this double murder badly exacerbated the situation in south Texas in 1915 and has reverberated across the generations.

The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The regime is bringing higher education in compliance with its dictates, and it’s finding very little opposition

“On Friday, a Hays County judge ruled that a fired Texas State University (TXST) professor will be reinstated to his job while his lawsuit against the school proceeds, according to the professor’s attorney.” 👏✊🙌

actual good news this week: www.kxan.com/news/local/h...

Highly alarming

if you want to win, you gotta fight

Historian reflects on a sickening decision from this increasingly fascist administration

📢📢Rally for Dr. Tom Alter and #FreeSpeech TODAY 11am! Details below! 👇

Davy Crockett his very self has contributed to Tom Alter's go-fund me. You can too! www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...

bragging that restrictions on any expressions of non-conforming gender or sexual identity in fact have no basis in law. We need leaders with spines, and citizens who will speak up, to stop this McCarthyite moment

This self-described fascist and apologist for the Holocaust has managed to enlist Texas State University into firing its faculty. @txstatealumni.bsky.social . /1. www.salon.com/2025/09/23/f...

“The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process.” www.historians.org/news/aha-sen...

New from Benjamin Johnson: If you want to understand the increasingly authoritarian grip that the Republican establishment has on this state, and the increasingly destructive ends to which it is using its power, no figure from our past is better suited than Homer Price Rainey.

as resistance mounts to one of the worst onslaughts against academic freedom and civil liberties in US history, I turned to an episode from the Texas past for the @texasobserver.org, and found both caution and inspiration. /1 www.texasobserver.org/texas-facult...

We have to keep saying it: There is "nothing* that Texas college faculty are prohibited by law from teaching. Do not believe politicians who demand restrictions they never passed. Do not obey unconstitutional college policy. Do not self-censor. Do not comply.

Thinking of Homer Rainey tonight, who was fired by the UT regents in 1944, prompting student protests and the replacement of those who canned him. Rainey put UT on the road back to being a leading university. Why didn't Mark Walsh give a speech like this? /1. texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/m...

a key thread on the meltdown of academic freedom in Texas

I’d be there if I weren’t living 800 miles away. This madness has to stop

More fascism in Texas and America.

Glad to see this statement. We all need to stand up for academic freedom and free speech while we still can.

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Great thread here on changes in DH “vibe”

If this is true, another sign of the rapid consolidation of an authoritarian regime

On the popularity of the Waylon Jennings song "Luckenbach, Texas" and other Texana: "The irony was that the more most Texans' lives looked like everywhere else, the greater the appeal a Texan identity held." —Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History"

Student-led demonstration for #academicfreedom TOMORROW at Texas A&M 6pm! 👏✊👇

Howdy Ags! I know Dr. Melissa McCoul who was wrongly fired by TAMU and if you would like to support her legal efforts there's is a go fund me. She's a wonderful teacher of children's literature and a loss to the Aggie Family. Do support if you can Gig 'Em www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

keep hope alive!

we are entering the batshit crazy, North Korea syle of authoritarianism and cult of personality. This is a government site, not a private Trump site -- but of course now there is no difference. trumpcard.gov

see links in thread -- things you can do to support academic freedom and free speech. @aaup.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @txstatealumni.bsky.social @txst.edu @texastribune.org @txobserver.bsky.social @texasaflcio.org @texasmonthly.bsky.social @tamu.bsky.social @progresstexas.bsky.social @texaslpc.org

From very very bad to even worse

Analysis | To get himself back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel must call for the execution of homeless people.

historians, check out the CFP for this great conference, in Chicago in early June 2026. All the cool kids will be there! blog.shgape.org/cfp-shgape-c...

House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social wake up and smell the fucking coffee. They are destroying all of our freedoms and you do nothing, nothing!

Schumer, Jeffries et al. fiddle while Rome burns

I just can’t believe that Trump keeps doing all the stuff that he said he would do.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The killing of an Arizona evangelical by a Utah Mormon means it's time to crack down on the New York Jews who control our media. by J.D. Vance

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

We are going down the Hungary/Turkey route very very fast

Grateful for this review! "What Johnson has offered us, in lieu of a complete history of Texas, is one that can claim to be multicultural, engaging, and modern. For those who wish to try to understand Texas in 2025, there is now no better place to start." www.civilwarmonitor.com/texas-an-ame...

#OTD in 1949, the first episode of The Lone Ranger premiered, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. /1

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”

credible evidence that ICE simply lied about this encounter, and in fact shot a man in a car moving AWAY from them. What would you do if an unmarked car blocked you in traffic and asked men approached? unraveledpress.com/what-happene...

it's a sign of our times that this is the second such gofundme for a TX faculty member I've posted this week. Tom needs our help, and we all need to stand together in this dark hour. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...