Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson
@drghistorywoman.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century US, average runner, kid & pup mom who doesn’t have enough time to sleep or read enough
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Powerful stuff.
Imagine if more understood the history and the power of symbols and actions today
Imagine if more understood the history and the power of symbols and actions today
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Powerful stuff.
Imagine if more understood the history and the power of symbols and actions today
Imagine if more understood the history and the power of symbols and actions today
Ooof.
But also yes.
But also yes.
April 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Ooof.
But also yes.
But also yes.
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What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re...
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Evidence that giving Trump what he wants means he will only take more. We cannot give an inch.
Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University — The Wall Street Journal
Government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding
apple.news
April 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Evidence that giving Trump what he wants means he will only take more. We cannot give an inch.
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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.
April 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
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Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️
I have just started to look at this closely.. y’all, this is real bad.
The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library
The Trump administration is engaged in something much worse than book burning. It is attempting to burn down the entire cultural infrastructure that supports the pursuit of history.
kevinmlevin.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I have just started to look at this closely.. y’all, this is real bad.
Ready for tomorrow!
Want to do something? There are Hands Off protests happening across the nation. #handsoff2025
Want to do something? There are Hands Off protests happening across the nation. #handsoff2025
April 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Ready for tomorrow!
Want to do something? There are Hands Off protests happening across the nation. #handsoff2025
Want to do something? There are Hands Off protests happening across the nation. #handsoff2025
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It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
* very unconstitutional
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved.
* very unconstitutional
* very unconstitutional
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I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
Thank you @booker.senate.gov
Proud to have witnessed this moment. We need more good trouble!!
Proud to have witnessed this moment. We need more good trouble!!
April 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Thank you @booker.senate.gov
Proud to have witnessed this moment. We need more good trouble!!
Proud to have witnessed this moment. We need more good trouble!!
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again
April 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again
“I don’t want a Disney-ification of our history!” - Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I don’t want a Disney-ification of our history!” - Cory Booker
🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥
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how the mainstream media covered the racist trump attack on the smithsonian vs how we covered it @dailykos.com
read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
March 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
how the mainstream media covered the racist trump attack on the smithsonian vs how we covered it @dailykos.com
read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
read more here www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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There are multiple streams of the senate floor including the one on the senate website, C-Span, MSNBC, YouTube, etc.
MSNBC (on YouTube) has over 10,000 viewers.
Booker's channel on YouTube has over 5,000.
Keep at least one open in a tab (you can mute if you don't want to listen).
MSNBC:
MSNBC (on YouTube) has over 10,000 viewers.
Booker's channel on YouTube has over 5,000.
Keep at least one open in a tab (you can mute if you don't want to listen).
MSNBC:
LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There are multiple streams of the senate floor including the one on the senate website, C-Span, MSNBC, YouTube, etc.
MSNBC (on YouTube) has over 10,000 viewers.
Booker's channel on YouTube has over 5,000.
Keep at least one open in a tab (you can mute if you don't want to listen).
MSNBC:
MSNBC (on YouTube) has over 10,000 viewers.
Booker's channel on YouTube has over 5,000.
Keep at least one open in a tab (you can mute if you don't want to listen).
MSNBC:
Happening across the country, find your local protest.
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Happening across the country, find your local protest.
Free, for such good scholarship?!
March 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Free, for such good scholarship?!
I don’t know how to tell them but race is a social construct, the US has always been diverse, white Americans definitely used white supremacy to justify actions that benefited them. So these executive orders are doing anything but restoring history.
March 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I don’t know how to tell them but race is a social construct, the US has always been diverse, white Americans definitely used white supremacy to justify actions that benefited them. So these executive orders are doing anything but restoring history.
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
So let me make sure I’ve got this right… in order to “restore truth and sanity to American history” we need to bring back statues and memorials to the people who led the rebellion against *checks notes* the United States???
I’d say make it make sense but we so clearly past that point.
I’d say make it make sense but we so clearly past that point.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History
RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
So let me make sure I’ve got this right… in order to “restore truth and sanity to American history” we need to bring back statues and memorials to the people who led the rebellion against *checks notes* the United States???
I’d say make it make sense but we so clearly past that point.
I’d say make it make sense but we so clearly past that point.