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Here’s a picture of my dog being adorable. It helps with the doomscrolling. #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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This is sickening.

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

This is a great thread. Really thoughtful:

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Shameless self-promotion: had a lovely conversation about my most recent book, You Will Never be One of Us, on the Lone Star Deep Dive podcast. Worth a listen if you’re interested in 1970s Texas, politics, or the culture wars. 🗃️ www.lonestardeepdivepodcast.org/episodes/16

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This is utterly fascinating, especially if, like me, you were a fan of the show Succession. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

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The last North American leader who stylized himself as Napoleon Bonaparte was Antonio López de Santa Anna. Just for whatever that’s worth… 🗃️

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Today’s book haul. #booksky 🗃️

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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 7 days ago • 917 comments

Thoughtful discussion of Wong Kim Ark, a case that until recently wasn’t discussed much outside of academia. Erika Lee obviously gets it right at the end here: the same anti-immigrant forces that Wong defeated in 1898 are once again fully at work in our society. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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In an extraordinary move, the Department of Health and Human Services is in the process of firing about 5,200 health workers, part of a government-wide purging of new employees who remain on probationary status, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post.

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

Timeline cleanse: Dolly was home alone with her human sister this morning, who got violently sick in the bathroom without her. She got so upset and worried about her that she stood outside the bathroom door and HOWLED until her sister came out. We 100% do not deserve dogs. #dogsofbluesky #dogs

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"American history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights. America’s commitment to these liberal values has competed with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that full American citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class." 🗃️

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Alternative WSJ headline: "Cherokees Relocated, Why Can't Gazans?"

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

So basically, the Department of Health and Human Services is finished. If you want to stay safe from food recalls, viruses, and whatever else is coming—better start looking elsewhere for reliable information.

submitted 9 days ago • 1232 comments

🧪Surprise, I'm back with another #breakingnews request. If you work in biomedical research (infectious disease, chronic disease, food safety, drug safety, vaccines, etc.), I'd love to hear (very soon) about how you think your field will fare under RFK's leadership of HHS. Please share widely!

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Google Earth. Didn’t expect it to be so jarring to see this with my own eyes…

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Nearly one year ago, downed power lines sparked wildfires that ultimately burned more than 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle. The Smokehouse Creek Fire took three weeks to fully contain and claimed at least two people’s lives, 15,000 cattle and over 100 homes and businesses.

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Excellent piece, highly worth a read.

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Here is a troubling example of how AI is monopolizing the corner on history at YouTube. This channel has produced over 1,100 videos since April 2023. Nine have been uploaded in the past 12 hours alone. Many of them focus on the Civil War and historical memory. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/@unreal.hist...

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🗃️”Previously, federal records were kept in various basements, attics, abandoned buildings, and other storage places with little security or concern for storage conditions.” Here are some primary sources on National Archives #history to research, explore, teach, share: www.archives.gov/about/history

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This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The Dawes Act created a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers.

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

Everything in the news is terrible these days, so here’s a pic of my dog being cute at doggy day care today. #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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"We reject the premise that it is 'anti-American' or 'subversive' to learn the full history of the United States with its rich and dramatic contradictions, challenges, and conflicts alongside its achievements, innovations, and opportunities." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

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The BP chief is now saying this isn’t true. Don’t believe him.

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Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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#OTD in 1971 Mexican-origin people in the border city of Pharr endured a police riot, commonly called the Pharr Riots, that resulted in the killing of Alfonso Loredo Flores. To halt the "riot" the city government called in the Texas Rangers, among other police agencies. /1

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

Please read and share. AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

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I’m with this in spirit, and Johnson was despicable, but I’ve always understood that the constitutionality of the tenure of office act was questionable at best. I only say this that people should be careful when making historical comparisons, though maybe a recon historian can set me straight. 🗃️

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1328 comments

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

The fact she effectively “blinked” first doesn’t bode terribly well, but good that she pressed the issue of US arms flowing south.

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@mcuban.bsky.social not much sports on Bluesky, but seriously interested in your take on the Luka trade…

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A wonderful example of how neo-Confederates appropriate Black history during #BlackHistoryMonth. This AI-generated image not only politicizes this subject, but creates the impression that African Americans embrace this history. Notice the thumb looks like a finger and there is no left hand.🗃️

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