david silver

It’s cool to see seed libraries popping up in libraries, both public and academic, too.

Not to quibble, sorry, but Einstein never taught there. Lots of other luminaries, tho! 🌱

$45 billion for ethnic cleansing

Big time congrats - you’re such an interdisciplinary inspiration

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy.

Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.

This would have been a great visual to include in your MA thesis! 😎

@nehgov.bsky.social announced new awards today from their March Council meeting. Let's compare with awards from prior years, shall we?

This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects.

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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”

blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

Also, while I like your source, it is a publicity mag of Rollins! But they get a lot correct. True story: the reason Rice called the church “obscene” was because the font of the church’s title was smaller than the font of the church’s DONORS! 🫢

Right on, Robert. My preferred account is Martin Duberman’s Black Mountain or, um, my The Farm at Black Mountain College. There was a loyalty pledge but it was never offered to Rice and the loyalty wasn’t to, say, America or capitalism but rather to Holt. The whole thing, it seems, was a purge.

Super interesting and provocative post! But for the record, no one was fired from Rollins for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. #blackmountaincollege

The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.

of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler

Let's surely hope so! 😍

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We’re about to see higher education go to bed w/ right-wing politics or vegetate in the least inspiring & most conformist ways. This book, abt the lesser-known students of the Black Mountain College and its radical sustenance experiment, looks like a salve. atelier-editions.com/products/the...

Community Garden Outreach class in the USF Zine Library

I have essentially borrowed about half of @gleesonlibrary.bsky.social, especially their collections the Beats, North Beach, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Berkeley Renaissance. #BMCinSF #libraries #blackmountaincollege

Two great #BMCinSF finds from @berkeleypublibrary.bsky.social

Free fibrary, Berkeley

Indeed. Or better yet, to be *part* of that exceptional community.

#masterpiece

What is the name of your uncle?

Actually, Creeley taught at BMC, he wasn’t a student there.

Last night’s book talk at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #blackmountaincollege

The Farm at Black Mountain College You Didn’t Know Existed A new book centers the voices of those whose hands built the historic school and whose dreams shaped its programs, all of which involved a little-known farm.

A new book traces the rise and fall of a little-known farm at Black Mountain College, which fueled creative experimentation and attracted artists like Willem de Kooning and Merce Cunningham.