On Monday from 1:30-3PM ET, I'll be talking about my True Crime lit class at #LCLC2026, on a panel about teaching pop culture, with @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social, @hermioneclone.bsky.social, and @antillesarch.bsky.social!

Added 4 more today; crossed off 8. I'm 17/26, which is still progress!

I crossed ten things off on my work to-do list this weekend. There were twenty-two things on the list.

my reply to Andrey Mir in our continuing debate about the future of humanity paullev.substack.com/p/the-value-...

This just popped up on LinkedIn -- an astute analysis of my 1982 article about technology in my first published book, my edited volume In Pursuit of Truth: On the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday www.linkedin.com/posts/alan-d...

#ICYMI -- Talking about my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles in March 2025 on Christy Alexander Hallberg's Rock Is Lit podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5eNi...

If you’re in London, I’d love to see you @waterstones.bsky.social where I’ll be discussing my new book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE—w/ MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social I know it’s a Fri night, but MPs are busy! 📚https:/www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-brooke-newman-gower-street-tickets-1977877601148

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All. Historian Martha S. Jones takes a look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

You can pre-order the 2nd edition. Now in paperback. 📘🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #abolishice

This super series w @jamellebouie.net, @jdickerson.bsky.social, JSchuessler, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, @pastpunditry.bsky.social & @marthasjones.bsky.social is part of a project @ the JCB supported by Emerson Collective and in partnership w @theatlantic.com -- v v grateful! 2026, here we come.

Historians @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social filed a critical brief on birthright citizenship in the circuit courts, showing how the story of free Black Americans' advocacy unravels the admin's lead justification for its executive order. www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Birthright citizenship has been a core constitutional guarantee for ages. If you're just tuning into the discourse now, check out our panel with expert historians @marthasjones.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social and Erika Lee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCI... @brennancenter.org

True story! The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hosting a (nearly) year long series of events about History & Journalism -- there's never been a better year to think about this. Beginning w 4 online events in February, interviews with 3 amazing journalists, and then a panel with 3 amazing historians.

Seriously, fuck this. Journalists deserve to be paid! And we need them now more than ever. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Absolutely worth the read - focused on K-12 teachers, but completely relevant for college as well. “My teaching job is not what it used to be, and I'm looking for a way out:”A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teacher Stress Levels Following the COVID-19 Pandemic files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1...

Hey y'all did you know I'm a Black writer? I'm sure I never mentioned it before. Here's where you can get your Black History Month on by supporting by books. Here's my debut novel from my neighborhood bookstore! bookshop.org/p/books/none...

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

@shgape.bsky.social Pod drop! Fantastic conversation w/ @hngreen.bsky.social re her recent book, _Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War_ , an exciting addition to scholarship on Civil War memory and a meditation on methodology. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We can triple the Colored Conventions Digital Collection! Since 2023, the CCP research teams & satellite partners have focused on specific regions resulting in 3K new CC documents! Come thru, host an event, watch the broadcast, & help bring this history to digital life! douglassday.org

This is such an incredible bit of history, linking Erika's mother to her work on Polly the Powers Model and the conditions in Stockhold during World War II.

On a night of life-threatening cold, a homeless person entered a Lansing bus station seeking refuge from the freezing temperatures. Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."

It’s a lynching post card crossed with AI porn . Most of it via Grok with a dash of the full futility of “fact checking” It’s a historical and continual appeal to the entertainment of misogynoir that so ever more attractive to the WH because they know if we responded ? We would defeat them

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

Okay, who wants me to write about the complexity of the first four Nancy Drew books being in the public domain, and why that's both important and complicated? Where can I place a public-facing piece about this?

Look, @hermioneclone.bsky.social and @luelladamico.bsky.social 🥰❤️📖📚!

The Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal appeals court found.

Mayor Frey: “What's become clear to me is this is obviously not about safety. This is not even about immigration. This is about silencing a narrative or a political position that differs from that of a federal administration.”

It’s just unfathomable to me that people think it makes sense for any law enforcement to be masked and anonymous. Police officers operate under risks and don’t wear masks. Judges & prosecutors, the same.

what’s astounding about this is not only the incredible cruelty but the complete lack of even the most basic public relations instincts they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this

🚨 SAVE CLASSICS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY! 🚨 University leadership has rejected an innovative new program developed by faculty in good faith, citing budget constraints. This decision would eliminate the Classics major at Calgary! Read more : 👉 www.cac-scec.ca/2026/01/supp...

ICE are lawless pieces of shit.

Rep. Ilhan Omar was quickly and rightly hailed for her fortitude on Tuesday night. All I could think was, thank God she’s not dead. My latest on Trump's relentless, destructive politics of violence www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

3RD ROUND ENDS TODAY!!!

scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust

This guy is a homophobe, transphobe, hater of unhoused people and anyone who says you should vote for him is an enemy of marginalized people

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

In a profound and inspiring conversation with @indivisible.org founders @ezralevin.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, Erica @chenoweth.bsky.social shows us how the mass protests in Minnesota connect to the %3.5 percent analysis. Look for #WhatsThePlan podcast Friday.

Because from the beginning, the mission was based on cruelty. www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...

Let's go @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe. 2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty. Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...

Great little read:

Gosh, The General Public, if only we'd dealt with them as a problem when they were just targeting trans people and drag queens volunteering at libraries.

There it is.

"The non-racial and un-colonial world of Bridgerton, which does not account for the colonial origins of Regency opulence, rather than inviting us to work towards the possible, presents to us a complete fantasy world, so near to our own but completely out of reach." folukeafrica.com/romance-is-n...

"Conjuring" by @nikitagill.bsky.social From the book Wild Embers, 2017 ❤️

Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).

My Substack essay on how misguided "visionaries" and negligent owners are threatening journalism at two of media’s most important news outlets: CBS News and The Washington Post. https://loom.ly/gqt822g

omg *SPACEX IN MERGER TALKS WITH XAI AHEAD OF PLANNED IPO: REUTERS *SHARES OF XAI WOULD BE EXCHANGED FOR SHARES IN SPACEX: REUTERS *TWO ENTITIES SET UP IN NEVADA TO FACILITATE TRANSACTION: RTRS