Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD
@kuehlerwalters.bsky.social
aka @KatinSATX. Historian, researcher, editor, educator, & museum & archive worker. Studies race & gender in US South & Texas, structural racism & violence, Black activism, TX 20s Klan, & voting rights.
Views expressed here are my own. RT≠endorsement.
Views expressed here are my own. RT≠endorsement.
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Mappy Geography Awareness Week! 🗺️
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mappy Geography Awareness Week! 🗺️
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.
Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/
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Great article on images of Boston Massacre and how abolitionists added Attucks back in: daily.jstor.org/crispus-attu... #HATM
Crispus Attucks Needs No Introduction. Or Does He? - JSTOR Daily
The African American Patriot, who died in the Boston Massacre, was erased from visual history. Black abolitionists revived his memory.
daily.jstor.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The unemployment rate exists, but the White House is going to pretend its unfavorable results don't exist.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The unemployment rate exists, but the White House is going to pretend its unfavorable results don't exist.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.
Lines at food banks are long—filled with everyday Americans including military families—and one man can be a trillionaire?
If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
This is his part-time job
This is his part-time job
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Lines at food banks are long—filled with everyday Americans including military families—and one man can be a trillionaire?
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Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
This is featured on the official White House website.
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.
This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!
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I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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We all pay for Trump’s scam
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We all pay for Trump’s scam
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
@theheatherashley.bsky.social
This is concerning—especially with redistricting & conservative intimidation & consolidation of many mainstream media sources, including TikTok.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official
abcnews.go.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is concerning—especially with redistricting & conservative intimidation & consolidation of many mainstream media sources, including TikTok.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...
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We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Portland, you magnificent weirdos
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.
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I'll note here that Clinton County Jail has been holding ICE detainees since February. The jail probably holds around 20 people on behalf of ICE right now.
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
One of my "radical" reform opinions is that more states should regularly audit local budgets. www.wthr.com/article/news...
'Public trust has been broken' | Clinton County Commissioners calling for sheriff, wife to resign after misappropriating funds
A court ruling last week found Sheriff Richard Kelly and his wife, Jail Matron Ashley Kelly, personally liable for the misappropriation of more than $329,000.
www.wthr.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'll note here that Clinton County Jail has been holding ICE detainees since February. The jail probably holds around 20 people on behalf of ICE right now.
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.
detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...
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WATCH - @kylie-oversen.bsky.social : “SNAP benefits are being cut (by the Trump regime). To stop taking this hunger data now is an effort to hide the impact these cuts will have on families that need this food assistance… rural communities are often hit most hard.”
September 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WATCH - @kylie-oversen.bsky.social : “SNAP benefits are being cut (by the Trump regime). To stop taking this hunger data now is an effort to hide the impact these cuts will have on families that need this food assistance… rural communities are often hit most hard.”
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Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about!
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about!
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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🤔
NBC News confirms: JD Vance will meet tonight at his residence with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top Trump officials to discuss the Epstein scandal. @msnbc.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🤔
I hate everything about this, but WHY THE COMMA?!??!
DHS is still promoting “heritage” and manifest destiny themes on social media.
July 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I hate everything about this, but WHY THE COMMA?!??!
I’m beginning to think this guy is actually a full-size, hand-up-the-back, muppet-style puppet.
Bessent: "Newspapers like the Wall Street Journal are not used to a high-functioning executive president. They are used to perhaps President Obama, who was not as economically sophisticated as President Trump."
July 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m beginning to think this guy is actually a full-size, hand-up-the-back, muppet-style puppet.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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#GiftArticle on the Berkeley, CUNY & Georgetown prez's pushing back against the GOP attacking academia ("cuz of 'antisemitism"; they'd bother Elno & Rump if they cared).
But Joe McCarthy shouldn't personify alone the Red Scare - Parnell, Reagan & deserve infamy too!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
But Joe McCarthy shouldn't personify alone the Red Scare - Parnell, Reagan & deserve infamy too!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
University Leaders Reject Republican Attacks on Campus Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
#GiftArticle on the Berkeley, CUNY & Georgetown prez's pushing back against the GOP attacking academia ("cuz of 'antisemitism"; they'd bother Elno & Rump if they cared).
But Joe McCarthy shouldn't personify alone the Red Scare - Parnell, Reagan & deserve infamy too!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
But Joe McCarthy shouldn't personify alone the Red Scare - Parnell, Reagan & deserve infamy too!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
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This is brilliant! I might need to try a variation this semester.
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfs7afx6ue4mknbhhpnrzkyz/bafkreiel77b25truczj372qokmg5p3apa2dphux3jtplpz3dv35jul6wdu@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is brilliant! I might need to try a variation this semester.
Evacuations and Lost Cabins: A Century of Floods at Camp Mystic
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.