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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A good morning to read about birthright citizenship from the perspective of the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the plaintiff whose case in 1898 affirmed that birthright citizenship is guaranteed to the children of undocumented migrants born in the U.S. wapo.st/3F9Djae

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His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it.

One hundred and twenty-seven years after Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court victory enshrined birthright citizenship, Norman Wong is fighting to protect that legacy.

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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We’re being tested. These are not mistakes.Young Latino Men are most at risk now. Young Black men have always been. LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢📢📢 We are looking for contributors to respond to RFK’s recent eugenic-laden speech, his response to the measles outbreak, or any of his other policies. If you are interested you can DM this account or send us a pitch via our website. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“To protect both themselves and the entire educational system, then, university leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance. Nothing in the antitrust laws prohibits this sort of coordination.” 👇👇

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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like

This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I did this. Takes maybe one minute. Via American Historical Association. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

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URGENT: Save the NEH

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 02/04/2025

The OAH strongly endorses the National Humanities Alliance’s statement opposing the proposed cuts to the NEH. These cuts threaten critical funding for historical research, education, and public programs that connect communities to their past. ow.ly/Wz0b50VtxIv

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NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH – National Humanities Alliance

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/03/2025

We are excited to announce our official partnership with @indivisible.org for the National Day of Action on April 5th! Stand Up for Science says: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE! #standupforscience #handsoffourscience Find and register for an event near you: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 28/03/2025

As we all think about how we’ll respond to this—in op-eds, advocacy, statements—please remember there’s some really good research about how we can communicate to most effectively build support for thoughtful, inclusive history. Some links ⬇️

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/03/2025

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

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Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds

For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ohio is doing its best to become Florida and Texas.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#Massachusetts folks: Advocates are hosting an emergency rally for Rumeysa Ozturk in Powder House Square Park in Somerville this evening at 5:30PM.

Stand With Rumeysa Ozturk: Tufts PHD Student Abducted by Trump Administration

Emergency Rally

March 26, 5:30 PM

Powder House Square Park

STand up and Fight Back

Keep Ice out of our community.

There is a picture of protesters waving a Palestinian flag.

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I'm teaching a unit soon on medical misinformation and want to give my students a list of topics. Since I avoid TikTok, I'm curious what kinds of misinformation is circulating over there. Anyone have any insights?

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 04/03/2025

Ohio’s SB1 bans faculty strikes and eliminates diversity efforts, among other things. Ohio’s higher ed lobbying group told colleges to avoid picking fights over it and to try to get more funding instead Great reporting: signalcleveland.org/ohio-univers...

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Here’s why Ohio university presidents stayed quiet on Senate Bill 1

The lobbying group for the state’s public universities advised them to sit on the sidelines over Senate Bill 1, records show.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Being open about disability at work (for those with invisible disabilities) can be very stigmatized. I'm afraid the snitch line for federal workers on "DEI hires" will set any progress on this so much.

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The Largess @thelargess.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I made a tracker for this. Still updating: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Company Policy Tracker for Consumers

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 22/01/2025

Great piece.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025

We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Past is prelude: “Trump’s announcement to pull U.S. funding from the WHO is only the most outlandish and conspicuous outcome of a forty-year effort to marginalize international cooperation on global health.”

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Trump, WHO, and Half a Century of Global Health Austerity - Boston Review

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights on which the WHO was founded.

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social

A blue book cover with the title Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians printed in white with the word HARM repeated printed in black and red strike through

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is a fantastic read of a previously overlooked or misunderstood portrait!

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The writing program at Case Western Reserve University is hiring full-time lecturers! Design your own topical seminars, work with fantastic and dedicated faculty, and help us continue developing dynamic writing pedagogy for our undergraduates. DM with questions! case.edu/academic-car...

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Full-Time Lecturer Position(s), CWRU Writing Program - Department of English | Academic Careers | Case Western Reserve University

The English Department at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) invites applications for one or more full-time lecturer positions in our Writing Prog...

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello, everyone! Being here gives me optimism & I am so grateful for this community. I've been thinking a lot about my first-year students, many of whom feel scared about the uncertainties ahead. I'd love to start a list of resources and readings for them. Please share recommendations below!

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Vicki Daniel @vedaniel.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Scholars! Please consider submitting an abstract for the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science conference. We welcome scholars from all fields who work on histmed/histsci/histtech topics. Submissions due Nov. 10. Hope to see you at Wake Forest in March 2024!

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