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.

Did you know Reverberations of Racial Violence (2021) is available in Spanish and FREE to download? ¿Sabías que Rebrotes de Violencia Racial está disponible en español y se puede descargar gratis? ➡️Download: libros.uanl.mx/index.php/u/... ➡️Learn more: refusingtoforget.org/1919-canales...

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...

The Texas Education Agency has now directed school districts to monitor teachers’ social media posts and fire teachers who criticize Charlie Kirk on social media- continuing Kirk’s efforts to have teachers reported and fired for their stated beliefs. www.professorwatchlist.org

help this professor fired for the unforgivable sin of discussing gender theory in her class (they also removed her chair and dean in a blatant effort to intimate us all) gofund.me/974677d2c

please, please sign this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

⭐️ TODAY: Texas State Employees Union press release condemns the firing of Texas State University professor for statements he made as a private citizen. ✊👇 @cwa-tseu.bsky.social texasaflcio.org/sites/defaul...

5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1 www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...

Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads— “HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.” Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.

#OTD in 1988, Lee Roy Young became the first African American man to be allowed to join the Texas Rangers. /1

Say what you want about U.S. history — I’m about to teach a book that places Indian removal and anti-blackness at its heart from birth, persuasively — but the dudes who wrote the constitution knew all about people like this and built their new nation to preclude their ascension to power.

great resources here including a system where you can sign up for texts if there are ICE raids in your zip code. And an emergency number to program into your phone so can report raids, violations, brutality and the like. www.handsoffchicago.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Chicago will not bend the knee to wannabe dictators.

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

The bad old days, when state agents acted arbitrarily and illegally against minority groups

Good god this gonna be nasty which I assume is what they want

“The border…is invading America…it is a stalking power, a mobile regime of racial control that snakes through the Americas, leaving bruises, breaking bones, ending lives.” 🗃️ The Border Is Invading America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

I don’t know why anything surprises me anymore, and yet it does