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Eddie Valentin

@evalentin25.bsky.social

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Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.

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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi new followers! Most of my current work as a public historian focuses on WWII, but my personal research interests center on Reconstruction and the experiences of Black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. I post about books, current events, history, and sports from time to time.

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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 6h

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the headline for this article should’ve been some version of this.

Screenshot from article that shows situation on the ground in Gaza was not immediately clear and that Israeli troops would remain active in the area

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Sure would be nice to highlight Lost Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, too.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!

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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 1d

Look what came in the mail today, @uncpress.bsky.social @simpsonvos.bsky.social @profsommerville.bsky.social! 🗃️

Printed copy of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis held by the author in the background

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 4d

with @mjsdc.bsky.social and @imillhiser.bsky.social on the term ahead

SCOTUS Is About To Make Trump’s Dreams Come True

From voting rights to trans rights, presidential powers and beyond, the new Supreme Court term is a win-win for the court’s conservatives, and Trump.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 6d

‘Bodies of Labor,’ Hearts of Hope: A new Black History Museum exhibition at Richmond's Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia explores experience through toil
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‘Bodies of Labor,’ Hearts of Hope

A new Black History Museum exhibition explores experience through toil.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says” 10/3/25… 1/ www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
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I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 7d

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 8d

Conveniently for Microsoft, one of those required changes involves granting permission to analyze my content. Cloud storage has been super nice and convenient, but I might have to revert to just storing things on my physical machine and external storage devices again.

Screenshot of a prompt from OneNote that shows I have to check a box to allow "experiences that analyze your content" to use online features for OneNote

Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 8d

So with this unexpected time off, I decided to go back to working on the book. About a year and a half ago, I switched to OneNote to store and organize my research notes. I recently discovered that I can't sync changes to OneDrive from the desktop OneNote app without changing my privacy settings.

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · 13d

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit!
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How to apply

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 12d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12d

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 12d

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13d

Here we go:

www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue before t...

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 14d

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃
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Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 14d

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think

Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 14d

Cannot wait for this! What an accomplishment, what a gift to the field. #earlymodern #skystorians

Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Sep 9

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15d

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

China expands Argentina soybean buying to 20 cargoes, traders say

Chinese importers kept up a hectic pace of Argentine soybean purchases after the South American supplier's move to abolish export taxes temporarily made its prices competitive, traders said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16d

well that escalated quickly

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Josephus Brown @josephusbrown.bsky.social · Aug 31

Stole this but it’s mine now

Official Statement
For Immediate Release
On the evening of August 30, 2025 after taking a wrong turn somewhere near Albuquerque, Mayor Giuliani was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He was flagged down by a giant male rabbit dressed up as an attractive female rabbit who identified themself as having witnessed a "moyder" Mr. Giuliani remained on scene until a duck and a pig dressed as Old English bobbys arrived.
Following this incident, while traveling on the highway, Mayor Giuliani drove into what he thought was a tunnel, but which turned out to be a painting on the side of a mountain.
Mayor Giuliani's vehicle was crushed into the shape of accordion bellows, which emitted musical notes as they expanded and contracted. A flattened Mr. Guilini waddled free from beneath the wreckage, his enlarged teeth emerging from his mouth in the shape of piano keys.
His business partner was promptly contacted, and he was admitted to Acme Looniversity Hospital, curiously under the care of the same rabbit he encountered earlier.
That's all, folks.
F. Leghorn
Head of Mayor Giuliani's Security

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