It's already a park, but at long last, the interpretive elements will reflect the builders and defenders of our city: enslaved and free Black laborers and Civil War soldiers. www.axios.com/local/nashvi...

Never have I been prouder to work on something. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Virginia State University Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals. bit.ly/4tTFsvd

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

On what grounds?

For 20 years we have known about this man.

So tired of racism being used as a publicity stunt. Will anyone lose their jobs for throwing disabled & Black communities under the bus?

This study was done with current ethical restraints in place- before removing ethical constraints: note this meeting Hegseth had with head of Anthropic (Claude) yesterday

They defanged it but it's still up for consideration in TN. If passed it will remove all meaningful due process from having tenure and allow the state to put faculty on leave *without* pay while an investigation is being performed. www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

Hegseth wants an AI tool without ethical restraints. He already used this program when invading Venezuela. What for now? If Anthropic won’t remove protocols by Fri, he says he will either take control over it, or terminate the gov’t contract and designate it a national security threat. Scary af

They defanged it but it's still up for consideration in TN. If passed it will remove all meaningful due process from having tenure and allow the state to put faculty on leave *without* pay while an investigation is being performed. www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

Richmond County’s own Nicole Malliotakis giving off the same energy as one of the white people protesting southern school integration in photos from the 50s

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

We've lost a good one. Do yourself a solid and read one of Kevin's books. His book on Newark helped me to understand how deeply place affects change over time. Rest in power. history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...

This is disgusting. Academics in Florida are being compelled to censor their work on political grounds if they want to receive basic professional development funding.

Not just Mississippi, they don't want ICE concentration camps in Tennessee either. You love to see it. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social No body wants this.

I just taught my last Pirates of the Slave Trade class with Osher Lifelong Learning and one of my students dressed up like a pirate! Truly the best confirmation that I'm in the right profession.

11 million without power in Cuba because of our blockade.

This makes me physically sick. How dare we! transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Ooh that's good. It was so embarrassing!

Bass street was a Black neighborhood founded by Civil War veterans at the foot of Fort Negley. It was removed to make room for the interstates. www.newschannel5.com/plus/openlin...

AFN, the Armed Forces Network, is shutting down. AFN was the soundtrack to the first 17 years of my life as a military brat with a local national mother who grew up mostly on US army bases in Germany.

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Can we please make this happen? The men get Kash Patel and a shit-smelling pederast. The women get Flav. A little cosmic justice would go a long way right now.

Writes columnist @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Footage of May 2025's immigration sweeps, reviewed by @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, shows state troopers joking with ICE agents about people's suffering.

Okay, folks- I know we all have plenty to do, but if you're at all concerned about the White House & historic preservation, please consider submitting public comment on Trump's ballroom project; info in this thread. First, a direct link for submitting written statements: www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It doesn't matter whether the man with Tourette syndrome is *secretly* racist or had a racist intent with his action. It's really weird (ableist) that everyone on Beyonce's internet is trying to speak for him and that community and trying to read intent. Intent doesn't actually matter here at all.

If an action of yours results in HARM to someone, YOU are still responsible. Even if you didn't mean it. Even if it was caused by a disability that you couldn't help. People DO NOT have to just take your abuse because you're going through it. Impact > Intent, always.

Ethnic Cleansing Seized children were made untraceable or disappeared into white Christian Nationalist institutions like Bethany Christian Services during the 1st regime Adoption via these networks will likely be the regime's "humane alternative" to deaths they can't cover up in concentration camps

This is what needs to happen. Cancel the World Cup. Cancel the Olympics. Cancel your US vacations. Refuse to support this regime and refuse to endanger lives.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

The US used to attract the best students and scholars. Stuff like this ensures that the best go elsewhere.

Racial anxieties are inextricable from sexual politics: white decline, anti abortion, policies that limit women's options so they must rely on men from an early age. Pedophilia is baked into the Republican party logic (which is why it often makes no sense). www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

Last night I gave a lecture to a Black Student Union whose president had been in Civics Camp for high schoolers with me...because one of the last things a former (deceased) continuing education student of mine did, was to help organize that camp and insist that it be held at Fort Negley w/me.

TN lawmaker drops his quest to end tenure after he realizes that actually, you don't want to chase smart people out of your state. Good on him. Our public universities are the lifeblood of this state. www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

If we stopped medical procedures for any other group of people everyone would be in arms. Gender confirming surgeries are often are lifesaving procedures. Last year trans Tennesseans were promised it was "only" children who would be denied care. Who is next? www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

I'm lecturing at a high school's Black History Month program tonight, and tell me why I have prepared and practiced this keynote more than I have for any other event in my life.

I'm sure I'm not the only historian who thought of this analogy.

Do you ever meet someone who wants power over others more than they want their own liberation? What did I do in a past life to meet someone so lame?

Harshly judging the people in my neighborhood who bought homes next to nightclubs and then tried to get an overlay to ban nightclubs. You and the speedway haters deserve to live together in an apartment complex with tissue walls.

I know we have a million fires going, but they have turned Cuba into Haiti. Please tell me you see the pattern of how the US sets up dominoes to have the option of knocking them down later.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Surgeries are cancelled and doctors are unable to access patient records necessary for operations after the University of Mississippi Medical Center suffered a major cyber attack this morning, closing all clinics at Mississippi's largest hospital. www.mississippifreepress.org/university-o...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

The Trump administration will not cut off federal funds to the University of California while it appeals a judge’s ruling that said it had improperly withdrawn $600 million from the schools.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

I own the littlest old house with a big yard in a gentrified neighborhood with a DADU overlay. I don't need economic indicators. I know things are bad when I get more than 1 daily offer on my house, and when the developers trying to buy it send the offer on handwritten greeting cards or with swag.

Every single win is a big deal, and we should celebrate and uplift them no matter how bleak things may feel. We need to realize how huge of a deal it is to win battles against fascists with such immense power.

Tomorrow! After decades of fighting and preparation we are breaking ground tomorrow. hoodline.com/2026/02/fort...