Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

It’s here: the absolute coolest thing I have done all year, and that is saying something! “Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” is an original podcast produced by Long Story Short Media featuring leading extremism expert Cynthia 1/ linktr.ee/manuppodcast

Smart piece from @schuneke.bsky.social on the naughty bad gays (closets full of them, even) pervading the second Trump administration. “It’s a pattern that repeats again and again: elites fuck who they want, regardless of what the law says.” thebaffler.com/latest/the-f...

Plus, on Sunday at 8:00am, there will be a roundtable on "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History" by @michellelkahn.bsky.social, published in our "Publications of the German Historical Institute" book series (Arlington Salon 4) #thegsa2025

Minutes after the shooting of the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk in Utah, calls for civil war began appearing online. The term “civil war” was mentioned on Wednesday more than 129,000 times on X, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Humanities are the antidote to the empire’s greatest weapon: ignorance. They expose how history is weaponized to justify conquest, and how culture is polished to erase resistance. When you attack the humanities, you attack the very tools people use to unlearn oppression.

BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

Opening tomorrow: "The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context." recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10513 #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

I fundamentally disagree with the foundational premises of this report. What the committee takes as settled, I very much do not.

Nothing like laying my own hands on my own book for the first time. Literally hot off the press 🔥🔥🔥

A new immigrant detention center will be opening in Indiana called the “Speedway Slammer,” modeled after Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.” On #playbookpod, Megan Messerly explains why the rhetoric used by the administration to describe these centers is significant. 🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/yY5B50WAzH8

Be this woman when you have the chance

Job Opportunity! Texas A&M University-San Antonio - Tenure-Track Modern European History networks.h-net.org/jobs/68893/t...

The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.

Alligator Alcatraz isn’t meant for minors. A 15 year old ended up there anyway www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I spoke to the CEO of a company that has a nearly $12 million contract to provide barriers to "Alligator Alcatraz." He told me that he didn't know his products were going to the facility. I offered to show him the contract. He declined to look at it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Stephen Miller is shopping Florida's Alligator Alcatraz as a model for other states. This is MAGA's laboratories of autocracy approach to governing. Good report by @gregsargent.bsky.social

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss: www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

Grok is now stating genuine screenshots of posts it made are fakes made by trolls.

In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

The Dutch House passed a bill criminalising irregular stay and aid to undocumented people, including children. Mainstream parties believe they can outflank the far-right with hard positions. This strategy has previously backfired reinforcing the far-right narrative. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Leavitt on DeSantis's new "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant camp that Trump will tour tomorrow: "The only way out is a one-way flight. It is isolated and surrounded by dangerous wildlife... This is an efficient and low cost way to help carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in American history"

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

From the Nazi propaganda film “The Eternal Jew”

Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.

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One lesson from what happened at UVA today: our governance model (each governor gets to appoint the entire board) is a disaster. We need reform so that faculty, alumni, higher ed experts, and students are properly represented. Patronage invites politicization.

Mahmoud v. Taylor is in. That's the case about whether parents can opt their children out of school lessons where an LGBTQ *storybook* is involved in some way. 6-3, traditional bigot v. liberal lines. Alito opinion, Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Here’s a profile in Deutsche Welle about my former student @robertbentley.bsky.social, on what it is like to be an American living in Germany while researching right-wing extremism.

„Heimat, Jugend, Tradition – Nieder mit der Perversion!“ Rund 70 Neonazis protestierten gestern in Wittenberg gegen den örtlichen CSD. Aufgerufen hatten die „Jungen Nationalisten“.

Just turned down another great invitation to speak at a conference because it is being held in a state whose anti-trans laws makes it unsafe for me. Conference organizers who wish to include trans voices might consult this map: www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans...

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

1️⃣ In Berlin findet heute der #CSD "Marzahn Pride" statt, die "Deutsche Jugend voran" will "gegen Genderpropangda" demonstrieren. Doch mehr als 30 vor allem junge Neonazis sind es nicht geworden. Sie stehen gerade zwischen Büschen im Schatten, der weitere Plan ist unklar. #b2106

This week: Far-right extremism is escalating across the U.S.—neo-Nazi “Youth Clubs” are recruiting teens, political violence tied to Christian nationalism is on the rise, and Trump allies are advancing white nationalist policies like “remigration.” Read and subscribe to our weekly update:

Potsdam, Eisenach, Hennigsdorf. Auf gleich drei unbekannte Tötungsdelikte 1988/1989 bin ich in MfS- bzw. Volkspolizeiakten gestoßen, die Skinheads begangen haben sollen. Ein politisches Motiv ist noch unklar (1/2):