The legendary Cathy Wilcox nails it! @cathywilcox.bsky.social

Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Took a 20 mile bike ride this morning to check out the Reflecting Pool

Damn it - that’s my thesis. I need plan B right now.

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo ago

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

This.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last yr.

The horrors of the current moment are many. But what I’ve personally decided to do in this time —-is to ground myself in the work of preservation, of repair, of ending colonialism’s harmful legacies. And for me that means joining the generational fight to protect Black/African art and heritage.

I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...

The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute

Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Filling the soap dispensers, cleaning the toilets, kids tours, archaeology, keeping you safe. Just look at the terrible things those wasteful bureaucrats have been getting up to!

View from Argus@viewfromargus.bsky.social · last yr.

What an insipid assessment of indiscriminate firings of #NPS employees by @outsidemag.bsky.social. To act like these firings are average fair in light of deadly & destructive consequences to visitors, parks & staff does a disservice to alert readers & the NPS. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Blame game. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Sadly it has taken a crisis for me to discover important voices like this. I’m bloody well listening now.

The Emancipator@theemancipator.org · last yr.

“Instead of asking, ‘How can we defend DEI initiatives in this hostile climate?’ we might ask, ‘Where have our diversity efforts created the most value, and how can we build on these successes?’,” Carrie Bloxson writes for The Emancipator. theemancipator.org/2025/02/20/t...

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

Ahem- transport planners!

The Trump administration revoked approval for New York City's newly enacted congestion pricing plan, as the president gloated: "LONG LIVE THE KING."

Trump Administration Revokes Approval For New York City’s Congestion Pricing

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Someone has made a Project 2025 tracker. There's so much to fight now and prepare for. Sharing this grab for archaeology, heritage, and conservation colleagues - we have work to do www.project2025.observer

BREAKING: Trump's Dept. of Interior is removing an 11-mile stretch in St. John the Baptist Parish from consideration for a National Historic Landmark, according to a letter obtained by @veritenews.org. veritenews.org/2025/02/18/s...

Under Trump, St. John site no longer considered for historic landmark designation

The National Park Service removed an 11-mile stretch of the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish from consideration for a National Historic Landmark designation last week,...

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Cultural heritage won’t get us out of this mess, but can someone add sharing untold stories to those lists of local things we can do?

“The land and the history is disappearing into the sea and so we’re trying to act before it disappears. But we need to ensure the community is centred in this, that knowledge is returned to them.”

Adam Markham@adammarkham.bsky.social · last yr.

#Arctic #climateheritage🏺 “If anything happens to one building, they can easily replace it...But you can’t replace a culture and a history. If you let those die out, they’re next to impossible to bring back.”

Well, that’s that for cultural heritage. Here was me thinking we were too elitist!

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.