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thekohler.bsky.social
Former History PhD student (studied domestic slave trade) ESRD survivor. Spectrum parent. Nerd.
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The country would be immeasurably better off if the NYT permanently replaced David Brooks with this guy.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Full list of Biggie tracks improved by Diddy mumbling in the background, being a jackass, and repeating what Biggie just said:

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Proud dad moment. Congratulations, Gus!

submitted 6 days ago • 2493 comments

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

submitted 10 days ago • 7360 comments

you guys that is 12.5% of the electorate of the united states lmao this is "grind him into the fucking dirt with no mercy" shit

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

If you're going to watch Murderbot on Apple TV, consider adding it to your watchlist. It's kind of like pre-ordering a book, it tells the streaming service that you're there for our show. Link for US viewers: tv.apple.com/us/show/murd... (You can also search for it on the app.)

submitted 56 days ago • 76 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 402 comments

Shoutout to Whitney Plantation, who has always BANNED WEDDINGS at their location and allowed the entire facility and its grounds to be an indoor and outdoor museum. It also houses the genealogical records for over 100,000 enslaved people. You can search for your loved ones in its archives.

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground. May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.

submitted 25 days ago • 95 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 25 days ago • 1940 comments

*Logs onto Bluesky, sees that most of the discourse is just Democrats yelling at each other about where the party should go* *Logs off*

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

submitted 41 days ago • 778 comments