Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
#EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
2025 Reading Challenge: 62/50
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Going on a Goon Hunt by Michael Rex
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #bookstagram
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Going on a Goon Hunt by Michael Rex
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #bookstagram
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 62/50
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Going on a Goon Hunt by Michael Rex
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #bookstagram
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Going on a Goon Hunt by Michael Rex
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #bookstagram
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🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
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best summary I've read of COP, noting the increasing militarisation of the event - to protect fossil fuel interests.
“Why are military emissions still not on the agenda here?”
@militaryemissions.org reflects on #COP30, the little that it achieved for the global climate, and on the growing public pressure for #military and conflict GHG emissions to be addressed, somehow. ceobs.org/remind-us-wh...
@militaryemissions.org reflects on #COP30, the little that it achieved for the global climate, and on the growing public pressure for #military and conflict GHG emissions to be addressed, somehow. ceobs.org/remind-us-wh...
Remind us. Who was the Amazon COP for? - CEOBS
COP30: what it achieved, where it failed, what comes next and the ever growing profile of military and conflict Greenhouse Gas emissions.
ceobs.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
best summary I've read of COP, noting the increasing militarisation of the event - to protect fossil fuel interests.
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I spoke to a person last week who does policy for the BC government. They are told that they have to use AI, and their job is now to correct all the mistakes it makes.
N.L. government pledges ‘strict review’ on AI use after more false citations found in reports
N.L. premiere pledges review on AI use after false citations found in reports
Newfoundland and Labrador’s new premier is pledging strict standards for artificial intelligence use in public service, after a second report commissioned by his predecessors was found to contain fake citations.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spoke to a person last week who does policy for the BC government. They are told that they have to use AI, and their job is now to correct all the mistakes it makes.
-> @nichecanada.bsky.social has published 257 posts in 2025 alone. A the vast majority of those posts are full-length blog posts, articles really.
Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?
We deserve your support: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum
Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?
We deserve your support: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
-> @nichecanada.bsky.social has published 257 posts in 2025 alone. A the vast majority of those posts are full-length blog posts, articles really.
Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?
We deserve your support: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum
Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?
We deserve your support: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum
We are reaching the end of our @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising campaign & we are still 31% away from our goal.
I owe a great deal to this group, & I also put SO MUCH labour into this community. More than ever, environmental knowledge needs to be protected & supported.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
I owe a great deal to this group, & I also put SO MUCH labour into this community. More than ever, environmental knowledge needs to be protected & supported.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
fnd.us
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We are reaching the end of our @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising campaign & we are still 31% away from our goal.
I owe a great deal to this group, & I also put SO MUCH labour into this community. More than ever, environmental knowledge needs to be protected & supported.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
I owe a great deal to this group, & I also put SO MUCH labour into this community. More than ever, environmental knowledge needs to be protected & supported.
fnd.us/niche2025?re...
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Appreciate that we make an effort to bring environmental scholarship alive in multiple formats?
Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can keep doing this work!
Help get us to 75% of our goal! Can you spare $20?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies
Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can keep doing this work!
Help get us to 75% of our goal! Can you spare $20?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
fundrazr.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Appreciate that we make an effort to bring environmental scholarship alive in multiple formats?
Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can keep doing this work!
Help get us to 75% of our goal! Can you spare $20?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies
Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can keep doing this work!
Help get us to 75% of our goal! Can you spare $20?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
You can read @sarahmpicks.bsky.social & @issygapp.bsky.social's introduction to Part V, "New Research in Arctic Pasts – Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V" here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#arthistory #arctic #visualculture #envhum #envhist
#arthistory #arctic #visualculture #envhum #envhist
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You can read @sarahmpicks.bsky.social & @issygapp.bsky.social's introduction to Part V, "New Research in Arctic Pasts – Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V" here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
#arthistory #arctic #visualculture #envhum #envhist
#arthistory #arctic #visualculture #envhum #envhist
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
Our NiCHE Conversation with @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social is now available on YouTube!
They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series that they are co-editing.
youtu.be/sL2YD3FjS30
They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series that they are co-editing.
youtu.be/sL2YD3FjS30
NiCHE Conversations 6.4: New Research in Arctic Pasts & Visual Culture with I. Gapp & S. Pickman
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Our NiCHE Conversation with @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social is now available on YouTube!
They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series that they are co-editing.
youtu.be/sL2YD3FjS30
They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series that they are co-editing.
youtu.be/sL2YD3FjS30
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A conventional and straightforward legal analysis of US operations in the Caribbean and E Pacific putatively involving drug trafficking, concluding that these operations are illegal and the homicides resulting from them are extrajudicial executions for which the perpetrators can be held to account.
America Unbound in the Caribbean
The real costs of Washington’s use of force.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A conventional and straightforward legal analysis of US operations in the Caribbean and E Pacific putatively involving drug trafficking, concluding that these operations are illegal and the homicides resulting from them are extrajudicial executions for which the perpetrators can be held to account.
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
Spending the day meeting with undergrads in 20 minute Zoom intervals to discuss the rough drafts of their 20-page research papers, which I line-edited.
They’ll be better writers and historians when they leave my class. I’m proud of them.
I’m also pooped.
They’ll be better writers and historians when they leave my class. I’m proud of them.
I’m also pooped.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Spending the day meeting with undergrads in 20 minute Zoom intervals to discuss the rough drafts of their 20-page research papers, which I line-edited.
They’ll be better writers and historians when they leave my class. I’m proud of them.
I’m also pooped.
They’ll be better writers and historians when they leave my class. I’m proud of them.
I’m also pooped.
2025 Reading Challenge: 61/50
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Stitch-or—Treat by Eric Geron
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2022
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
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Stitch-or—Treat by Eric Geron
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2022
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 61/50
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Stitch-or—Treat by Eric Geron
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2022
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
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Stitch-or—Treat by Eric Geron
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 2022
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
2025 Reading Challenge: 60/50
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Rabbit and His Friends by Richard Scarry
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Golden Books, 1981.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
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Rabbit and His Friends by Richard Scarry
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Golden Books, 1981.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 60/50
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Rabbit and His Friends by Richard Scarry
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Golden Books, 1981.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
🔸
Rabbit and His Friends by Richard Scarry
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⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Golden Books, 1981.
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#wearereading #booksky #childrensliterature
2025 Reading Challenge: 59/50
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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Gollancz 2011.
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#amreading #book #bookstagram
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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Gollancz 2011.
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#amreading #book #bookstagram
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 59/50
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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Gollancz 2011.
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#amreading #book #bookstagram
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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Gollancz 2011.
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#amreading #book #bookstagram
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Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today we're spotlighting friend of EHN, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, who has helped keep us sustainable during our fundraising drive this year #envhist #envhum
2025 Reading Challenge: 58/50
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Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Triangle Square Books, 2025
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #community
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Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Triangle Square Books, 2025
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #community
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
2025 Reading Challenge: 58/50
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Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Triangle Square Books, 2025
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #community
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Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Triangle Square Books, 2025
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#wearereading #book #booksky #boardbook #childrensliterature #community
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
Following the recent election, leadership will be changing in many districts where conservative values previously dominated school board meetings and community actions.
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
Voters shift school boards toward LGBTQ+ inclusion across PA and N.J. - Philadelphia Gay News
School boards in PA and NJ are shifting fast—LGBTQ+ leaders are winning, conservatives are losing, and policy battles are heating up.
epgn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
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people who graduate from foster care should get at least four years of support sufficient to cover food and housing
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
people who graduate from foster care should get at least four years of support sufficient to cover food and housing
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
scottsantens.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New article from me about the Marshall Islands becoming the first country with a Universal Basic Income, what the details are, how it came to be, and what may come next.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Side note: It's hard to express how big a deal this is, especially for me personally. I hope this is the first of many dominoes.
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
This conversation will discuss Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
- Read the intro here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
- Explore the ongoing series here: niche-canada.org/tag/circumpo...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #visualculture #arctic
- Read the intro here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
- Explore the ongoing series here: niche-canada.org/tag/circumpo...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #visualculture #arctic
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This conversation will discuss Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
- Read the intro here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
- Explore the ongoing series here: niche-canada.org/tag/circumpo...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #visualculture #arctic
- Read the intro here: niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
- Explore the ongoing series here: niche-canada.org/tag/circumpo...
#envhist #envhum #arthistory #visualculture #arctic
Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
Our next NICHE Converation will be TOMORROW at 10:30am EDT on Instagram Live.
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Our next NICHE Converation will be TOMORROW at 10:30am EDT on Instagram Live.
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
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Reposted by Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
Tonight’s Recipe: Hazelnut Green Beans with Prosciutto and Dates
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Rating: Very Good
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Recipe by Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #recipe #hazlenuts #greenbeans
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Rating: Very Good
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Recipe by Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #recipe #hazlenuts #greenbeans
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Tonight’s Recipe: Hazelnut Green Beans with Prosciutto and Dates
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Rating: Very Good
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Recipe by Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #recipe #hazlenuts #greenbeans
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Rating: Very Good
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Recipe by Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #foodsky #recipe #hazlenuts #greenbeans