Theresa Ventura
@theresaventura.bsky.social
Historian of US empire, environment, coconuts. Former provincial New Yorker turned Montreal outsider.
Best take of the night
Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves
October 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Best take of the night
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Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves
October 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves
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"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social
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#envhist #histmed #cdnhist
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#envhist #histmed #cdnhist
Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.
niche-canada.org
September 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t...
#envhist #histmed #cdnhist
niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/t...
#envhist #histmed #cdnhist
Sooooo…. Spotify quietly released this feature + DMs 2 years ago. Thinking that it was just music, we gave our then 12 y/o downtime and screen time exceptions for the app. That was a mistake.
September 24, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Sooooo…. Spotify quietly released this feature + DMs 2 years ago. Thinking that it was just music, we gave our then 12 y/o downtime and screen time exceptions for the app. That was a mistake.
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We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms
September 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms
Belatedly sharing Plant Perspectives special issue on palms, eds. Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara, Jayson Maurice Porter.
I have a little photo essay on the Imelda Marcos's *Coconut Palace* & its roots in US agricultural imperialism.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
I have a little photo essay on the Imelda Marcos's *Coconut Palace* & its roots in US agricultural imperialism.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Plant Perspectives
www.whp-journals.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Belatedly sharing Plant Perspectives special issue on palms, eds. Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara, Jayson Maurice Porter.
I have a little photo essay on the Imelda Marcos's *Coconut Palace* & its roots in US agricultural imperialism.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
I have a little photo essay on the Imelda Marcos's *Coconut Palace* & its roots in US agricultural imperialism.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
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This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
September 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
I was a proofreader at the Abigal Press specializing in prayer cards and funeral programs. Double checked names, birth and death dates, front saint requests and back prayer matches. Triple checked program bios.
Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
September 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I was a proofreader at the Abigal Press specializing in prayer cards and funeral programs. Double checked names, birth and death dates, front saint requests and back prayer matches. Triple checked program bios.
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🧵 It’s great that we’re “attracting talent,” as they say, but where’s the half-billion $ to hire permanently the generations of beyond-excellent, Canadian-trained academics who have been forced into precarious positions by systematic defunding by federal & provincial gov’s for the past 30 years?
Why Ivy League professors are leaving Trump’s U.S. for Canada’s new $541-million research program
AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.
www.thestar.com
August 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
🧵 It’s great that we’re “attracting talent,” as they say, but where’s the half-billion $ to hire permanently the generations of beyond-excellent, Canadian-trained academics who have been forced into precarious positions by systematic defunding by federal & provincial gov’s for the past 30 years?
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there are more than twice as many museum workers in the US than there are coal miners
On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵
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America's Museums are Falling Apart
With
johngmarks.beehiiv.com
August 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
there are more than twice as many museum workers in the US than there are coal miners
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"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report.
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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August 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report.
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
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Many people asked me early on: if ICE seems to just be rounding up random brown people on the street, why are they on a shopping spree for massive amounts of surveillance capabilities. The answer was always for this.
Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
www.wsj.com
August 4, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Many people asked me early on: if ICE seems to just be rounding up random brown people on the street, why are they on a shopping spree for massive amounts of surveillance capabilities. The answer was always for this.
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Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
July 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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Attention historians of the Reformation, Ireland, England, religion, political thought, sovereignty and more
Coming this October from OUP: The Reformation in Tudor Ireland
Coming this October from OUP: The Reformation in Tudor Ireland
global.oup.com
July 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Attention historians of the Reformation, Ireland, England, religion, political thought, sovereignty and more
Coming this October from OUP: The Reformation in Tudor Ireland
Coming this October from OUP: The Reformation in Tudor Ireland
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Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
July 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo
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The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions
9.12.25
jessica.substack.com
July 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo
jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
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"[Carney] continues to engage in public policy that shifts to the right of Stephen Harper, particularly on the environment."
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
“If Canadians cannot afford to reduce emissions, as Carney says, then we certainly cannot afford an oil pipeline.” - @drlorileeoates.bsky.social
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#cdnpoli #climatechange #oil
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#cdnpoli #climatechange #oil
July 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
"[Carney] continues to engage in public policy that shifts to the right of Stephen Harper, particularly on the environment."
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
GovInfo
Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
www.govinfo.gov
July 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
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Being literally the actual real-life white guy who made it so nobody can afford a home and trying to blame it on immigrants is insane.
July 5, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Being literally the actual real-life white guy who made it so nobody can afford a home and trying to blame it on immigrants is insane.
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🚨 BREAKING: Sources w/ Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 at @umich.edu have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. The situation is evolving." @therealnews.com
June 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Sources w/ Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 at @umich.edu have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. The situation is evolving." @therealnews.com
This really cannot be shared enough
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
www.agri-pulse.com
June 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This really cannot be shared enough
No fair. When I feud with the IRS I'm a tax evader and criminal.
June 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
No fair. When I feud with the IRS I'm a tax evader and criminal.
Why not both?
I’ve always thought “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” and “The Apprentice” had more to do Trump’s appeal than all this New Masculinity stuff. Lack of inhibition and moral constraint, in our age, is more a product of wealth than of gender. Trump embodied a kind of cartoon image of wealth.
June 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Why not both?
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Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about
1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle)
2. They're native to the US
3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s
4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle)
2. They're native to the US
3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s
4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about
1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle)
2. They're native to the US
3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s
4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.
1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle)
2. They're native to the US
3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s
4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.