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Theresa Ventura

@theresaventura.bsky.social
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Historian of US empire, environment, coconuts. Former provincial New Yorker turned Montreal outsider.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Best take of the night
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t... #envhist #histmed #cdnhist
niche-canada.org
Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sooooo…. Spotify quietly released this feature + DMs 2 years ago. Thinking that it was just music, we gave our then 12 y/o downtime and screen time exceptions for the app. That was a mistake.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Belatedly sharing Plant Perspectives special issue on palms, eds. Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara, Jayson Maurice Porter. I have a little photo essay on the Imelda Marcos's *Coconut Palace* & its roots in US agricultural imperialism. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
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Plant Perspectives
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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was a proofreader at the Abigal Press specializing in prayer cards and funeral programs. Double checked names, birth and death dates, front saint requests and back prayer matches. Triple checked program bios.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 30/08/2026
🧵 It’s great that we’re “attracting talent,” as they say, but where’s the half-billion $ to hire permanently the generations of beyond-excellent, Canadian-trained academics who have been forced into precarious positions by systematic defunding by federal & provincial gov’s for the past 30 years?
thestar.com
Why Ivy League professors are leaving Trump’s U.S. for Canada’s new $541-million research program
AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
there are more than twice as many museum workers in the US than there are coal miners
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/08/2026
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Many people asked me early on: if ICE seems to just be rounding up random brown people on the street, why are they on a shopping spree for massive amounts of surveillance capabilities. The answer was always for this.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Attention historians of the Reformation, Ireland, England, religion, political thought, sovereignty and more Coming this October from OUP: The Reformation in Tudor Ireland
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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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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions
9.12.25
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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"[Carney] continues to engage in public policy that shifts to the right of Stephen Harper, particularly on the environment." #cdnpoli
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
govinfo.gov
GovInfo
Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Being literally the actual real-life white guy who made it so nobody can afford a home and trying to blame it on immigrants is insane.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Sources w/ Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 at @umich.edu have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. The situation is evolving." @therealnews.com
BREAKING: Sources with Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan."

The union added:
"The situation is evolving and additional asks will roll out. Please show up to the Federal Court Building (231 W Lafayette) in Detroit at 12pm for a rally if you are able to. Please publicize this call."
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This really cannot be shared enough
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
No fair. When I feud with the IRS I'm a tax evader and criminal.
A New York Times headline that reads: "Trump keeps immunity from IRS, a victory in a long-running feud." Below it reads, "even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump's allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him tax protections."
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why not both?
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
Screenshot of a CDC presentation slide on screwworm, titled "History of New World screwworm." There's a map showing its gradual eradication from the US, then southward through central America from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
THIS 👇 RIGHT HERE.......
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/05/2026
A devastating story has come out about a US citizen child, Orlin, who was murdered after ICE deported his mom. This tragedy is an abject failure by ICE, and it’s why I will not give them another cent. We must stop the cruelty and lawlessness of this administration.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The wooden spoon strikes again. Bunch of Italian American children relate to that cat.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
First day ice breaker in my gilded age class is to have students name our current era. They are almost never hopeful.
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The Rover @therovermedia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"Banning religious symbols may be a priority for this government, but it’s a different story for the working families who actually rely on the system. Some 62 per cent of parents with children in Quebec daycares say it doesn’t matter if their teacher wears a hijab." By @titocurtis.bsky.social
therover.ca
The “Social Death” of Muslim Women in Quebec – The Rover
Beset by job losses and attacks on their Charter rights, Muslims ponder their future in a province that’s left them feeling isolated and afraid.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So @cnn.com says Trump passport only avail in person in DC. Some could choose to get one. Apart from everything else wrong with this, doesn’t seem great for democracy to have people display political loyalties on a document used for entry and proof of citizenship. www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...
From CNN.com:

The US will soon begin issuing passports featuring an image of President Donald Trump inside, a State Department official said Tuesday.

The official said that the passport “will be the default passport out of the Washington Passport Agency when available” for those who renew their passports in person at that location.

“Online options or other locations will maintain existing passport design,” the official said.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Geology as geopolitics: continental drift and the southern hemisphere
This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
CCD on Wednesdays + one year Catholic HS. Old nuns policed our skirt lengths. Younger ex-nuns taught us about the Dirty Wars. My BFF wrote about the Sandinistas. I did a paper on El Mozote. Pictures of Dorothy Day and the Berrigan Brothers on the walls in the religion class.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Getting word he just sent Taylor Swift songwriting tips
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This looks amazing & really fun!
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
A few days after the incident in which Amalia lost consciousness, Marcano brought her back to the clinic at Dilley. A staffer measured Amalia’s blood-oxygen saturation—which, in a healthy individual, is between ninety-five and a hundred per cent—and found that it was in the low fifties. “Such a low amount of oxygen going to the brain can, if it’s long enough, kill off parts of the brain—it’s really, really high-stakes,” Prantik Saha, a pediatrician who reviewed Amalia’s medical records, told me. “It’s shocking that this level of callousness and omission of care could occur.” Amalia was taken to a local hospital, where it became clear that she needed care beyond what the facility could provide. She was transferred to a larger hospital in San Antonio, where she was given five diagnoses: Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, pneumonia, and an ear infection. She received supplemental oxygen and intensive care.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NY 11 voters. I called House Rep Nicole M and spoke to a sympathetic, worried staff person about US war crimes and genocidal intent. I’m so used to being dismissed that this feels like more of a crack in MAGA armour than it probably is. But you should call too. 202-225-3371
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NY 11 voters. I called House Rep Nicole M and spoke to a sympathetic, worried staff person about US war crimes and genocidal intent. I’m so used to being dismissed that this feels like more of a crack in MAGA armour than it probably is. But you should call too. 202-225-3371
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Real men eat salads like a Kardashian
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Even Canadians were casting votes for Mr Naomi Klein
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Hard to take joy with so much damage already done
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Contingent faculty too. My nice Canadian university has just laid off 60+ contract instructors.
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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Every morning. Every damn morning.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I’m gonna be a broken record on CRIMINAL LEVELS OF MEDICAL NEGLECT EQUAL MURDER AND SHOULD BE TRIED ACCORDINGLY for the rest of my life and I think it is worth noting that location does not matter. it isn’t one bad site, or even just the new obviously slapdash ones. it’s wherever ICE holds people
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Religious Leader Dies In ICE Custody At PA Facility Days After Filing Emergency Lawsuit
A 46-year-old religious leader and father of four has died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody just three days after filing a last-ditch emergency federal motion for medical relief, ac...
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