Very important and topical talk! 👇

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Coming up tonight at 6:30ET! Still time to register. This will be a wide ranging conversation on the past and future of our university lives, publishing included, along with advice for writers!

How did UMASS Amherst escape this list??

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

in better university news, Friday is a good time to do a brutalism and beyond campus buildings best fest. this article doesn’t know what it’s talking about, and RIP Crosley; show us your faves www.architecturaldigest.com/story/uglies...

I'm defending my dissertation over the summer and I'm out of university funding. If anyone has any leads on alt-ac or nonprofit work where I can use my #latinxstudies #publichealth and/or #publichistory skills in the NYC area, I'd be very grateful! 🙏

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Jim Wald@citizenwald.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anyone want to buy a used bookstore (so to speak)? Owners seek buyer to keep Amherst Books alive downtown. Longtime booksellers plan to sell store’s inventory and name while hoping a new owner stays in town center - Daily Hampshire Gazette

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map

It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.

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Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.

Rick Steves@ricksteves.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This makes me physically ill. I suppose a particular type of American will hold their wedding at a plantation before honeymooning in Gaza.

haversack@hsack121.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ivanka rump's husband, pos jared, presents $112.1 billion plan for beach side luxury resort on shattered ruins of Gaza www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-p...

the vice president is a klansman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

People on 60 Minutes have pretty consistently been brave and willing to give a damn to the point of losing their job rather than sell out their soul and this email is sadly probably going to be a part of that

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED

Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...

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My brother in Christ, who cares? Any amount of "fraud," has got to be so miniscule as to be completely outweighed by the benefit of FEEDING THE MANY PEOPLE IN NEED

NPR@npr.org · 8mo ago

Brooke Rollins has made a case for sweeping changes to food aid programs by claiming USDA has uncovered "massive fraud." But she and USDA haven't provided the underlying data or any evidence.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Will someone in history or another social science share their teaching statement with me? I'm struggling a bit to wrap my mind around it as I write one for job apps.

Real Duterte-level BS here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

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Honestly, the way these criminal wackadoos are behaving, they must know doomsday is coming. They're definitely treating this planet like they got another one to go to.

Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA

#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!

Bumping this

Shakti Castro@shakticastro.bsky.social · last yr.

With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

With the solemn acknowledgment that the world is indeed on fire, would anyone have a good spreadsheet template for tracking job and post-doc applications?

I'm so embarrassed to still be a registered Democrat.

Politico@politico.com · last yr.

Opinion: The debate over transgender rights is a liability for Democrats. Here’s how to neutralize it, writes @thirdway.bsky.social think tank co-founder Jonathan Cowan.

I joked a few weeks ago that Columbia’s initial concessions meant that Trump had acquired a university. I do not want to have been right. But…

Katherine Franke@katherinefranke.bsky.social · last yr.

Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

Although this letter is not an official statement by the Columbia History Department, it was signed by 41 members of the department.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

Dems stood by and did nothing while a Black man was forcibly ejected from the chamber. What a fucking shock. Pathetic cowards.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Al Green is removed

#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in the history of the Ranger Force. /1

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