Eddie Valentin
@evalentin25.bsky.social
Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
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Eddie Valentin
@evalentin25.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hi new followers! Most of my current work as a public historian focuses on WWII, but my personal research interests center on Reconstruction and the experiences of Black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. I post about books, current events, history, and sports from time to time.
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After emancipation, Black schoolteacher & future Alabama state legislator William V. Turner reported to the Freedmen's Bureau that local officials were illegally withholding food assistance from Black mothers, telling them it "is not for negroes, but for the poor white women."
Alabama Black Teacher to the Alabama Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Education, February 5, 1867; and Headquarters of the Alabama Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner to the Government Relief ...
www.freedmen.umd.edu
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After emancipation, Black schoolteacher & future Alabama state legislator William V. Turner reported to the Freedmen's Bureau that local officials were illegally withholding food assistance from Black mothers, telling them it "is not for negroes, but for the poor white women."
Every time they reach the goal line, they throw the ball instead of handing it to Marshawn Lynch.
What was the point of any of this if they’re just going to fold like a damn lawn chair?
What was the point of any of this if they’re just going to fold like a damn lawn chair?
BREAKING: Senators have reached a deal to end the government shutdown.
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Every time they reach the goal line, they throw the ball instead of handing it to Marshawn Lynch.
What was the point of any of this if they’re just going to fold like a damn lawn chair?
What was the point of any of this if they’re just going to fold like a damn lawn chair?
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
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March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
October 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
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REMINDER: Our Postdoctoral Fellowship deadline is now extended to November 15!
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds.
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
REMINDER: Our Postdoctoral Fellowship deadline is now extended to November 15!
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle.
Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
There’s a Steep Cost for Ignoring Black Expertise
We live in a world bent on undermining Black life.
www.teenvogue.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle.
Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
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It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”
November 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”
I can’t believe the Dodgers got out of that jam!
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I can’t believe the Dodgers got out of that jam!
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Obama: “as for the president, he’s been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes, & gold plating the Oval Office & building a $300M ballroom
So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”
So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Obama: “as for the president, he’s been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes, & gold plating the Oval Office & building a $300M ballroom
So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”
So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
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It’s so funny how we killed cable tv and replaced it with…. cable tv.
YouTube TV Drops Disney’s ABC, ESPN and Other Networks After Two Sides Fail to Reach New Deal
YouTube TV will drop ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks at midnight ET Thursday. Google and Disney remain far apart on a deal in a dispute over pricing.
variety.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It’s so funny how we killed cable tv and replaced it with…. cable tv.
Reposting this for folks who study the U.S. South to weigh in on this inquiry.
I have an undergrad writing a dissertation about Stone Mountain Memorial & Park.
I'd be ever so grateful for tips on important scholarship on:
- 20th c. Atlanta history?
- heritage tourism & white supremacy in the South?
+ key synthetic books on 20th c. Southern history for bigger picture?
🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'd be ever so grateful for tips on important scholarship on:
- 20th c. Atlanta history?
- heritage tourism & white supremacy in the South?
+ key synthetic books on 20th c. Southern history for bigger picture?
🙏🙏🙏🙏
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposting this for folks who study the U.S. South to weigh in on this inquiry.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
I’ve sort of fallen behind with posting about books I’ve been reading, but I decided to get back to it. This is a great book about how politics and perceptions of the regular army shaped historical developments in both the South and West during the Civil War era. Highly recommend it!
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’ve sort of fallen behind with posting about books I’ve been reading, but I decided to get back to it. This is a great book about how politics and perceptions of the regular army shaped historical developments in both the South and West during the Civil War era. Highly recommend it!
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“The concern is that teachers will avoid certain topics altogether, or just revert to boring pedagogy, like reading the textbook the district approved,” she said. “That is not a good way to teach. The kids deserve better than that, and our democracy deserves better.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“The concern is that teachers will avoid certain topics altogether, or just revert to boring pedagogy, like reading the textbook the district approved,” she said. “That is not a good way to teach. The kids deserve better than that, and our democracy deserves better.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
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Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Just in case it's not clear from the post or the headline, I'd like to point out they plan to accomplish this by diluting the voting power of Black people. Will potentially control 11 out of 14 seats in a swing state.
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just in case it's not clear from the post or the headline, I'd like to point out they plan to accomplish this by diluting the voting power of Black people. Will potentially control 11 out of 14 seats in a swing state.
This is what happens when one company has a 30-percent share of the global cloud computing market.
www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
Snapchat, Roblox and banks among major apps down in Amazon Web Services outage - live updates
Many of the world's biggest apps including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank have gone down - Amazon Web Services says it's identified a
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is what happens when one company has a 30-percent share of the global cloud computing market.
www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
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African American Military History Museum, alongside the Brown Family, honored the Life and Legacy of Hattiesburg Native Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the U.S. Navy’s first African American aviator and a true American hero. www.hubcityspokes.com/african-amer...
African American Military History Museum Alongside the Brown Family Honored the Life and Legacy of Hattiesburg Native Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown
The African American Military History Museum held a special event honoring the life and legacy of Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the U.S.
www.hubcityspokes.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
African American Military History Museum, alongside the Brown Family, honored the Life and Legacy of Hattiesburg Native Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the U.S. Navy’s first African American aviator and a true American hero. www.hubcityspokes.com/african-amer...