BlueSky grew the fastest when it was most welcoming to Black users, especially Black women. BlueSky's growth stalled when that changed, and hasn't fully recovered since. It's the weird social media resentment: * Black users drive growth on social media * But platforms don't prioritize them 🙂🙃

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

“Telling women to shut up, attempting to banish them from civic life, and insisting on the right of men, by virtue of their “equipment,” to rule as they please is a politics of rape.”-Alan Elrod

#OnThisDay in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is killed by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting a sanitation workers’ strike. https://ow.ly/UZSH50YAG2r#OnThisDay

Peaceful action in the face of hatred. #Minnesota

This letter by cartoonist/illustrator Alfred J Frueh to his fiancée Giuliette ingeniously folds out to form a miniature 3-D art gallery (1931, Smithsonian) www.architectural-review.com/essays/folio...

Pam Bondi has been fired. Good riddance. Pete Hegseth is next.

Goodbye and good riddance to Pam Bondi. You were exceptionally terrible at your job.

The Colorado Times Recorder reports on ICE’s sprawling network of unofficial detention sites:

#tomorrow The next era of history starts.

If you have to keep asking, they don't want to do it. Find someone who has no issue giving you what you ask for.

My light so vast, it cast twenty foot shadows… (Wu-Tang)

Lynching has been a federal crime for exactly four years. Despite the legislation being first introduced by Representative George Henry White in 1900. He was the very last Black congressman after Reconstruction ended. it was finally singed March 29, 2022

Continuing the work after No Kings Day. #Minnesota

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

New episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...

For the love of reading. #booksky

Does this look like a country who plans to vote for the GOP! Hell NO! This is why they are trying to disenfranchise us! No SAVE ACT! #makethosecalls #pinks

“An extraordinary new form of historical research.” SHIFTING LANDSCAPES An examination of urban enslavement in New Orleans, Louisiana #skystorians

The regime invaded Minnesota and lost — because ordinary people keep doing extraordinary things to protect their neighbors. The Twin Cities will take center stage on No Kings Day to honor the Minnesotans who transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. #NoKings

Hi Twin Cities folks! I just realized @bridgingmn.bsky.social, our local nonprofit is on here! Check them out and give them a follow 🙂 (also donate or volunteer, if you can!) #TwinCities #Minnesota bridging.org/about-us/

🎸✊ NO KINGS MINNESOTA ✊🎸 THE FLAGSHIP. The one the whole country is watching. NOON TODAY — Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul Bruce Springsteen performs. Joan Baez. Jane Fonda. 100,000 expected. MN leads the nation. 🇺🇸🏛️ #NoKingsMN #NoKings #Minnesota #StPaul #Democracy #Springsteen #March28

Happy to see my @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?...

Macalester College celebrated the life and work of Pamela Horowitz and Julian Bond in conversation with Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Duchess Harris, and the students of the American Studies department. #civilrightshistory

Rep. Casten is a terrific follow, often providing clear takes on the current House shitshow like this one

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." AG Bondi v. the U.S. Constitution.

Social Justice Symposium. Hamline University. #Blackademics

For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents. I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

We stood together to say No ICE. This Sat, 3/28, we'll stand together & say No Kings. No War. Yes Democracy! Join us at No Kings Twin Cities at the Capitol in St. Paul. Sign up at stv.fm/a0pk8n Springsteen. Jane Fonda. Keith Ellison. Peggy Flanagan. Bernie Sanders. Joan Baez, and more!

Once I got started on this piece, the numbers started talking to me, and by the end they were screaming. So I feel like I've got to share it with you: The Federal Employee Crisis Nobody's Talking About. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQuz...

This.

Amazing discussion of selecting NAS for the title of your amazing book, Dr. Greason, and all of the ties you are bringing to 'Sinners' as illmatic consequences

Vital new research. #slaveryarchive

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," despite opposition by the United States and some European countries. u.afp.com/SboE

UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’

Next week! #skystorians

past is prologue #1865

April 7. Social Justice Symposium. Hamline University. #BlackSky

The highlight of my Sunday - and always an honor to be included in @americanstudier.bsky.social round up of weekly public scholarship. 💗

It's always an honor to be included in the #ScholarSunday thread alongside so many great historians and podcasters. Check it out to engage with the latest scholarship this week - thanks so much @americanstudier.bsky.social!

The best way to celebrate a month of academic abundance? Subscribe to Black, White, and Read, of course! #booksky

Guangzhou isn’t just building bike lanes. It's building a healthier, more liveable city. With over 6,000 km. of greenways, it quietly boasts one of the world's largest cycling networks. What was once overlooked is now impossible to ignore: a vital link in their modern, multimodal transport system.

Sinners won the Academy Award. And now everyone is asking: What did we just witness? Illmatic Consequences book cover designer, Stacey Robinson answers. 📘 Limited time DISCOUNT CODE: SINNERS2026 @walterdgreason.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.65724/GYM... #wewilltellourownstory uwpbooks.com

The hip hop moment, 1985-2015, changed the world so deeply that it may not be fully understood for another century.

Warning. Recession signs increase. Next six months will be very hard.

Many thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for including our open letter in his latest #ScholarSunday thread! As of early this morning, it is already the third-most-viewed document in our digital repository. Let’s see if there’s a Black and White and Read All Over Bump! hdl.handle.net/1951/88718

Ben’s threads are always the winning bracket, and thank you as always for the mention. Check it out!

Why I always read @pkrugman.bsky.social, part infinity:

J. Halberstam writes so eloquently on Pixar in "Wild Things" "In the Pixavolt flicks, animated animals transform our understanding of social change by inhabiting worlds comprised of a strangely radical combination of socialist and anarchist notions mixed with odd translations of ‘animal values.’"

“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.” (via @barchart.com)