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tatianairwin.bsky.social
History professor, cat mom, self-critic
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1925 comments

This. I once took time to discuss elections with my students -- because it was their 1st election & there was no one who would talk to them about them. And yes. The job of a college professor is to explain complicated things so that students can understand them -- AND evaluate them for themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 3 days ago • 1351 comments

Our district on the February 14, 2025 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Department of Education… Do not comply in advance? 🙃

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

In the piece below, I talk a lot about mass messaging (posters, stickers, etc.) to keep the focus not just on enmity towards Trump and Musk but the impact of their actions. In case it's helpful, I put together some examples! Not perfect, but they get the job done (feel free to steal/share)

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

I find the doomers in my replies yelling “there won’t be future elections!!” exhausting - (1) don’t give them credit for something they haven’t done & (2) there is no mechanism for cancelling elections! Our elections aren’t run by the fed govt; they’re run by states, counties & municipalities.

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

“For me, the historian should be, above all, a disrupter, by which I mean a scholar who contests conventional ways of viewing the past and the past’s relationship to the present.” www.hnn.us/article/what...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

submitted 10 days ago • 520 comments

Part of why I launched my newsletter on Ghost (now that people are talking again about Substack's Nazi problem, to which I'd add that Substack has Marc Andreessen and Y-Combinator behind it, which is at a minimum repellant)....

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: GOP North Carolina State Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is in court trying to steal an election by retroactively changing voting rules. The case could set a dangerous precedent for future elections, argues @billycorriher.bsky.social.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

While I was having my digestive system looked at from the inside, here's what Democrats were doing:

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

“We must build robust, independent, social movements and fight to teach the truth — because no executive order, no political intimidation, and no forced ignorance can erase history, so long as we refuse to stop teaching it.” - @jessehagopian.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

👇🎯 We have normalized the total bypassing of Article I of the Constitution. A comprehensive societal & institutional failure. The Republic we all claim to pledge allegiance to is completely inoperable right now, & no one seems to care.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

aging well, sadly

submitted 15 days ago • 349 comments

Hard to overstate how important open access to government archives are in a democracy--it is how we hold those in power accountable for their acts. Trump fires head of National Archives www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Spotify?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t see how this argument differs from, “The Great Depression was Good, Actually”

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

And this coming out of the anti-New Deal fever dream that was Rose Wilder Lane’s revision. ew.com/melissa-gilb...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The California Historical Society (CHS) announced today it has permanently closed and transferred its collection to Stanford University. www.kqed.org/arts/1397091...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Major thanks to @downhomenc.bsky.social and @carolinafederation.bsky.social for the opportunity to phone bank this Sunday. Talked to first time voters, veterans, students, parents about how to confront the North Carolina Supreme Court attack on 60,000 votes. Voter outreach = less anxious scrolling

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

submitted 59 days ago • 73 comments