"deprofessionalizing" fields that are majority-women...not by accident!

TWENTY-FIVE DAYS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why are these ICE ghouls wearing camo in Minneapolis? They'd blend with the snow better if they just wore their white hoods

#4: The History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi with @kathrynschumaker.bsky.social

Again, when I worked at Popular Science one of the most popular stories was 10 ways you can tell for yourself the earth is round.

Brb, writing an essay on What the Tawny Frogmouth Means to Me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pleased to see Julia here. Not pleased that I googled the meaning of "moloch" when I first read her excellent article but have already forgotten what it means 😭

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

Tomorrow!! Ft. special guest (my infant)

Hidden legacies! Our new American pope was born in Chicago, but his maternal ancestors were Creoles of color from New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a genealogist and family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection. #PopeLeoXIV

This is the most exciting day I've had in WEEKS

That whoosh you heard is the sound of tens of historians rushing off to Ancestry www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Might note that this doesn't seem like it's a thing he can actually do and it's like a random person coming to your job and firing you only it's the president

Every day I wake up to another story about the cruelty of this administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate. Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

"His attorney said that as of 28 March, the day after his arrest, his F-1 visa was still active. Gad said the government revoked it without any notice to him, and then claimed he had overstayed." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I have rotted my brain with so much House Hunters that I've now seen the episodes where the Italian chef looks for houses to host both seasons one AND two of Ciao House

By adopting the Right’s framing and problem diagnosis on immigration, Democratic leaders have not merely been compromising on a policy issue, they have been lending legitimacy to the very core of the ethno-nationalist project - basically telling voters the Trumpists are kinda right, actually.

This is a great piece on the catastrophic and illegal cuts to the NEH. Key quote by Hannah Alpert-Abrams: "[DOGE] really seems to be targeting the places where the federal government serves the people. Which is pretty fucked up!"

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Delighted to see this thoughtful review of my book in the Wall Street Journal! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Have you read the NYSED response to the Trump admin’s “certify you don’t do DEI or else” letter? It is embedded in the article below. You should! It is gratifying and an example of simple, legal, potent resistance from a gov entity. Little 🧵

"A spokesperson for the University of Oklahoma said it was unable to confirm if any of its students have been affected due to student privacy laws." Won't even speak out on behalf of OU's own students. So much for the Oklahoma Standard. www.kosu.org/education/20...

I know I’m naive but I’m not going to stop being shocked at just how many people in this country are apparently frothing-at-the-mouth ready to unleash their inner Gestapo

The combination of this much evil with this level of idiocy is astounding.

the worker’s president who understands the concerns of the common man

A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.

NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then the company started expanding into deportation flights. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”

I've long believed—based on personal experience and things like, say, the 2016 and 2024 elections—that most people don't take sexual violence seriously. This story makes it clear that many people don't think it's a problem at all.

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

They’re kidnapping our students.

Rubio tries to strip another Columbia student of lawful permanent resident status. No convictions, a young woman who apparently attended Gaza protests on campus.

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

"If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation." inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

I know somewhere there are very juicy side chats all about the lawyers who are arguing these cases for the Trump Administration. A friend described the ones who worked for his first admin as 1) ideologues, 2) opportunists, and 3) amoral JDs who couldn't find work anywhere else

The Ed Dept manages and enforces federal law in education - Title I for kids & schools in poverty; IDEA for disabled students; Title IV on civil rights; financial aid like Perkins & Pell grants, more. An attack on the dept. is nothing but a feckless but still dangerous attack on those laws.

certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

Thanks @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for chatting abt birthright citizenship and a certain op-ed. Much more to be said on how birthright predates 14A, how Black Americans fought to end their exclusion, and how Reconstruction Republicans discussed immigration. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Fuck it. This is next week’s watch party. Prepare yourselves.

Reading this scandalous story about working conditions at Paycom in OKC and... the US is 100% already in a recession, right? These CEOs just don't want to admit it (as they lay off hundreds of people). thelostogle.com/2025/02/19/l...

While we’re waiting, make sure to subscribe to the Historians At The Movies Podcast. This week’s episode featured a conversation with @kathrynschumaker.bsky.social about interracial marriages in the segregated South. #HATM 5/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Find the episode right here on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

So wonderful getting to talk to @herberthistory.bsky.social about my new book, Loving v. Virginia, and the Loving film!!

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

STUDENT WALK OUT- OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES CITY HALL: High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!