Sign in

jreedmo.bsky.social

@jreedmo.bsky.social
456 followers 415 following 118 posts

Historian of the Native South, Indian Territory, Five Tribes, American Education, and Social Welfare who likes spending time with some archaeologists. Citizen of the Cherokee Nation

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026
WATCH: Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our documentary with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
youtube.com
Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs
YouTube video by ProPublica
23368211
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
825688
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
10452183
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.
futurism.com
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.
361282309
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Colin Makoto Craig is a fourth generation veteran who served in the US Air Force. Craig examines how the G.I. Bill reshaped postwar America, sending millions of veterans to college and into the middle class, in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/Ef-DgkmquuE?...
youtu.be
G.I. Bill, Narrated by Colin Makoto Craig
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
013339
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing newrepublic.com/post/214946/...
newrepublic.com
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
20545961954
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026
The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.
aljazeera.com
Tribe accuses US federal agents of ‘trespassing' on indigenous border land
The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.
3358135
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We stand with the Tohono O’odham Nation. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
18337
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation.
521300906
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Week Fourteen in 250 to 250
Last week was the fourteenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
6498144
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026
The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.
propublica.org
The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
53754356
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the U.S. and Six Nations recognizes Seneca territory as bounded by Lake Ontario.
096
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Tribal sovereignty and Indigenous lands vs Trump admin westernpriorities.org/2026/08/arme...
westernpriorities.org
Armed agents enter Tohono O'odham Nation in border wall construction dispute - Center for Western Priorities
Armed and masked agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with border wall contractors, entered the Tohono O’odham Nation without authorization on Tuesday to work on border wall construct...
000
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Indigenous History and language lesson from Mark Carney from before those borders existed.
000
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
“…the WRITE AI Center will lead a national effort to answer one of higher education’s most urgent questions: How can AI improve student learning while ensuring students continue to develop the writing, critical thinking and communication skills essential for success?”
news.uci.edu
UC Irvine School of Education to lead $10 million national center on AI and postsecondary writing
5-year initiative will help colleges use generative AI to strengthen writing instruction
616912
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
With gift link included to NYT article included.
000
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
😊
011
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is gutting. There are few people universally beloved. Dolly Parton is one. She made our country a better place. I've dreaded this day because of the unique way she was admired and loved by so many different people. We'll grieve together now, and it's an awful feeling. people.com/dolly-parton...
people.com
Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
20809174
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and Associate Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Estes recounts the cross-country caravan that indigenous activists organized in October 1972. #WeAreAmerica250
09833
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cruelty for cruelty's sake, evil for evil's sake, in our name. Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East
Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval
10368148
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Being undocumented in the United States is a civil violation. It is not a felony. It is not even a misdemeanor.
181786592
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This piece is very good cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...
cloakinginequity.com
He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.
Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…
829887
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The appropriate reaction
78462691501
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Always honored to celebrate the woman who I owe for putting me on a path to the study of Cherokee history. #WilmaMankiller #CherokeeNation #CherokeeWomen
020
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Northwestern to close its African Studies program. Founded in 1948, it was the first academic program focused on Africa in the US. An immeasurable loss to US understanding of a critical part of the world. thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/scoop-nort...
thepurplewire.beehiiv.com
SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
264
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
2434611035
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
institutions of higher education are shuttering entire departments and laying off staff while signing multimillion dollar contracts to provide students with access to the plagiarism machine
4867182
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
30772573804
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...
korithamitchell.com
Seeing Black Scholars Targeted, Noticing What Too Many Miss - Koritha Mitchell
The New York Times placed an ugly spotlight on a Black scholar in mid-July and on another (across the pond in England) a few weeks later. These stories revolved around Black individuals, but the frami...
523383
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
404155696443
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 30/07/2026
How one village established a Native-led sexual assault response team to help address the oncoming chaotic boomtown atmosphere.
buff.ly
Alaska Native communities prepare for man camps driven by new mining boom - High Country News
Alaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda.
0159
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is one of the most absurd decisions by higher ed administrators that I can recall in recent (or even longer) memory. This is an absolute, irrefutable signal that the leaders of Harvard puts no value in the student experience of LEARNING. It's a joke and should be seen as hugely discrediting.
617057
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters
18758231531
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The difference between inflation under Biden and inflation under Trump is under Biden we were lower than the rest of the world, under Trump we’re higher In case facts still matter
8930021265
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Capitalism, our economic system, has no moral standards, feelings, or compassion. It's really good, however, at having numerous casualties despite there being only a few winners. I want to live in a country that puts limits on how far those winners can go at the expense of the rest of us.
skumm @skumWgmi
My mom called me upset about her rent renewal last
week.

I told her to dig up her original lease from 2018.
She was paying $870 a month.
Her new renewal came in at $2,100.
She hasn't asked for anything. Never missed a
payment. Never caused a problem. Just kept her head
down and paid on time like she was supposed to for
six years straight.
They told us rent growth was slowing down. They told
us new construction would ease the pressure. They
told us the market was correcting itself.
He landlord didn't get those memos. Neither did her
bank account.
141% increase in six years for a woman who did
everything right and got priced out anyway.

My mom is 61 and she's already asking me if she can
store some boxes at my place just in case.
39429166
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
4061231098
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
An important piece by @jimdowns.bsky.social on public history, responding to the recent wrong-headed New Republic piece about it Thank you, Jim, for discussing what good public history does--& what historians like you & me & Kevin Kruse & Heather Cox Richardson do, & why lithub.com/on-the-publi...
lithub.com
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
A recent essay in The New Republic asks why historians have become such visible public voices during the Trump era. Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepor…
16421
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
237122224098
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I don’t know how you argue that Saudi Arabia can have a nuclear program, but Iran can’t. The majority of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. This is insane to me.
37444401447
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli
809206094755
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
617123484578
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
22681002174
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I had to go back to work when my first baby was 14 days old, but I’m glad to know Mitch McConnell has unlimited medical leave…
17464081314
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
RAPIDAN: We “no longer assume a near-term return to freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, we expect ongoing military risks to constrain vessel transits .. well into next year ..” 👀
711572537
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Politico @politico.com · 21/07/2026
Cornyn and Tillis in discussions with White House to get Blanche across the finish line
dlvr.it
Cornyn and Tillis in discussions with White House to get Blanche across the finish line
The two senators are the swing votes necessary to advance the attorney general nominee out of the Judiciary Committee next week.
623312
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is dismissive of the fact his agents shot and killed two American citizens with no cause.
52517124
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump refuses to get off the stage as Spain raises the trophy. Because of course he does. 🤦🏼
3853332765
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
363133903808
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
2861382184