Mike Light
@mlight07.bsky.social
Historian. Community College Educator. Baseball and Bourbon.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Both @larryglickman.bsky.social and I chimed in on Trump’s misuse of history
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history
The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Both @larryglickman.bsky.social and I chimed in on Trump’s misuse of history
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.
January 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.
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Months after the bitter warehouse strike, Woolworths has started quietly firing workers who participated in the pickets www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Woolworths sacks two workers and investigates dozens over alleged conduct during 17-day strike
Letters seen by Guardian Australia focus on alleged pickets on 26 November outside warehouses that were not then on strike
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Months after the bitter warehouse strike, Woolworths has started quietly firing workers who participated in the pickets www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AOC showing the way...
January 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
AOC showing the way...
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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I don't think there's enough whiskey to get me through the next 4 years.
December 21, 2024 at 4:03 AM
I don't think there's enough whiskey to get me through the next 4 years.
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California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
It’s time for that to change.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
It’s time for that to change.
December 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
It’s time for that to change.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
It’s time for that to change.
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As a member of the President’s Commission on the US Supreme Court I ended up strongly supporting this change. In my view, it can be accomplished by an appropriate Act of Congress, without any need to amend the Constitution.
www.newsweek.com/senators-pus...
Supreme Court term limits? Senators push for constitutional change
Bipartisan push for Supreme Court term limits gains momentum as poll shows majority support across party lines.
www.newsweek.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:27 PM
As a member of the President’s Commission on the US Supreme Court I ended up strongly supporting this change. In my view, it can be accomplished by an appropriate Act of Congress, without any need to amend the Constitution.
www.newsweek.com/senators-pus...
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The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
journalists really should have a gilded age/progressive era historian on speed dial for the next few years. it will help a lot!
December 5, 2024 at 11:52 PM
The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”
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Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
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Harold Fisk’s 1944 Mississippi River Meander Belt.
November 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Harold Fisk’s 1944 Mississippi River Meander Belt.
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Don’t think Zinn Education Project is here yet but here are their resources for teaching a People’s History of Veterans Day. Including lessons on violence against Black Veterans, soldiers who organized against the Vietnam War, and antifascist vets who were criminalized by the U.S. government.
Nov. 11: Veterans Day
On Veterans Day, we share a collection of stories about African American veterans who fought in various wars abroad and, upon their return to the United States, were murdered in the fight for democrac...
www.zinnedproject.org
November 11, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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