Dr. Brandon Davis
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Dr. Brandon Davis
@upwithspring.bsky.social
Eval at City St George's | #envhist #histsci
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A heavy music festival in Blackfeet Nation this summer was abut more than just music – it was a protective ceremony to shelter Indigenous youth from suicidal distress.

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Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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On this day in 1970, the War Measures Act was implemented during the October Crisis. It was the first and last time it was implemented during peacetime. It remained in place for a month.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/10/10/t...
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Went to see billy woods and DJ Haram at Strange Brew. Wrote about it for @bristol247.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...
billy woods & DJ Haram, Strange Brew: 'Looks horror in the face and gets out alive'
Cult rapper and visionary producer team up
www.bristol247.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Join us for a talk by @collthrush.bsky.social, author of the recently published Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.

Thursday October 2nd 3:30pm
University of Washington
Allen Library North-Petersen Room
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"Let your eyes adjust to the single candle in the church. Do not look away from the black-glass lenses of Good Stab. And be ready to listen with an open heart."

@mcflycahill90.bsky.social reviews The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones:

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History in All Its Gory Glory: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones - Reactor
Every layer of this historical horror novel, one of the strongest of the year, sings as the author effortlessly moves between three distinct voices.
reactormag.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Today in 1957, the United States conducted Shot HOOD—a reduced-yield, 74-kiloton thermonuclear test—even as the Atomic Energy Commission insisted H-bomb tests were not taking place at the Nevada Test Site due to concerns over radioactive fallout. HOOD was largest-ever atmospheric test in Nevada.
July 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Bill Callahan Live Reviewed: “35 years after his now-staggering career began, he has never been more fully, satisfyingly present.”

19 albums in, former Smog man transforms his remarkable body of work at East London show. Read MOJO’s review and the setlist in full...
Bill Callahan Live Review: Elusive songwriter has never been more present
19 albums in, former Smog man transforms his remarkable body of work at East London show. Read MOJO's review and the setlist in full.
www.mojo4music.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Around the time of Dragon Boat Festival with Chu poetry near our minds, it's a good time to consider the mythos of the Kunlun Mountains. snowpavilion.co.uk/the-mythos-o... #culture
June 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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🚨New Episode Alert🚨

This month we talk w/ historian @collthrush.bsky.social about his new book "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (@uwapress.bsky.social 2025) - one of the best books I've read in a long while, I read a lot of books!

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-e8h3e-...
075 - Coll Thrush - Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
A conversation with historian Coll Thrush about their book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific (University of Washington Press, 2025) Coll Thrush is Professor of History a...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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How one UK learned society put values before dollars.

Rupture between American studies association and US embassy highlights choices facing academia, says Michael Collins.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
How one UK learned society put values before dollars - Research Professional News
Rupture between American studies association and US embassy highlights choices facing academia, says Michael Collins
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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blackstar is the single most impressive artistic accomplishment this century. guy gets diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and goes to the studio the same day to make a final artistic statement, sticks the landing, releases album timed to coincide with his death.
“Blackstar” by David Bowie or “No Cities to Love” by Sleater Kinney
here's a fun game if you're a music dork: what is the best album released by a music act at least 15 years after its debut album?
May 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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After 49 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, today Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier is finally going home to the Turtle Mountain Reservation. He never lost hope and kept his spirits high.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes
#portrait #LeonardPeltier
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Decided to reread this interview this morning before work.
Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’
His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I've got another list of the environmental history worth reading that you may have missed last month! Here's December 2024:

niche-canada.org/2025/01/16/e...

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#EnvHist Worth Reading: December 2024
Find Antarctic Cold War science, buffalo jumps, and duck stamps in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM