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Vicki Daniel
@vedaniel.bsky.social
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Historian of death, the body, and visual culture - Lecturer at CWRU - Editor at Nursing Clio - President, Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
❤️immigrants, LGBTQ+, climate protections, free speech, academic freedom
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sifill.bsky.social
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
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.
wapo.st
May 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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vivianofthesierras.bsky.social
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.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Apr 20
A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
news.azpm.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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nursingclio.bsky.social
📢📢📢 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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April 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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texasaaup.bsky.social
“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.” 👇👇
April 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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nataliapetrzela.bsky.social
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...
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I did this. Takes maybe one minute. Via American Historical Association.
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URGENT: Save the NEH
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April 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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.
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NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH – National Humanities Alliance
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April 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
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...
March 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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johngmarks.com
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 ⬇️
johngmarks.com John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · Mar 27
Lots of predictably terrible stuff in here, but this order is prime example why historians and history institutions defending their interpretation as “The Truth” is a dead end. There are better ways to do argue for exploring the past in all its depth and complexity www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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 12:08 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
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...
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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March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
vedaniel.bsky.social
Ohio is doing its best to become Florida and Texas.
tiffjhuang.bsky.social Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · Mar 26
I get that we're messaging to whatever moveable conservatives are left out there and trying to outrun the targets on all of our backs. I really do. But I refuse to forget why this work matters. And I refuse to throw students of color under the bus. My op-ed in @dispatch.com:
Ohio State cutting DEI programs shows a breathtaking fear of the truth | Opinion
Pretending racism does not exist will not stop Donald Trump's attack on higher education.
www.dispatch.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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joekatz45.bsky.social
#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.
March 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
vedaniel.bsky.social
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?
March 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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adamhsays.com
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...
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.
signalcleveland.org
March 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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iwashyna.bsky.social
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… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS

#BlackHistoryMonth
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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS
YouTube video by American Experience | PBS
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February 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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.
USAspending.gov
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January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
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.
January 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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thelargess.bsky.social
I made a tracker for this. Still updating:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Company Policy Tracker for Consumers
docs.google.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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richburroughs.dev
Great piece.
teenvogue.com Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jan 22
This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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anxiousrage.blacksky.app
We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
January 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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bostonreview.bsky.social
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.”
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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@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
January 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM