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Indeed I’m fearful. We aren’t testing much any more. We’re firing everyone in govt who can help and stripping funding from academic & industry scientists who can fill the gaps. H5N1 is a real threat & US policy puts us all at risk. Me & colleagues Kay Russo, Kamran Khan, & Keith Poulsen discuss👇🏻

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"We work from the resolute belief that scholarship, teaching, and free inquiry are essential for democracy. As a scholarly organization committed to careful historical analysis of the role of the United States in the world, SHAFR denounces the attacks on these values." www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

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This is from J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee:

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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

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Really looking forward to this workshop!

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If you missed the live or want to share the conversation, Religion & The Madhouse ft. Judith Weisenfeld is now available to watch on YouTube or listen to on major podcast platforms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJI... Find show notes/learning resources here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/teaching_res...

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Videos shared on social media reveal widespread destruction at the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum—the RSF destroyed mummies and emptied galleries & storage of artifacts. Sudanese "citizens have expressed their profound grief over the museum’s destruction." culturalpropertynews.org/looting-and-...

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Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities will affect the way we celebrate America’s 250th Last week we did a few posts on how Trump's cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities affected local humanities efforts. Get up to speed here, here and here. The cuts will also affect how…

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They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

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$2.04 mil Mellon grant will allow the Julian Bond Papers Project, to accelerate efforts to digitize, annotate, publish—and I hope back up and protect— the vast archive of civil rights leader, educator and activist Julian Bond.

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If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

As I’ve said, yes, this was their aim all along. That’s why they didn’t just send these people to Gitmo. This is an attempt to find a step beyond Gitmo where the court says, “Well, our hands are tied.” It’s an awful, lawless gambit that must fail, but that is what they want it to be.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Cogent thread on the importance of perceived prestige in foreign relations and the international economy:

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The evisceration of the NEH will halt efforts to preserve history and support local culture everywhere, but will be especially devastating in small towns and rural areas. A very well written piece and a must read: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Even more to the point, Treasuries usually rally even when the United States is the source of the downturn - see also: the financial crisis. That they’re not now is really bad

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Remember when all it took to (maybe) tank a presidential run was not knowing how to eat a tamale? Some reminiscences from the local paper... 🗃️ www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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From @jamellebouie.net "There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim...[his] tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

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The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

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From my visit last week to the Topaz Internment Camp, where Fred Korematsu was interned. This quote still sticks with me.

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I don't understand why people aren't getting that once you ignore due process and constitutional protections for non-citizens, you have also effectively suspended the same for everyone else. Every human in this country is now in danger of being deported without trial, regardless of who they are.

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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

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Gotta love getting an email from the financial planner that opens with "a tariff is a tax. As currently presented a $600 billion per year tax on consumers. At face value, this is the largest tax increase in American history" and ends with the plea re: stocks "you don’t need to catch a falling knife"

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More from the JFK files—a @nsarchive.bsky.social post highlighting declassified top secret briefings on CIA covert ops in Brazil, Chile, British Guiana, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Congo, and elsewhere. Some add to what we already knew, but some detail unknown ops 🗃️ nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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Tariffs are even worse than you think—even if reversed, we are no longer a trustworthy trading partner; other countries will trade around us. The global order that brought prosperity? Done. "Our quality of life in the United States will decline for years to come." open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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"Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

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This is the most IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM LAST WEEK We lost our ability to prepare for bio warfare!

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

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It bears repeating that every one of these "defundings"—each & every one!—is an illegal & unconstitutional usurpation of Congress' exclusive power to determine how the people's money is spent & requires, as a basic matter of constitutional fidelity, the impeachment & removal of everyone involved

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Key thread:

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On this day in 1948 US President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. The goals were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity and prevent the spread of communism.

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This an excellent article on what we/ you have lost in the mass firings in the FDA. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Hear hear! The late 19th century isn't referred to as the "long depression" for nothing...

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