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Sharika D. Crawford

@sharikadcrawford.bsky.social
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Social and late comer environmental historian of Latin America & the Caribbean, specifically, the Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia. www.sharikadcrawford.com Posts are mine & mine only.

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jbessmor @jbessmor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Thanks for the reposts. This is a last resort.
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
As a senior academic a little older than this tool I would like to offer him a little unsolicited advice: take a nice long drink from that glass labeled “shut the fuck up”
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Whatever happened to that huge archive full of documents about human rights atrocities that they discovered in Guatemala?" Answers, from @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
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Stacy Whitman @stacylwhitman.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
New podcast episode! Ever wondered what the publishing process looks like inside a publishing house? We're starting a series to demystify the publishing process. Here's an overview! youtu.be/FYCjHG46Xrg #books #book #writing
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader comes out two months from today!!! Have you preordered your copy?
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The Nursing Clio Reader - Rutgers University Press
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abor...
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BadRedhead Media, LLC / Rachel Thompson / RachelintheOC @badredheadmedia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I own that.
People who read: dressy, classy, cultured. 

People who write (aka, me): frazzled, jammies, pens everywhere...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
make it stop www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them
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Man burns 100 Beachwood Public Library books on Jewish, African American, LGBTQ+ education: report
“I condemn this act, not only because it is a crime against our institutions and community, but also because it is fundamentally un-American. This nation was founded on the right to free speech and op...
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Augusta Dell'Omo @augustacaesar.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/05/2025
A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2025
In one email to Veterans Affairs HQ, doctors in PA said a hiring freeze was causing “severe and immediate impacts” and that more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for cancer, kidney disease and traumatic brain injuries. By @ericumansky.bsky.social & @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
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Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials”
Despite a congressional mandate to expand care for veterans, internal Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests…
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
UPDATE: OPEN LETTER - HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS In just 10 days, over 700 historians signed to demand MPs stand up for trans rights. I'll send the emails to MPs tomorrow, so you have until 5pm GMT *today* to sign + share. Thank you all 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🏳️‍⚧️ Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
​​Dear Members of Parliament, As historians, we write to you today to express our alarm at and opposition to the attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community emanating from the current government. Years of hos...
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Andrew N. Wegmann @anwegmann.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
She's awesome, and I'm sure the book will be too!! Hearty, hearty congrats!!
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you would like to write about the role of PBS in environmental history/education and the impact of defunding, check out our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series CFP - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #envhum
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Call for Submissions - Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration
NiCHE is soliciting submissions of blog posts that help document the effects of the current United States federal administration on the discipline of environmental history and the practices of environ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
UPDATE: “A federal judge in Vermont on Friday ordered that Rumeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student detained by immigration agents in March, be released from ICE custody…” Snatched off the streets by Trump’s Gestapo for an op-ed. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2025
this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you're attending #Kzoo2025, come visit us in the book exhibit tomorrow, Saturday 5/10, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (limit one book per person)! #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is the son of Amiri Baraka, who would be very proud of him.
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SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📢COME JOIN US A reminder that our Summer Meeting is happening NEXT MONTH in Glasgow 🥰 On the theme A Sense of Nature, we'll be exploring how the history of natural history intersects with our senses. A full list of speakers and booking instructions are below!
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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Have you had an NEH Humanities Connections grant? Or have you lost one? Please get in touch w/me ASAP.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/05/2025
Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing. Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians
Image of an open book with the text: Funded Book Workshops. For historians writing a second or third monograph, 2025-26. Closing date 11 July
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is a free online 3-day event where educators are sharing their superhero strategies in education. You can register for sessions here sites.google.com/ccebos.org/t... #edusky
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TEACH FOR LA 2025
A three-day free virtual conference of DIALOGuE, activities & workshops
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
www.newsweek.com/republicans-...
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Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Unfortunately, ICE arresting US citizens , and deporting some of them, has a long history that started well before Trump. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...
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Tanya Zanish-Belcher @tzanish.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Go see this movie, amazing!
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Sharika D. Crawford @sharikadcrawford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
😆😆…wait 👀 🙂
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Ethan Healey @ethanhealey.com · 04/05/2025
Funding for PBS has been attacked, and it is worth returning to Fred Rogers’ testimony to Congress on why PBS is worth our time. Share widely, because this message must continue to be known. youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA?...
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May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
YouTube video by Road Less Marveled
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Impressive and important to watch
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/05/2025
It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree. Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future. (Published Feb.)
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The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do…
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Repugs R Stinky @artfulscribe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Read This: "Air Traffic Controller Warns Major Airport Unsafe for Travel: ‘Avoid Newark at All Costs’" www.thedailybeast.com//air-traffic...
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Air Traffic Controller Warns Major Airport Unsafe for Travel
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pleaded this week for more people to become air traffic controllers.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Job Opportunity!
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Job Opportunity! The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University invites applications for the Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Global Asian Histories for the 2026-2027 academic year. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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H-Net Job Guide
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities. Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...
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ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities
Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Job posting. Good for Hunter College!
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Caribbean leaders believe fighting climate change and reparations for slavery are the same issue, linking the Industrial Revolution both to slavery and the climate crisis and that the regions underdevelopment hampers its ability to deal with the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Hurricane-hit Grenadians see climate change and reparations as one struggle
Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wendy Brito. New Orleans mother taken by ICE. Wife, mother, school volunteer. Legal resident. No charges. No criminal record. No explanation. Routine ICE check-in a month ago. She never came home. No reason given. No answers. Stop ICE. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
From retired Naval Officer @joncduffy.bsky.social: "Removing books on identity, race, and gender.. doesn’t just insult the intelligence of midshipmen. It undercuts the very foundation of the officer corps: moral judgment, independent thought, and the courage to act with integrity under pressure."
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I am the co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Vaccine & I’ll be the first to say that a lot about academic publishing needs reform. But replacing peer review with ideologically-driven censorship or shutting journals down in the name of “free speech” is not reform. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump administration targets academic journals with attorney letter, proposed funding cuts
Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW PIECE: I've decided to finally publish a piece from four years ago that is unfortunately very relevant today: defending the Federal Reserve's status as an independent agency doesn't require embracing the ideology of "central bank independence" www.crisesnotes.com/just-another...
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Just Another Administrative Agency: Preserving Central Bank Discretion Without Illusions
The extensive “Notes on the Crises Investigative Journalism Source Wish List” can be found here. All listed items are important to me. As always, Sources can contact me over email or over signal (a se...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"We've been left no choice but to this week suspend treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children — simply because we've run out of commodities and funding," Zlatan Milisic, WFP Country Director in Ethiopia told a Geneva press briefing by video from Addis Ababa.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I've been editing historians' public writing for nearly a decade—first with @nursingclio.bsky.social and for the last 5.5 years at @historians.org. I'm always here to help—just email or DM me. 🗃️
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 22/04/2025
In #AHAPerspectives, senior managing editor Laura Ansley encourages historians to respond to government policies through op-eds. "More than ever, we need smart, knowledgeable, skilled communicators to explain what is happening at the federal, state, and local levels." 🗃️
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Speak Up – AHA
Op-ed writing is one important way to use your historical expertise.
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