I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

just thinking about living in a community that is being polluted so that Grok can do psychological violence to millions of women

Let me just say, having to ask my pregnant patients who are having sudden bleeding if they’ve been at all exposed to chemical irritants/tear gas is not something I ever pictured having to do when going to nursing school. #Minneapolis #OBGYN

I’m thinking today of Laura Briggs’s incredible book Taking Children, which I had the great honor of reviewing for @bostonreview.bsky.social back in 2020. www.bostonreview.net/articles/pau...

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

So these beauties just landed on my desk. If you need an ARC for review or feature, LMK! @gauthamrao.bsky.social

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The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.

New Postdoc in Latin American Studies at UTAustin! Looks like a great opportunity to work with a top program and amaaaazing library! liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/news/...

The full dust jacket design for my book! @uncpress.bsky.social is very good at this. What a great way to start the week. This thing is feeling real. (Pre-order link, if you're interested: a.co/d/f1EvQmH)

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Once OUP has the Table of Contents up (soon), I will start a thread each week covering the chapters one at a time because the press allows you to buy only one chapter of the book. I will provide a short summary of each AND pedagogical suggestions on how to use each chapter.

I am currently sitting in a meeting while we plan how to handle this. We will be pulling teachers from regular classes in order to teach our hybrid students. Classes are being rearranged, learning disrupted. The federal government is at war with us and we are feeing it at every level of society.

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

You can read law office history generated by edgy law profs new to the subject or my book that took 16 years of research/writing. It traces migration & citizenship law and policy from the colonial period to 1888, the long period when local govts controlled international + interstate migration. 1/

Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM

Don't forget, the deadline for several #SHAFR prizes is February 1! Click here for more info: www.shafr.org/prizes

new: during 2 competing rallies outside the Supreme Court as it heard a case on trans youth sports, police swarmed a trans woman and advocate after an anti-trans commentator yelled assault—releasing her and arresting him for assault after watching the tape "This is about power" @us.theguardian.com

Check out the new State of the Field essay on War and Society in January's Passport issue! www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...

So they’re arresting members of the press now for covering the very events they instigated. And of course to prevent more coverage. Saw a sign a while back that borrowed from the Martin Niemöller poem: “First they came for the press. We don’t know what happened after that.”

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Holy hell. The description of death row in apartheid South Africa was one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. Also. This guy wasn't fucking around.

"@historians.org's mission is to serve historians. Its principles commit it to take a stance “when public/private authorities, in the US or elsewhere, threaten the preservation of or free access to historical sources.” Yet it refuses to do so for Palestinians." www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4711...

This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.

“Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE” is a sentence that shouldn’t exist.

Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries

We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.

🗃️ The LPC (Likely to Become a Public Charge) provision in US immigration policy is, ominously, back in the news. For its historical origins, there is no better account than @hidehirota.bsky.social 's book "Expelling the Poor" @academic.oup.com @iehs.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...

A delight to host @renatakeller.bsky.social for ep 83! We talked her book The Fate of the Americas (@uncpress.bsky.social), including how she wrangled 20 countries' stories. She also let me pry about the challenges of writing thru the loneliness of new parenthood draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

***Know Your Rights Information on the IEHS Website*** The IEHS website now has a “Know Your Rights” page with several resources to navigate the current immigration landscape. If you have any suggestions for additional sources to include, email President Maddalena Marinari at [email protected].

when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?

🚨New details on “Operation PARRIS” are emerging. Groups on the ground estimate that at least 100 people with full refugee status have now been arrested and sent to Texas to be detained for interrogation about their status and possible removal proceedings. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

@historians.org leadership’s refusal to let its own membership vote on a resolution on academic freedom is an anti-democratic act of moral and political cowardice. The organization can’t credibly oppose Trump’s assaults on academic freedom while repressing the freedom of its own members.

Today is the release day of the Canal Dreamers audio book! I listened to Word's read aloud feature while I was writing. I haven't heard the tracks yet & am so curious how professional voice actor Kristin Price tells the story! @uncpress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️ www.audible.com/pd/Canal-Dre...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

***Upcoming event featuring IEHS members @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @kevinkenny.bsky.social*** Tenement Talk: Preparing for the Immigration Journey When: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 6:30-8:30 PM Event Location: 103 Orchard Street, YouTube Live www.tenement.org/events/tenem...

“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

on Sat I did my first protest dispatch @us.theguardian.com, reporting from 2 protests in Philadelphia. the message at both: “From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power.”

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins