Fascinating review of JD Vance’s new book by Rowan Williams: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the sacrifices of those who died for the Voting Rights Act are in question.

A new partnership between Beehiiv and Cloudflare gives independent journalists a suite of tools to control which AI crawlers are scraping their work. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/beeh...

For my German readers: you can order @chappatte.bsky.social and my book here--> www.splitter-verlag.de/zensur-in-am...

Someday, someone is going to write a book about the Era of Fencing in DC, beginning with the fencing of Lafayette park in the aftermath of June 1, 2020. And I tell you what, that book is gonna be way more interesting than it has any right to be.

a good thread about sources/ archives and reconstructing the past

My father died 28 years ago. There are significant parts of my life that he missed & questions I never got to ask. We moved constantly - almost every year, for the first 10 years of my life. Even after my parents settled, they continued to move from one place to another. But everywhere we ever lived

alright, who did this? #hatm

“If the Titanic is going down, I’d rather be on board than in a lifeboat.” He’s talking about why he joined the Catholic Church, but this could be the GOP motto. I will never understand this. Do they think we don’t notice ? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“whether fool or hypocrite, idiot or traitor, he has proved himself equally unworthy of the important functions that had been delegated to him”

It's seasonal: expect a decline in the June heat. And it's much less migration than in the past, when "the legal right to ask for asylum" still existed at the U.S.-Mexico border. But May's Border Patrol apprehensions were the most of Trump's second term. www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

The Ford Administration marked the Bicentennial on July 4 with an event at Independence Hall. Attendance was ~100,000. The day opened with Black opera singer Marian Anderson, the daughter of working class parents, reading Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. commerce.veritone.com/search/asset...

2/2: “Sometimes, it’s easier to stay silent than to speak the truth. But in doing so, we betray ourselves. …Silence can be a powerful weapon, but it can also be a prison.”

Dark clouds rolling in toward DC …

It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

On June 22, 5 PM ET, join scholars of religion, practitioners and clergy, and activists on the ground to explore the religious response to the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from and beyond Minneapolis. #AARONLINE26 registration is NOT required: aarweb.org/event/free-p...

Looking forward to speaking at this conference honoring the work of George Hunsinger in September!

While Trump holds his little birthday cage match on Sunday, we’ll be joining a nationally livestreamed night of joy, music, and action. Host an event, find an event, or just tune in and participate in calls to action announced from the stage.

More traffic between the US Republican Party and Germany's AfD. americangerman.institute/2026/06/the-...

#QuakerHistory folks, there's still time to apply for the Friends Historical Association 2026-27 grants cycle! We're offering support for work undertaken in the broad field of Quaker History in the form of research grants, project grants, and publication subventions. www.quakerhistory.org/grants

Whatever we can do to make that world visible is crucial these days.

just donated to DC Books to prisons in memory of my father www.dcbookstoprisons.org

I guess I shouldn’t be, but I’m shocked that this is even necessary.

Reading his work was life-changing for me. Robert Coles, Pulitzer-Winning Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...

The Klan, landing in occupied France, to support the Nazis on the eastern front.

Oh dear…I’ll delete it

Really looking forward to reading this!

Be kind to yourself, take 30 minutes to listen to what we've lost over the past 30 years and what the great Toni Morrison urges us to find again. Nobel speech from 1993. "Once upon time there was an old woman..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticX...

Full post: www.instagram.com/reel/DZEg8e9...

This had not occurred to me, but it’s obviously the template.

“…as if the whole valley were a hull outriding the gale…” Walcott is such an incredible writer.

My column on the Pope's encyclical and Delaney Hall was published today in @ncronline.bsky.social www.ncronline.org/columns/migr... 1/2

We are more than we seem more than they tell us we are. We dance to their mortuary music singing of love when disharmony is what they seek. We are more more more we shall remain despite them. youtu.be/hxDsn-8eymk

Today Sunday May 31 the Archdiocese of Newark has organized a Rosary for immigrants and their families at Delaney Hall. Please join in prayer wherever you are. In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo encourages to pray with Mary in hope: 1/5

This morning this series of photos popped up on my phone, from April 2018 (I used to take long walks after the workday before heading home). Early spring/cherry blossoms/Washington Monument/Holocaust survivor photo display at the reflecting pool):

For more about this remarkable project (I'd love to see this become a movement): enslavedarl.org/s/memorializ...

Just returned from a Stumbling Stones ceremony for 8 individuals enslaved in Arlington VA (modeled on the European Stolpersteine project)—over 100 stones are now embedded throughout the county (local historians document ca. 4000 enslaved persons in this county alone).

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Izzy Aly, Egyptian-born engineer caught in the hell of immigration detention, is begging for medical care for his failing kidneys, even as his urine turns red Aly is the poster child for the growing humanitarian crisis inside ICE detention. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

Also if you want to support the families visit this link! Help the families and detainees at this link linktr.ee/SupportOurFa...

Shameful.

"My ethnographic research over 10 years, from 2013-2023, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore reveals how this legal/illegal binary is not only inadequate but actively harmful to understanding the realities of immigrant life in rural America," Thurka Sangaramoorthy wrote in 2025.

The speeches grads received were not the speeches they deserved. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery