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Billy Marino

@balderdashbill

History grad student of the Environ, Sci&Tech, space exploration, Cold War, & Public Hist! Also other things, I live a life & stuff. He/Him/His

 Santa Barbara, CA
history.ucsb.edu/graduate-student/wmarino/
Joined November 2011
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Honored and grateful to be selected for this, what an amazing opportunity and fantastic list of people to be named among!🚀🔴 and congrats to my "fellow fellows" as @hdernity put it, I'm excited to see where your work goes from here🚀 @Andrew_J_Ross_
American Historical Association (@AHAhistorians) profile pictureAmerican Historical Association@AHAhistorians5 Jun 2023
The AHA is pleased to announce the Fellowships in Aerospace History: @Andrew_J_Ross_ (@GUHistory), @hdernity (@PrincetonHist), and @balderdashbill (@UCSBHistory). #AHAPerspectives historians.org/research-and-…
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The AHA is pleased to announce the Fellowships in Aerospace History: @Andrew_J_Ross_ (@GUHistory), @hdernity (@PrincetonHist), and @balderdashbill (@UCSBHistory). #AHAPerspectives historians.org/research-and-…
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I stand in strong solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers at the University of California who are on strike for higher wages, better child care benefits, and expanded paid leave.
UAW 4811 (@uaw_4811) profile pictureUAW 4811@uaw_481115 Nov 2022
Today, everyone knows who's got the power. Now it's time for @UofCalifornia to settle fair contracts with all 48,000 workers who make this University run. @UAWonStrike #FairUCnow fairucnow.org/support
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UAW 4811@uaw_481116 Nov 2022
#UAWonStrike #FairUCnow
Large gathering at the UCLA campus. Lots of people holding UAW on strike signs

ALT Large gathering at the UCLA campus. Lots of people holding UAW on strike signs

Picket line with picket leader in yellow vest holding UAW on strike signs

ALT Picket line with picket leader in yellow vest holding UAW on strike signs

Picket leader with a megaphone leading picket line around a building

ALT Picket leader with a megaphone leading picket line around a building

Large gathering of protestors at the rally on Monday holding UAW on strike signs

ALT Large gathering of protestors at the rally on Monday holding UAW on strike signs

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Excited to share that Gokh Amin Alshaif was just awarded the American Institute for Yemeni Studies [@InstituteYemeni] Fellowship for 2022-2023 to conduct research on her dissertation, “Native Outsiders: Black Yemenis in 19th and 20th Century Yemen.” 👋 Congratulations, Gokh! 👏
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The grad school experience as told through Lord of the Rings gifs: a thread.
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The queen has spoken – at Las Vegas, NV
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Finally got to see a rocket launch (and landing) in person, so awesome! – at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
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Held an octopus for the first time today, so like, I’m doing great, things are looking up, I’m just going to sit in this feeling for a while, k see ya – at Isla Vista, CA
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Voting in California? Here’s a bunch of hot tips you should read! – at Isla Vista, CA
janna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@janna_e_haider) profile picturejanna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸@janna_e_haider24 Oct 2020
I'm a pollworker in California and I finished training today. Hot tip: if you're in line when the polls close, stay in line. we have to let you in. 2nd hot tip: if you just registered and it isn't processed, vote in person. At worst you get a provisional ballot. 1/x
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It’s only week 3 of the quarter... – at Isla Vista, CA
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Y’all, the students are having a hard time. Please show them some grace. Students, the faculty are having a hard time. Please show us some grace.
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Ok, how about instead we keep the records and just abolish CBP and ICE – at Isla Vista, CA
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What is it with economists lately writing shit articles trying to defend various aspects of colonization and genocide? – at Isla Vista, CA
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A very long thread about Jeffrey Flynn-Paul’s Spectator essay on the “myth” that the U.S. and Canada are built on lands stolen from Indigenous nations. bit.ly/2ER0ozt
The myth of the ‘stolen country’

The myth of the ‘stolen country’

Last month, in the middle of the Covid panic, a group of first-year university students at the University of Connecticut were welcomed to their campus via a series of online ‘events’. At one event,...

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Very excited to finally start reading this collection from @ayanaeliza and @DrKWilkinson between coursework and research! I had to peak through to see some of the gorgeous visual art before I started reading the essays and poetry though, I mean, look at it! – at Isla Vista, CA
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Hi, hello, the above tweet should say *peek* but I was excited and typos happen sometimes, okay?!🤪 – at Isla Vista, CA
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