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Julie deGraffenried
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Historian of Mod Russia/USSR: childhood, war, visual culture, religion; digital history learner.
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drdegraff.bsky.social
New blog post from my colleague, @fhinojosa956.bsky.social!

www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-chicago-...
How Chicago's Division Street Rebellion Brought Latinos Together | Essay
In 1966, Police Shot a Young Puerto Rican Man. What Followed Created a Blueprint for a New Kind of Solidarity
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ronajohnson.bsky.social
CONGRATULATIONS to my brilliant @baylor.bsky.social colleague @drdegraff.bsky.social, named a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

“Earning a fellowship is recognition of years of proven excellence in the field of history."

history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
July 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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ktarasov.bsky.social
How to say you're going to a conference in London without saying you're going to a conference in London
#iccees2025
July 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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mattjay.com
The most daming claim in this statement IMO:

Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.

2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.
April 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
www.democracydocket.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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meganmenchaca.bsky.social
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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jljacobson.bsky.social
Another story that must be told:

An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”

Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.

“Take him anyway,” came the reply.
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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avielroshwald.bsky.social
Gogol’s Dead Souls in reverse.
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Apr 10
The Trump administration is now canceling people's Social Security Numbers, treating them as if they are legally dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans. The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits. The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
April 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Yeah that's the long and short of it
thelondoneconomic.bsky.social The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · Apr 8
'They've blown up their own country by letting ChatGPT make their trade policy.'
April 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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katzish.bsky.social
“dedollarizing”
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Apr 9
Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
= WSJ Dollar Confidence Crisis Is Here, Deutsche Bank Warns By WSJ Staff The broad selloff in U.S. stocks and bonds, and the continuing decline in the dollar, represents a "simultaneous collapse in the price of all U.S. assets," analysts at Deutsche Bank said Wednesday. They warned that "unchartered territory" lies ahead. • Markets are dedollarizing, they said, citing the lack of evidence that investors are hoarding dollar liquidity- a dynamic that in previous market routs fueled Treasury and U.S. dollar rallies but this time is leading to declines in the prices of both. • The administration is encouraging the Treasury selloff, they said, in a bid to bring down U.S. asset valuations-a decision they said now is exposing the fact that "reducing bilateral trade imbalances is functionally equivalent to lowering demand for U.S. assets as well." • A financial war with China could lie ahead, they conclude, contending that "there is little room now left for an escalation on the trade front" and that "there can be no winner to such a war."
April 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
"This is an act of war against the entire world"

Staggering analysis from Martin Wolf of @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/d96d...
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/d96d4a44-2b75-4222-b77a-afe72c1b9174 The debate over whether to take Trump literally or seriously is over. He has now learnt how to be the tyrant he always wished to be. That took a while. But, with the help he has received, he is there. His administration is engaged in a comprehensive assault on the American republic and the global order it created. Under attack domestically are the state, the rule of law, the role of the legislature, the role of the courts, the commitment to science and the independence of the universities. All these were the pillars on which US freedom and prosperity rested. Now, he is destroying the liberal international order. Soon, I presume, Trump will be invading countries, as he proceeds to restore the age of empires.
April 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
drdegraff.bsky.social
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Apr 2
If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs.

They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
drdegraff.bsky.social
Guess the honeymoon is over?
juliadavisnews.bsky.social Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · Apr 3
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV pundits have been obviously given permission from above to shred Donald Trump for his failure to immediately deliver everything the Kremlin was anticipating — and Vladimir Solovyov's guests have unloaded upon Trump with gusto.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXx...
Russian state TV pundits shred Trump
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
drdegraff.bsky.social
Just mathing, nothing to see here
hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · Apr 2
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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kevinrothrock.me
Yesterday, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began furloughing staff at its Prague headquarters because the United States Agency for Global Media has not sent RFE/RL its Congressionally appropriated funds for April. about.rferl.org/article/stil...
Still Awaiting Funds, RFE/RL Furloughs Staff and Seeks Relief from Court
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) today began furloughing staff at its Prague headquarters because the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has not sent RFE/RL its Congressionally appr...
about.rferl.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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rexhuppke.bsky.social
This is the way.
szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · Apr 1
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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meduza.io
The U.K. has placed Russia in the “enhanced tier” of its new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, putting Moscow in a category previously reserved for Iran alone.
U.K. adds Russia to ‘enhanced tier’ of threats identified under new regulations
The U.K. has placed Russia in the “enhanced tier” of its new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), which will require individuals and companies in Britain working on behalf of hostile foreign…
meduza.io
April 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
drdegraff.bsky.social
RFK hates Michael J. Fox
April 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
drdegraff.bsky.social
😂
drhonor.bsky.social honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · Apr 1
Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."

Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
media.tenor.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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ericamarat.bsky.social
Учиться, учиться и учиться
March 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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propublica.org
That left exposed enormous pits of soil contaminated with deadly chemicals.

Now, after losing several weeks of work, the contractors are scrambling — at their own expense — to secure the Bien Hoa air base before the rainy season starts.
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
propub.li
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
"It puts two staunch Trump loyalists in charge of an agency long known for its tradition of independence. Collectively, they have the least leadership experience of any pair overseeing the F.B.I. since its founding more than a century ago." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
With Arrival of Bongino, Trump Loyalists Take Command of the F.B.I.
From his wildly popular podcast to the No. 2 post at the F.B.I., Dan Bongino joins Kash Patel, President Trump’s former election surrogate, to lead the agency at a turning point.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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adamkeiper.com
"I think if there's one thing people need to know now it is that this"—Trump's dismantling of our democracy—"is happening very fast. It could be over in months or even weeks, if it isn't already over now. Whatever people are saving up for the 2026 elections they need to throw it all in now."
Hey Democrats: Maybe Now *Is* the Time to Fight?
Trump is racing to dismantle the rule of law before Democrats can make him unpopular enough so that other institutions can push back against him. Do the Dems understand this?
www.thebulwark.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM