of history” are at work, constructing histories contrived to normalize abnormal status quos.
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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norton.bsky.social
Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carter G. Woodson.

Woodson was born December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, 35 miles south of my home.

In my work as a historian, no historian’s example has served me better than Woodson’s. ...
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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democrats-judiciary.house.gov
🚨 NEWS: Ranking Members @raskin.house.gov and @robertgarcia.house.gov released a joint statement after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the Department of Justice will not be releasing the full Epstein files today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM