There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

If you are in #NYC next week, come to “Weaving Dreams/#Quilting Community” a panel discussion-sewing demo featuring textile artists/writers/organizers who have inspired me. You’ll get swag to embellish!! #quiltsky #Artsky #Blacksky Pls register by 1/27! www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-dr...

Rümeysa Öztürk, in her own words. "Our scream is individual and collective, and it is a response to the loss of autonomy, to the violation of consent, to being treated as an object by unfamiliar hands." www.thecut.com/article/rume...

Each city has developed different tactics to fight ICE but we are also learning from each other. They will lose in Minneapolis and they will try to take another city, but they will be starting from behind because we will have learned from our northern siblings and gotten stronger in the meantime.

On January 22, 2016 my laptop died as I was thinking about outlining my Colgate job talk and everything shut down for snowmageddon. On January 23 I just walked around Philly to gawk at the snow because who cared, I was never going to get a job anyway. Time flies. Stay warm & check in on your people.

Text people you love and ask if they’re prepared for this winter storm or need help. As for your enemies, well… but text the people you love, even and especially if you think of them as strong, capable people.

I am revisiting some of my annotations in books for a curriculum guide and community political education initiative we will be launching with the documentary (please don’t ask! I’m so overwhelmed) and I’m thinking of how today’s children will one day testify about ICE.

If you want to experience some light in the darkness, ask your seminar to map their journeys to taking History honors & see all the ways that students find meaning in the work we do together @colgate.edu. (Pretty sure I stole this exercise from @jackiantonovich.bsky.social a long long time ago!) 🗃️

Bear down, the @achahistory.bsky.social made it happen 🏈

Grateful to be joined by both Pope Leo and the Second City Sisters (of the perpetual indulgence) this weekend at ACHA 2026. #AHA26

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

We love a fresh start.

Remember to add our annual off-site panel, Blurred Lines: Catholic Flirtations, when registering for the ACHA 2026 Annual Meeting at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago! To register and add the event, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/.

Registration for the ACHA Annual Meeting is open! Please note that all presenters must register for both the AHA and ACHA meetings. To register, go to achahistory.org/chicago2026/

Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.

Great 24 hours in arts & culture for a me: Rosalía’s new album drops with a wimple and THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE trailer reveals a Christmas Day release 🙏🏻

bluesky: we love baseball and zohran mamdani and our joints are starting to hurt when it rains

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

🤞🤞

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

Stunned by this news. I've long been an admirer of Durba Mitra's scholarship, her advocacy for the Schlesinger Library, and her vision for what WGSS history (and teaching!) can be. Harvard, of course, disagrees.

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

Thrilled to see Aaron Robertson (whose Black Utopians is on my summer reading pile!) named the Commonweal Centennial fellow. He'll spend some of his time on a novel-in-progress, "which imagines a fictional Black Catholic priest leading a revolt against the closure of Detroit parishes in 1989."

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

every day is another what the absolute fuck

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?

“I am stomach acid in the Body of Christ.” — Sister Simone Campbell at the final night of my favorite triennial gathering, CHWR (Conference on the History of Women Religious) 🙏🏼

☀️ Catholic Sisters showed up on Capitol Hill today to pray and speak out for immigrants and a just economy. Echo Events happening across the country. Full recap + photos coming soon.

I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Reading the candidate statements in the AHA election & hoping some of the members of the alternative slate get through!!!! Look at Annelise Oreck's statement - not more of the same at all!

Peeking out from my book revisions hidey hole to yell about how much I love this @religiondispatches.org interview format!

It rained so much the graduation program disintegrated in our hands — congrats to the Colgate Class of 2025, may we all warm up soon ☔️

everything is terrible but the end of the semester brings some good good light

Friends, keep dishing up the pope memes, but take a minute for a thread too 🧵

Barnard continues to harass student journalists “[Dean] Grinage wrote that the interim suspension is pursuant to the Barnard College Student Code of Conduct. She did not cite a specific policy or rule violation within the Student Code of Conduct.” www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Columbia initially suspended a WKCR reporter but then rescinded the order. Barnard continues to punish student reporters for doing their jobs. (Everyone sucks but don’t make me get pedantic about Barnard vs Columbia)

Hidden legacies! Our new American pope was born in Chicago, but his maternal ancestors were Creoles of color from New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a genealogist and family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection. #PopeLeoXIV

Nothing in my Catholic Studies education in the great city of Chicago was preparation for an American papa, somebody hold me.

A math major at Villanova!

WHAT

when’s my balcony moment

i want the pope marching band sling bag

The doors just closed on the conclave, and my most sincere wish is that one of them has the spine to write a woman's name on the first ballot. Just putting it out there into the universe.

The Women's Ordination Conference will be once again raising pink smoke midday Wednesday (May 7) to call attention to women's exclusion from the conclave and from ordained ministry in the church. www.ncronline.org/live/live-up...

love a procession www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Mq...

screaming crying chocolate mini pava hat