Lisa Childs

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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This is like the worst Onion article ever. The End Gun Violence banner that travels around to the last mass shooting

#Fayetteville #Arkansas

Remember the announcement a few years back that @stephenking was going to have writing residencies at his former home in Maine? They're now open for applications stkfoundation.org/writers-resi...

US envoy's remarks on Israel and Middle East land draw condemnation in region The U.S. envoy and evangelical Christian said "it would be fine if they took it all" in response to Tucker Carlson's question of whether Israel had a right to the lands that the Bible says God promise...

Because the Bible said so.

Is It Spring Yet? FoxTrot by Bill Amend | March 1, 2026

This week's comic: Is It Spring Yet? foxtrot.com/2026/03/01/i...

Calling your reps and senators can feel really nerve racking at first. We actually did an episode about this on How to Save a planet which I cannot fucking find but an easy solution is to do it with a friend.

The more you do it the less stressful it gets.

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

On this #MSWL day I’m looking for serious nonfiction on the American Civil War era by writers doing meaningful research and translating their findings for a broad public - military history, social and political history, major figure biography. For @uncpress.bsky.social Civil War America series.

And now I’m so very curious about your project!

Ha! (Librarians also know stuff!)

Preliminary estimate: 10,599 words. Hmm.

Newspaper Source | EBSCO Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major netwo...

And you if you have access to EBSCO Newspaper Source, it has transcripts from “major networks.” (There’s a list on their website.)

2861 PBS Newshours from 2090-2010 online here. americanarchive.org/special_coll...

ICE deportation flight leaves NH after 31 hours, exposes chronic problems Local officials, activists and a former Omni flight attendant slammed the airline and ICE's decision not to cancel the scheduled deportation.

NEW FROM ME: The deportation plane stuck in the blizzard took off this morning after 31 hours, but not before exposing a much bigger problem with exceedingly long delays on ICE flights.

With exclusive interviews and photos taken by local ICE flight watchers. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportat...

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

BREAKING: Shackled migrants trapped on deportation plane stuck in blizzard Migrants, agents and guards stuck on the Omni jet are being provided with heat and food, according to NH state representative.

Confirmed. My story here:
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races.

This is a great way to do that:

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

An ADSBx map showing an Omni 767 leaving Alexandria, LA, and flying northeast over the mid-Atlantic.

Another long-haul deportation flight likely in progress. This will be Omni’s 20th ICE trip in the 7 1/2 weeks we’ve been in 2026.

Dozens of blue state and swing state public-employee retirement funds are invested in Omni’s private-equity owner, Stonepeak.

There is, quite literally, a rebellion rising up from below in the name of God. The regime knows its potential. It knows it can inspire even more resistance. And it’s taking steps to crush it.

Opposition to Mega Prison Project Shapes a Local Election in Rural Arkansas Incarceration has become a central issue in Western Arkansas, where the governor wants to build a new prison that has angered and mobilized residents.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ plans to build a mega prison in a rural county have stalled after lawmakers refused to release funding for the project, with its costs now estimated at more than $1 billion.

If you want to keep PBS programming in Arkansas, please go to friendsofarkansaspbs.org and sign the petition. This disastrous, shortsighted decision must be reversed.
#arpx #arnews

My dad gave me some old disposable cameras he'd never developed, with expiration dates dating to the early 2000s.

I just developed the first one and found photos of my grandpa, who died in 2010—one on his little red tractor, and one walking in his garden with my childhood pet dog behind him. 🥹

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

By The First Amendment Troop, and the piece is entitled, "ResistDance."

I’ve got some abolitionist family who lived in Kane County - I’ll have to check out whether they connect. (Mine came from Red Oak Presbyterian Church in Ripley, Ohio. Rev. Gilliland is an ancestor of mine - some of his children moved west.

Historian here 💯 what Minnesotans have done is show the way in protecting our modern interracial democracy, a legacy of Reconstruction when its foundations were laid.