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JP @pliley.bsky.social · 29d

Deadline in 3 weeks.

JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please circulate: The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period specialization open).
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

JP @pliley.bsky.social · 29d

I had to get rid of commas and dashes. Then it worked.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29d

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · Aug 9

Check out this project to document and preserve existing National Park Service signs before they disappear under orders of the regime. Help gather information and spread the word.

sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Save Our Signs

Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · Jul 29

If I had to suggest an era to study to understand how we got here, it’d be Reconstruction.

To learn about the roots of modern policing and the carceral state, how “taxpayer” became an identity, and what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “counter-revolution of property”—all in opposition to Black freedom.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were a response to masked violent men who terrorized Black communities, violating their civil rights.The deployment of violent masked ICE ofcrs are tapping into this unique form of terror.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Masked Terror

At this point, we have all seen the videos.

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jul 10

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please circulate: The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period specialization open).
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jul 2

My article exploring US immigration policy & family separation in the 1930s is out. It uses deportation files of the 'immoral classes' to show the ways that the deportation was structured around denying women's citizenship and separating mothers from children. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history.

Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · Jun 16

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.

It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please circulate: The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period specialization open).
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

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theccwh.bsky.social @theccwh.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨 Attention all wordsmiths and grammar gurus! 📚✨ Are you ready to take your editing skills to the next level? We’re on the hunt for passionate editors to join the JHS team! Apply today and help us shape stories that resonate! @pliley.bsky.social @nimishabarton.bsky.social

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Jun 11

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 9

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jun 8

The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations

The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jun 6

Excellent opportunity!

theccwh.bsky.social @theccwh.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨 Attention all wordsmiths and grammar gurus! 📚✨ Are you ready to take your editing skills to the next level? We’re on the hunt for passionate editors to join the JHS team! Apply today and help us shape stories that resonate! @pliley.bsky.social @nimishabarton.bsky.social

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · Jun 2

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

The current setup of the Flock ALPR system is incompatible with a free society.

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen ca...

www.eff.org

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JP @pliley.bsky.social · Jun 1

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Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Pride Month from Women Also Know History! We're so grateful for the LGBTQIA+ scholars who enrich our profession, our community, and our understanding of the past, this month and every month. #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary

A white textbox is bordered in rainbow hues. In the center of the textbox, the message reads "From WAKH to you: Happy Pride Month! #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary." The font in the word "Pride" is in the colors of the 2018 pride flag.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · May 26

😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 10

Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · May 9

NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting

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