"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts." there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥

More than 3000 Washingtonians were emancipated. Congress compensated their former owners, leaving behind an extraordinary paper trail documenting slavery and emancipation in the District of Columbia. Here's an example from the Georgetown Slavery Archive. slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/236

Cool.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Light Over Deep, 1956 in the San Francisco apartment of private collectors in 2007. Interior design by Sandy Walker 📸 Matthew Millman for @archdigest © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

Pee-Wes’s Big Adventure is a very good movie

Look at this incredible 1883 color-coded map of Washington showing the varieties of street pavement. From the People's Archive of the DC Public Library. digdc.dclibrary.org/do/523a37ae-...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

"Very young girls who have survived significant trauma do not represent a gray area in medicine."

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."

ok remembering how miles caton's first song in sinners was like THEE most electrifying introduction to a new actor last year

A moment years in the making. Thank you to the Academy for honoring “Sinners” Actor Michael B. Jordan with the Academy Award® for BEST ACTOR at the 98th Academy Awards!

Has a moment to reflect. OBAA was fine as a movie if you ignore how underwritten and underused the Black women were. PTA is a good director so sure whatever. But Sinners was masterful. Vibrant. Layered. What an accomplishment from the entire cast and crew. I’m glad it exists.

At least all the white men in my life will be happy lol

Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃 academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ https://theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-under-fire-for-dismissive-comments-about-traditional-japanese-puppet-theater-form-bunraku/

We built the United Nations, with all its flaws, with the hope of never having World War II again and we're going to have to build a new set of multilateral institutions with the hope of never having Donald J. Trump again

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

Hundreds gathered in NYC to protest U.S. strikes on Iran, warning of another devastating Middle East war. Demonstrators marched from Columbus Circle demanding: “No Boots on the Ground, No Bombs in the Air.” Read more: https://ow.ly/1XAG50YoWbN #NoWarOnIran #NYCProtest #AntiWar

These parrots on a 1502 Portuguese map are making me extremely happy

If you want info on Iran, follow @rezahakbari.bsky.social. A brilliant doctoral student working on a commensurately brilliant dissertation on modern Iranian politics. He knows what he’s talking about and tells it like it is.

Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

People often see the Emancipation Proclamation as propelled by military necessity but underlying it was a genuinely antislavery moral principle that Lincoln often articulated, as he did here in this 1859 letter. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

Has anyone ever written anything for you? In all your darkest hours Have you ever heard me sing?

normie centrists everywhere: my god ICE is monstrous and must be stopped chuck schumer: maybe *two* body cams

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

beautiful writing from a dear friend:

Georgetown’s annual celebration of Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon with the Colored Conventions Project!

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968 Acrylic on watercolor paper mounted on linen 📸 @mark.cashion 36 x 25 1/2 in. (91.4 × 64.8 cm) Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ed and Jackie Rabin. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society ☼𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

Uhhh. Yes. You can have the extension to (checks notes) COMPETE AT THE OLYMPICS www.nbclosangeles.com/olympics/202...

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

7/ Read the rest of the letters: