The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

I can’t seem to figure out how to edit this draft without my footnotes going crazy. Maybe it’s time to migrate to Scrivener…finally. 🤦🏾‍♂️

WOW! PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

I remember a certain Harvard professor leading the charge to oust Claudine Gay from the university’s presidency. He seems to dodge all complicity in the Epstein mess, interestingly. 💅🏾🤷🏾‍♂️

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton. Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife

Why should the judgment of the wealthiest NYers be given deference? Simply b/c the victims of their choices don’t have money & power?

It's Election Day! Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards. Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

ok who did this? ☹️

I'm new here, but I just had to share! My book, The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop through @uncpress.bsky.social Follow along on my website: www.sharronconrad.com

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, said Tuesday that Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom would 'overwhelm the White House itself,' which is about 55,000 square feet..." www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

Any leads on an affordable developmental editor for a first book (History)??

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“W/o urgent, sector-wide reform, the global academic publishing ecosystem is at risk of collapse. We urge academic institutions to weaken the link b/n academic reward & journal article output, & to adopt holistic approaches to evaluating academic performance.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique. The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc. If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

Lord, I hope the energy on display today spreads and multiplies 1,000-fold in time for midterms, and if necessary, after the Supreme Court fully guts the VRA in June. We need all hands on deck! #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Sadly, we don’t teach Reconstruction enough!! So many folks remain oblivious to where this country is headed. Buckle up! It won’t be pretty.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Today is the official PUBLICATION DAY for *Entangled Alliances* from @cornellupress.bsky.social!!! Save on your copy of the book with the QR code and discount code. 📚

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

And we’re back! Happy new (academic) year! Fired up and ready to go!!

Cornell Dairy 🤝 University of Delaware Joe Biden's Ice Cream Flavor www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

It’s really weird that Congress decided not to treat this as a constitutional crisis. The chief executive is constitutionally obligated to execute the laws that Congress passes. Trump has just decided he doesn’t have to do that—and Congress hasn’t done anything. Now, we’re post-constitutional.

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

Creating a problem and then demanding praise for fixing it. A pattern.

They’re geniuses, I tell you.

Your reminder that AI is evil, and using AI means that you are actively participating in hurting people.

R.I.P., Justice Souter. apnews.com/article/supr...

Dr. Hayden is a consummate professional, career librarian, and public servant. I cannot think of anyone in the Trump administration who is fit to address the Librarian of Congress in this way:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o... Graham Parsons, professor of philosophy at West Point, announces his resignation in the face of new policies "eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological tastes of the Trump administration."

The AHA, along with the ACLS and the MLA, have filed a lawsuit to restore the programming and institutional integrity that have been stripped away from the NEH. Announcement and PDF of filing in district court are here: www.historians.org/news/america...

Mellon to help offset the funding cuts to the NEH for state humanities councils: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/a...

Let’s please make sure that our community has ACCURATE information? I understand the concern but let’s be strategic and on point in identifying imminent threats. Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Alexis Herman, the first Black American to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor, has passed away, a source close to her family told me. She was 77.

I feel personally disrespected

The Texas legislature is considering a bill to give themselves direct oversight over the content of college courses at public universities & And planning to prevent faculty from having a role in traditional shared governance. It will likely undermine public higher education there. #FAFO