The AHA’s Guidelines on Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship lay the foundation for expanding what constitutes historical scholarship & can be adapted to any institution in which historians work & where historical scholarship is expected. 🗃️

Every shocking new thing we learn is something that either Kamala or Hillary or both already told us.

Reviewing my WWII lecture & this hits different this year: The US Holocaust museum argues that “what distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison... is that it functions outside of the judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” 🗃️

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

H.R.1 ends health coverage eligibility for many lawfully present immigrants. It doesn't change health coverage options for undocumented immigrants who are already ineligible for federally funded health coverage under longstanding policy. More on this @kff.org : www.kff.org/quick-take/r...

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/govern...

Tenure isn't "just" about academic freedom or free speech, it also about labor, and more - knowing the history helps understand the battles and challenges of the present🗃️ @TIME #madebyhistory time.com/7320703/acad...

I'm developing a new course on the history of policing (with England, France, and USA as cases we will use) and am surprised that I'm not coming up with many examples of already-existing courses. Anyone teach something like this? #skystorians

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this: Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself

Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

It’s too bad there is no historical precedence for us to learn from. It would be crazy if everyone was surprised that a tariff war could take two years to fully manifest.

Fascinated by how the people who lost their minds over student loan forgiveness are currently running ads on my TV every 10 min promising that they'll forgive your student loans if you join ICE

I see my text message campaign to @herberthistory.bsky.social that began the moment I saw Dirty Dancing was coming to @netflix.com paid off… ok he said yes with an ! 2 seconds after I sent the first text, but still! Join historians at the movies #HATM on Sunday at 7pm CT for DIRTY DANCING

But if you can’t wait for this weekend, listen to @leahlao.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social @llassabe.bsky.social and me talk about the movie over much wine. Make sure to subscribe- new episodes coming October 9th! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Agree with all of this - but I looked up the rugs, and it made me laugh very hard that the style called "Diego" is boring and ugly. She could probably get behind that from time to time.

I got an ad for Frida Kahlo washable rug collection today and had to make a tok about the use of Frida’s image to sell products. I still think the Frida makeup is the wosrt but the Barbie doll isn’t much better. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ae7Jh3/

In an LAist article describing the impact of cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities on California universities, the @acls1919.bsky.social lawsuit, joined by the AHA and the @modernlanguage.bsky.social, was cited as one of several legal challenges seeking to restore NEH grant funding. 🗃️

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Someone should tell JD Vance about EMTALA, which requires ER’s to treat all comers, so that people don’t literally die in the streets. It was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.

With the government shut down, Republicans are accusing Democrats of "grinding America to a halt in order to give illegal immigrants free health care.” But U.S. law already prohibits federally subsidized health care coverage for unauthorized immigrants — dating back to 1996.

To be clear, they're filing this in cases across the board.

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

Hi. I know there’s a lot of crap going on but book bans are still happening. Get angry.

Happy Banned Books Week (next week) everybody!

The press generally doesn't find this sort of thing interesting enough to cover, and the outlets that CAN be bothered approach it with typical "he said, she said" framing so the reader never really understands this was being driven by AT&T and friends

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Ramping up an exciting new class next semester on American Revolution(s) I'll be co-teaching, just dropping this there because it seems timely: "By the King, a Proclamation, For suppressing Rebellion and Sedition" using existing laws to squash dissent of all types🗃️ www.masshist.org/database/vie...

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

This is after a 2022 policy change had started to increase convictions for domestic violence by removing commanders from the process. They had started to have more real consequences for domestic violence and now Hegseth is working to reverse it. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

The editors of Southern Jewish History are pleased to announce the publication of the journal's 28th annual issue. Since 1998, SJH has published peer-reviewed scholarship about Jewish history in the American South. Contributors are historians, archivists, librarians, and genealogists. 🗃️

Jefferson: "Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war."

History note: In three separate stories this year, I've run across prominent GOP leaders or Trump admin officials known for pushing forms of Christian nationalism (or openly identifying with the title) making claims about the Founding Fathers that historians say are disputed — or outright false

This passage nearly broke me.

“I’ve not heard of anything this egregious — a donor calling up and saying I need help and getting it,” one disaster relief expert said, “while others may be getting denied assistance or otherwise waiting in line for help that may or may not come.”

Just going to leave this here. I continue to believe that this whole thing is a catastrophe for legal scholarship, and I hope it doesn’t do any more damage. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

Time to flex those Picking Up the Phone And Yelling At Chuck Schumer muscles

New goal in life: have a book trailer some day! Super cool. And add this one to your TBR 🗃️

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

For years I would get their tank tops on the annual $2 tank sale and use them as undershirts. Last year I think it was $3 tanks and I returned every one of them for being nearly sheer and just poorly made. Like even at $3 a pop, they weren’t worth it.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Hidden Valley Ranch - The dead won't find you, because they're after flesh. #HATM

Sigh. I saw this for the first time in Junez expecting a stereotypical zombie film Instead, I got a peek into toxic masculinity, strong acting and good storytelling. Like last week's film, tbis is probably the last time I see this movie but I am grateful for sharing it with this community. #HATM