It’s never “Black profs get racially bullied out of their jobs at Red State U” but “I didn’t get that job at Harvard because of DEI”

No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃

UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.

The war on trans kids is unconscionable and I am filled with rage

Working on something about what Twitter meant to historians - what was good/not good about it for the profession, in relation to the general crisis of academic history / the profession, etc., the cratering of the university. What was #twitterhistory at its best? What were its failures? 🗃️

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

cops driving someone to the city limits and dropping him off in a snow storm sure sounds like attempted murder to me.

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

"At first glance it sounds impossible—but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think. We’ve laid the groundwork." by @alexhan.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...

@seangallagher.bsky.social has written a great piece full of helpful advice on how to think through and compile comps reading lists.

@seangallagher.bsky.social continues our comps series writing about strategies for preparing your comps reading lists: "Compiling the reading lists themselves takes time and reflection."

people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think

Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job

And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community." Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.

you all haven't met a slaveholder you don't like yet huh

Book Launch tomorrow at London @histmat.bsky.social with @redprof.bsky.social , Gargi Bhattacharya, Pepijn Brandon, and Charles Post. Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery

#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.

At @oieahc.bsky.social conference, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social delivered an engaging paper centering enslaved Black children & the Battle of Yorktown as a historical lens through which to frame questions of freedom during the American Revolution.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

So FYI, ICE is definitely in Oakland RIGHT NOW, clashing with protesters. Whatever deal Lurie made with Trump does not include Oakland, which unlike SF is majority nonwhite. And of course has a Black female mayor. They're still coming for Oakland right now - which was surely the plan all along.

Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration

The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?" Anyway. Here we are.

This is truly horrifying.

and when I said “the violence is already here” I also meant: the actual police

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Hey #vastearlyamerica folks, I'm thinking about putting together a panel for @cndhistassoc.bsky.social 's conference next summer, looking at religion and violence in the colonial wars between New France and New England/the mid-Atlantic (or just France & England in Canada). Anyone interested?

Here is a review of my new book *Freedom Ship* by Eric Foner, published yesterday in *The New York Review of Books* (@nybooks.com). www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

FBI's domestic terror watchlist expected to DOUBLE in size as a result of NSPM-7, the new presidential directive targeting "anti-Christian," "anti-capitalism" and "anti-American" speech: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Feeling hopeless about giving shape to my academic career in a country where I can potentially lose my job at any time.

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

19 ICE detainees on hunger strike at Angola. Today makes it Day 5. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Where are the disappeared? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

The crux of civil disobedience is partly the jails can’t hold everybody, so break their capacity and make them look stupid. History echoes itself

"Multiple historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are on lockdown after receiving threats, including Alabama State University, Virginia State University, Hampton University in Virginia, Southern University in Louisiana, and Clark Atlanta University in Georgia." abc13.com/post/multipl...

Excited to join @seangallagher.bsky.social and other wonderful scholars in conversation to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation in Norfolk, Virginia!! www.eventbrite.com/e/competing-...

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.

This country is a disaster

“Three hundred and sixty-one Palestinians have died due to malnutrition, including 130 children. 13 of them, including 3 children, have died in the past 24 hours.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Prisoners inside #AlligatorAlcatraz report brutal attack by guards. “People started shouting because a relative had died...shouting for freedom. At that moment, a prison team came in and started beating everyone...[W]e are not criminals, we are not murderers.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Thank you, @profmk.bsky.social, for chopping it up with me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his new @lsupress.bsky.social book, “Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution.” newbooksnetwork.com/slaverys-fug...

folks really need to admit to themselves that the structural role of the democratic party has always been to shock absorb and demobilize popular movements.

Wanna learn more about the Panthers’ work around disability? It wasn’t just the 504 sit-in. I have 2 chapters about them in my book Black Disability Politics which is available for purchase or free open access here from @dukepress.bsky.social: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...