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Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

We are hosting a zoom info session for prospective students this Friday 10/3 at 3pm est. Join us to learn about the first program of its kind—training historians in both traditional research and digital methods like text mining, GIS, and network analysis.

This is a great time to lean into local community and make sure you have folks' current contact information. Check on your strong friends. Check on your trans friends. Check on your disabled friends. Check on folks.

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

DALLAS (AP) — Homeland Security spokesperson says ICE detainees were among those shot in Dallas attack; no agents injured.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

If you hear Andrea Pitzer say only one thing based on a decade of studying concentration camps, let it be this: "...we are singularly poised to act in ways that most citizens and residents of other countries that got mired in hardening authoritarianism were not."

'Costs are down!' Trump declares inflation 'solved' as gas and grocery prices soar www.rawstory.com/inflation-un...

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

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“The federal government has functionally abdicated its role in keeping Americans safe from dangerous illness. In the vacuum it has left, states will chart their own paths… The country’s defensive shields against disease are shattering, in ways that could take decades, even generations, to mend.”

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

because polio is freedom

“Evil almost always has a historical logic, and therefore an explanation.” —David Blight, Race and Reunion @dblight.bsky.social

Quick reminder: Writing is labour Rewriting is labour Editing is labour Reading is labour Teaching is labour Syllabussing is labour Thinking is labour Academic work is labour

Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this:

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

Call your Senators/Reps to impeach/fire RFK Jr. before he kills us all. www.5calls.org makes it easy to reach them and has a script. CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Thread: LLMs👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 SEARCH 👏 ENGINES 👏 AND 👏 THEY 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 BUILT 👏 FOR 👏 THAT 👏 TASK 👏

I have a column on this going up in the morning, but I'm telling you folks, there's an immediate need for people to light up lawmakers' phones and clang pots and pans and protest and do whatever the hell can be done to get RFK Jr. booted, or at least constrained. This is a five-alarm fire.

Attention scholars of Latine/x/a/o History:

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

Today—I love my job. All the first faculty meeting agenda, student schedules, quick first readings, bright anticipation, and RESOLVE to do great teaching and history in the face of political repression and turmoil.

Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.

Why I love my city.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook won't: —distract Americans from the rising costs they see every day. —distract them from his continued refusal to release the Epstein Files. It will: —put everything from your life savings to your mortgage at risk. Oh, and it’s illegal.

If you’re afraid of sandwiches, I’m not sure I’d recommend invading Chicago.

Nice article from @pbs.org debunking RFKJ's bullsh** claim that that pediatricians are recommending vaccines for money.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... Periodic sincere reminder: there is no bottom.

Tensions are rising as the US force moves toward Venezuela. Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned Trump not to invade and said a military op against Venezuela would be seen as aggression against Colombia. Brazil’s administration said they’re worried about the military deployment.

This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...

I curate the history series at public media's journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR & PBS, educational, community, and affiliate stations. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate! current.org/series/rewind/

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Step On Board, in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts at 1:15 pm this afternoon. 8.20.25 #Courage #Hero

"I'LL FIGHT TILL HELL FREEZES OVER AND THEN I'LL CUT THE ICE AND FIGHT ON"

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.