Rachel Tamar Van
@rtvan.bsky.social
Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hope it’s solid — Pauli Murray was so badass. She should be a household name. Legend.
#Documentary to explore: My name is Pauli Murray. She was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality & Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. She was born #OTD in 1910.
Directed by @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social & @betsywest.bsky.social. On Amazon Prime. #film
Directed by @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social & @betsywest.bsky.social. On Amazon Prime. #film
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hope it’s solid — Pauli Murray was so badass. She should be a household name. Legend.
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
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Dutch province wants to honour African-American WWII soldiers after the US removed a plaque at the militairy cemetery in Margraten highlighting their contributions.
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Elf Limburgse partijen willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders, nadat informatiepanelen over hun bijdrage op de begraafplaats in Margraten zijn verwijderd.
Elf Limburgse partijen willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders, nadat informatiepanelen over hun bijdrage op de begraafplaats in Margraten zijn verwijderd.
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Dutch province wants to honour African-American WWII soldiers after the US removed a plaque at the militairy cemetery in Margraten highlighting their contributions.
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social
CC: @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
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Reminder you can donate $25 to help feed Angelenos and be entered into a raffle for two World Series tickets to game 4 with Shohei Ohtani on the mound! Let’s raise some money for people in need while gov’t funds/SNAP are being slashed: givebutter.com/game4?gbtid=...
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Reminder you can donate $25 to help feed Angelenos and be entered into a raffle for two World Series tickets to game 4 with Shohei Ohtani on the mound! Let’s raise some money for people in need while gov’t funds/SNAP are being slashed: givebutter.com/game4?gbtid=...
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Everybody needs a little help from their Friends. 💞
This #NationalFriendsofLibrariesWeek, help us at PLA & @ala-united.bsky.social thank the Friends for their support & advocacy! 🙌
Tell them how much you appreciate the work they do #ForOurLibraries! More on getting involved👉 https://bit.ly/3BWAy5a
This #NationalFriendsofLibrariesWeek, help us at PLA & @ala-united.bsky.social thank the Friends for their support & advocacy! 🙌
Tell them how much you appreciate the work they do #ForOurLibraries! More on getting involved👉 https://bit.ly/3BWAy5a
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Everybody needs a little help from their Friends. 💞
This #NationalFriendsofLibrariesWeek, help us at PLA & @ala-united.bsky.social thank the Friends for their support & advocacy! 🙌
Tell them how much you appreciate the work they do #ForOurLibraries! More on getting involved👉 https://bit.ly/3BWAy5a
This #NationalFriendsofLibrariesWeek, help us at PLA & @ala-united.bsky.social thank the Friends for their support & advocacy! 🙌
Tell them how much you appreciate the work they do #ForOurLibraries! More on getting involved👉 https://bit.ly/3BWAy5a
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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SHOHEI'S DOG DECOY 'THROWS' OUT THE FIRST PITCH. WE LOVE YOU SHOHEI WE LOVE YOU DECOY.
I'm so glad Shohei came to LA. He's a baseball folk hero with an adorable doggy and he hits dingers and steals bases and he really loves baseball and his puppy
I'm so glad Shohei came to LA. He's a baseball folk hero with an adorable doggy and he hits dingers and steals bases and he really loves baseball and his puppy
Dog first pitch! Shohei Ohtani’s dog Decoy RUNS out the FIRST PITCH!
YouTube video by MLB
youtu.be
August 29, 2024 at 2:50 AM
SHOHEI'S DOG DECOY 'THROWS' OUT THE FIRST PITCH. WE LOVE YOU SHOHEI WE LOVE YOU DECOY.
I'm so glad Shohei came to LA. He's a baseball folk hero with an adorable doggy and he hits dingers and steals bases and he really loves baseball and his puppy
I'm so glad Shohei came to LA. He's a baseball folk hero with an adorable doggy and he hits dingers and steals bases and he really loves baseball and his puppy
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The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSky
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSky
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSky
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSky
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Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.
Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.
The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.
#Pinks
The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.
#Pinks
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.
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Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Only Footage of Mark Twain: The Original & Digitally Restored Films Shot by Thomas Edison
The Only Footage of Mark Twain: The Original & Digitally Restored Films Shot by Thomas Edison
We know what Mark Twain looked like, and we think we know what he sounded like. Just above see what he looked like in motion, strolling around Stormfield, his house in Redding, Connecticut---signature...
www.openculture.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Only Footage of Mark Twain: The Original & Digitally Restored Films Shot by Thomas Edison
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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This is all but literally one of the things that King James II did that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the English Bill of Rights in 1689. (Want to guess who used that document as a model in the 1770s and 1780s?)
avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...
avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is all but literally one of the things that King James II did that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the English Bill of Rights in 1689. (Want to guess who used that document as a model in the 1770s and 1780s?)
avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...
avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century...
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We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.
This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.
Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.
Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
October 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.
This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.
Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.
Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System
The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.
www.wsj.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”
October 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”