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Melissa Johnson, PhD@ladyhistorian.bsky.social |
1633 followers 822 following 3021 posts
Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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We gotta have a conversation about how there are enough people who consume the news specifically to feel panicky and helpless that it's a viable business model for the New York Fucking Times
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Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
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shout out to Horn Pond in Woburn Mass. for being shaped like a cartoon whale with the face of John Quincy Adams
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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May I humbly suggest adding: hummus
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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As things stand it’s not controversial to say Trump is in the lead but people should really try to remember that every Democratic operative has generalized anxiety disorder and every Republican operative is on coke
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Over the past two weeks, the people who pay a ton of attention to politics have been arguing with each other about what people who pay very little attention to politics will do in four months. Meanwhile there's almost no information that could make that conversation anything more than speculation.
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Jean-Michel Connard
@torriangray.bsky.social
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I’ve been away from the bird app for the most part for a week or so, and when I do open it I’m shocked at how bad it is. There’s something going on there and I’m not entirely convinced it’s organic. Like someone at Twitter HQ threw a switch to start surfacing the rage bait at an even higher rate.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Nope, just shoving them in my gob
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I'm going to eat this entire carton of oreos just to feel something
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Yeah, daily death tolls that matched 9/11 every single day there for a while and the guy who bumblefucked his way through the bloodbath is now trying to get his job back.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I think that is the point though. They don't think those jobs should exist
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I have lost faith in more people over the last two weeks than I did in the last several years combined and WOW is that saying a lot
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McNutcase
@mcnutcase.bsky.social
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I'm absolutely loving the mental image conjured by describing the behavior of the likes of John Roberts as "digging through the trash bins of history like racist raccoons looking for leftover oppression". Really wish I'd developed the skills to draw that.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I am so white. I am not built for anything over 70F with occasional drizzle
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Blue Heron Farm
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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THIS. JESUS HOT CHIP CHRIST.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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It is September 15. Biden has declined to do 15 pushups for NYT. They are endorsing the abstract concept of Youth for President. Trump, just out of frame, is listing NYT columnists he intends to have Seal Team 6 assassinate
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I assume it is normal to have a mental breakdown when the forecast is over 100F for 2 weeks straight
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I generally don't like food or eating so my capacity for bad combos is fairly unlimited because I'm always just trying to get the meal over with as fast as possible
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the unpaid interns at Heritage are, I promise you, some of the most deeply evil people on planet earth
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Braved the 106F temps to get groceries and forgot to get sandwich bread. I am not going out again so I guess we'll just have PBJ on onion naan
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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It's not weird, doomerism is the single most effective disinfo campaign against the youth and the non-youth left, because that's attacking their greatest strengths, their hope and idealism
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Stacey Abrams in AJC: "Ignore the Joe Biden doom loop" Swing voters "are not choosing based on age or infirmity but an alchemy we can’t control or predict. We have to make the case to these voters on the issues that matter to them."
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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yeah if things have, for real, shifted 25 points right in 4 years then nobody can salvage it. or, the polls could be bad
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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If the state polls we're seeing are true, it's not just a problem we need to address; we are genuinely, unrecoverably fucked. I don't believe them. I don't believe for a moment that Trump can win New York. If he can, we're talking Trump winning 400 EVs & an honest-to-God democratic mandate.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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If they had listened to just one disinfo expert, I swear to Christ
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Russ Bengtson
@russbengtson.bsky.social
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personally I think a bunch of prominent dems coming out and straight up saying that biden CAN'T win is a great idea and will no way nuke the entire election or anything
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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Canonically, nicotine is stronger than Maiar; Gandalf yells at Pippin and then realizes he's being over the top because he needs a pipe
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Kosturdistan
@smurfburger.bsky.social
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I checked. In their editorial about Trump's 34 felony convictions, the NYT did not say that Trump should drop out of the race. Only Democratic candidates who have a bad debate should drop out of races.
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"Tactile pleasures were nonexistent. No buttons. No switches. I felt like I was driving around in an unfurnished apartment." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
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If any other high-profile presidential candidate gave one speech this rambling and unhinged, it would be a major story. Trump, of course, has given dozens of such speeches in this campaign cycle.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The guy who controls the main source of information for most of the nations reporters has a huge financial stake in Donald Trump winning the election. Makes you think about why the algorithm chooses to promote anti-Biden stuff!
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Exactly
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Ray Curenton
@raycurenton.bsky.social
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It’s really hard holding center with a sane perspective on something while watching a very loud collective of people delegitimize that perspective for damn near two weeks…only for you to be affirmed after the fact.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Why does every pedagogy workshop and training model the exact opposite strategies they tell us to use
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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This deserves a quoteskeet because this will not be business as usual: this will be worse. In the event Biden drops out and Harris becomes the nominee, the republicans will launch a coordinated campaign of misogynist racism (misogynoir) against Harris, the likes of which we have never seen.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I love how they just nuked the site with our payment counts so there's no way to check if they count correctly when the new site finally goes live. If I'd known they were going to do that, I would have taken a screenshot
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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This argument very obviously cuts both ways depending on what judgement you bring to the conversation; the urge to play games and switch horses at this juncture would seem to me to be failing to meet the moment What I really believe is we're all neurotic because we all understand the stakes
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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I don't have a strong preference on Biden because of how much uncertainty there is, but seeing stuff like this cross my path is going to kill me. I'm begging people to learn how parties work. You can't Aaron Sorkin your way out of this.
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Nick Brumfield
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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I can't believe we're at the point where "invent fusion" seems more realistic to some people than "maybe this computer program isn't magic"
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Has anyone figured out the Mohela thing yet? Are they really doubling our bills and extending our repayment terms?
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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“Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss” is like verbatim what we should be putting on billboards for undecided voters in swing states
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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The party pushing National Conservatism = the NatC party
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Rachel Shelden
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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if the crosstabs in that poll are even close to right, in that eg young women have swung like 30 points to the GOP, then we are so fucked we might as well not bother about it
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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lolsob
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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why aren’t they simply pressing the “win” button
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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it’s gonna be a slow rollout as everyone works through this huge document to find all its buried horrors but oh boy oh boy oh boy when the labor union organizers get to this one things are gonna get lit on actual fire
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Truly wish more folks were more interested in trying to work out what's best to do, and far less interested in litigating who was right all along or who is to blame
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