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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#SoxWin #SoxSweep 🧹 Couldn’t be happier about this postseason development!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026

This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Linda McMahon was in her living room late one night, shortly after Trump won his second election, when her phone rang. Trump wanted to know if the woman who had led the Small Business Administration in his first term — and had been CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment before that — wanted to be his secretary of Education.

“Mr. President,” McMahon recalled telling him, “you know that I have not been in the world of education.”

“Well, you did graduate from college, didn’t you?” he responded, according to McMahon’s recollection.

Trump wasn’t looking for someone with education credentials. What he wanted instead was another business leader that would deliver a “return on investment” in the Department of Education. He also said her goal would be to put herself “out of a job” with the eventual downsizing of the department, she recalled.

“That’s not necessarily how I would expect to be courted,” she chuckled before accepting his request. McMahon would be the only one of two members from Trump’s first Cabinet — along with budget director Russ Vought — to be invited back for the second.

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My issue is that the gif below seems to exemplify what the McMahon DOE is hopes to do (and IS doing) to anyone who dares dream of something more than operating a forklift. /2

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Linda McMahon bringing back vocational prep in full force! (*note: there is absolutely nothing wrong with CTE). #EduSky /1

Linda McMahon sitting in a heavy piece of machinery surrounded by a group of young tradesmen.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🦅Alert for Indian Child Welfare Act once again! US Supreme Court will decide on Sept. 28 whether to hear an appeal of a Minnesota case that seeks to overturn ICWA. imprintnews.org/icwa/u-s-sup...

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SCOTUS is Asked, Again, to Overturn ICWA as Unconstitutional

A legal team that previously challenged the Indian Child Welfare Act is bringing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court once again.

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Realizing this AM that undergrads look like middle school students to me because the middle schoolers I taught as a public school teacher are now the undergrad students at the public universities.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*I should say he “wrote,” but still.

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Patrick Wolfe has written about this. And yes, it is something worth getting and taking seriously.

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Solid episode of the podcast on the use of archeology as military weapon of settler colonization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

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Archaeology and Annexation in Palestine (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)

Podcast Episode · Know Your Enemy · August 10 · 1h 40m

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“…faculty and graduate students…are, after all, the people on whom any defense, let alone a remaking, of the university will rely.” From @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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What Happened to the American University?

Once the envy of the world, higher education in the United States is now in a state of endless crisis.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As an add-on to my bibliography about problems with (largely generative) AI, here's how I've been working with students on AI in classes where I have banned its use: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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How I'm Teaching About Generative AI

Every choice I make about how to discuss GenAI with my students is predicated on trusting them

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The article was released in 2024, but published in 2022 in vol. 37 no. 1 & 2. I hope that you may find this work insightful or useful if you are hoping to teach students how to conduct historical research, linguistic analysis, &/or learn legacies of settler colonialism & resistance. #histed #edusky

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I use Bakhtin to investigate the ways that student language both reflected "the intentions of others" in a settler colonial-sense, and also exhibited remarkable student agency and resistance to colonial schooling conditions. /3

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My article examines Intermountain Indian School (1949-84) in Brigham City, Utah as a site of language, power, and agency against a background of the political realities of white Christian settler colonialism influencing Indigenous education in the postwar United States. /2

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wanted to share an article I published a couple years ago titled, "Navajo Practices of Language Ontologies A Historical Case of Language Socialization at Intermountain Indian School." It appears in Wicazo Sa Review, an important AIS Journal (w/o DOI). Link here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic... /1

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For a year we didn’t have a couch (sold it when we moved), and have used just a small futon that didn’t fit more than two people at a time. Now we have a couch. I will never again underestimate the value of having a couch at home. 🛋️

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Greece was the experience of a lifetime. Very grateful to have been able to visit. I’d been dreaming of seeing some of these sites for 30 years, since first learning about them in the 6th grade! 🇬🇷🏛️🏺

Me in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

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WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a great privilege to attend and present at @ische-news.bsky.social and to do so with these great humans and scholars. @melli75.bsky.social #HistEd

Melli Velazquez, Sylvia Rosillo, and Nathan Tanner

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Internationalism is a powerful way for us to sustain and advance human understanding, of course. International cooperation, collaboration, and learning are also a remedy for the global turn towards fascism (which is why meaningful funding/participation are not encouraged or supported by many 😏). /4

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

US universities are happy to take international students’ tuition/fees; they need to ensure that this funding not only moves away from financial extraction, but translates into more meaningful global education collaboration. /3

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My takeaways so far: US higher education must do more to support students and faculty participation in international research societies generally, but also prioritize internationalism as a foundational value more specifically. /2

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is my first time participating in an international conference. Not due to lack of interest, but access. It is expensive to travel, and especially so across the globe. I’m grateful to have been awarded a small travel grant that has permitted me to attend @ische-news.bsky.social in Athens. /1

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Went on a wonderful tour of the National Library of Greece with this group of scholars as part of @ische-news.bsky.social. Incredible experience! #HistEd

Global group of historians of education with our excellent tour guide, Stella.

The Manuscript Reading Room at the National Library of Greece.

The first typescript book published in Greek, 1476. Printed in Venice with type set based on ancient millennia-old handwritten parchment manuscripts.

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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 07/07/2026

Egypt absolutely got screwed this game. This isn't a game. This is FIFA making sure Argentina advances.

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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I think a bunch of historians would agree that de-Trumpification needs to dig deep--all the way back to the de-Confederatization that never happened under Andrew Johnson.

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“The textbook describes the Crusades as “part of Europe’s ongoing work of self-restoration” rather than an act of aggression. It claims there are no peoples who can truly be called native to America because everyone ultimately migrated there from somewhere else.”

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I just want Mexico to win it all 🇲🇽

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Community-engaged research is so important. This is really an understatement. Respect for Tribal sovereignty is also paramount. The work is also better and impactful when we work together in collaboration!

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I had a great time in Nixon last night proposing a new study I’m working on w/ my friend & colleague Joel Miller and Gaylene Williams, one of UNR’s fantastic Native Doc students, before the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council. Our proposal was approved! Looking forward to the work.

Image of the mural outside the Tribal Offices of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nixon, Nevada.

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Alex Freidus @alexfreidus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Children with disabilities in schools are students who deserve education, not patients in need of treatment.

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Apparently UnitedHealth currently has colon and pancreatic cancer screenings on hold (at least where I live) for people my age. I guess all I’m saying is #FreeLuigi lol.

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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I know that everyone hates my downer historian takes, but: using the World Cup to manufacture consent for repressive regimes/policies is a Thing www.espn.com/espn/feature... and that is what is happening right now

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FC: World Cup brings back memories of Argentina's Dirty War

At the same time Argentina hosted the 1978 World Cup, the nation's dictators were waging their

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My fave posts I’ve seen about the Knick’s’ victory are: 1. The Mamdate of Heaven. 2. Look at all Mamdani has achieved in just six months. 3. Everyone wishes they had a socialist mayor. 4. They literally only lost the one Trump came to. Al Gore’s internet can be really great.

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