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Historian of slavery in the American Revolution. Writing a book on people enslaved to the state.
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Louis Rƶmer
about 2 months ago
Itās never āBlack profs get racially bullied out of their jobs at Red State Uā but āI didnāt get that job at Harvard because of DEIā
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Justin Zimmerman
about 2 months ago
No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks wonāt apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? š
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Justin Zimmerman
about 2 months ago
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.
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Joseph Rezek
about 2 months ago
The war on trans kids is unconscionable and I am filled with rage
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
about 2 months ago
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
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
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.
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Jennifer š
2 months ago
cops driving someone to the city limits and dropping him off in a snow storm sure sounds like attempted murder to me.
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Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test
2 months ago
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.
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
2 months ago
"At first glance it sounds impossibleābut a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think. Weāve laid the groundwork." by
@alexhan.bsky.social
for
@labornotes.bsky.social
labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...
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Maybe a General Strike Isnāt So Impossible Now | Labor Notes
https://labornotes.org/2025/12/maybe-general-strike-isnt-so-impossible-now
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Omari
2 months ago
@seangallagher.bsky.social
has written a great piece full of helpful advice on how to think through and compile comps reading lists.
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Clio and the Contemporary
2 months ago
@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."
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Preparing Comps Reading Lists
While most graduate students focus on the labor of reading for comps, compiling the reading lists themselves takes time and reflection. Be strategic and minimize your workload, but also be aspiratiā¦
https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/12/04/preparing-comps-reading-lists/
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Sharon
2 months ago
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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gwen howerton
2 months ago
Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
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Matthew Eadie
2 months ago
And one more other thing Iām seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didnāt mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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Alejandra Caraballo
2 months ago
"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.
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you all haven't met a slaveholder you don't like yet huh
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3 months ago
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
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Working Class History
3 months ago
#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...
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
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...
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Erin Biba
4 months ago
Weāve 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. Thatās EFFECTIVE.
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Ronald Angelo Johnson
4 months ago
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.
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Mark Jacob
4 months ago
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
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Rebecca Bodenheimer
4 months ago
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.
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Nicholas Guyatt
4 months ago
Coming next spring, in time for what will surely be a lively but respectful debate about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration
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Kamau Franklin
4 months ago
The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people
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Marco Rogers
4 months ago
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.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
4 months ago
This is truly horrifying.
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Melissa Gira Grant
4 months ago
and when I said āthe violence is already hereā I also meant: the actual police
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unraveled
4 months ago
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.
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Thomas Lecaque
4 months ago
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?
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Marcus Rediker
4 months ago
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...
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The Underground Railroadās Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slavesā chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/10/23/the-underground-railroads-stealth-sailors-freedom-ship-rediker/
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Gautham Rao
4 months ago
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
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Ken Klippenstein
4 months ago
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...
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Trumpās NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent
Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-alarms-law-firms-while
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4 months ago
Feeling hopeless about giving shape to my academic career in a country where I can potentially lose my job at any time.
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Prisonculture
5 months ago
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
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity
5 months ago
19 ICE detainees on hunger strike at Angola. Today makes it Day 5.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
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19 ICE detainees at the new Angola camp are on a hunger strike, advocacy group says
The strike was reported by the National Immigration Project on Saturday. The group says the detainees have not been eating for the past four days.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/angola-ice-hunger-strike/article_ff4bf094-16d0-429b-8a7c-f1be2625edd3.html#tncms-source=featured-2
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5 months ago
Where are the disappeared?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
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Stuart Schrader
5 months ago
This was such a great convo with
@danieldenvir.bsky.social
&
@alfatau.bsky.social
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Justin Zimmerman
5 months ago
The crux of civil disobedience is partly the jails canāt hold everybody, so break their capacity and make them look stupid. History echoes itself
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It's Going Down
5 months ago
"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."
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'Chilling reminder': At least 6 historically Black universities on alert amid threats
At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.
https://abc13.com/post/multiple-hbcus-lockdown-receiving-threats-amid-campus-security-concerns/17794471/
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5 months ago
Excited to join
@seangallagher.bsky.social
and other wonderful scholars in conversation to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Lord Dunmoreās Proclamation in Norfolk, Virginia!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/competing-...
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Competing Freedoms: Hampton Roads at the Start of the American Revolution
Join us for exciting and illuminating symposium that will shed fresh light on Hampton Roadsā role at the start of the American Revolution.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/competing-freedoms-hampton-roads-at-the-start-of-the-american-revolution-tickets-1640820100089
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Peter Sagal
5 months ago
If you click through to the video, youāll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and sheāll be meeting with the head of the university about it. Itās chilling and scary.
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Zack Furness
5 months ago
This country is a disaster
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Rahim Kurwa
5 months ago
āThree 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.ā
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Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide
GENEVA ā UN experts* today issued an urgent appeal for an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly, warning that the international community must act immediately before the 17 September-deadline f...
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/gaza-un-experts-urge-general-assembly-respond-famine-and-genocide?s=09
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It's Going Down
5 months ago
Prisoners inside
#AlligatorAlcatraz
report brutal attack by guards. āPeople 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.ā
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Guards riot, beat immigrant detainees at āAlligator Alcatrazā concentration camp in Florida Everglades
In frantic phone calls, immigrants reported that guards deployed tear gas and assaulted them.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/29/uyvh-a29.html
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6 months ago
Thank you,
@profmk.bsky.social
, for chopping it up with me on
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
about his new
@lsupress.bsky.social
book, āSlaveryās Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution.ā
newbooksnetwork.com/slaverys-fug...
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Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slaveryās Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/slaverys-fugitives-and-the-making-of-the-united-states-constitution
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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.
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Sami Schalk
6 months ago
Wanna learn more about the Panthersā work around disability? It wasnāt 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...
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