Brittany Merritt
@msbrittanyjoy.bsky.social
Historian of the Caribbean. Aspiring Northerner.
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The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
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Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
August 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
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Ten years ago i would enjoy going on social media because it was all jokes, memes and pretty girls, but now today the timeline is nothing but genocide and the collapse or civilization and it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry.
August 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ten years ago i would enjoy going on social media because it was all jokes, memes and pretty girls, but now today the timeline is nothing but genocide and the collapse or civilization and it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry.
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.
June 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.
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Teenage Justin Bieber kicking it off is just one element of this white(&other)-savior phantasm that had no relation to reality, and the bulldozing of Haitian agency and hogging of donations to pay for NGO workers' rent & food among other things.
It's also quite something to teach this #WeAreTheWorld25For #Haiti video against.... Raoul Peck's Fatal Assistance on how the world fucked Haiti up worse after the earthquake. Oy!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny...
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We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video
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April 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Teenage Justin Bieber kicking it off is just one element of this white(&other)-savior phantasm that had no relation to reality, and the bulldozing of Haitian agency and hogging of donations to pay for NGO workers' rent & food among other things.
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Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.
April 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Received the very unwelcome news last night that my NEH grant was terminated.
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Received the very unwelcome news last night that my NEH grant was terminated.
The whole Trumpian shakedown can be explained by simple children’s stories. Give him what he wants and he will keep asking for more, changing the terms along the way, forever and ever.
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The whole Trumpian shakedown can be explained by simple children’s stories. Give him what he wants and he will keep asking for more, changing the terms along the way, forever and ever.
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A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
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Catharsis.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Catharsis.
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David is completely right here. I think this is also why there's so much distrust & resentment of institutions in general. There is a constant claim that institutions are a bulwark, that they must be saved/preserved/respected and yet many of them either fold to power or can't provide accountability
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
David is completely right here. I think this is also why there's so much distrust & resentment of institutions in general. There is a constant claim that institutions are a bulwark, that they must be saved/preserved/respected and yet many of them either fold to power or can't provide accountability
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Fun fact: all of the resistance to nationalized healthcare in America is grounded in this kind of sentiment. Additionally, all of the resistance to other public welfare programs is also grounded in this sentiment.
If it would provide a measurable benefit to Black people, white people will sink it.
If it would provide a measurable benefit to Black people, white people will sink it.
March 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Fun fact: all of the resistance to nationalized healthcare in America is grounded in this kind of sentiment. Additionally, all of the resistance to other public welfare programs is also grounded in this sentiment.
If it would provide a measurable benefit to Black people, white people will sink it.
If it would provide a measurable benefit to Black people, white people will sink it.
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Seriously. It would be far better if Senate Dems stopped strategizing entirely and just voted on "do I agree with this or not?" If you don't, then (a) don't vote for it and (b) obstruct it.
That's it. You don't even need to strategize! Republicans will have to come to you for help!
That's it. You don't even need to strategize! Republicans will have to come to you for help!
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 - emptywheel
Democracy will be preserved or lost in the next three months. And democracy will be won or lost via a nonpartisan political fight over whether enough Americans want to preserve their way of life to fi...
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March 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Seriously. It would be far better if Senate Dems stopped strategizing entirely and just voted on "do I agree with this or not?" If you don't, then (a) don't vote for it and (b) obstruct it.
That's it. You don't even need to strategize! Republicans will have to come to you for help!
That's it. You don't even need to strategize! Republicans will have to come to you for help!
Dem leadership wants Americans to suffer as much as possible under this administration so they can win elections, but Americans will remember the weak opposition party that did not oppose what happened to them.
Schumer Will Lead Senate Democrats To Pass Poison-Pilled Republican CR talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/se...
Schumer Will Lead Senate Democrats To Pass Poison-Pilled Republican CR
Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate...
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March 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Dem leadership wants Americans to suffer as much as possible under this administration so they can win elections, but Americans will remember the weak opposition party that did not oppose what happened to them.
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The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
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2/ The tariffs now are far, far beyond anything with an economic or trade logic behind them, even in the sense of creating pressure for an agreement. These are more like trying to wreck Canada's economy and immiserate its people. Combine that with endless demands for an anschluss and you ...
March 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
2/ The tariffs now are far, far beyond anything with an economic or trade logic behind them, even in the sense of creating pressure for an agreement. These are more like trying to wreck Canada's economy and immiserate its people. Combine that with endless demands for an anschluss and you ...
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Students and historians have identified at least 100 racially restrictive covenants in Stearns Co. Researchers are working to understand the impact. Read about it -> https://www.stcloudlive.com/news/local/stearns-countys-forgotten-barriers-racial-covenants-and-their-lasting-impact
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Students and historians have identified at least 100 racially restrictive covenants in Stearns Co. Researchers are working to understand the impact. Read about it -> https://www.stcloudlive.com/news/local/stearns-countys-forgotten-barriers-racial-covenants-and-their-lasting-impact
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.