Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

The video is horrible. This woman did not try to run over federal agents. They killed her in cold blood. This could happen to anyone and that should scare you.

What's wrong with my brain? After a good semester, I had a stress dream that my students gave me a C on my course evals. When I opened the real ones this morning, with my heart actually pounding, I had some of the best scores and comments in my career. Why doesn't my teaching anxiety improve?

I made more phone calls today than I normally do in a week between these and other lame duck legislation. It's really important these get passed this week. Go to Delaney hall on visiting day & see all the families lives torn apart. For nothing.

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue. To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

Rutgers full-time faculty: The window for applying for a pay equity adjustment is open, now through March 1! Come to a Salary Equity Program info session on Zoom to learn what's involved – Tuesday, Jan 13, at 12pm. RSVP here: https://loom.ly/yaMngaw

Yesterday, the State Assembly advanced three critical bills to protect immigrant families and stand up for New Jersey. We’re grateful to the hundreds of New Jerseyans who showed up to support. Now, it’s time for the State Senate to send this bill to the Governor’s desk! #PassthePackage

I love that I live in an area where there are still fabric stores so I can touch and drape and crumple till my heart is full. This is MiVia fabric in Lodi, NJ.

Is there a public history community here? I have a public history tab but it's not even close.

Interesting choice for the US to celebrate its 250th anniversary by seizing Venezuela as a colony.

My prediction: in addition to stealing its oil, we will turn Venezuela into a penal colony by deporting undocumented folks in the US there.

ICE says Jean Wilson Brutus died of natural causes but there's nothing natural about being in ICE detention. Shame on this system of racist capitalist exploitation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

My undergrads are really whiffing this final. I tried to make the class engaging: debates, guest speakers, etc, but I'm not sure they learned as much as thru traditional methods. Maybe they're just as burned out as I am.

I've always included short answers on exams I've given. This year, though, the students are just terrible at them, even with practicing in class. They're good on the multiple choice and essays, but the short answers stump them. Might have to rethink for next time.

Dammit why do I feel bad when a student uses AI??

Mini social experiment: offered my undergrads 1 point extra credit on the final if they told me what they thought their participation grade should be and why. 73% answered, which seems low for a free point. I appreciated the student who talked maybe once who said he deserved a solid A, tho.

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Hey, kitty (or doggo) owners. Does an automatic feeder exist that you can program so it remembers the feeding schedule but use it later? A friend is feeding our cat while we're away but he can't the day we get back. Could we set up the feeder before we leave so he just fills it and turns it on?

The best use of AI is creating these spam emails to authors soliciting more readers for your book, for a price. Look at this prose! What's the market price for a "duckpin bowling row House" in Baltimore these days?

Out of the dark, light! Japanese American National Museum awarded 20 million by Mackenzie Scott in recognition of its refusal to stay silent as Trump undermines democracy. Learn more about JANM & like-minded museums in my article "No Going Back" @historyworkshop.org.uk share.google/ngZzopbneqlX...

Forget the snow, the real storm hitting NYC tonight is the confluence of SantaCon and a hockey game. I believe meteorologists call this a "douchenado."

Can someone give me the courage to send in these final edits on the page proofs for the Chicory book? I've spent so much time over the last couple weeks reviewing them while also dealing with a Graves flare and I'm worried that I've missed things that will haunt me if they appear in print.

Let me get this right. At the same moment that trans folks are having hormone treatments curtailed, the FDA wants to give cis men testosterone just because they're tired and flabby? I have that right? www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...

Having Graves disease means that not only does everything take me longer to do than it used to because of the fatigue and brain fog, I do a worse job at it! Fun!

Asked my deck how I should understand and approach my utter exhaustion at this moment. Here's the card I pulled:

What do you say when you open a tin of cookies only to find Grandma's sewing kit??? Darn it!

Let me assure you that it's exactly as awesome as it sounds that on a day set aside for carefully scrutinizing page proofs my right eye is burning and tearing.

Last day of classes here so ofc had a teaching stress dream. I hadn't read the right material, no one was paying attention, my laptop wasn't working. And then former NJ governor Jon Corzine showed up and started rubbing my shoulders. Thanks melatonin!

Democratic Socialists Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks Shock the State of New Jersey in Landslide Victory! Statement from the North NJ DSA Executive Committee

Rutgers student magazine doing some great reporting on Delaney Hall, the immigration Detention center in Newark. scarletmag.substack.com/p/protesting...

If you're an educator in NJ please consider signing onto this letter in support of the Immigrant Trust Act. This bill helps ensure that immigrants can still access important services without fear of detention or deportation. When our students are afraid they can't learn. forms.gle/wq4pCaaxF8Fi...

Went to dinner in NYC tonight and who was in the next booth but Cole Escola and Amy Sedaris! I only wish I could have eavesdropped on their conversation.

Did you get super excited by Zohran's win? Have you been meaning to join DSA but just haven't done it yet? If so, click here: act.dsausa.org/s/3890.4RS9aF Not only do you get to join a growing group of badasses trying to make the world better, I may win a T-shirt for recruiting you!

Excellent video about recording ICE if you see them making an arrest. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzPIkA...

Forgot who I am and bought a white sweater. Took it out of the drawer after months and noticed a nice trail of tea down the front. Strategizing how to turn it into a hat now.

No idea why I got this catalog but I love it. Its entire vibe is clothing for the blandest person you know to be able to go to church and have an equally bland person say, "you're so bad!"

Public artistic resistance to federal immersion policy by LA museums. The project, We Belong Here, projects 30 large scale images created by 9 local artists on the buildings' exteriors to explore the realities faced by immigrants and themes of resilience and community resistance.

Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.

I may have to frame this.

And it was! But the election is not the end. The fight is just starting for leftists. We have to constantly push Mikie to the left and not let her use Trump as the bogeyman to scare us into accepting the Dem status quo.

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

I feel like it's an auspicious omen for the NJ governor's race that Dick Cheney died today.

Last minute costumes for a historical cemetery tour and party. Partner is Leo in One Battle After Another and I just escaped France after a visit to the Louvre. I assume this is what all French people look like? (Also how don't I own a beret?)

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New Jersey, if you see ICE these are the numbers to call so that community members can come out in support. There have been a lot of raids and sightings in NJ bc we're under attack for being a diverse state run by Democrats. Make sure there are eyes on ICE wherever they go. Save this on your phone!

According to the NY Times, pet owners are refusing vaccines for rabies, etc bc they're afraid their pets will develop "pawtivism."

Archive users, any recs for a tripod for a phone that can be used to scan docs without destroying my neck and back?

Students, for the love of all that's right in the world, stop asking me if you're going to miss anything important if you're absent from class. What do you expect me to say? Nope, this is the class where I'm going to channel Jeff Winger teaching law at Greendale?

I just gave to Elijah's Promise in Central NJ. Do what you can to help folks out! elijahspromise.org

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector. Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand: