Courtney Tune
@historybuff.bsky.social
Political Science BA
History MA
Married to @avari.bsky.social ♾️
History MA
Married to @avari.bsky.social ♾️
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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
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I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction
February 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction
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I'm a social scientist who studies misinformation. RFK Jr.'s rise is disheartening, but it underscores the urgent need to promote critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning. I'll keep using my platform to challenge pseudoscience and foster media literacy in an age of relentless misinformation.
February 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'm a social scientist who studies misinformation. RFK Jr.'s rise is disheartening, but it underscores the urgent need to promote critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning. I'll keep using my platform to challenge pseudoscience and foster media literacy in an age of relentless misinformation.
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Hey gang, go check your basement.
"Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.
www.bbc.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hey gang, go check your basement.
"Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...
February 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...
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The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies.
The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
February 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies.
The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
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An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.
Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV.
Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect
Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect
February 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.
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Literally one of the most -basic- constitutional law cases, the Youngstown case, involves the Supreme Court telling the President that he could not order his Secretary of Commerce to seize steel mills during a strike when the U.S. was at war. 🙄
February 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Literally one of the most -basic- constitutional law cases, the Youngstown case, involves the Supreme Court telling the President that he could not order his Secretary of Commerce to seize steel mills during a strike when the U.S. was at war. 🙄
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New tonight Elon Musk retweets a post contemplating DOGE or the Trump administration defy a court order imposed by a federal judge
“I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”
“I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”
February 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
New tonight Elon Musk retweets a post contemplating DOGE or the Trump administration defy a court order imposed by a federal judge
“I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”
“I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”
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this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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Lots of us have been trying to get to folx to pay attention to the nexus of white supremacy, edgelord techbros, & occultist beliefs that have been simmering in the internet culture since the 90's, really kicked off strong in the 2000's, & kinda pervade all of Silicon Valley. Like… It runs deep y'all
February 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Lots of us have been trying to get to folx to pay attention to the nexus of white supremacy, edgelord techbros, & occultist beliefs that have been simmering in the internet culture since the 90's, really kicked off strong in the 2000's, & kinda pervade all of Silicon Valley. Like… It runs deep y'all
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lol can you imagine Fox News right now if some black kids had access to all our government data and were going in and changing and deleting everything lololololol
GOP senators would be dropping hard Rs on national television!
GOP senators would be dropping hard Rs on national television!
Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.
February 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lol can you imagine Fox News right now if some black kids had access to all our government data and were going in and changing and deleting everything lololololol
GOP senators would be dropping hard Rs on national television!
GOP senators would be dropping hard Rs on national television!
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Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.
February 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.
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“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
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what does OPEC know about the integrity of public US energy data that we don’t (yet)
www.ft.com/content/e6bf...
www.ft.com/content/e6bf...
Opec drops US Energy Information Administration as data monitor
Oil cartel gives no reason for move, which comes despite warming ties between US and Saudi Arabia
www.ft.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
what does OPEC know about the integrity of public US energy data that we don’t (yet)
www.ft.com/content/e6bf...
www.ft.com/content/e6bf...
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please stop bringing Ye's trash from Over There to Over Here
February 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
please stop bringing Ye's trash from Over There to Over Here
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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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🗃️ Former American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein on the role of the historian as disrupter: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...
What Is the Role of the Historian?
Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.
www.historynewsnetwork.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🗃️ Former American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein on the role of the historian as disrupter: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...
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Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
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So, Democrats who stayed home over Gaza, how're y'all feeling?
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So, Democrats who stayed home over Gaza, how're y'all feeling?
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Today is the founding date of a concentration camp
BREAKING | CBS News reports that a flight is scheduled to transport migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay today, as confirmed by a U.S. official.
February 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today is the founding date of a concentration camp
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The Times just putting this in there like it's a viable policy position and not a candidate promising to enact scenes from The Children of Men is... something.
September 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
The Times just putting this in there like it's a viable policy position and not a candidate promising to enact scenes from The Children of Men is... something.
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This is going to get really out of hand as the right tries to link hamas and the left here in the states using the same exact gameplan as they used to destroy higher education and start the process of ending lgbtq and civil rights. The right is waging war against society. Act like it.
Same playbook, new acronyms. I wonder if the mainstream press will fall for it again?
October 14, 2023 at 6:27 PM
This is going to get really out of hand as the right tries to link hamas and the left here in the states using the same exact gameplan as they used to destroy higher education and start the process of ending lgbtq and civil rights. The right is waging war against society. Act like it.