A federal judge in Boston interrupted the administration’s efforts to force 15,000 people with legal status in the US to leave by revoking their parole just days before Christmas. Learn who these people are & ask yourself how this makes us any safer. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

One or more SCOTUS opinions will be released at 10 AM ET this morning. Fortify yourself accordingly.

It’s not funny at all but I did laugh at the implied end of the sentence “ICE agents have the right to defend themselves” being “against progressive white women”

9th Year since losing my mother, labor lawyer & reproductive rights pioneer Beatrice K. Braun. Please learn her story in my A Woman’s Life is a Human Life @groveatlantic.bsky.social @amyhundley.bsky.social @darakaye.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social @serenamayeri.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

Lesbian Mom, poet, peaceful protester standing up for neighbors and the rule of law - shot while leaving scene as directed:

Make it viral.

Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social (and @chrislhayes.bsky.social too) for using gender studies to understand what’s going on. My students & I don’t get a lot of respect for the expertise we develop- and the yawning absence of this understanding that we come to notice in US public life. 😇

@prospect.org had this story yesterday

The Venezuela action & ward on drugs Nixon to Bush to Clinton to ….this: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

All Wars on Drugs Are The Same! open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Don’t forget mine: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729725...

Needed this today: www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

The small, mean world our leaders are building isn’t inevitable. It’s a choice to see immigration as a source of threat rather than possibility. That was part of the story of the lottery that I love, that the admin is trying now to kill. uncpress.org/978146967304...

This is unbelievable

A 35-year-old man was stabbed on Tuesday near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in what the police are investigating as a possible hate crime.

@theradr.bsky.social @outhistory.bsky.social @lgbtqvictoryfund.bsky.social @keshetlgbtqjews.bsky.social @ncjw.bsky.social

The phrase ‘Jewish lesbian’ just doesn’t mean what it used to. Sad!

The U.S. stealers

I had some pretty great thoughts along these lines (and my piece is a banger prose wise too): open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

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Live theater: both parts of Angels in America, original staging, on my 2d? Anniversary with Anore. With my mother. Who kept saying ‘Louis, Louis, Louis….’ Because the morally challenged character reminded her of my father.

Serious question….

Happy Human Rights Day to all who celebrate. Before the day is over. Before our human rights are over erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/quotations-e...

A feminist historian’s guide @sarahweinman.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @joannagrossman.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social @maryrziegler.bsky.social @nypl.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/12/07/w...

Smashed the preorder button fast

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Facing potential FDA rollbacks, overseas telehealth providers are pledging uninterrupted access to abortion pills for Americans.

The majority thinks it has a better idea of how the whole history of the United States should have been done: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

On the Slaughter case + birthright citizens @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @vicnourse.bsky.social @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

A feminist historian’s guide @sarahweinman.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @joannagrossman.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social @maryrziegler.bsky.social @nypl.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/12/07/w...

About today at the Court - history teaches that originalism is bunk!: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

My latest: A Feminist Historian’s Year-End Reading and Viewing Guide msmagazine.com/2025/12/07/w...

When my parents and their friends used to say to each other, ‘I hear that restaurant is pretty good,’ or ‘It seems like Spielberg really knocked it out of the park with this latest one,’ or any similar remark, what they meant was, I read the review in the Times

It made my list too! open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

My work on reproductive rights, reproductive justice, and gender in all ourbpolitics would be a good guide to basically everything at all times. It’s also about my fantastic mother www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729725...

There, as the Dixie Chicks used to say, is your trouble

My thoughts on the Republican women disaenting from Their leadership: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Omar is a member of the U.S. House. Not a senator

Glad to know about the DJT Institute of Peace n/c I was just reading the @louisepennyauthor.bsky.social mystery about a planned U.S. invasion of Canada, which cites “1984” and the doublethink we were all supposed to learn about in high school, and I wasn’t yet alarmed enough …..

Sex, Power and Impunity: Epstein’s Legacy in Historical Perspective msmagazine.com/2025/12/03/t...

Historian of the 1960s-2000s says: Nixon was constrained by not controlling Congress or (fully) the Court. By the momentum in the other direction from Black civil rights activists and their allies, north and south. It’s taken this long to put, basically, Strom Thurmond in the WH