Meghan Cope (she/her)

Brilliant, as always. And I would add that NSF now stands for "No Such Funding"

Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development

Fixed the headline: STUDY PROVES THAT $333 PER MONTH IS A PIDDLING AMOUNT

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

Imagine the outcry if a country baited stray dogs with food and "killed nearly 100 of them". Israel does this to hungry humans day after day and the world shrugs. 😡

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...

I got tenure the same time I had my first of 2 babies and got a grant to start a 5 year project in a new area of research ... very little published then. 🤪

Gotta fit those concentration camps in somewhere 🤷‍♀️

Hey, @welch.senate.gov and @sanders.senate.gov -- now would be a great time for a quorum vote!

*tenets*

The College Park facility holds the records of the US Children's Bureau, which I'm using now, and only a bit of it is digitized. I was there exactly a year ago and there were tons of folks doing research of all kinds, not just academic. Devastating. 😭

NOOOOO!!!!!

Maybe relevant for @histchild.bsky.social?

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

🥵 (Had to use Montreal as closest big city to us in northern Vermont.)
showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

A great list that I come back to again and again. Happy #Juneteenth!

Thank you, Senator. I wish more of your Democratic colleagues had too. 😔

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Trump: Don't Drag the US Into Netanyahu's War with Iran | Sen. Bernie Sanders

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST STAND FIRM.

We must not be dragged into Netanyahu’s illegal war against Iran.

Vermont Librarians pop up tent at No Kings protest 6/14/2025

Tombstone signs protesting administrative cuts

Rubber ducky rebellion

You know it's bad when the librarians show up. Great signs, rubber duckies, and upbeat vibes (except for the 'Die-In"!) in #BTV
#NoKings #50501movement

Happy vibes at No Kings protest on a beautiful day in Burlington, Vermont

Middle aged white gal in BLM ally t-shirt holding a sign saying "GenX says: we didn't survive the Cold War just to play Russian roulette with democracy"

Burlington, VT says NO KINGS!
Mohsen Mahdawi just finished speaking to our Vermont crowd #NoKingsProtest. Will @sanders.senate.gov be next?

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference

Ugh. Not surprising but just so mindlessly petty and short-sighted. 😪
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Putin. He's really at the root of all this.

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library This commentary contends with the broader settler colonial structures through which the second Donald Trump presidency may proceed. Through a historical and contemporaneous engagement with broader co....

I am excited to share my newest peer-reviewed article, "Settler colonialism in Donald Trump's America," which was just published today in The Geographic Journal. It's open-access!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UK looks to military gap years to boost recruitment in the face of growing geopolitical tension There is an increasing military presence in children and young people’s lives in the UK.

My latest for @theconversation.com on military gap years: theconversation.com/uk-looks-to-...

Any chance of getting CGWG onto Bluesky?

Oh, yay! No data means no bad news! 🙃

MACKEREL 😂😭

The introduction @thegj.bsky.social to a set of geographical reflections on the second Trump administration has now been published. Have a read of this here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... and the other papers in the collection here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Or maybe it wasn't intended to be transportation, just a gentrification accelerator, and in that regard was "successful". Great account of H Street corridor/neighborhood in Brandi Thompson Summers' book, Black in Place.

In the midst of US constitutional crisis, AI overlords, and rising despair, this was such a refreshing and inspirational interruption of my doomscroll. Thank you, @isabela-bonnevera.bsky.social and @bcnuej.bsky.social!

As a Vermont constituent, I thank you, @welch.senate.gov but please also tell us what your office is doing to preserve FEMA for all US communities.

Congratulations, Sarah!!

Thank you, @sanders.senate.gov -- I'm proud to be your constituent.

When are we going to start calling scandals about Musk "Elongate"?

'Cuz they sure do stretch out! 🙄