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Stacy Nation-Knapper

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Historian | Mom | Goofball | Settler on Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Tséstho’e lands (Bozeman, MT) | she/her cover image: www.umt.edu/this-is-montana/columns…

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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 14/10/2026
How Much Has the Iran War Cost the Average Family So Far? gizmodo.com/how-much-has-the-iran-w…
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How Much Has the Iran War Cost the Average Family So Far?
About $2,000 per household, according to Moody's.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Do this and more. More! prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...
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Time to De-Privatize - The American Prospect
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For over 400 years, African Nova Scotians have shaped our province’s relationship with the ocean, working as shipbuilders, sailors, fishers, navigators, and harbor workers. Yet, these vital stories have too often been left out of our maritime history.
We and the Sea: Honouring the Marine Heritage of African Nova Scotians exhibit panels on display.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
exactly this. at their best, the humanities facilitate perspectival agility and empathy. it is precisely this that animates so much of the ongoing right-wing attacks against humanities education.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
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Upper Seven Law @uppersevenlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As of a few moments ago, ten additional orders have brought us the release of 50 (FIFTY) illegally arrested and unlawfully detained individuals.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today we honour the Indigenous artists whose stories, traditions, and artistry awaken culture and spirit. Through theatre and storytelling, they invite us to listen, remember, dream, and understand one another and the world around us. #NDTR #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousArtists
On an orange background, the text “My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.” -Attributed to Louis Riel Featured in Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan” appears on top in black and white text. Below it is the cover for Women of the Fur Trade which features an Indigenous-style painting of a tree on a bright green background with white roots whose many branches sprout different kinds of flowers. The name of the play and author are at the top of the image in black and white text.
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I picked up this book in an indie bookstore. It’s quite good and makes me think of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s AI and Tech reading list. Doctorow does a great job of taking you into the funky math and marketing of tech.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum
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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!
York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Before “Lake America,” There Was “Lake Frontenac” activehistory.ca/blog/2026/09...
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Before “Lake America,” There Was “Lake Frontenac”
By Scott Berthelette On August 27, 2026, President of the United States Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” The order…
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.
A n i m a l s Across B o r d e r s
A Multidisciplinary Conference
L o c a t i o n
The Lehman Center
for American History
Columbia University
Ti m e
9 am - s pm EST
Thursday
September 24, 2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I recently finished a book called "Revenge For the Sixties" by Peter Canellos about Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito. But I wanna focus specifically on the book title here, because that's what I believe is going on here, and it even alludes to it in the article 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Mount Revelstoke" by Nancy J. Turner is the latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada. This is the latest book in our Canadian History and Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/09/01/m...
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Mount Revelstoke
Secwépemc Elder Mary Thomas shared traditional knowledge on harvesting mountain plants, emphasizing sustainable practices, winter survival, and environmental respect.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/08/2026
U.S. troops are reaching their breaking point as they say recent orders challenge their moral beliefs. trib.al/wEThG17
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Conscientious Objectors Trying to Flee Military Skyrocket Under Trump
U.S. troops are reaching their breaking point as they say recent orders challenge their moral beliefs.
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Xanatos1 @xanatos1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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MWhite @pjmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'll get back to "Islands-in-the-Stream"-is-a-live-recording-of-a-murder, but i mostly came back today for @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, should she have thoughts on Dolly. I mean, she DOES have thoughts on Dolly, they are here and they are exceptional: tressie.substack.com/p/the-dolly-...
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The Dolly Moment
Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber - you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscrip...
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...
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On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era
Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...
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Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And this on (checks notes) the 212th anniversary of the burning of the US Capitol during the War of 1812... #cdnhist
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 24/08/2026
In a state where Republicans have won all but two of the last 26 statewide or federal races, Alme is flying under the radar as the unchallenged conservative candidate for Montana’s third open U.S. Senate seat in 64 years. bit.ly/4wLD2iw
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U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Alme: hiding in plain sight
The low-risk campaign of a Republican frontrunner.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The central focus of both the memorial and the contextual information around it is natural resource use." - @stacynationknapper.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2015/03/04/t... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory
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"They have stolen our lands and everything on them": A Century's-Old Assertion of Indigenous Land and Resource Rights in the BC Interior
Explore how Secwépemc, Nlaka'pamux, and Syilx Chiefs used concepts of hospitality and land rights to challenge dispossession in their 1910 memorial to Laurier.
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 12/08/2026
New MSU study finds clear connection between low snowpack and human-caused climate change.
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Scientists link the West’s extreme snow drought to climate change
New MSU study finds clear connection between low snowpack and human-caused climate change.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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‘When I learned the language, I felt whole.” | The Salish School of Spokane's New Language School
Overview: A Washington tribe is opening a new Salish language immersion school. For generations, Native American languages across the United States were pushed toward extinction through government pol...
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
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Laura @lauraipsumwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today, August 4th, 2026, is the day Ray Bradbury's story "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set, and it happens to be raining where I am. Such an impactful short story and pretty quick, so give it a read to experience post-apocalyptic today! short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 01/08/2026
As temperatures rise and streamflows fall, government officials partially or fully close regional blue-ribbon trout streams to fishing.
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Angling restricted on two dozen rivers in Montana, Yellowstone National Park
As temperatures rise and streamflows fall, government officials partially or fully close regional blue-ribbon trout streams to fishing.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...
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AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business
AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.
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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It is also worth pointing out that human-caused climate change is now the dominant contributor to the increase of wildfire risk in the western U.S.: cpo.noaa.gov/study-shows-...
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Study Shows That Climate Change is the Main Driver of Increasing Fire Weather in the Western United States - Climate Program Office
A new study, part of NOAA's Drought Task Force IV research, shows the leading cause of the rapid increase of wildfires over the western U.S. is the rapid increase of surface air vapor pressure deficit...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In "In Praise of Dogs," Michael Borsk argues that dogs performed vital labor in the Hudson's Bay fur trade, using their cooperation and choices to shape human colonial relations. niche-canada.org/2026/07/16/i... #envhist #cdnhist #animalhistory
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In Praise of Dogs
Dogs performed vital labor in the Hudson's Bay fur trade, using their cooperation and choices to shape human colonial relations.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
So… Cheyenne, WY won't take data center wastewater anymore after Meta/FB's "Fill and Flush" process (how they test data center cooling systems) was responsible for polluting their whole community's wastewater reclamation system with Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria: cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...
According to the statement, Goat Systems immediately stopped discharging wastewater from fill-and-flush operations at Meta's Cheyenne Data Center CHY 1-2 after being notified of the contamination.

BOPU also revoked the company's industrial discharge privileges for those operations effective March 24.

The incident has led to broader changes beyond Meta's project.

BOPU also is suspending acceptance of industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop system operations until further notice while officials evaluate how to prevent future incidents.BOPU previously confirmed the bacterium had entered the city's wastewater treatment process through an industrial user but declined to identify the company while the investigation remained underway.

The contaminant was traced to wastewater generated during data center fill-and-flush operations, a process used to clean and test cooling systems before a facility begins operation.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.social
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Joanne Freeman on why Trump is an affront to the Founders
"This presidency is beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/06/2026
U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy has proposed eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s airworthiness inspections for aircraft that fight wildfires. The idea itself could benefit Sheehy personally.
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A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation
Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice
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NPR @npr.org · 11/06/2026
A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development. n.pr/4xoA70O
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Socioeconomic factors are becoming 'biologically embedded' in children's brains
A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' brain development.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Disappointed with how little attention has been given today to the 300th anniversary of the Mi’kmaw-British Peace & Friendship Treaties, the first treaties with the English in what became #Canada. The silence says it all in terms of the work needed for #TreatyEducation. #Cdnhist #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
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