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The issue was curated by guest eds. Liat Kozma and Gülhan Balsoy. It features articles by Anabella Esperanza, Nicole Hayat and Liat Kozma, Adam Anabosi, and Lydia Wytenbroek. It includes a book review essays by Cassia Roth.

SecDef's "anti-diversity stance"? Try "segregationist" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Flopnik. Kaputnik. Stayputnik. 🗃️

Well there’s a new phishing scam out there aimed at academics. Someone contacts you out of the blue offering to write a #Wikipedia page on you. The message is so obsequious that I knew right away something was up. Flag and delete.

Per Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-SC): 'Democrats = not American'

Between this and the Talarcio stuff, there's a lot of "legitimate claim to participation in political life is earned through correct performance of a highly specific vision of heterosexuality that only we get to define" coming from MAGA lately.

What if women got to participate in public and civic life on dignified and equal terms even if they really were in fact ugly, unmarried, childless, gay, or otherwise broadly sexually unappealing to men? ha ha ha ha ha what if.

i miss Section 5

iykyk "Working in higher education often feels like being strapped into a driverless Tesla with tires that keep slashing themselves." -- Roxanne Panchasi www.publicbooks.org/the-uncomfor...

we're now at the "disregarding elections" stage of the slide into an authoritarian state

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

📍SC: Senate will reconvene tomorrow. Tracking if they will extend the session to redistrict and push back the primary to August. 📍LA: Senate committee will hold hearing on Wednesday with votes likely at the end.

Black people have been the Democratic party's most loyal constituency for the past 60 years. Does it appear that the party is acting as though it is experiencing an existential crisis?

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

What a cool idea! Keep the pressure! @redactedreadingroom put all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit in Tribeca. David Garrett, one of the organizers, says the goal is to push for the release of all of the files. #Pinks

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Raise your hand if the NYT has ever used you as a truffle pig ✋

Little known fact, legally, Republicans are allowed to gerrymander, but Democrats are not

LOVE! - Meet the Ohio LGBTQ+ elder (a septuagenarian!) planning Vermilion's first Pride celebration. Grace United Methodist Church will host a June 6 ‘celebration of love and diversity." ✏️ @hcomeriato.bsky.social thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/05/07/m...

The Trump flag is the new Confederate battle flag. They're interchangeable.

"It is a form of Jim Crow terror," said state Representative Justin Jones, a Black Democrat, comparing the ⁠map to the racist election laws that restricted Black Southerners from voting prior to the 1960s. "You know what you're doing. It's shameful." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Historian here. The Second "Redemption" is literally taking place in the halls of the First. just in case anybody missed the memo outlining their intent

The SAVE Act 2.0 is a direct attack on Tribal sovereignty. Tribal ID would be rendered worthless at the ballot box under their plan. Millions of Native voters would be silenced. This isn't just a policy—it’s an erasure. #HandsOffHerVote

Historian here. The Second "Redemption" is literally taking place in the halls of the First. just in case anybody missed the memo outlining their intent

Roberts, Gorsuch, Thomas interviews drop: SCOTUS conservatives are on a PR blitz

Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, America was not a democracy. It was certainly not what we, in widely accepted parlance today, call “democracy.” It absolutely had no reasonable claim to be considered a *multiracial* democracy.

no pierogis for you

You can preorder my second book as of today! www.cambridge.org/us/universit... 🗃️ #history #education #womensstudies #suffrage #nineteenthamendment #lwv #leagueofwomenvoters

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Black men were blamed for Democratic losses, yet the data show a different picture. While Black vote for the Democratic party at lower rates than Black women, their support remains higher than that of Latino, Asian, and white voters across gender.

There's actually a whole lot of us, and the list is growing all the time! Here's a directory of worker-owned / worker-led / democratically run newsrooms in the US: powering.news/newsroom-dat...

amen

I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. -- Langston Hughes www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langst...

is this partisanship or is this race

As an advocate of solar/wind energy and a native of Larry Householder's old legislative district, I'm not sorry to see him settle in to a long stay in the clink www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

be like the guy in the tank top

one more reason to loathe Canvas. My response is to be ungovernable www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

"is flagged" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Mississippi is still at it. To put this legal development in perspective, may I suggest familiarizing oneself with Mississippi's 1890 disfranchising constitution? www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mi... 🗃️

calling @cwolbrecht.bsky.social #momentofgender

oh this brings me back

You can register to join us here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blackstudy...

If you pre-ordered Dangerous Migration, you should be getting your copy in the mail very soon! If you haven't, there's still time to save 30% off with promo code S26UIP here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy by Randal Maurice Jelks www.amazon.com/My-America-L...

What are humanities and social sciences research good for? Consider Enslaved.org: putting names to as many of the people trafficked during the Atlantic slave trade as possible. Insisting on the dignity of every human being. #Talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences

weeps in historian 😔 🗃️

I am a doctor, actually