In a first, my book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship is cited in the amicus filed by the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance in defense of birthright citizenship. The scholarship of Lucy Salyer, Sam Erman, and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal among other historians are also cited.

Even within the paradigm of 'uni increases your earning power' it seems odd and a shame that people apparently think it is the grades and degree/paper doing this, rather than knowing stuff, learning how to do things, and learning how to learn.

The most high-profile kidnapping case of our time is still unsolved and Kash Patel is slamming beers in the locker room with US men's Olympic hockey team.

These are the same people trying to keep us from teaching ‘divisive concepts’ like the afterlife of slavery.

You know what Einstein didn't need to do his work?

"if we place these humans in a simulated world and then harvest the energy that their body produces in that 20 years, the savings will be immense. I present to you: the Matrix."

Reject those blizzard-provoked "pivots" to remote instruction! Claim your rightfully-earned snow day! There's far too little room for unscripted, exploratory, joyful learning!

always raises a red flag when people keep just asking questions that have in fact been studied and answered

Although not as bad as January, we all know that February is still quite a tough month, so here's a Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant, showing off a bit but then, if I looked like that, I'd show off quite a bit too.

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

Ooooof

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid. Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

The world is entitled to know if our negotiators are entertaining side deals with Russia while negotiating for the United States. www.politico.eu/article/surp...

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I'm a public scholar because David showed me how to be, and opened the doors for me to make it possible. I cannot wait for this book.

The Resistance is winning. From New Mexico to Munich, Trump is losing control. Read more:

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

My god! This is amazing. Imagine if we had an administration that recognized #Science & funded it accordingly! 😔

Democrats should offer a vision of orderly immigration, opposed to cruel closure and mass deportation. Basically, channel Reagan: “if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵 thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...

how is everything so impossibly stupid

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

THE STRANGER'S CASE "Sir Thomas More," William Shakespeare et al A speech about those who would murder immigrants to satisfy their own hatred, delivered with power by Sir Ian McKellen. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

On top of the depraved and bone-rotted amorality of dismantling a newspaper to make it a chatgpt machine for mr trump’s handsome accomplishments this is a style guide breach of the rule about not using passive voice

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

Okay I didn’t expect to cry so early this morning

the quality of the viziers matters a ton in a Trump administration because he has very few meaningful goals himself (one of them, unfortunately, being tariffs) the biggest difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2 is that worse people have figured out how to get his attention

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I think it is *incredibly* irresponsible for someone like @stonekettle.bsky.social, with a huge following, to claim that Signal is just as insecure as texts or other public social media. This is a classic “making perfect the enemy of the good” error.

I cannot think of a better example of not meeting the moment.

Y'all, it's still January.

They dismantled the Dept of Education, much of the CDC, NSF and nih in a year so it's totally doable to dismantle DHS. You can also expedite the process by treating those officials like the entire federal workforce has been treated. Make em miserable, and rip out wires at random. That'll do it.

If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.

Even Kamala Harris more or less said this during her campaign and every major media outlet pilloried her for it

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Good night, Minneapolis. Rest well. May your grief give way to tender connection. May your anger fuel your collective action. May the memory of our martyrs become a revolution. There are more of us than there are of them. Take care of yourselves and your neighbors. We will make ourselves whole. ❤️

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

The Ted Cruz Winter Getaway Index is the localized version of the Waffle House Index.

wonder how many data centers got added since our grid colossally failed last time 😵‍💫