“You shall not vilify the deaf, and before the blind you shall not put a stumbling block, and you shall fear your God.” Leviticus. If anybody cares.

St. Louis March 1: see the award-winning film about the first Jewish transport to Auschwitz (all Slovakian girls/ young women!) tickets.stlholocaustmuseum.org/events/e0f6a...

This is a good companion to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning on AI regulation: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

No no no. We can’t do this. This is Nazi shit. @aclu.org @acluvermont.bsky.social

🫡 Legal and political and gender historian: already handled

And I quote:

This makes me 😌 I worked for Rev. Jackson in n the run up to what we thought would be a 3rd national campaign: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Good news v. the Epstein elite @socialists.nyc @jacobinmag.bsky.social @doughenwood.bsky.social @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Also him: I can destroy the country if I want (paraphrasing from press conference after the tariff decision) .

As usual - @americanstudier.bsky.social summarizes the week in scholarly efforts to inform the present. A good person to follow and read! Also the folks he reads @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @brianros1.bsky.social @carlygoodman.bsky.social

This guy gets 2 Cross pens!

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

Jewish feminists cry 😢 www.jta.org/2026/02/18/i...

In this moment/ imagining a 3rd Jackson presidential candidacy : open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Ooooooouch

The questions:

It’s always the cover up that gets you. Just ask Nixon.

Jackson was one of the most influential politicians in U.S. history. What he did NOT want was to remembered as an “influential Black figure”. open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Appreciating Rev Jesse Jackson. I worked for the 1992 campaign that wasn’t But what if it had been????? open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Beyond historical analogies - open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Epstein & the self-inflicted destruction of higher education open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

A true honor role here

❤️VT www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

Family values

The first coupla decades of my career were spent chronicling efforts to use technological advances to enhance the common good, reduce our need to overwork, and make things more =. TLDR: it would be ridiculously easy in the age of AI to have decent incomes and services.

Come ride bikes with us in Minneapolis! And spend your money at our amazing local businesses. In the meantime please keep donating to help us keep our neighbors housed/fed/in MN. Lots of donation options here: standwithminnesota.com Or this one for my neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...

I am just a humble legal historian- but these seem like excellent points:

I’m an historian of post wwii America and - yes yes yes

Asking as a lesbian who would like. It to be shot in the face when I exercise my 1st amendment rights:

Stonewall national monument- now. We are angry! They took our flag!!!!!

Stonewall nyc now

Heading to Stonewall national memorial to protest (checks notes) removal of gay pride flag ! 5 pm et

I work at the kind of university (public land grant) that advises Bad Bunny. Not the kind that advises Jeffrey Epstein.

Kornbluh alert 👀 @annakornbluh.bsky.social

😂😢

What our government is doing is persistently disgustingly awful.

The National Woman’s Party was done with Wilson’s bullshit about the 19th Amendment. www.jezebel.com/memories-107...

“If passed, the SAVE Act will disenfranchise 20 million voters.” Trump has pushed the Republicans to hold a vote in the House this week. Call your Rep and your Senators. 202-224-3121

Would love help getting this out to as many Indiana University alums as possible! Please share if you know anyone.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

HELLO HISTORIANS

I for one await black cat’s commentaries! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat

Important and SAD!

Another story from the files that deserves headline treatment!

Long Live Common Sense!

One more reason quotas can’t guide policy : Dems please!!!

& you might learn some Spanish too !ay!

Once again I recommend these compilations by the amazingly encyclopedic @americanstudier.bsky.social - great to ‘learn with’ & inspiration for all scholars to write for and in public (& he usually reads my Substack newsletter “History Teaches”).