Katherine Kuehler Walters, PhD

Make this happen. Hear me out—this might help my parents & others dissociate MAGA with the Reagan-era GOP that forms their core political identity. Chip away at their party allegiance to a party that no longer exists.

Who controls the past The BBC is restricting access to its archives

“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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"Universities must resist the temptation to reduce the library to a digital archive and study space and ensure that these structures remain spaces for rigorous research, critical reading, intellectual discovery and knowledge creation, rather than just digital repositories or study halls."

AI 👏 is 👏 fundamentally 👏 and 👏 inescapably 👏 dehumanizing

This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines.

You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.

We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.

Image of maps from the DSL digital Atlas, American Panorama, from the U. Of Richmond.

Map of Foreign Born Population. 1840-2020

Map from Southern Journey -digital mapping project.

Map of election data by voting district. 1840-present.

Mappy Geography Awareness Week! 🗺️

This week I will highlight some of our map-themed resources. Our UR DSL creates amazing digital humanities projects—many accessible in our digital atlas, American Panorama.

Which map will you explore first?
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/

#sschat

The unemployment rate exists, but the White House is going to pretend its unfavorable results don't exist.

Just like Donald's numerous MRIs.

Lines at food banks are long—filled with everyday Americans including military families—and one man can be a trillionaire?

bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Absolutely unprofessional, childish, and immature! I am beyond flabbergasted that this is on an OFFICIAL website.

This ALONE should be construed as a violent attack against Democracy and grounds for Sedition!

I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

We all pay for Trump’s scam
@theheatherashley.bsky.social

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Wife of former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus reported missing in Terrell Hills, police chief says A Silver Alert has been issued for a missing 64-year-old Terrell Hills woman, the wife of former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus.

www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them. In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

www.propublica.org/article/red-...

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official

This is concerning—especially with redistricting & conservative intimidation & consolidation of many mainstream media sources, including TikTok.

abcnews.go.com/amp/Technolo...

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

I'll note here that Clinton County Jail has been holding ICE detainees since February. The jail probably holds around 20 people on behalf of ICE right now.

ICE pays Clinton County Jail per bed per day.

detentionreports.com/facility/CLI...

WATCH - @kylie-oversen.bsky.social : “SNAP benefits are being cut (by the Trump regime). To stop taking this hunger data now is an effort to hide the impact these cuts will have on families that need this food assistance… rural communities are often hit most hard.”

Black journalist starter pack on bluesky! More Black folks who know what they're talking about!
go.bsky.app/FVsDa69

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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I hate everything about this, but WHY THE COMMA?!??!

I’m beginning to think this guy is actually a full-size, hand-up-the-back, muppet-style puppet.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

University Leaders Reject Republican Attacks on Campus Antisemitism

#GiftArticle on the Berkeley, CUNY & Georgetown prez's pushing back against the GOP attacking academia ("cuz of 'antisemitism"; they'd bother Elno & Rump if they cared).

But Joe McCarthy shouldn't personify alone the Red Scare - Parnell, Reagan & deserve infamy too!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

This is brilliant! I might need to try a variation this semester.

Evacuations and Lost Cabins: A Century of Floods at Camp Mystic

Gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...