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Sean D Lawrence

@seandlawrence.bsky.social
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Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026
"archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The latest story from the WV Immigrant Voices Project: interview with Ace Parsi, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for WV District 2. Check it out and subscribe to Change the Narrative here: youtu.be/rdgD3hyvf1U?...
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Ace Parsi: Tehran, Iran to Morgantown, WV
YouTube video by Change the Narrative
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Check out the West Virginia Immigrant Voices project youtube channel. More stories to come. If you are a someone with an immigration background and a story to share, please reach out to me! youtube.com/@wvimmigrant...
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Change the Narrative
The West Virginia Immigrant Voices Project is a community-driven oral history initiative dedicated to documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories, histories, and lived experiences of immigrants i...
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Student surprises: Discomfort with Nuremberg Tribunal. They thought justice = punishing actual killers, trial of Nazi leaders was to salve Allied conscience. I explained, usually "little fish" get punished. Holding leaders accountable = far more radical, + a lesson for future 9/9
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ferguson recommends replacing the zero-sum language of monetary sovereignty with more fruitful terms like “agency,” “capacity,” “power,” “authority,” “capability,” “care,” “sustainability” and “resilience.” moneyontheleft.org/2026/10/01/e...
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David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just heard that OUP will be publishing a paperback edition of Scars on the Land! No release date yet, but I’m very excited!
A copy of Scars on the Land
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I heard the same thing. On Friday. I don't know if this is all spreading from the same source and if it's true, but it could be true, in which case, I hope the states parties have a plan. It's hardly a surprise - they announced it. #ICC
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
West Virginian friends: please consider signing on to our petition to Gov. Morrisey to end WV's 287(g) agreement allowing state police to collaborate with I.C.E. c.org/sBtnMSHnvQ
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End West Virginia’s 287(g) Agreements with ICE
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 12/09/2026
Surprising no one, but still
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Science Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies
NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Scoop: The U.S. State Department has drafted guidance requiring parents applying for passports for their children ​to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Trump's latest effort to limit birthright ‌citizenship, @kristinacooke.bsky.social and I report.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump birthright curbs may prompt US passport checks on parents
The U.S. State Department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their children ​to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Donald Trump's ...
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
From Adam Tooze Chartbook today: "US corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Will Bunch: There's a war that Trump's winning...on higher ed in America Now they want to end student loans if they don't think you'll earn enough money. Americans are anxious our kids aren't learning, so why don't Dems make an issue out of college? www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Should Democrats campaign for more English lit majors? | Will Bunch
A new Trump attack on student loans is part of a push to crush the liberal arts. How can the humanities fight back?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I tried it out as a meme
St John devours a book held by someone. The "someone" is labeled "universities," the book is labeled "Their collections & faculty labor" and the St John figure is labeled "OpenAI & Anthropic"
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/08/2026
‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
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‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Support the excellence of independent journalists by subscribing. "Often, those police officers no longer have to follow their own departmental regulations on the use of force or body-worn cameras. The arrangements also come with federal dollars and gear."
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hmm. Europe, Canada and Australia can once again win from this if we avoid being just absolutely bottom of the barrel stupid.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
good morning contingent faculty, aka 75% of faculty! the National Education Association has a new contingent caucus! you can join for the *suggested* fee of $5 DM / @ me to cover that via zelle etc everybody get in formation docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
contingent faculty caucus flyer with QR code link to google doc to sign up
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I always knew Evan was a conspiracy theorist.
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"Rassismus tötet!" @rassismus-toetet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In Texas wurden die Prairieland Defendants wegen Anti-ICE-Protesten im ersten großen Antifaprozess in den USA nach Trumps Feinderklärung zu drakonischen Strafen verurteilt. Die neun Angeklagten erhielten unmenschlich und selbst für US-Standards ungewöhnlich lange Haftstrafen:
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Land of Injustice - Autonome Antifa Freiburg
In Texas wurden die Prairieland Defendants wegen Anti-ICE-Protesten im ersten großen Antifaprozess in den USA nach Trumps Feinderklärung zu (…)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
15/ This is just a small piece of Carbon Captured, our new, ongoing investigative series with Drilled, looking at how the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. Follow the series here: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...
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Carbon Captured
How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Same at WVU, where state legislature created a partisan Washington Center for Civics education to transfer half a million dollar annual salary to an unfireable political appointee director despite no student demand, excellent existing civics and western civ offerings, and budget cuts to HUM depts.
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Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The economics are clear: renewables are now the cheapest source of new electricity across most of the world. The bottleneck is no longer price; it’s outdated regulations and market rules. Bloomberg Philanthropies is committing $285 million to fix that ☀️ 💨 ♨️ 🌊 🌾 🌍 www.bloomberg.org/press/bloomb...
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Opening Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing risks trading long-term ocean resilience for short-term gain. Species at risk include threatened sea turtles, whales, dolphins, seabirds, sharks and fish; many are endemic, found nowhere else on Earth. 🦑🪸🦈🌍 #conservation #MPAs #marine
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US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas
On June 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation to open additional commercial fishing grounds in remote areas of the Pacific. The proclamation says restoring access to these a...
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📖 Published📖 Unravelling the spatial and temporal variability of natural disturbances in European forests 🌳 🌍 🪲 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🧪🌏🦠🧬💔👇
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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🗃️ One thing that is BURSTING through every 19th-century document about Haiti: wealthy individual concessionaires, with and without foreign collaborators, were the ones who deforested the country. And yet working people got the blame.
Moral, Le paysan haïtien, p. 31- the forested regions of La Gonâve were devastated by large concessions
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Check out Thomas Cheney's review of Dagomar Degroot's "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System," published in 2025 by @harvardpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Excellent, useful new article out by my esteemed friend and colleague on film and TV studies in the context of #EnvHum. Great for teaching or for those dipping a toe into unfamiliar waters (me). Recommend!
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/06/2026
"... the FCC should require full environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act because satellite megaconstellations can affect the atmosphere, the night sky, ecosystems and communities, yet are currently approved without a comprehensive analysis of those impacts" ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
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A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky? - Inside Climate News
The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.
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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thrilled to share a new piece in DOING ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY from Dr. Raechel Lutz about publishing edited collections #envhist #envhum
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How to Publish an Edited Collection
Raechel Lutz shares some of what she knows - hoping more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yup, more #envhist of space
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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
⏰Reminder: the deadline for the Joel A. Tarr #Envirotech Article Prize is coming up fast, so be sure to get your submissions in before July 1, 2026! #envhist #histtech
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Look what book is now *available* for preorder!! @rebecca-altman.bsky.social’s SONG OF STYRENE coming next April. Important and gorgeous. Also that cover!! #envhist #envhum #plastics www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-So...
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The Song of Styrene
A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17/06/2026
Just a reminder that all those LLMs are built on the pilfered vast libraries of humanistic and social scientific knowledge production. Good luck, society. You’re gonna need it. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
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U. of C. freezes Ph.D. admissions to most humanities programs
The University of Chicago will pause or scale back graduate admissions in more than a dozen programs next year as the school confronts what administrators have called “very real budget
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angry witch @witchful.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The immigration courts have no independence. This goes way beyond what should be acceptable meddling with due process.
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Portraits of Unbelonging is a profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives. "A luminous and stunning work." —Leti Volpp, coeditor of Legal Borderlands ow.ly/wLSv50Zc6qK
Book cover of Portraits of Unbelonging:
Photographic Journeys Across Borders by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We are in the orwellian nightmare. This is the orwellian nightmare. I want out of the orwellian nightmare.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026
i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans
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Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sure but also a lot of us are not that and just want technology companies to not have an invidious chokehold on human thought and attention from cradle to grave.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The @nejm.org comes out swinging against OMB's new proposed rule putting all federal grant making including science under political control. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The OMB and the Politicization of Science | NEJM
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...
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Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards suggested that the way to break the GOP's back was: 1. Crackdown on MLMs 2. Regulation of supplements 3. Legalizing direct sale of vehicles Regardless of what it does to the GOP, these all sound great to me.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What a guy that Elon Musk is!
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This eloquent rebuke of the dismissal of humanities scholars who don’t follow an orthodoxy, and the misrepresentation of anthropology included in it, is critical reading and started me on my thinking about this. Apologies for the delay in posting here!
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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