Daisy Martin
@daisymsc.bsky.social
Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winner
Against “linguistic whitewashing” as “ritual of national forgetting” 🎁 article #teachReconstruction www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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This interview w @skyeperryman.bsky.social is well worth listening to-and good for thinking and teaching bout checks and balances and that they Still Exist!
Corey Brettschneider@democracyprof.bsky.social · 2w agoTodd Blanche claims the $1.8 billion slush fund to reward allies of Trump is dead. But Democracy Forward’s @skyeperryman.bsky.social explains why the fight is not over. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social New episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/o...
Opinion | We Need a Better Test for Dangerous A.I. (Gift Article)
Responding to the safety risks A.I. pose means coming to terms with an uncomfortable truth: A.I. models are weapons.
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Yes. Not just medical texts, either. It’s horrifying to think about the effect of dumping even more of the old, racist histories I study into a program that uses them as input to predict text for user prompts.
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · last wk.The increased reliance on print texts from the "pre-LLM era" for model training is objectively NOT good for health/medical topics, BTW. It would be better to have vetted and trustworthy "AI"-free contemporary scholarship now, rather than rely on rapidly out-of-date "pre-LLM era" input data.
Read this cuz of my IATSE partner, stayed for the implications re:media and democracy, finished w it as another case study where large corps and their CEOs ruin another industry to steal more millions and billions.
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
Important corollary: people are LESS likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them don't. This is where "social proof" comes in. Be vocal and visible to social circles and neighbors about your resistance against authoritarians AND your support of pro-democracy candidates and causes
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · last wk.People are more likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them do. www.psypost.org/anti-democra...
What can the life of 20th c civil rights activist & bestselling author Lillian Smith teach us about resisting authority today? My piece in @salon.com: www.salon.com/2026/07/27/a...
A former FBI target has the playbook to fight Rubio's enemies list
The FBI's targeting of civil rights activist Lillian Smith provides lessons for solidarity and resistance
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At one point a GOP member asked what the most popular book of the Founders was…yes, u guessed it-then chided the DIrector to feature Paine’s Common Sense 🙄 like, uh, do u know what Paine thought abt such claptrack? @thomaspaineha.bsky.social
Daisy Martin@daisymsc.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen the questions asked by the GOP show they don’t understand history - but they are emasters of ideology and othering
Powerful. Standing up for our history and museums www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tkoyMa/
Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., said Black Americans are “outraged at what is happening now with these efforts to do away with the African American museum and all of the Smithsonian,” during a House Oversig...
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Daisy Martin@daisymsc.bsky.social · 2w ago“if you erase it, we will replace it” - Hon Rep @repkweisimfume.bsky.social -bringing me to tears. #teachhistory
Respect and gratitude to Prof David Blight and Dir Anthea Hartig on representing history and truth telling abt our multiracial democracy’s shared past in Congress today. (& Blights correction of that wrong assertion abt US abolishing slavery-chefs kiss)
When the questions asked by the GOP show they don’t understand history - but they are emasters of ideology and othering
“if you erase it, we will replace it” - Hon Rep @repkweisimfume.bsky.social -bringing me to tears. #teachhistory
Appreciating Professors @lmpanich.bsky.social @rizzomartinez.bsky.social and Jonathan Cordero’s comments in here as well as Val Lopez’s. And pls look for the Critical Missions Handbook coming soon from UC Press to hear more.
Courthouse News@courthousenews.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite recent backlashes over the colonial treatment of Native populations, California's missions continue to thrive. www.courthousenews.com/ongoing-miss...
“It was in the hands of abolitionists, Black &white, carried over from Black Americans free, freed and enslaved, that the Declaration worked as both an indictment & a promise — the spiritual foundation of the nation and the standard that its institutions must meet. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Read this. #publichistory #sschat First part is resonant w attacks on educators -coordinated, the extremists will tell u what to think- & I was struck by her description of one exhibit that broadened/corrected the site’s story telling as “restrained”-standsin stark contrast to the extremists’ work
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · last mo.Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
Just emailed my comment abt usps proposed rule to extort states’ voter rolls and limit mail in voting-last day! Do it now :) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
The Postal Service is proposing to amend the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal el...
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“It was in the hands of abolitionists, Black &white, carried over from Black Americans free, freed and enslaved, that the Declaration worked as both an indictment & a promise — the spiritual foundation of the nation and the standard that its institutions must meet. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Trans rights are human rights. All people should have the right to compete in sports as themselves.
“"The people who were overlooked and unnamed and didn't count in the official record, they deserve to take up space in our national memory," Kerwin said. "They are America."
NPR@npr.org · last mo.As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
“"The people who were overlooked and unnamed and didn't count in the official record, they deserve to take up space in our national memory," Kerwin said. "They are America."
NPR@npr.org · last mo.As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
The Ohio Organizing Collective, which does political and voter engagement activities, was raided by the FBI yesterday. They built this website to explain what is happening: www.handsoffohio.org
HANDS OFF OHIO!
Federal agents raided offices connected to the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a leading Ohio voting rights organization. Learn what happened, why it matters, and how you can stand up for democracy and...
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"Entire fields of scholarship...have been targeted as suspect or illegitimate. In their place, the administration has advanced a standard of historical “truth” that requires conformity to a predetermined narrative of national greatness..." 🗃️
The Organization of American Historians@oah.org · 2mo agoHARPP has released “The Federal Assault on History” the first comprehensive report documenting the Trump administration’s sweeping, coordinated effort since January 2025 to reshape how the American past is recorded, preserved, and shared with the public. Read the report: https://ow.ly/7ab150Zawe5
This is good-keeping this tool out of this Admin’s hands (a tool that was dangerous from its start and inc sweeping up Americans data even when supposedly prohibited). Glad Dems stood their ground #fisa #privacy 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
House Rejects Bill to Extend Spy Power, All but Assuring a Lapse
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I wrote about the smash-and-grab politics of fascist gangsterism and what it would mean to take back what’s been stolen. “The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again.”
The Heist State
“We are being robbed by the worst people in the world.”
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