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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

Fantastic- congratulations, @micnick.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY WOMEN HISTORIANS: Political Nostalgias Volume 2 - the modern and contemporary world. 🗃️ Please share with your networks. Any questions - email me!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk fired a disabled Veteran with 3 tours of duty from his job serving other Veterans at the VA. Elon’s companies get billions from defense contracts. He’s happy to profit off our servicemembers - but when he can no longer make money off them, he kicks them to the curb.

submitted 4 days ago • 300 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 15 days ago • 1401 comments

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

This is our state. We pay taxes for it. It is our information, not Musk's.

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www.latintimes.com/ice-says-sor...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Commencing McCarthy-style Witch Hunts on already exhausted and underpaid/under-valued teachers in 3, 2, 1 SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS, DON’T MAKE THEIR JOBS HARDER #history #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

There’s a LOT going on here. And the damage will be severe. Lo and behold the 1776 Commission is back. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

EPA just confirmed to me that the agency "has paused all funding actions related to the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at this time."

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

I just contacted my representative and I hope you all do, too. Calls are the most effective. Web portal messages are OK. But please, make yourself heard.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

In a functioning democracy, a president who -tries to seize Congress's constitutional spending powers -attempts to rewrite the Constitution unilaterally -pardons violent insurrectionists who attacked the government -fires the Inspectors General and DOJ prosecutors would face immediate impeachment

submitted 25 days ago • 78 comments

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

submitted 26 days ago • 155 comments

I was on WIC when I left my abusive husband with a toddler in tow. I think it's super important to highlight that their are real people behind these acronyms. This will hurt so many families.

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

The USAF has reversed itself "after uproar." We must continue to pay attention. We must continue to preserve & share the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen & the Women Airforce Service Pilots. I promised them I would always tell their stories. You can too. Knowledge is power! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 272 comments

I love it - will reskeet all Philadelphia nonsense

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 29 days ago • 206 comments

Great 🧵

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off. As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week. It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 165 comments

“Remember that opposition can be passed down across generations even when outward signs would suggest accommodation and acclimation.” Thank you Tiya Miles open.substack.com/pub/tiyamile...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Have I told you that a group of indexers volunteered their time and energy to index the monstrosity that is Project 2025? This is NOT made with AI, but only professional indexers. Please bookmark and boost! Share it with journalists! indexersguidetoproject2025.com

submitted 28 days ago • 51 comments

If you look at the history of commissaries and post exchanges in the U.S. military, one of the main purposes of establishing these systems was to protect troops and their families from being gouged by post traders and other private entities. This goes all the way back to the 19th century!

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Yep, great context. For more on Cherokee women’s influence on N. women’s political strategy via petitioning, see Tiya Miles’ fantastic article in Am Quarterly & on Northern white women’ advocacy against Cherokee removal and how they brought those strategies to abol see Mary Hershberger’s JAH piece

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Do not confirm.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

There will be major pressure on the Trump Administration to make the Comstock Act a ban on abortion--and to rebrand the nineteenth-century obscenity law a "national abortion trafficking law." We've seen signs Trump will cater to some movement demands. Now we will see how far he goes...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Good Morning, Bluesky! Random observation: I am getting more engagement on Bluesky than Facebook already. Facebook is New Mexico Nomad's largest platform. I've been working on that account for almost 10 years. The engagement differential is a testament to the META algorithms choking exposure.

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

submitted 31 days ago • 78 comments

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Never imagined I’d have to say this, but if you want to have a look at NIH RePORTER to see how much NIH funding your state receives so you can write to your elected representatives, you’d better do it now, and get a screenshot.

submitted 31 days ago • 81 comments

Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 31 days ago • 191 comments

The world needs more good, accurate, and trustworthy information. I want to help scholars get their research and ideas out into the world by using digital tools and media. I’d like to create a few How-To videos. What topics and tools would you like to learn about? What would be helpful to you?

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

If you haven’t read @marthasjones.bsky.social book Birthright Citizens, now would be a great time to pick it up. 🗃️

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments