Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

SLAC historians coming to #AHA26: come join our pre-conference workshop on Thursday morning! We also have a Friday afternoon session on navigating times of crisis and an interactive Saturday morning session, "Hands-On History."

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Sending light and warmth on this longest night. ☀️

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Everything about this is horrifying.

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Today was rough (campus bs). But three of my students noticed I was off my game and brought me a giant cookie between classes. Solidarity takes many forms--and some of those are delicious. ✊🏻 🍪

We need to teach books BECAUSE students are so distracted. Sustained silent reading is the skill we're meant to be teaching!

This is such an amazing lineup!

Things here in TX are looking dire.

This! Teaching students to write (and thus to think) is all about inspiration and confidence building.

Excited for this one!

I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases. As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors. (No paywall) www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

For anyone who wants to support an amazing, little, independent, women-owned bookstore that is a beacon of light deep in the heart of TX, please consider giving to their campaign here: givebutter.com/LarkandOwl (or supporting them through Libro or bookshop.org).

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Look even *if* AI could do the job of a historian, I still wouldn’t trust it. My research is on how elites used the past as a political tool and tried to control historic narratives. I wouldn’t trust tech companies and their connections to right wing governments to not rewrite the past.

Jim Collins is the reason I got a History PhD. 🙏🏻

As a historian, I have been curious (and appalled) by this choice of pseudo. The interpretation below is quite common, but not in fact correct. It was an 1865 law (sénatus-consulte) that made “Muslim Algerians” (a racial category divorced from actual faith) French nationals without citizenship 1/

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

👇🏻 Pride in Budapest year is shaping up to be a major resistance moment.

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

Something Ukrainians learned very well over the last few years is that even if you do somehow manage to maintain perfect discipline and give bad faith actors no openings to present you as evil, they will just run footage from some other country 15 years ago and claim it's you this week.

Brilliant read about Franco-Algerian Nutella affair "It was about nostalgia, memory, injustice, nationalism, globalization, decolonization, protectionism, racism, identity, immigration, invasion—the same things that all arguments are about nowadays, transposed to the realm of spreadable snacks."

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

This is horrifying.

Big thanks to @drpenieljoseph.bsky.social and the best indie bookstore in TX for inviting me to be part of this great event!

Did you know that the ICE detention center in Newark was opened without permission from the city & in violation of state law? Mayor Baraka has been fighting to close it down. Repost this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

"Some members of your coalition should make you uncomfortable." buttondown.com/monteiro/arc... #protest #community

Email your representativies! There's a new bicameral Dear Colleague letter in support of reinstating everything at the #neh ! It's important for them to sign on in support. Use the National Humanities Alliance direct action email to send 1 email to all yr reps. Customize the msg: p2a.co/SBQi8e7

Cory Booker is 24 hours into his filibuster protesting Trump and Musk gutting America's social services. He's minutes away from breaking the US filibuster record — held by Strom Thurmond protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Now that's symbolism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Devastating (as is all the rest, of course).

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

Ramadan kareem to all who celebrate!

Yes! Mine say the same. Fascinating turn of events.

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

congratulations to everyone who did not write this www.wsj.com/opinion/if-i...

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

There is a lot of talk about blue states resisting, etc. and this educator would humbly suggest that this is not the way forward. I refuse to leave our people in red states behind. The Civil Rights Movement came from the Deep South. Red state progressives are some of the hardest working activists.

I wrote about Kendrick Lamar Superbowl performance-- its subversive messaging about America being a rigged, deadly game of survival-- especially for Black people. But we need to stop pretending revolution is going to come from celebrities. It'll come from us. Gift link here: wapo.st/42JVBs6

Asha has some vital pre kickoff misinformation check here.

🧵 Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how they would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID