Doug Sackman
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
Send a message to your US Rep TODAY telling them to do all they can to block this vile legislation. 2/ act.seiu.org/a/sawa?ms=bsky
ACT NOW: Devastating farm worker legislation introduced by Republicans
Do you believe it?! 5 Democrats just joined 45 Republicans in co-sponsoring devastating legislation to make Trump's farm worker wage cuts into federal law. Send a message to your US Rep TODAY telling ...
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Dr. Anthea Hartig's testimony, speaking these truths (that should be self-evident) at her Congressional inquisition. www.congress.gov/119/meeting/...
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Doug Sackman@dcsackman.bsky.social · last mo.It's time to stand behind Drs. Lonnie Bunch, Anthea Hartig*, and historical truth and free inquiry. * my old friend from citrus history days...
Grape harvesting in the heat of the legendary cross country town.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last wk.It was 99° in McFarland CA as these farm workers labored picking, sorting, and packing the grapes are children enjoying their lunch bags. #WeFeedYou
AAUP says the Trump admin is going after universities, & today WSJ says “White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away From Colleges.” Ppl have asked me why Project 2025 and the Trumpist right want to kill US science. This is why: like Orban, they want to kill universities.
AAUP@aaup.org · 2w agoOUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
Anthropic has just been ordered to pay 1.5 billion dollars to copyright holders. But the harm is ongoing. They aren’t stopping societal wide copyright violation. So people have in effect been forced to issue licences against their will.
just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo agoAnyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
Trans rights are human rights. Go get um, rugby gals.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w agoTeams and sports are capitulating to Trump's sports ban threat left and right across the United States. Except for women's rugby teams. Even though they are attempting to ban trans athletes, several teams are not complying. Subscribe to support our journalism.
sorry, but he was asking for it with his nazi "they're weirdos" speech...Krusefied (tip--save the second one for last....)
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w agoI try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
As for grades, here's my pedagogy: I want every student to get an A, because I grade based on the work they put in & do, the skills they practice & strengthen. Who the fuck doesn't want every student in their courses to succeed? & who is anyone else to tell me what grades students should be getting?
My pedagogy: I'm not interested in trying to catch students "cheating"; I'm not a cop, it doesn't affect me negatively, & since I don't "distribute" grades it doesn't affect that either. The reason I'm so opposed to AI use is that it cheats the students themselves & every part of their experience.
Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.
As a movement journalist, I would be very interested in talking to folks who were involved with this.
Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 4w agoHundreds of people in San Francisco marched from tech company to tech company on Saturday, blasting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for barreling towards an AI future. They rallied under a giant "Stop the AI Race" banner. missionlocal.org/2026/07/san-...
Today, July 10, marks one year since the brutal and chaotic immigration raid by the US DHS on Glass House Farms in Ventura County, CA which resulted in more than 300 farm workers detained by federal agents and the violent death of farm worker Jaime Alanis Garcia. 1/
"this state fair looks more like an internment camp" In my state, the State Fair was also an internment camp (renamed orwellianly "camp harmony") Also, support History and Anthea Hartig at the National Museum against these assassins of history, truth and free inquiry.
John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com · 4w agoGood summary of some of the material on the founders at NMAH, which the WH report ignored. newrepublic.com/article/2128...
I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.
Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
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I used to be on an endless run Believed in miracles 'cause I'm one I've been blessed with the power to survive After all these years I'm still alive I'm out here kickin' with the band...
The editor of this book refuses to take on myth america? www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
Myth America
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s...
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w agoThis bizarre @newrepublic.com piece accuses me of being a proponent of American exceptionalism and someone who refuses to challenge the basic myths of American history and, uh, that is certainly a take?