Megan Kate Nelson 📚
Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based. Writer. Historian. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Author of “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). 2024-25 Rogers Fellow at the Huntington Library in SoCal. http://www.megankatenelson.com
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚My professional constitutional law opinion: IT'S STILL FUCKING FRINGE!! I see Eastman and Wurman cited in here. I'm going to have a rage stroke. @evanbernick.bsky.social @bethanyberger.bsky.social @jnovkov.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @gowder.io Gift link
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Do we wonder why white descendants of apartheid would be seen as assimilating very easily into the United States over other groups, or nah.
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- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚it’s only corruption if it comes from the quid pro quo region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling graft
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
- Just watched “Black Bag.” Loved everything about it including — George and Kathryn’s house — George’s Defender — men wearing three-piece suits (loved them in “Sinners” too) — and the fact that the movie was only 90 minutes long.
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- Given that this is illegal, shouldn’t the ramifications be, I dunno, more than shame?
- Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚For those failing to get the "copilot" AI off their Microsoft Word -- If you proceed with canceling Microsoft Office, you'll get a "wait wait don't go!" screen where they suddenly offer you "Microsoft 365 Personal Classic" -- which *doesn't include AI* and is actually cheaper! Weird workaround.
- From the Why Proofreading Matters File* Related: I am also the definition of “gentile spiciness.”
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚This is the language I put on all of my syllabi this year regarding the use of AI. At this point I don't see any reason to change it.
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚More cruelty for cruelty's sake. "A longstanding program connecting young adults from diverse backgrounds with summer jobs in the National Park Service was canceled indefinitely earlier this spring." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
- Two winners! “Combee” and “Native Nations”
- Finalists in History: Ella Fields-Black, “Combee” Kathleen DuVal, “Native Nations” Seth Rockman, “Plantation Goods”
- Made it home in time to watch the Writing Nerd Oscars! #writingcommunity @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
- Made it home in time to watch the Writing Nerd Oscars! #writingcommunity @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
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- I love me some Peeps but this … this is an abomination. What say you, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and @lmchervinsky.bsky.social ?
- Yes. This.
- It's like Harvard did not want me to be a proud alumna for even a week. 🤬 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚A BIG MEGA TRUTH
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Back by popular demand ... Hope it's not too early to gear up for the next Peepal Conclave 🐤 🐤
- It feels weird to be super-excited about a lawsuit announcement, but that’s just where we are now. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Every once in a while I think man, we were so close to never having to think about that motherfucker again, and then people said nah, let’s just ruin our lives instead
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Have you seen a dandelion today? Now you have.
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- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.
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- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
- Happy Peeps Day to all who celebrate! #mmmmPeeps
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚Roanoke College in Virgina recently dedicated a sculpture on its campus to memorialize the school's ties to slavery. Roanoke's study of its history is impressive and sobering, and much of the research was conducted by students. Great work & not easy at this moment. www.roanoke.edu/news/authors...
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- Holy Fuck, they're folding over like an overstuffed burrito here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
- Woot! 📚📚📖📚
- The #NEH Public Scholars program (which is, surprisingly, still in existence) will only fund projects that “increase knowledge of the 250th anniversary of American independence and American exceptionalism.”
- How I'm hoping Harvard will respond to the Supreme Cheeto's $2.2 billion punishment.
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0. If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
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- Yesssssss!!!!
- Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Timeline cleanse. A hiker on the Mt. Hollywood Trail, amidst the marine layer
- The right-wing assault on American history and public historians continues. 🤬
- Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
- Reposted by Megan Kate Nelson 📚This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.
