Michelle Moon
@michellenmoon.bsky.social
Place-based public historian, public educator, & interpretive planner. Justice through history. Wrote “Interpreting Food” & “Public History & the Food Movement.” Co-editor Journal of Museum Ed. Jersey girl, beach bum, hiker, beginning Gaeilgeoir.
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You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
I've made this many times.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 AM
I've made this many times.
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Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
Opinion | How the internet fractured the information ago — and drove down regard for actual facts and education
Philip Bump: We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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My wife, who was born and raised in Germany, can confirm every word of this.
She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."
She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."
High school teacher Katharina Matro explains how growing up in Germany and learning about the country’s past “made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
YouTube video by American Historical Association
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November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My wife, who was born and raised in Germany, can confirm every word of this.
She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."
She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."
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Let them eat cake.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Let them eat cake.
#Museum folk! This incredible advocacy effort would love to involve more museum people. Those who can speak out are so needed in a time when many can't without facing serious consequences. Is that you? Your organization? Get in touch via the contact form at the link linktr.ee/historyteachin
A History Teach-In | Linktree
October 26th, Washington DC | Sunup to Sundown |
Organized by the folks behind history podcasts The Memory Palace and This Day.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#Museum folk! This incredible advocacy effort would love to involve more museum people. Those who can speak out are so needed in a time when many can't without facing serious consequences. Is that you? Your organization? Get in touch via the contact form at the link linktr.ee/historyteachin
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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
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📢Happening NOW! Hundreds of Newarkers pouring into the protest zone outside the DHS detention facility in Newark demanding #FreeMayorBaraka!
May 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
📢Happening NOW! Hundreds of Newarkers pouring into the protest zone outside the DHS detention facility in Newark demanding #FreeMayorBaraka!
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At the @aaslh.bsky.social museum summit last week, MC @michellenmoon.bsky.social had us each write a note of encouragement to an anonymous colleague. Then she gave each of us a note as we left. I just read mine & cried. Take care of each other out there!
April 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
At the @aaslh.bsky.social museum summit last week, MC @michellenmoon.bsky.social had us each write a note of encouragement to an anonymous colleague. Then she gave each of us a note as we left. I just read mine & cried. Take care of each other out there!
Hey, @museumedrt.bsky.social is here! Welcome!
Hello Bluesky! Follow us for updates from the Journal of Museum Education, innovations in the field of museum education, and general love for the museum educators out there doing the hard work of making museum learning accessible!
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Hey, @museumedrt.bsky.social is here! Welcome!
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PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.
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2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
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New — Institute of Museum and Library Sciences employees were allowed back in the building this morning to gather belongings after all being put on admin leave by DOGE yesterday. Supporters have gathered in front of the building and staffers inside have posted a visible sign that says "SOS IMLS."
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New — Institute of Museum and Library Sciences employees were allowed back in the building this morning to gather belongings after all being put on admin leave by DOGE yesterday. Supporters have gathered in front of the building and staffers inside have posted a visible sign that says "SOS IMLS."
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If anyone would like to email their legislators in support of saving IMLS and funding for libraries and museums, here’s a helpful link to a form:
www.congressweb.com/aam/
www.congressweb.com/aam/
American Association of Museums - Take Action
www.congressweb.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If anyone would like to email their legislators in support of saving IMLS and funding for libraries and museums, here’s a helpful link to a form:
www.congressweb.com/aam/
www.congressweb.com/aam/
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March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Internet rumors are that Doge occupied IMLS this morning with intent to shut it down. No media present. New acting director Sonderling (already Dep Sec of Labor) was sworn in in the lobby with Homeland Security present to bully and enforce. Represents .004% of the fed budget. Links in comments
March 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Internet rumors are that Doge occupied IMLS this morning with intent to shut it down. No media present. New acting director Sonderling (already Dep Sec of Labor) was sworn in in the lobby with Homeland Security present to bully and enforce. Represents .004% of the fed budget. Links in comments
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DOGE is at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)
March 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
DOGE is at IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)
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Any reporter in #DC, please head to L’Enfant Plaza & see what #DOGE is doing to the 70-employee #IMLS (Institute for Museum & Library Services). The help fund every library in the US.
As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1
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Unconfirmed report from "ruskiytroll"
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Unconfirmed report from "ruskiytroll"
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NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
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This is 955 L’Enfant Plaza North, SW, Suite 4000, Washington, D.C. 20024?
March 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is 955 L’Enfant Plaza North, SW, Suite 4000, Washington, D.C. 20024?
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in 8-10 years someone from Silicon Valley is going to invent the university, genuinely unaware that it's been done before
February 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
in 8-10 years someone from Silicon Valley is going to invent the university, genuinely unaware that it's been done before