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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> terminates grant for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FilmArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmArchive</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bucksport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bucksport</span></a></p><p>April 14, 2025 </p><p>BUCKSPORT, Maine (WABI) - "A Hancock County non-profit says the Trump Administration abruptly terminated a six-figure federal grant this month.</p><p>"Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport has been dedicated to preserving Maine history for four decades.</p><p>"Executive Director David Weiss says he received a letter from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, around 1:00 a.m. on April 2nd. That’s how they learned a $341,000 grant from the National Endowment for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a> was canceled.</p><p>"The money was funding a project to catalog, digitize, and publish material NHF has collected from Maine television stations over the last 35 years. Weiss says they’re now looking at a $104,000 budget deficit and the paychecks of all seven archives staff members are taking a hit.</p><p>" 'The only good thing about it is that I don’t feel singled out, you know? I feel like this is just a broad thing that happened, and we got caught up in it. It’s not like they said, ‘You are bad.’ It’s just like, ‘Well, you’re all bad.’ So, safety in numbers, maybe that’s the best I can say,' Weiss said.</p><p>"While Weiss says an appeal wouldn’t do any good, there is the potential for them to be involved in a lawsuit to hopefully get some of the funding back.</p><p>"In the meantime, they’ve launched a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fundraising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fundraising</span></a> push to try to cover some of the losses. It’s raised $15,000 in just two days.</p><p>"If you’d like to contribute, visit oldfilm.org and click on 'GIVE.' "</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/doge-terminates-grant-for-maine-film-archive-in-bucksport/ar-AA1CUQf2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/money/markets/do</span><span class="invisible">ge-terminates-grant-for-maine-film-archive-in-bucksport/ar-AA1CUQf2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingOldFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingOldFilms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FilmArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmArchives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NortheastHistoricFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NortheastHistoricFilm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadDOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadDOGE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErasingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErasingHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingMaineHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingMaineHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainePol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BucksportME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BucksportME</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>"Because when the ground is shifting beneath you—as it was in 2020 and it is absolutely doing right now—writing it down gives you a solid foundation to remember what is really happening. It's a way of being able to look back and ask "Did I really experience that? Did that really happen?" and see that, yes, it did."</p><p><a href="https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-1-write-it-down/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-1-</span><span class="invisible">write-it-down/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WriteItDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteItDown</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PreservingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingHistory</span></a></p>
Good News Community<p>🌏✨ Discover the world's oldest known cultural ritual! Archaeologists in Australia have uncovered evidence suggesting an Aboriginal practice passed down over 12,000 years—spanning an incredible 500 generations. 📜🔥 - <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/04/science/worlds-oldest-ritual-intl-scli-scn/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2024/07/04/sci</span><span class="invisible">ence/worlds-oldest-ritual-intl-scli-scn/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/AncientRituals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRituals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/CulturalHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalHeritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/AboriginalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AboriginalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/GunaiKurnai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GunaiKurnai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/CloggsCave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloggsCave</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/IceAgeArtifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IceAgeArtifacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/HistoricalDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalDiscovery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/AncientTraditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientTraditions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/AlfredHowitt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredHowitt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/AustraliaHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustraliaHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/12KYears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>12KYears</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/IndigenousCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousCulture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/PreservingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cosmicnation.co/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/goodnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>goodnews</span></a></span></p>
Of Bookish Things<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Deglassco</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chirp.social/@BlackMastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BlackMastodon@chirp.social</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/LostGravestones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LostGravestones</span></a> of freedom-seekers unearthed in St. Catharines cemetery</p><p>Keeping alive the stories of people who fled slavery in the U.S. is about more than just <a href="https://c.im/tags/PreservingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingHistory</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/VictoriaLawnCemetery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaLawnCemetery</span></a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/StCatharinesOntario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StCatharinesOntario</span></a> is a sprawling graveyard established in #1856 that holds the remains of nearly 80,000 people.<br>The recently discovered gravestone belongs to <a href="https://c.im/tags/MaryHutchinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaryHutchinson</span></a>, who was enslaved in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a> before eventually escaping to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> with her husband William. Once settled in St. Catharines, they worked with <a href="https://c.im/tags/HarrietTubman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarrietTubman</span></a> – the famous abolitionist who was a key figure in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/UndergroundRailroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UndergroundRailroad</span></a> – as part of Tubman's <a href="https://c.im/tags/FugitiveAidSocietyOfStCatharines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FugitiveAidSocietyOfStCatharines</span></a>. <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanadianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianHistory</span></a> includes <a href="https://c.im/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a>. <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanadianBlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianBlackHistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/salem-chapel-underground-railroad-cemetery-project-1.6859012" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/sa</span><span class="invisible">lem-chapel-underground-railroad-cemetery-project-1.6859012</span></a></p>
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