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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've posted about how total cost of ownerships is lower for BEVs than fossil fuel cars. It's true for trucks, vans and school buses too. School districts are saving money by switching from diesel to electric school buses. Let's look at some examples... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.the74million.org/article/as-d...
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As Diesel Prices Soared, Arkansas District Saved With Electric School Buses
Young: Federal funding paid for Little Rock to buy buses that cost 31 cents per mile to operate, versus 59 cents for diesel-powered vehicles.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 15/08/2026
Here on E Street, the irreplaceable loss of Dave Marsh has us heartbroken…
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Gift link wapo.st/4yR8j5X
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The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China
For generations, this Ohio factory was a way of life. Then came the final shift.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not a well-known part of history. The court case that halted the reenslavement of children and defined the 13th Amendment. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Slavery Outlived the Civil War. How It Actually Ended Will Surprise You.
Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s ban on slavery.
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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Presidential 1776 Award competition ended in a disputed finish in the age of suspicion. Sam Fortier reports.
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An insightful article about APR’s efforts to rewild the Western prairie
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The ranchers there don’t like this, partly because (to be frank) buffalo are symbols of Indians and many don’t like Indians. But also because American Prairie is competition that makes it harder for them to expand by buying out ranches that would otherwise be cheaper. (Below: a good piece on AP)
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Where the Buffalo Roam
The banners were there to protest the efforts of the American Prairie Reserve, or APR, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Bozeman, Montana,…
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Thanks to Eileen Boris for this report on the erasure of labor history at Lowell National Historic Park.
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What Is the History of American Progress without a History of Its Workers?
by Eileen Boris
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles, which can help determine the risk of the disease in their area. abcnews.go.com/Health/new-m...
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New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP code
For the first time, a map allows people to type in their ZIP code and determine the risk of measles in their area based on vaccination coverage.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’m sorry, what?
EPA to stop considering lives saved when setting rules on air pollution.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D. @ahecon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🚨NEW REPORT: Did Trump really fix NAFTA?: What USMCA failed to do and how to put workers first in North American trade. Trump pledged to fix “The worst trade deal ever made.” 5 years later, things are only getting worse for US trade and North American workers 👀🧵 ...1/n www.epi.org/publication/...
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Did Trump really fix NAFTA?: What USMCA failed to do and how to put workers first in North American trade
Trump replaced NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in 2020. But his USMCA has so far failed to make trade work for North American workers.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Gift link. Program launched in Shreveport and expects to cut half the labor force. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
“… organizers are expecting to outshine the original, amid revulsion to Trump’s brutal campaign of mass deportation led by masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and an increasingly lawless president who claims ‘a lot’ of Americans would ‘like a dictator.’” #NoKings
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'No Kings' Unveils a Big New Trump Protest, and the Stakes Couldn't Be Higher
Ezra Levin of Indivisible on how protest can stop Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 05/09/2025
A group called Return to the Land has established two "whites-only communities" in Arkansas, with plans for four more sites in the Ozarks and Appalachia. The creation of white ‘ethnostates’ is the ultimate goal of some white nationalists, a scholar of right-wing extremism explains:
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An Arkansas group’s effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
Several white nationalist groups such as Return to the Land have attempted to establish all-white communities across the country.
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...
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mRNA Vaccines Are a Game-Changer—Here’s Why
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... RFK Jr. is attacking the very science that saved millions
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Opinion | RFK Jr. is attacking the very science that saved millions
HHS Secretary Kennedy’s decision is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of vaccinology that could cost lives in future pandemics.
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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I explore why liberals fell for the heterodox movement’s “free speech” ploy in my latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’
Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Opinion | ‘Catching it on our tongues’: How 12 girls became the first atomic bomb victims
The Trinity nuclear test was not conducted on barren, uninhabited land.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Were Americans Ever Really Healthy?
The history of nutrition science in the US suggests that the Make America Healthy Again movement would make more sense without the ‘A.’
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In light of this: www.media.mit.edu/publications... I will start my fall research seminar with five or ten minutes of free writing. On paper, with pen. And I'll assign Lynn Hunt, "How Writing Leads to Thonking." www.historians.org/perspectives...
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
 This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine…
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Indivisible Northern AZ ❌👑 @indivisiblenaz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Massive crowds for the No Kings rally in Flagstaff @maddow.msnbc.com @thecontrarian.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social #nokings
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Coming October 21st... "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile." A new book about how cars ruin everything and what we can do to fight back. Pre-order here: www.lifeaftercars.com
Book cover with yellow and black border and white background. Black title: "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon Hosts of The War on Cars Podcast and Aaron Naparstek" Graphic shows yellow traffic light with vines on it.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
From Lane Windham, here's an unsparing look back at the period 20 years ago, when the leadership of the AFL-CIO really did try to recommit to organizing the unorganized and rebuild the labor movement as a movement. And failed to do so. portside.org/2025-05-28/c...
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/05/2025
tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
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E.J. Dionne @ejdionne.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours” Of course the GOP wants to pass its bill fast: They want to avoid public focus on the damage it would do to health coverage, writes @citizencohn.bsky.social. He also shares important history. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak...
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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours
There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Former acting Attorney General Peter Keisler and I discuss the many crises of due process in the Trump presidency. Episode 3 of the David Frum Show on YouTube below - or wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdBQ...
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Peter Keisler and the Crises of Due Process | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I'm lecturing in my US survey on the 1920s this week, and I came across @seeshespeak.bsky.social Great Courses lectures on The Great Gatsby, which pointed out things in both the book and the 1920s that hadn't considered before. It's well worth the listen.
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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So sad today about the death of Clem Burke from cancer at the too-young age of 70. I kept seeing people mention his drumming on "Dreaming," which is one of my very favorite Blondie songs, and so I dug into why the tune (and his performance) is so brilliant. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/dreaming-i...
the cover of blondie’s “dreaming” single
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Not a good sign. Gift link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Financial Stress Has More Americans Tapping Their 401(k)s
Empower sees hardship withdrawals running 15% to 20% above the historical norm.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 07/04/2025
Near the Canadian border, the tariffs are already being felt: theatln.tc/MeMekMiC
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Blondie / Debbie Harry @blondieband.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market collapse worsens: Live updates
Trump posted on Saturday to Truth Social for people to "hang tough" and that this was an "economic revolution."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/04/2025
This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers. Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers.
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Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
All the books in this series have similar covers so this was expected but it’s still great to see! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Pleased to announce that the School of History and Social Sciences here at Louisiana Tech is hiring THREE new tenure track assistant professors: history, political science, and sociology! Contact me directly with any questions. Links to each job ad below.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very excited to say something I haven't been able to say in a decade: we are hiring a tenure-track historian at Louisiana Tech. We're casting the net wide, basically any field outside of North America. Happy to answer any questions ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...
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Assistant Professor of History
Thank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. POSITION: Assistant Professor of History. The School of History and Social Sciences at Louisiana Tech University invites appli...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What happened in Louisiana deserves more attention. 4 MAGA-supported constitutional amendments. All failed. Great organizing work by folks like Gary Chambers. www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louis...
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That Louisiana win is a BFD (and a message to Wisconsin and Florida voters: yes we can!)
Activists, powered by Black early voters, defeated maga governor Jeff Landry, including in his own parish...
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Baseline takeaway: Our national debt is spiraling out of control. And it could get worse. Fast. This ⤵️ is what CBO says will happen under current law. But Trump and Republicans are working on a major tax cut that will spike the national debt even more. And that's not reflected in this data.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Mine safety issues are going to be rampant under the Trump Administration
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Anthony @antpete.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is where senator is this weekend.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Superb piece.
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poinx @poinx.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Fire and the northeast. Excellent article by Stephen Pyne. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...
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The Burned-Over District
The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.
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Dave Anderson @andersondavidm.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Exploring the American frontier
The American frontier is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by technology, economics and wealth.
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