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Working on building a place on a new app. Current museum professional. All statements are my own.
Going to a professional conference is always a wonderful opportunity but I keep adding to my tbr and potential writing plans. Not a bad problem to have but I feel like I’m going to be busy going forward I think.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Going to a professional conference is always a wonderful opportunity but I keep adding to my tbr and potential writing plans. Not a bad problem to have but I feel like I’m going to be busy going forward I think.
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This is one of the most important posts of the day.
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is one of the most important posts of the day.
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They’re rewriting history.
August 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
They’re rewriting history.
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A poem for this Fourth of July.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A poem for this Fourth of July.
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I'm not sure censoring what kinds of historical information visitors learn at NPS sites and then posting signs asking those visitors to notify the administration of false narratives is going to go the way the administration thinks, tbh. People want full history and know when they're not getting it.
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites
The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm not sure censoring what kinds of historical information visitors learn at NPS sites and then posting signs asking those visitors to notify the administration of false narratives is going to go the way the administration thinks, tbh. People want full history and know when they're not getting it.
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.
According to acting DOD Comptroller Bryn McDonnell it'll cost $134M for the deployment of the Guard to Los Angeles.
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.
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This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Update: looks like it's real! We are so fucking fucked. Just totally cooked. Nothing matters anymore. The boundaries of real information have collapsed utterly, and we are all living in a dream-slurry of garbage puked up by billionaire computers. Anything is true and everything is false.
Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Update: looks like it's real! We are so fucking fucked. Just totally cooked. Nothing matters anymore. The boundaries of real information have collapsed utterly, and we are all living in a dream-slurry of garbage puked up by billionaire computers. Anything is true and everything is false.
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Fantastic thread:
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Fantastic thread:
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I think what bums me out most about this—even in a best case scenario where everything up there now stays up—is this is exactly the kind of project we should be massively expanding for the nation’s 250th. Instead, we’re moving in the opposite direction.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I think what bums me out most about this—even in a best case scenario where everything up there now stays up—is this is exactly the kind of project we should be massively expanding for the nation’s 250th. Instead, we’re moving in the opposite direction.
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There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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Burning books is faster, defunding archives is slower, but they both wind up in the same place: erasing the past.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Burning books is faster, defunding archives is slower, but they both wind up in the same place: erasing the past.
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Librarians of Congress are generally scholars or librarians.
Not deputy attorneys general.
Because…the Library of Congress is a LIBRARY FOR SCHOLARS.
It also houses amazing treasures of American history.
Here’s a list of previous Librarians.
www.loc.gov/about/about-...
Not deputy attorneys general.
Because…the Library of Congress is a LIBRARY FOR SCHOLARS.
It also houses amazing treasures of American history.
Here’s a list of previous Librarians.
www.loc.gov/about/about-...
May 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Librarians of Congress are generally scholars or librarians.
Not deputy attorneys general.
Because…the Library of Congress is a LIBRARY FOR SCHOLARS.
It also houses amazing treasures of American history.
Here’s a list of previous Librarians.
www.loc.gov/about/about-...
Not deputy attorneys general.
Because…the Library of Congress is a LIBRARY FOR SCHOLARS.
It also houses amazing treasures of American history.
Here’s a list of previous Librarians.
www.loc.gov/about/about-...
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This resource is an absolute treasure, and has been truly essential to my ability to conduct research without an academic affiliation that would provide access to other databases. This is tragic.
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This resource is an absolute treasure, and has been truly essential to my ability to conduct research without an academic affiliation that would provide access to other databases. This is tragic.
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NOOOO!!!!!
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NOOOO!!!!!
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" We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place." from the woman who literally wrote the book on food safety in the US: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
buttondown.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
" We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place." from the woman who literally wrote the book on food safety in the US: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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They regulated the food industry because they put chalk in milk, red lead in cheese and used sawdust as filler for multiple products.
But sure, enjoy leaded cheese, now that corporations have been unfettered from "obstacles" like safety I guess.
But sure, enjoy leaded cheese, now that corporations have been unfettered from "obstacles" like safety I guess.
April 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
They regulated the food industry because they put chalk in milk, red lead in cheese and used sawdust as filler for multiple products.
But sure, enjoy leaded cheese, now that corporations have been unfettered from "obstacles" like safety I guess.
But sure, enjoy leaded cheese, now that corporations have been unfettered from "obstacles" like safety I guess.
Museum people/history nerds any ideas on getting 1700s-1800s era documents translated? I have a couple family history documents in what I think is German, French, and Latin from that time frame and am at a loss as to what they say exactly or where to start to ask someone for help with them.
April 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Museum people/history nerds any ideas on getting 1700s-1800s era documents translated? I have a couple family history documents in what I think is German, French, and Latin from that time frame and am at a loss as to what they say exactly or where to start to ask someone for help with them.
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#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...
April 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...
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Writers: gen ai is theft
Artists: gen ai is theft
Narrators: gen ai is theft
Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet
Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet
Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT
Artists: gen ai is theft
Narrators: gen ai is theft
Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet
Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet
Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Writers: gen ai is theft
Artists: gen ai is theft
Narrators: gen ai is theft
Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet
Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet
Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT
Artists: gen ai is theft
Narrators: gen ai is theft
Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet
Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet
Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT