Protestors outside Delaney Hall sing an upgraded 🎵 All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose 🎵 against the for-profit ICE detention center in Newark.

This wekend in VA: im soaking on queer legal history and opening uo the conversation on what it’s like to live and work as an historian of gender & sexuality in this moment berksconference.org/little-berks...

Bring back bad folk guitar as the soundtrack of the nyc subway system!!

Et tu, @theguardian.com? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DELANEY HALL, Newark: Call & Email NJ Gov Mikie Sherrill (609- 292-6000) to tell her that this is unacceptable. People inside are in poor health, & police are turning away ambulances, shooting pepper balls & tear gassing the press. She called cops there, is refusing to meet families or intervene.

Did this really happen? The revanchism is unbearable

Big story below. Fits , sadly, w my morning’s newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Things are so bad -& I still feel sane and even slightly hopeful when I get to hear this good, sharp, analysis that seems rooted in the same world I live in (unlike the fantasy grievance baseball that reigns in #SCOTUS)

Thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for shouting out my FREE newsletter of historical insights - on the “anti-weaponization fund” in light of Watergate & payoffs to former Confederates (but not to enslaved people): blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Sad post for the last day of #JewishAmericanHistoryMonth. But there’s good scholarship toward the end, so read all the way through! And subscribe to the newsletter!! open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Labor unions gathered for a solidarity rally outside Delaney Hall ice detention center today. People detained inside are on day 10 of a labor strike.

I wrote a good one on the ‘anti-weaponization fund’: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

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….. and sex discrimination is still discrimination under the 14th amendment (& entrants and gay people under Title VII). I don’t see how this is kosher.

From a clergy friend on the ground at Delaney— this is how they’re asking people to help:

As a Kornbluh w family that suffers from ALS, I think this Kornbluth speaks some truth. Tho I don’t like why I read about the MIT libraries.

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

Good analysis by @prospect.org For some historical reflections see: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Eid Mubarak to our Muslim communities celebrating Eid al-Adha. I’m wishing you all a joyous Eid as we mark the end of the Hajj and celebrate with your families, loved ones, and communities.

The “Anti-Weaponization” Fund is a throwback to something Nixonian and even to the payoffs to some formwr Confederates open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

“Anti-weaponization fund = Nixon? Or Confederacy?? open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

"Traitors shall not dictate or prescribe to us the terms or conditions of our citizenship, so help us God." #tdih 1865, election day in Norfolk, African Americans tested their right to vote and when denied, cast their own "freedom ballots." Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

For Memorial Day, remembering the Civil War dead - and as @davidblight.bsky.social teaches, initiated by Black communities that wanted proper remembrance if their losses: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Maybe one needs to say - AI is a big threat to the labor force and middle class, and those who embrace it mindlessly are not doing their readers or fans any good. Also @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is a serious writer and thinker, and harassing her is not ok.

Who are you going to call? open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

An answer to the @newyorker.bsky.social @peterslevin.bsky.social interview with @barackobama.bsky.social @msmagazine.com @prospect.org @mollyjongfast.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Good news, me

Flushing?? Q

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Love this. I always called it the alliance for Hypocritical Medicine.

I did a whole newsletter based on this baseless Chicago apt building raid, an egregious moment of waging war on US residents: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

UPDATE: The Supreme Court has issued an order halting the Fifth Circuit's decision that blocked telemedicine mifepristone nationwide.

** ng Comstock Act. Reminder to Dems who might someday gain legislative majorities: the time to repeal Comstock was a decade ago.

BREAKING: SCOTUS stays the Fifth Circuit's mifepristone stay order, keeping mifepristone available on current terms. Thomas and Alito file separate dissents. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/mifepristo...

Patriarchy is unbearable. Some pregnancies also are unbearable.

If you need abortion pills now, you can still get them. By mail! Republicans are counting on chaos and confusion to prevent women from getting the care they need. It's important we don't let that happen. www.plancpills.org www.ineedana.com aidaccess.org/en/

wtf on mifepristone? The 5th circuit should in no reasonable world get to second guess decades of data and evaluation by the fda. When the fda was under decent management. So much for all that Dobbs mambo about getting unelected legislators in rivers out of the abortion biz.

Administration losing on its wild expansions of executive authority as it seeks to harass trans people and people/institutions that serve them. This gender studies scholar finds this to be an important development!

With a mifepristone update: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

This is meh news imho. Should not be a hard call - enjoin the 5th circuit mumbo jumbo about this safe and effective drug. Leave the old FDA Guidance alone. Stop killing pregnant people. Shouldn’t need a lot of debate at 1 first st.