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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Angie Nixon is sick of everybody’s shit and frankly that is relatable.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14/07/2026

Wearing my Haiti kit to the bar so I can change loyalties throughout the game then beat both of them

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026

jd vance's book sharing similar title with a bell hooks book, increasing sales 1000%, and landing bell on the bestsellers list is peak late-stage capitalism feminist prophecy spellcasting coming home to roost.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-internation…

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 02/08/2025

Ten years ago i would enjoy going on social media because it was all jokes, memes and pretty girls, but now today the timeline is nothing but genocide and the collapse or civilization and it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Teenage Justin Bieber kicking it off is just one element of this white(&other)-savior phantasm that had no relation to reality, and the bulldozing of Haitian agency and hogging of donations to pay for NGO workers' rent & food among other things.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Received the very unwelcome news last night that my NEH grant was terminated.

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The whole Trumpian shakedown can be explained by simple children’s stories. Give him what he wants and he will keep asking for more, changing the terms along the way, forever and ever.

Cover of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. There is a mouse in blue overalls and two chocolate chip cookies.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Catharsis.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

David is completely right here. I think this is also why there's so much distrust & resentment of institutions in general. There is a constant claim that institutions are a bulwark, that they must be saved/preserved/respected and yet many of them either fold to power or can't provide accountability

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Seriously. It would be far better if Senate Dems stopped strategizing entirely and just voted on "do I agree with this or not?" If you don't, then (a) don't vote for it and (b) obstruct it. That's it. You don't even need to strategize! Republicans will have to come to you for help!

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Dem leadership wants Americans to suffer as much as possible under this administration so they can win elections, but Americans will remember the weak opposition party that did not oppose what happened to them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

2/ The tariffs now are far, far beyond anything with an economic or trade logic behind them, even in the sense of creating pressure for an agreement. These are more like trying to wreck Canada's economy and immiserate its people. Combine that with endless demands for an anschluss and you ...

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St. Cloud LIVE @stcloudlive.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Students and historians have identified at least 100 racially restrictive covenants in Stearns Co. Researchers are working to understand the impact. Read about it -> www.stcloudlive.com/news/local/stea…

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/03/2025

I’m gonna disagree. Dems should say: “You know damn well Republicans don’t care about women’s sports. And you know they get arrested every single day for preying on kids. No wonder they make laws where they get to look in your kid’s pants. They wanted to make a child predator Attorney General.” …

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Higher ed institutions, take note 👇

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

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Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2025

This post is aging well and thus sadly

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

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Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives

The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The point is, we are *ALL* being punished for letting a Black man lead white America for 8 years. Trump and Musk represent a global white supremacist ideology that would rather destroy everything than let this happen ever again. This is not something elite media likes to discuss.

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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Add on to that enormous private market uncertainty - how could you hire in these conditions? - and this is going to be very, very bad.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025

lol THESE WHITE STUDENTS? bsky.app/profile/keit...

Study on Harvard finds 43 percent of white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 07/02/2025

You guys ever think, I mean really think, about the phrase "cost of living"? Like, the horrors it reveals?

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Currently teaching a course about the history of colonialism in Africa, and our unit on apartheid South Africa has never felt more timely 😒

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump has signed an executive order eliminating all funding for diversity and inclusion in the federal government, sending home DEI staff who will then be laid off. The historical echo for this is when Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government in 1913. We have reached the second nadir.

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Brittany Merritt @msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This. See Heather McGhee’s book The Sum of Us for more on this and other examples of how racism hurts everyone.

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