david silver
@silverinsf.bsky.social
Environmental studies + urban ag at University of San Francisco; The farm at Black Mountain College; seed libraries + food pantries
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
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This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.
Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.
Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
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@nehgov.bsky.social announced new awards today from their March Council meeting. Let's compare with awards from prior years, shall we?
This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects.
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This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@nehgov.bsky.social announced new awards today from their March Council meeting. Let's compare with awards from prior years, shall we?
This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects.
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This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects.
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“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”
blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
blackpressusa.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”
blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
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The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.
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of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler
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We’re about to see higher education go to bed w/ right-wing politics or vegetate in the least inspiring & most conformist ways. This book, abt the lesser-known students of the Black Mountain College and its radical sustenance experiment, looks like a salve. atelier-editions.com/products/the...
March 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We’re about to see higher education go to bed w/ right-wing politics or vegetate in the least inspiring & most conformist ways. This book, abt the lesser-known students of the Black Mountain College and its radical sustenance experiment, looks like a salve. atelier-editions.com/products/the...
Community Garden Outreach class in the USF Zine Library
February 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Community Garden Outreach class in the USF Zine Library
I have essentially borrowed about half of @gleesonlibrary.bsky.social, especially their collections the Beats, North Beach, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Berkeley Renaissance. #BMCinSF #libraries #blackmountaincollege
February 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I have essentially borrowed about half of @gleesonlibrary.bsky.social, especially their collections the Beats, North Beach, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Berkeley Renaissance. #BMCinSF #libraries #blackmountaincollege
Two great #BMCinSF finds from @berkeleypublibrary.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Two great #BMCinSF finds from @berkeleypublibrary.bsky.social
Free fibrary, Berkeley
January 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Free fibrary, Berkeley
Last night’s book talk at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #blackmountaincollege
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Last night’s book talk at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #blackmountaincollege
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A new book traces the rise and fall of a little-known farm at Black Mountain College, which fueled creative experimentation and attracted artists like Willem de Kooning and Merce Cunningham.
The Farm at Black Mountain College You Didn’t Know Existed
A new book centers the voices of those whose hands built the historic school and whose dreams shaped its programs, all of which involved a little-known farm.
hyperallergic.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM
A new book traces the rise and fall of a little-known farm at Black Mountain College, which fueled creative experimentation and attracted artists like Willem de Kooning and Merce Cunningham.