Heather Ewing

This is terrible news, not just for the Smithsonian, but for the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...

I feel like I’m going to throw up

If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)

🚨ACHP is rushing a Section 106 vote THIS FRIDAY that will eliminate regulations, further devastating historical protections. Section 106 is what allows US to document our history in areas endangered by actions funded/permitted by our federal govt. Contact ACHP👇🏽 ASAP — vote NO! (cont.)

Agreed. I’m a historian who stands with Lonnie Bunch. One thing you can do to support him is write postcards in his support to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, as many of us did last year. www.si.edu/regents/memb...

Pro tip here if you are w/o AC!

Huge congrats to Cannupa Hanska Luger, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for the brilliant SURVIVA at tonight’s #PENLitAwards 🙌🎉 #FutureAncestralTechnologies @ayinpress.bsky.social

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Holy hell, what an obituary

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Shoot this right into my veins.

As someone who is still here five years later and had this type of chemotherapy for BC, and has looked (through my fingers) at the stats, in a very real sense ET IN ARCADIA EGO - an absolutely wonderful letter about how the human mind makes creative connections

I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

I did not know either about Redford's polio episode or his involvement in making this film about the Salk Institute. #PublicHealth is embedded in all our lives.

This is a beautiful read.

NYC peeps: This will be 💯 amazing!

FYI if you're in LA this fall into next spring, two art spaces—MOCA & The Brick—will be hosting a show built around decommissioned Confederate monuments & contemporary artists' responses to them. Co-curated by Hamza Walker & Kara Walker. I think it'll be fascinating & timely the-brick.org/monuments

What a great thread!

Absolutely love this

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

And it was great! 👏👏

🚨 Save American Science. Call your Senators if you live in one of these states.

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Hey folks, Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel. Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us. Now I’ve got more to say. Join us at 10 AM ET at: m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

If you need cheering up, here is my favorite feature of Frederick Douglass’ home in DC, which I visited today: his “growlery,” where he would escape to read, write or fume. What I wouldn’t give for my own growlery

Excellent thread

Everything Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer say here is spot on. If there’s no one to oversee and the condition and location of the art works, and to insure they’re maintained, we may well lose a magnificent national collection of unique breadth and significance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/a...

Wowser! Great sleuthing by @mlobelart.bsky.social on the threatened GSA collection — which belongs to all of us

This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Julia Alexander was a friend and brilliant colleague. We were thrilled to appoint her as President of the Kress Foundation. Even in the short time she was with us, she created major, positive change. I'll miss her greatly.

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

One of the most incredible protest signs I've ever seen. A Japanese American woman folded a huge origami crane to honor the children of Japanese American internment camps & protest current ICE camps. 📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25 ✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

DC #HandsOff NMAAHC! And everything else too.

For the Ford Foundation I interviewed dozens of staff members, trustees, patrons, volunteers of 11 arts and culture institutions #America'sculturaltreasures and wrote fact-based stories on what they do and why each is important. The first one was published today: hyperallergic.com/998856/japan...