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For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...

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This by @ethanmarcotte.com is exceedingly well said: “the billionaire's so-called ‘efficiency’ ‘department’ is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture”

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Imma say it again What’s happening to the federal workforce isn’t downsizing

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To my fellow Iowans! See below. Keep an eye on HF 401 as well.

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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

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Recipes?! Preparing a meal to eat and share is one of the oldest human experiences we have that connects us across generations and grounds us in our humanity. “Hell no” to all of this! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Pretend “order 66” never happened in Episode III, and create a dark series in which Darth Vader and other Siths are hunting down the Jedi Order.

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historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!

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I’m a historian, yet I do not know everything about history, and I would never give anyone medical advice just as a brain surgeon would not get a job with NASA. Assuming that anyone who has amassed wealth in one profession automatically has expertise in an entirely different sectors is dangerous.

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The Trump admin's whole ethos relies on self-victimization at the hands of their favorite catch-all boogeyman: “the media.” They've never held more power—over the country & the media landscape—but they're still too whiny/pathetic to present as anything but victims of their own imagined mistreatment:

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"DEI on campus ... was starting to act like many faculty members' direct supervisor and telling them how and what to teach" I'm sorry, what? I've never experienced this myself and I've never heard another faculty member anywhere ever complain about anything remotely like this.

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How funny would it be if everyone got this tee and wears it in Sac?! Just sayin…we’d all rather be at the Oakland Coliseum! 🏟️: lastdivebar.com/search?q=rat...

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Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times. gifs only.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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Cryptid spotted

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I am extremely excited to get back into the conference game with a return to the NINE this year! Such an amazing group of people at this annual conference. I will be presenting a paper on character in HoF voting before the character clause. bsky.app/profile/nine-on-9.bsky.social/post/3lip35zgqwu26

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The 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference is right around the corner! Join us for four days of dynamic presentations on baseball history & culture.

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I’m pretty sure the sensor-activated paper towel dispenser was invented by someone who had never had wet hands in their entire life

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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“The Rebels were not made rebels in a day, and they cannot be made patriots in a day. In my opinion, they must be born again. The only difference is this: during the war the Rebel had a musket, now he has none. The difference is in the musket, not the Rebel.” – Ebon C. Ingersoll, US Rep. (IL), 1865

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#OTD in 1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. Four years later, on the same day, Black soldiers of the 21st United States Colored Troops marched into Charleston, South Carolina, "The birthplace of secession." 🗃️

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"The National Park Service's Loss is Our Loss" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-nation...

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On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

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@bachynski.bsky.social and I just submitted a proposal to co-teach a course in the fall tentatively titled "Vaccination Nation" — a timely course co-taught by a historian (me) and a public health professor (Kathleen). I am so excited!

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

I just think running a government like the Miami Marlins should have severe repercussions.

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As a historian and educator, I always do my best to connect the past to the present to help my students see how our modern world has been shaped and is still being influenced by the past. (🧵)

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"It now seems distressingly neglected. 'The Great War and Modern Memory' is worth a revisit, and a new generation of readers. I would slide it forward, like a runaway checkers stone, at least 30 places on the Modern Library’s list, on writerly merit alone." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/b...

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