A must read on history and the NPS and truth: www.historians.org/perspectives...

Full description of strike #StrikeForDignity www.visaverge.com/news/farmwor...

It is a great loss for all of us that you are gone Steven.

The brilliant Steven Nelson and his remarkable community of NGA staff and speakers at our cohosted conference “Color Lines across the United States and Mexico”. So sad to see he is no longer The Center Dean. Huge loss for all of us

Huge loss at The Center/ National Gallery of Art with early retirement of Steven Nelson as Dean. We so badly need his leadership in the art and art history worlds. mailchi.mp/nga/center-n.... I am so disappointed the NGA would let this happen.

USAID didn’t fail. It fed 127,000 kids—then was erased mid-crisis. No speech. No tribute. Just silence. They didn’t end a program. They liquidated a covenant. The last American promise not built on conquest—but care. 🔗 thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com

@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social great interview with Peniel Joseph. Thank you

@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social i would learn much from you interviewing Molly crabapple on her new book on the Jewish labor bund. That history offers another view of potential futures

Hard to believe this isn’t already the law.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.

“I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service," Jackson told fellow judges.

You can’t “deport” American citizens ... phenomenal explainer open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

How can we laud AI as some great tool when we cant even get it to do simple customer service or store checkout? I want people who can offer real service not stupid AI

My thoughts from watching right wing media work over the last decade… changing language around diversity, equity, and inclusion is a trap. You end up confirming their allegations that your commitments to DEI were wrong, and you’ll later be accused of covering up programs that you know to be wrong.

Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship.

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

Nearly 150 international students have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration. Many weren’t given a reason.

Sackets Harbor, NY school principal Jaime Cook speaks to a reporter about protesting today for her three students who were abducted by ICE: www.wwnytv.com/2025/04/04/7...

Simultaneously an attack on free speech, higher education, and the international students who subsidize American students

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

NYT covering protests is so lame as it is not merely a rail nor merely a view or idea of attacks but a response to real attacks “ Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.”

Showing up in dc for democracy and being human

Thank you

We are very close to 24 hours 19 min. Leadership. Thank you

God bless Senator @booker.senate.gov ... 20 plus hours and counting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

Still going. Listen in. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

From thee David Blight: “The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy. But when declared by a sitting American president, it becomes a provocation and an insult.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

Agree with this. We don’t have much more time.

“As we stand in the middle of this pandemic” — now, this *coup* — “it is time for us to collectively rethink and recalculate the value that many so-called tech innovations, and innovators, bring to democracy.”

Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

With added Alt text: NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs”

#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO.

Democrats "may find themselves quickly back in business if they can simply swallow their pride and follow Bernie’s lead."

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down. Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students. There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

Trump is targeting law firms that defend federal employees, expanding his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he opposes. A new memorandum threatens to use government power to punish any firm that, in his view, unfairly challenges his administration.

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

"[A]dministrators said they would appoint a sr. vice provost to oversee the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Dept. The White House had demanded that the dept be placed under academic receivership." Columbia has done such great damage to its reputation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Former Columbia president Lee Bollinger, interviewed by the Chronicle earlier this month, said universities should think in centuries and consider what they might look back on in shame; apparently Columbia’s current leadership considered the question and decided they’re content submitting to a king.

Germany, UK issue travel warnings to their citizens about traveling to the U.S.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."