Veronica Lea
@veronicalea.bsky.social
Archivist, hiker, Queer, Gemini. In PVD. I like old things. Writing about disability, access, and use in the archives. She/her
This is horrible news
UAF is closing the Chuckchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue due to decline funding from the state and the Northwest Arctic Borough
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www.uaf.edu/news/chukchi...
Chukchi Consortium Library to close Sept. 1
The Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue will close permanently on Sept. 1, 2025. The UAF Chukchi Campus has operated the library with local contributions from the Northwest Arctic Borough since 201...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is horrible news
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Hadn’t heard of this report investigating how Americans think about history (hint: “single objective truth”). Looks interesting.
It’s worth noting (again) that explaining to non-historians how studying history develops critical thinking skills is the most effective way to help people understand history’s value to society and leads them to support greater funding. aaslh.org/reframing-hi...
With the dumb take on AI from a historian doing the rounds, bumping @davehitchcock.bsky.social's more interesting take presented @qmcbs.bsky.social: hitchcockian.medium.com/this-is-the-...
Our skills as historians are all the more valuable, lets champion them rather than throw them out #SkyStorians
Our skills as historians are all the more valuable, lets champion them rather than throw them out #SkyStorians
June 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hadn’t heard of this report investigating how Americans think about history (hint: “single objective truth”). Looks interesting.
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Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks:
America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
June 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks:
America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
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One suggestion for professors concerned about AI usage aside from in-class, handwritten writing assignments is that you work with your colleagues to propose curricular changes. A good start would be bringing back required library and research skills courses as a cornerstone of your major reqs
June 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One suggestion for professors concerned about AI usage aside from in-class, handwritten writing assignments is that you work with your colleagues to propose curricular changes. A good start would be bringing back required library and research skills courses as a cornerstone of your major reqs
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Pretty clear from the scare quotes that this is not a remotely serious document.
May 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Pretty clear from the scare quotes that this is not a remotely serious document.
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
April 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
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Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors
March 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors
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At this point I'm just assuming virtually every foreign student in the US who isn't deported is going to transfer to a school in another country to be safe.
Which means those countries are going to have a bunch of doctors, engineers, etc. in another decade. Ours, not so much.
Which means those countries are going to have a bunch of doctors, engineers, etc. in another decade. Ours, not so much.
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
March 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
At this point I'm just assuming virtually every foreign student in the US who isn't deported is going to transfer to a school in another country to be safe.
Which means those countries are going to have a bunch of doctors, engineers, etc. in another decade. Ours, not so much.
Which means those countries are going to have a bunch of doctors, engineers, etc. in another decade. Ours, not so much.
“Regulate classroom discussion”? WTAF. What about academic freedom? Or freedom speech? I can’t
BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed into law a massive higher education overhaul to ban diversity efforts, regulate classroom discussion, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other things. The law will take effect in 90 days.
Ohio Gov. DeWine signs higher ed bill regulating classroom discussion and banning diversity efforts • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a massive higher education bill that would ban diversity and equity and prohibit faculty from striking into law into law Friday afternoon. The bill will take effect in 90…
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March 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Regulate classroom discussion”? WTAF. What about academic freedom? Or freedom speech? I can’t
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Based on some pretty shallow quick-takes from media outlets, the bigger impact is getting missed in the focus on the Smithsonian. It’s also the entire Department of the Interior, which means every single national park, battlefield and site in the entire country.
We saw it coming. It’s history without the truth or sanity. Trump’s proclamation demands federal sites—the entire Department of the Interior, from parks to battlefields, and the Smithsonian itself—tell fictional, nationalist fairy tales. #publichistory
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Based on some pretty shallow quick-takes from media outlets, the bigger impact is getting missed in the focus on the Smithsonian. It’s also the entire Department of the Interior, which means every single national park, battlefield and site in the entire country.
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Y’all better start speaking up about Trump’s SS disappearing students off the street because of a newspaper op-ed & his dog-murdering DHS sec doing influencer-style photo shoots in front of a prison cage where people are being warehoused like livestock or no one will be left to speak up for you.
March 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Y’all better start speaking up about Trump’s SS disappearing students off the street because of a newspaper op-ed & his dog-murdering DHS sec doing influencer-style photo shoots in front of a prison cage where people are being warehoused like livestock or no one will be left to speak up for you.
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Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back.
These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.
These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.
March 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back.
These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.
These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.
This is disgusting and terrifying
This is the vision set by the new head of the IMLS.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
Sit with this for a minute.
Then scream loudly.
March 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is disgusting and terrifying
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The only legal body that could stop Trump is the US Senate through finding him guilty during an impeachment trial. They won’t do that, so he is effectively above all laws.
I don’t understand why it took everyone so long to realize this. Trump and his team have been saying this since last year.
I don’t understand why it took everyone so long to realize this. Trump and his team have been saying this since last year.
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
'Move Fast': Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts
Donald Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. Trump wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!”
www.rollingstone.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The only legal body that could stop Trump is the US Senate through finding him guilty during an impeachment trial. They won’t do that, so he is effectively above all laws.
I don’t understand why it took everyone so long to realize this. Trump and his team have been saying this since last year.
I don’t understand why it took everyone so long to realize this. Trump and his team have been saying this since last year.
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RI AABB co-leader @padmatv.bsky.social on The Publics Radio with Ed Garcia of RILA and Skip Dye of PRH, chatting about RI #FreedomToRead efforts thepublicsradio.org/arts-and-cul...
New bill would combat efforts to ban and censor books in R.I. - TPR: The Public's Radio
Since 2021 there have been over 30 book challenges in Rhode Island. In fighting these lawsuits, schools and libraries across the state are being forced to use precious financial resources that would n...
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March 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
RI AABB co-leader @padmatv.bsky.social on The Publics Radio with Ed Garcia of RILA and Skip Dye of PRH, chatting about RI #FreedomToRead efforts thepublicsradio.org/arts-and-cul...
The exhibit includes some cool items from the Special Collections! And was curated by my Special Collections Assistant, who did an amazing job!
Rhode Islanders, Check out this exhibition at our @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social Adams Library!
"Politicians, Activists, and Liberators in History" is an exhibit on the history of Black activism and political change. #BlackHistoryisAmericanHistory
"Politicians, Activists, and Liberators in History" is an exhibit on the history of Black activism and political change. #BlackHistoryisAmericanHistory
March 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The exhibit includes some cool items from the Special Collections! And was curated by my Special Collections Assistant, who did an amazing job!
Love this. "Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?"
'HA! Last night, @ Chariho School Committee mtg, Chair (M4Ler) said "comments must be truthful'. When the M4L schill started with lies (per usual) the audience called them out. The fluster chair threatened to adjourn mtg, got a motion & 2nd. Reminded SC had to vote on budget, recanted. Right on.
More of this!
March 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Love this. "Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?"
I just told a friend the other day he’s gonna try to lease the parks and forests. It wont be long until there’s nothing left.
I wish I could remember when and how I actually died before being sent to this hell, but I guess I’ll have to settle for pointing and laughing at all my Christian relatives who are down here burning with me.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I just told a friend the other day he’s gonna try to lease the parks and forests. It wont be long until there’s nothing left.
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It’s hard to overstate the rank greed at play here. What we’re witnessing is sociopathic indifference & disregard for humanity & social norms. All they care about is dismantling the regulatory state so they can self-deal with impunity. Anything else that happens (good or bad) is random & collateral.
March 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It’s hard to overstate the rank greed at play here. What we’re witnessing is sociopathic indifference & disregard for humanity & social norms. All they care about is dismantling the regulatory state so they can self-deal with impunity. Anything else that happens (good or bad) is random & collateral.
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Antivaxxers murdered a child in Texas.
The U.S. has officially recorded its first measles death since 2015. Texas health officials have confirmed that an unvaccinated child has passed away from measles amid a massive outbreak that has impacted nine counties in West Texas.
👉 meidasnews.com/news/the-uni...
👉 meidasnews.com/news/the-uni...
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Antivaxxers murdered a child in Texas.
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The University of Alaska's Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has (seemingly) scrubbed most instances of "Alaska Native" on its website. This coincides with the UA Board of Regents voting to get rid of DEI-related language.
(Left image is Wayback machine from Jan. 15)
(Left image is Wayback machine from Jan. 15)
February 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The University of Alaska's Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has (seemingly) scrubbed most instances of "Alaska Native" on its website. This coincides with the UA Board of Regents voting to get rid of DEI-related language.
(Left image is Wayback machine from Jan. 15)
(Left image is Wayback machine from Jan. 15)
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It appears the Providence School District is pioneering this in RI. Chariho and Johnston are likely in hot pursuit. And when this bigotry comes to pass in your town, don't be surprised. If you know more about Elon that your school committee, you have facilitated the take-over.
In the USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials.
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
www.motherjones.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It appears the Providence School District is pioneering this in RI. Chariho and Johnston are likely in hot pursuit. And when this bigotry comes to pass in your town, don't be surprised. If you know more about Elon that your school committee, you have facilitated the take-over.
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Local RI hero fabulously rebuts the horrid, bigoted ProJo piece by Patinkin. You can do this in your town, your local paper. We left off ST's name and location. But they put it in the paper. Time for you to do something. Afraid? Imagine how our trans community feels.
February 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Local RI hero fabulously rebuts the horrid, bigoted ProJo piece by Patinkin. You can do this in your town, your local paper. We left off ST's name and location. But they put it in the paper. Time for you to do something. Afraid? Imagine how our trans community feels.
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No one who works for the government has to follow an illegal, unethical, or immoral order. There may be consequences to refusing to comply with these directives, but as Viktor Frankl said, “the last human freedom is the freedom to choose how you respond.” Nobody can take that away from you.
February 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
No one who works for the government has to follow an illegal, unethical, or immoral order. There may be consequences to refusing to comply with these directives, but as Viktor Frankl said, “the last human freedom is the freedom to choose how you respond.” Nobody can take that away from you.