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Miller Wright

@millerswright.bsky.social

Asst Professor of History, UMBC: Native Slavery in Brazil and Carolina, Matrilineages, Atlantic. Itinerant.

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Congrats sir

18.07.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.

Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

17.07.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3704    πŸ” 1766    πŸ’¬ 369    πŸ“Œ 149

In intro courses we read our primary sources in class together and group discussion afterwards. Only way I can get some students to read a page or two.

15.07.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

15.07.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.

14.07.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you sir

14.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.

14.07.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the White House's erasure of slavery (except for as something the founders sought to curb, which is weird since it didn't otherwise exist and wasn't otherwise bad) from its 250 materials is pretty bleak, a rewrite more reactionary than the 1876, 1926, or 1976 centennials.

14.07.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

β€œUSAID-supported efforts have helped to prevent more than 91M deaths across all age grps, incl 30M deaths among children…[Dissolution of USAID] could lead to 14M+ additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2.4M deaths/yr. These deaths incl 4.5M among children <5 yrs, or 700k+ deaths annually.”πŸ§ͺπŸ›Ÿ

02.07.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6

Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.

01.07.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I have tried to have an open mind and use chatgpt for academic research (finding new articles, etc), it has been entirely useless. The vast majority of citations are fake. Literally every single quote is made up. It's just a lie machine! I can't fathom how people have come to rely on it.

29.06.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Trash

15.06.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta start calling it

14.06.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

03.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1279    πŸ” 796    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 121
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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.

31.05.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 424    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 76

It and the bots are getting worse

26.05.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

21.05.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 18654    πŸ” 8623    πŸ’¬ 951    πŸ“Œ 796

Cause if no one receives their evaluation reports is that because the reports were never done??

18.05.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know that the NEH Summer Stipend is being canceled but did anyone receive one this year? And did anyone receive their submission evaluations?

18.05.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not medical advice to advocate for vaccines when you head the nation’s largest public health agency and it’s your charge.

Arguably, however it is (very bad) medical advice when you promote useless interventions such as budesonide, vitamin A, clarithromycin as a false equivalent to vaccines

15.05.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 495    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

12.05.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 47597    πŸ” 11642    πŸ’¬ 2693    πŸ“Œ 819
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Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.

09.05.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1461    πŸ” 556    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 83

Have not heard of any winners so far

06.05.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got the notification that I did not win an NEH summer stipend, which I assumed with the gutting of the NEH. But did anyone?

Understanding the human experience is paramount in times like these. Humanities funding opportunities were already comically low, but the work must go on. Keep writing!

06.05.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Framing the adoption of AI as an historical inevitability, rather than a way to do a thing you want or need done, gives the game away.

Nobody selling it this hard cares whether it helps; they want it to be the thing you have to deal with, like it or not. Problems, solutions, what’s the difference?

06.05.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 747    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 14
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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research β€”a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling β€” represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

24.04.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3745    πŸ” 2135    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 194

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice.

He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.

It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

19.04.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12187    πŸ” 2538    πŸ’¬ 288    πŸ“Œ 170
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β€œSlow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay” Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees.

They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions.

By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

20.04.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 728    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10

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