Anne Macpherson

Anne Macpherson

@drmac67.bsky.social

Newfoundland. Great Lakes. Belize. Puerto Rico. Historian of the Caribbean. Books at https://uncpress.com/ and https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/ Tree-planting search engine with non AI option: https://www.ecosia.org/

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Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

US Congress controls Puerto Rico's status, should commit to accepting results of a referendum. Only Puerto Ricans should decide any status change for colony. PR does not owe the Democratic Party 2 Senators. Pro-statehood Democrats should understand that statehood party is rightwing & corrupt.

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David Beard
@dabeard.bsky.social

They made these robot dogs. And Boston Dynamics employers are demanding the company stop its delivery of the weaponized robots to ICE. “We cannot be proud of working at BD when that work is being used by a government agency that brutalizes civilians.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/b...

bostonglobe.comBoston Dynamics workers oppose the company’s robot dog use by ICE - The Boston GlobeThe $1.3 million deal includes a modified version of the original robot, with military grade add-ons such as a robotic arm, thermal camera, and sensors for explosive materials.

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Canadian Dimension
@canadiandimension.bsky.social

Canadian-operated gold mines in the Dominican Republic and Haiti are facing growing opposition from local communities who say their water, health, and livelihoods have been harmed by years of extractive operations. This week, community leaders will bring their concerns directly to Ottawa.

canadiandimension.comThe human cost of Canadian gold: Communities in the Caribbean speak outA Canadian-operated gold mine in the Dominican Republic is facing growing opposition from communities who say that their water, health, and livelihoods have been harmed by years of mining operations. ...
Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

As they rot they feed the soil. Even faster if you mow them in place.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

nps.govI Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves
Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

Can Brazil's top court do anything? Who is Brazil's Marc Elias?

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

After many obstacles were placed in her way, including by the Trump administration, the leader of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is back in Venezuela

Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

Reminder not to heroize Mark Carney.

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

Maptap features Rafael Cordero from #PuertoRico today. Some of his pupils became abolitionists in Spain and PR. Still racist labor exploiters though. Celestina Cordero, his sister and role model, is starting to get her due as well.

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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social

Historian here 500 free black Haitians fought in the French contingent with the Continental Army during the siege of Savannah in 1779 against the British.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov

What we said would happen is happening. Republicans ending TPS for Haitians has led to incredible job loss, harming businesses and the local economy in communities like Springfield, Ohio. Scapegoating hardworking immigrants hurts all of us.

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

Statement from Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas: “I will not be intimidated. I will not be bullied. And I will not back down.”

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, a frequent critic of Trump who is one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, surrendered to authorities

nbcnews.comVirginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas charged in public corruption caseThe 82-year-old surrendered to authorities to face charges Thursday, the Justice Department said. She was charged along with a half-dozen others.
Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

ILGWU began organizing super-exploited needleworkers in Puerto Rico in 1930s, but soon gave it up as impossible. Puerto Ricans in NYC joined ILGWU and clawed their way into shop steward positions.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

An old 1978 commercial produced by the I.L.G.W.U. (International Ladies Garment Workers' Union).

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Colette Delawalla, PhD
@cdelawalla.bsky.social

I must tell say, getting this study stopped AND the universal birth dose effort moved up a YEAR AND launching the Science & Justice Project is one of my proudest accomplishment, personally and professionally.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

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Professa Murray
@kalimurray.bsky.social

We are at a fire alarm fire in the science Infrostructure. It is not just NIH (although NIH may be the worst), the rot is at the USPTO, the rot is at NSF, NEA, and NEH, the rot is at CDC, the rot is at Universities. And when I say to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, we need a commission, boy oh boy.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

Thank you @morelle.house.gov . Please tell Schumer to condemn DOJ treatment of Ilhan Omar.

Joe Morelle@morelle.house.gov

German Machado is a hardworking SUNY Brockport employee who came to America seeking safety. He has a valid work permit, has built a life here, and has spent nearly 10 years waiting for his asylum case to be heard. Yet Trump’s ICE agents took him into custody outside his home.

rochesterfirst.comDHS says SUNY Brockport employee arrested by ICE overstayed visa by nearly a decadeROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Department of Homeland Security says a SUNY Brockport employee arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday morning in Batavia overstayed his authoriz…

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Carolyn Gallaher
@cgallaher.bsky.social

this is beautiful

Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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United University Professions
@uupinfo.bsky.social

Brockport UUP members, colleagues and students gathered today to show support for German Machado, a UUP member who was taken into custody by ICE agents earlier this week. We call for German’s immediate release.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio
@anatosaurus.bsky.social

We cannot merely vote. We cannot merely vote in numbers so massive, MAGA is drowned in their wake. We must make it clear what are votes are for & about: a real repudiation of the whole fascist agenda not only a backlash against higher prices. Thank you Congresswoman.

Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez@ramirez.house.gov

Every person dead, every family separated, every community terrorized, and every dissenter targeted and persecuted. There’s more than a million reasons to dismantle DHS.

Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

This sounds amazing but the reviewer seems unaware of the vast historiography on the topic and of the art that is historical writing, an art wedded to archival evidence. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

theguardian.comAtlantic Requiem review – Önaç gives historical slavery documents howling raging lifeFrom syncopated funk to the Latin requiem mass, Gregorian chant to bureaucratic recitative, the score to David Önaç new oratorio, premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra, is serious and beautiful
Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

Episode 2 of #Below has unnerved me! Multiple jump scares. Highly recommend but maybe not right before sleep. #Newfoundland provided wraiths of fog to set the mood.

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Yael Schacher
@yaelschacher.bsky.social

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

Anne Macpherson
@drmac67.bsky.social

#Below set in #Newfoundand is pretty good! Playing loose with historical timelines but true to Newfoundland's culture and the impacts of cod moratorium, out migration to Alberta/Toronto, ecotourism. Spookiness building. Good to see a few of Newfoundland's superb actors in it.