Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 17/07/2025A must read on history and the NPS and truth: www.historians.org/perspectives...historians.orgOn Myths and Monuments – AHAHow do you tell the story of Mount Rushmore? The answer has changed over time. 020
Reposted by Thaisa WayLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Full description of strike #StrikeForDignity www.visaverge.com/news/farmwor...visaverge.comFarmworkers Announce Nationwide Strike Against Immigration RaidsFarmworkers across the U.S. strike July 16–18, 2025, protesting recent immigration raids that detained hundreds, including children, and a death during a California raid. The strike demands an end to ... 14717
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 15/07/2025It is a great loss for all of us that you are gone Steven. 130
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The brilliant Steven Nelson and his remarkable community of NGA staff and speakers at our cohosted conference “Color Lines across the United States and Mexico”. So sad to see he is no longer The Center Dean. Huge loss for all of us 010
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Huge loss at The Center/ National Gallery of Art with early retirement of Steven Nelson as Dean. We so badly need his leadership in the art and art history worlds. mailchi.mp/nga/center-n.... I am so disappointed the NGA would let this happen.mailchi.mpNews from Dean Steven Nelson 010
Reposted by Thaisa WayThe Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 05/07/2025USAID didn’t fail. It fed 127,000 kids—then was erased mid-crisis. No speech. No tribute. Just silence. They didn’t end a program. They liquidated a covenant. The last American promise not built on conquest—but care. 🔗 thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com 301121844214
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 29/06/2025@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social great interview with Peniel Joseph. Thank you 010
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 29/06/2025@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social i would learn much from you interviewing Molly crabapple on her new book on the Jewish labor bund. That history offers another view of potential futures 000
Reposted by Thaisa WayPoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Hard to believe this isn’t already the law. 37628141
Reposted by Thaisa WayBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely. 21422826911052
Reposted by Thaisa WayAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/05/2025As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year. 23861862109
Reposted by Thaisa WayThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/05/2025“I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service," Jackson told fellow judges.newrepublic.comA Supreme Court Justice Finally Just Stood up to TrumpJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the president's unsettling attacks on the judiciary. 302519569
Reposted by Thaisa WayJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025You can’t “deport” American citizens ... phenomenal explainer open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comYou can’t “deport” American citizensEarlier this week, ICE forcefully exiled three U.S. 15395115
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 29/04/2025How can we laud AI as some great tool when we cant even get it to do simple customer service or store checkout? I want people who can offer real service not stupid AI 000
Reposted by Thaisa WayKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/04/2025My thoughts from watching right wing media work over the last decade… changing language around diversity, equity, and inclusion is a trap. You end up confirming their allegations that your commitments to DEI were wrong, and you’ll later be accused of covering up programs that you know to be wrong. 7361100
Reposted by Thaisa WayCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...yahoo.comTrump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projectsAt least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. gover... 153
Reposted by Thaisa WayAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror 299189373842
Reposted by Thaisa WayAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship. 844943756
Reposted by Thaisa WayAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHouse Republicans are set to pass a voter suppression bill that would disenfranchise millions“It's a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials” 641084753
Reposted by Thaisa WayRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported. 12134351912227
Reposted by Thaisa WayThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/04/2025Nearly 150 international students have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration. Many weren’t given a reason.nytimes.comNearly 150 Students Have Had Visas Revoked and Could Face DeportationDozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days. For many, the reasons are unclear. 49545226
Reposted by Thaisa WayMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Sackets Harbor, NY school principal Jaime Cook speaks to a reporter about protesting today for her three students who were abducted by ICE: www.wwnytv.com/2025/04/04/7... 423516843
Reposted by Thaisa WayDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Simultaneously an attack on free speech, higher education, and the international students who subsidize American students 11608211
Reposted by Thaisa WayAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it. 11455977011601
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025NYT covering protests is so lame as it is not merely a rail nor merely a view or idea of attacks but a response to real attacks “ Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.” 110
Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 01/04/2025We are very close to 24 hours 19 min. Leadership. Thank you 000
Reposted by Thaisa WayJoy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/04/2025God bless Senator @booker.senate.gov ... 20 plus hours and counting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...youtube.comLIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floorYouTube video by Associated Press 1475172630
Reposted by Thaisa WaySherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Still going. Listen in. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...youtube.comLIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floorYouTube video by Associated Press 411653261
Reposted by Thaisa WayIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2025From thee David Blight: “The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy. But when declared by a sitting American president, it becomes a provocation and an insult.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Order to the Smithsonian Distorts Teaching of American HistoryThe assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy; but when declared by a sitting president, it becomes a provocation. 5692168
Reposted by Thaisa WaySherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Agree with this. We don’t have much more time. 16716173
Reposted by Thaisa WayShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/03/2025“As we stand in the middle of this pandemic” — now, this *coup* — “it is time for us to collectively rethink and recalculate the value that many so-called tech innovations, and innovators, bring to democracy.” 1606
Reposted by Thaisa WayJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court. 17193022436
Reposted by Thaisa WayDeborah @deborah-c.bsky.social · 30/03/2025With added Alt text: NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs” 27332
Reposted by Thaisa Waytschabarum.bsky.social @tschabarum.bsky.social · 29/03/2025#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO. 704265674971
Reposted by Thaisa WayThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/03/2025Democrats "may find themselves quickly back in business if they can simply swallow their pride and follow Bernie’s lead."newrepublic.comBernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s DoneThe Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit. 1071500356
Reposted by Thaisa WayEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release. 5035402050
Reposted by Thaisa WayOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise. 321712563
Reposted by Thaisa WayAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15. 19275573636
Reposted by Thaisa WayKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down. Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students. There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on. 765928937
Reposted by Thaisa WayAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Trump is targeting law firms that defend federal employees, expanding his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he opposes. A new memorandum threatens to use government power to punish any firm that, in his view, unfairly challenges his administration. 14052971127
Reposted by Thaisa WayAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers. 187103862938
Reposted by Thaisa WayHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025"[A]dministrators said they would appoint a sr. vice provost to oversee the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Dept. The White House had demanded that the dept be placed under academic receivership." Columbia has done such great damage to its reputation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...nytimes.comColumbia Makes Concessions to Trump Amid Bid to Reclaim Federal Funds (Gift Article)The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules. 716551
Reposted by Thaisa WayAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Former Columbia president Lee Bollinger, interviewed by the Chronicle earlier this month, said universities should think in centuries and consider what they might look back on in shame; apparently Columbia’s current leadership considered the question and decided they’re content submitting to a king. 15778128
Reposted by Thaisa WayPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 20/03/2025Germany, UK issue travel warnings to their citizens about traveling to the U.S. 571037402
Reposted by Thaisa WayKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible." 6432161132