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I'm thinking that we need a "This Day in History--One Week Ago" Trending section on Bluesky. Just to be reminded of what we've already been subjected to (& more than likely, what still hasn't been stopped). My #1 outrage for last week: Trump's lab leak webpage: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Oh, HELL no

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this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown"

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Trump admin begins groundwork to deport nearly 90,000 Afghans. Many were US allies during the war, and would likely face imprisonment or death upon their return. Another shameful betrayal.

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As libraries across the country receive notices of critical grants being canceled, ALA has new advice to help libraries & institutions navigating federal grant terminations. Steps 1 & 2: Notify your legal counsel and preserve all documents. Read the rest: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

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Trying to document harms of NEH grant cancellations for MLA members. Get in touch with your story. Pkrebs@mla.org

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Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states. New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute:

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This is an absolutely wild and illegal order, ceding Secretary-level authorities to a non-Senate confirmed DOGE operative

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Earthquake measuring 6.2 shakes Istanbul and injures more than 150 people ISTANBUL - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the Turkish city of 16 million people, though there were no…

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There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

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For those in Manhattan, I'm giving a talk today at Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, about debates among the French Jewish community over the legal limits of free speech and hate speech during the Dreyfus Affair: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-...

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Online board game seller Boardlandia shuts down after tariffs add “unsustainable burden” to company’s existing challenges: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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The School Chaplain bill is headed for debate in the Iowa Senate today and I'm livid.

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It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

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This is so bad. Women have long been excluded from scientific trials (because apparently our bodies are too tricky to deal with) and so this study is a key source of what we know about our health! I weep

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Guys, I have bad news: Lowering tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 65% still destroys the economy. It appears totally lost on people just how absurd 145% is. This is like saying we're no longer going to shoot you 15 times. Only 7 times. You are still dead, but please thank us.

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I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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On a totally different note, I'm listening-reading Dune for the first time and... the writing could be better, imo.

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The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.

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Incredible

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“Governors decide” is doing a lot of work here.

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Hey #AcademicSky, if you are as horrified as I am by last week's high-handed, ill-timed, and ill-conceived cuts to the faculty and programs at Jacksonville University, please sign the petition in protest: www.change.org/p/ju-alumni-...

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University of #Toledo is ending a huge number of programs out of fear of SB 1. An absolute slaughter. Every corner of my hometown will feel the impact #Ohio's Republican politicians passed this bill. Don't let anyone forget it news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04...

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WHERE IS THE FREEZE PEACH BRIGADE

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Please sign if you haven’t already UK friends 💕

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I was denied permission to host a roundtable at the Puget Sound VA to hear from women veterans about their health care. I have NEVER been outright denied from having open & honest conversations with VA—until this administration. I'm demanding an answer from VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

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#AcademicSky

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This is how you do it.

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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

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I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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A reminder that we are open for pitches for this roundtable on the ways that federal cuts to funding have impacted historians working off the tenure track.

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#DH friends, I love you, but y'all are literally the worst about thinking that a link suffices for an actual citation/note. #AmEditing

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In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

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#April21 is the last day of advance voting. #April22 is the last day to apply for voting by mail. Just one week until election day. Please make a plan. Help others with their plan. #VOTE #canpoli #cdnpoli #Canada #elxn45 #elxn2025 #election2025 #CanadaVotes #StopTheSplit #CanadaElection

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See Trump's damage to science one scientist at a time at @silencedscience.bsky.social 🧪

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in which i write a refutation of rfk jr and dr. oz and their eugenicist ilk: your worth is not tied to your ability to produce, and all of us come into the world needing help, and leave it that way too ability is neither stable nor a moral signifier: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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The way they'd kill the Medicaid expansion is by cutting the percentage the federal government pays for all costs associated with the expansion population (currently 90%) down to the legacy Medicaid level of 50-80% (depending on state). Many expansion states could/would not make up the difference.

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At the 235th Meeting yesterday, we voted to continue our work under a new name: the American Society for Premodern Asia. We invite all scholars who work on languages, literatures, history, and material culture of West, Central, South, and East Asia, and North Africa join us! #ancient #medieval #asia

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Cuomo was a disaster as governor who showed himself to be absolutely devoid of any ethical integrity or inspiring policy vision. He's famous for covering up Covid deaths in nursing homes, serially sexually harassing people, and promoting himself. Why would anyone vote for him?

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