Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government. 27946389
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026WATCH: 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.comWhy Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica DocsYouTube video by ProPublica 23368211
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 825689
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After 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.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026I 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.comAI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their WorkThe controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling. 361282309
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialKC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Colin 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.beG.I. Bill, Narrated by Colin Makoto CraigYouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson 013339
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialRay Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing newrepublic.com/post/214946/...newrepublic.comYou’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is SkyrocketingHere’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August. 20545961954
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Or from actual history: academic.oup.com/past/article...academic.oup.comSlave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas*Abstract. The lash and shackles remain two primary symbols of material degradation fixed in the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. Yet as recoun 000
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In case we need to read about history’s nightmares echoing today. academic.oup.com/past/article...academic.oup.comSlave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas*Abstract. The lash and shackles remain two primary symbols of material degradation fixed in the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. Yet as recoun 010
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.aljazeera.comTribe accuses US federal agents of ‘trespassing' on indigenous border landThe Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation. 3358135
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialRadio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We stand with the Tohono O’odham Nation. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics 18337
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialRuss McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation. 521300905
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026heathercoxrichardson.substack.comWeek Fourteen in 250 to 250Last 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.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026The 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.orgThe Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million FiascoProPublica 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.socialJeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 30/08/20261794 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 · 30/08/2026Tribal sovereignty and Indigenous lands vs Trump admin westernpriorities.org/2026/08/arme...westernpriorities.orgArmed agents enter Tohono O'odham Nation in border wall construction dispute - Center for Western PrioritiesArmed 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 · 27/08/2026Indigenous History and language lesson from Mark Carney from before those borders existed. 000
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialHypervisible @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.eduUC Irvine School of Education to lead $10 million national center on AI and postsecondary writing5-year initiative will help colleges use generative AI to strengthen writing instruction 616912
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Every department I have been in still have underpaid and under appreciated women in these support roles but now they suffer through reimbursement, grad student application, travel planning, and financial management systems that are often inefficient, dehumanizing, and equally taxing. 020
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026With gift link included to NYT article included. 000
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This 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.comDolly 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
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Thank you! To say I’m excited about the next chapter would be an understatement. 140
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Nick 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.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Cruelty 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.comFather of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle EastJoshua 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.socialBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Being 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.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This piece is very good cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...cloakinginequity.comHe 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.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The appropriate reaction 78462691501
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Always 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.socialShiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Northwestern 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.comSCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies 264
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026our 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) 2434611034
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026institutions 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.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Wow. 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. 30672563803
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This 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.comSeeing Black Scholars Targeted, Noticing What Too Many Miss - Koritha MitchellThe 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.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget. 404155676444
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialHigh Country News @highcountrynews.org · 30/07/2026How one village established a Native-led sexual assault response team to help address the oncoming chaotic boomtown atmosphere.buff.lyAlaska Native communities prepare for man camps driven by new mining boom - High Country NewsAlaska Native villages rally to protect their communities from the administration’s ramped up resource development agenda. 0159
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This 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.socialEleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters 18758231531
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The 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 8930021266
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.social🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Capitalism, 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. 39429166
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian 4061191097
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/07/2026An 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.comOn the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the PastA 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
jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026These guys actually make me understand why politicians might need to be drug addicts, how do you dull your humanity to the degree necessary to say these things out loud daily? At least Dorian Gray had a mirror that reflected back the wretchedness of his soul. 130
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Do 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. 237122224101
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I 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. 37244391448
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialPEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Eby: "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 808206104756
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialRobert 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 615123434577
Reposted by @jreedmo.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can'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. 22680982174