Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
Public and academic history & geography in action. She/her. Sometimes cake, sometimes politics. In the distance, sirens. https://kristen-noble-keegan.com & https://bywaterhistorical.com/
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I am once again reminded that I'm the weird one for thinking that database design and editing is pretty straightforward and doable.
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"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
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For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
Germansplaining: No, we don't need to study Hitler's DNA
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
For obvious reasons, understanding why the masses fell for the fanatics would be the much more worthwhile research today
✏️ Tanit Koch
✏️ Tanit Koch
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A regime of avaricious, cruel goons isn't the same thing as a "fascist state," and the fact that they have to go to court, fight it out in state elections and legislatures, cower from being filmed (instead of filming *you*) means everything.
Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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Recognize this. Don't surrender to your fears.
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A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind
Basic science for the win! Hopefully. I think it remains to be seen whether it's safe to use in organisms like humans.
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Basic science for the win! Hopefully. I think it remains to be seen whether it's safe to use in organisms like humans.
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I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
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Starting a 🧵 of based quotes from Naugatuck, CT war memorials.
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Starting a 🧵 of based quotes from Naugatuck, CT war memorials.
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
Inscription #1: in honor of the men who “gave their lives for the chaining of savagery and the liberation of a menaced world.”
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A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A short 🧵: one astounding thing I learned while researching TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES was the existence of the Willow Palisade, a 700-km wall made of interlocking trees, an extension of the Great Wall planted in NE China in the 17th century. This map shows approx. Amur tiger range in 1850. 1/9
I'll play: Governments should fund replacement or conversion of all gas-powered vehicles on a sliding scale. Stretch it out over 10 years so the vehicle makers can finish adjusting to EV only production, and gas station owners can get EV hookups installed.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'll play: Governments should fund replacement or conversion of all gas-powered vehicles on a sliding scale. Stretch it out over 10 years so the vehicle makers can finish adjusting to EV only production, and gas station owners can get EV hookups installed.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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one day, Kim Davis’ casket will be lowered into the deep earth and gay people will still exist. Her life has had no meaning, no impact, no great purpose.
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
one day, Kim Davis’ casket will be lowered into the deep earth and gay people will still exist. Her life has had no meaning, no impact, no great purpose.
Reading the Constitution of the State of Connecticut because *gestures at everything.*
Read it yourself at portal.ct.gov/sots/registe... or just follow along here for the commentary. 1/??
Read it yourself at portal.ct.gov/sots/registe... or just follow along here for the commentary. 1/??
Constitution of the State of Connecticut
portal.ct.gov
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reading the Constitution of the State of Connecticut because *gestures at everything.*
Read it yourself at portal.ct.gov/sots/registe... or just follow along here for the commentary. 1/??
Read it yourself at portal.ct.gov/sots/registe... or just follow along here for the commentary. 1/??
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Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A tiny Indian primer, or book of religious instruction written in Wampanoag and printed at Harvard College in 1669; the buckskin cover and wooden binding are original, and the now-faint strawberry design is believed to have been done by an Indigenous binder. The book has been in Scotland since 1675.
Whaaat? Whyyyyy?
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Whaaat? Whyyyyy?
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Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
July 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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You love to see a classic playthrough:
Winter: undefeated
Feds, Napoleon, Hitler, et all: 0
Winter: undefeated
Feds, Napoleon, Hitler, et all: 0
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You love to see a classic playthrough:
Winter: undefeated
Feds, Napoleon, Hitler, et all: 0
Winter: undefeated
Feds, Napoleon, Hitler, et all: 0