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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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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
‘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 · 4d
“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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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
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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 6d
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 · 11d
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 · 9d
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
Local News 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 · 10d
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.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10d
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 10d
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 · 10d
George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100
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 · 11d
Here we go:

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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 · 12d
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 · 12d
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

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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 · 12d
Cannot wait for this! What an accomplishment, what a gift to the field. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 29d
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 · 13d
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.

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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.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14d
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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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · Aug 31
“The most recent labor statistics show that nationwide, Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Aug 31
If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Courts & Litigation Executive Branch Emergency Hearing over the Removal of Unaccompanied Minors to Guatemala Anna Bower Sunday, August 31, 2025, 3:29 PM Share On: f X in & 6 B A play-by-play of Judge Sooknanan's hearing where she blocked the Trump administration's plans to send hundreds of unaccompanied children to Guatemala.
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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · Aug 31
One of the commentators for the Clemson/LSU game mentioned how one of Dabo Swinney’s sons is on a football scholarship with Clemson.

Swinney’s salary is over $11 million this year. The kid does not need a scholarship.

Absolute clownery 🙄.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 29
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
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