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Theresa Ventura
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Historian of US empire, environment, coconuts. Former provincial New Yorker turned Montreal outsider.
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“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”
NYT headline reading: Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes; Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. Below is a picture of Erik S. Siebert.
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Cover of the Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction and Justice edited by the Nursing Clio Collective Front page of essay: Theresa Ventura, The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant: Breast Milk as Superfood
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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How do you celebrate this? Lie, lie some more, and lie again.
Email from House Rep Nicole Malliotakis that reads “Nicole Malliotakis celebrates the passage of the big beautiful bill. Legislation heads to President Trump’s desk delivering the largest middle-class tax cut in history, à stronger military, and energy independence.
July 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Kids in 2012 and 2015. They never learned this at school.
But in the wake of victory, L.G.B.T.Q.+ groups reneged on that pledge. They demanded the entire society change in a fundamental way so that the sex binary no longer counted. Elementary school children were taught that being a boy or a girl might not have anything to do with their bodies, and that their parents had merely guessed whether they were a boy or a girl when they were born. In fact, sex was no longer to be recognized at birth — it was now merely assigned, penciled in. We got new terms like “chest-feeding” for “breastfeeding” and “birthing parent” for “mother."
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Gorgeous day $ crowd in Burlington, VT. Much love and respect for the seniors who brought it with the signs.
Elect a clown, expect a circus. Sign with fish bones and Trump head rads: À fish rots from the head down. Cut out of Trump holding a sign that reads: I’m stealing from you. Distant shot of the large protest crowd at the Burlington, VT waterfront park.
June 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Is this the grey tabby appreciation post? Is this the same grey tabby?
À grey tabby cat, same as original photo, staring into the void with a vacant look on her face
May 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The president and the monsters
Trump truth social post on April 1: Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR & PBS, the Radical Left "monsters" that so badly hurt our country Beloved Sesame Street characters at a dinner table, including Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, and Elmo
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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How does a US citizen in Canada make a consulate appointment for a passport renewal if the consulate appointment booking page is gone? Asking for a 10 year old.
Screenshot of US Embassy & Consulates In Canada webpage with 404 Error - Page not found message.
March 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws.”
March 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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What's the difference between MAGA imperialism and an NYT thought experiment?

MAGA-guy seemingly more familiar with actual US history than the Democratic representative still dreaming that demography is destiny.
Screen shot of x-post calling for the US occupation of Canada. It reads: "After we destroy the Canadian economy their will to resist will erode. We will then march in unopposed and deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the US with no political representation." NYT article imagining the political impact of Canada as a 51st state quoting Steve Israel, a former Democratic representative from NY. He says: “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I strongly agree with Donald Trump,” said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Canada is largely left of center, and making it the 51st state means more Democrats in Congress and Electoral College votes, not to mention providing universal health care and combating climate change.”
February 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Just me sliding down the stairs on my way to work this morning.
Picture taken from a front porch of steps leading down to path buried under snow. The top of a front gate, three feet high, pokes out from underneath a snow mound. In the distance is an intersection, no cars, just snow.
February 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Excited for Soprano-style international relations. Gangster capitalists at the helm.
NYT story clip: Ukraine president rejects US proposal to cede 50% interest in mineral resources in exchange for protection.
February 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I found your archive and it is indeed empty!
Blue hanging file folders in a box. The folders are empty but have tabs marking the research subject of Ted’s first book. The first tab reads “Petty Secondary,” the second “Scientific/philosophical societies” and so on.
February 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Uncanny valley
1950s Red Scare propaganda poster reading "Fishy Friends? Turn Them In!" NYT headline: "Federal Workers Told to Inform on Colleagues Trying to Dodge D.E.I. Crackdown"
January 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Teaching the second half of the US survey in about 15 minutes. We're in week two, moving out of Reconstruction and into the late 19th century. Why am I opening with Keppler's Bosses of the Senate? No reason, none at all.
Joseph Keppler's "Bosses of the Senate" depicts business trusts towering over US Senators in the Capitol building. The door to the "people's entrance" is sealed shut. First published January 23, 1889.
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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The post-plagiarism future is now, according to our university’s newest micro-module on AI
Screen shot of page calling for a reassessment of integrity in writing to accommodate co-creation with AI
December 17, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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From fall to winter. And fast.
A lit round lamp with a pumpkin face, covered in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Might as well make my first post a university email. Student strikes for Gaza and cops off campus? Sure, announce them in class. But be neutral and respect viewpoint diversity. Today’s prof. Content only.
November 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM