even better advice is "don't put anything into a group chat that you wouldn't feel comfortable printing on the front page of the newspaper regardless of encryption status" — group chats, especially ones with a dozen+ strangers in them, leak all the time, encrypted or not

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)

Do a google search of the report, and you'll find no REAL discussion of the views of historians of science who have literally written a book on "objectivity" that shows empirically that, contra the Vanderbilt report, that objectivity is historically constructed press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Cool book thread!

“The IOC’s decision to reinstate a genetic testing process it abandoned decades ago is a U-turn that athletes say will damage the livelihood and humanity of not just trans and intersex athletes, but all women.” This is a clear reminder that policing gender does not “protect women” — it harms them.

It's not a flight dropping live people into the ocean, but it's also not not that

Dear @forbes.com Do your homework - the new reports? Dudes they’ve been saying this since Barry Goldwater

No, the assumption that disabled people require our colleagues’ stolen words and illustrations chopped up and spewed out in order to participate in art is ableist. We have BEEN creating art. Many of the works you love? Made by someone marginalized out of traditional jobs.

By way of an update: this is how this should be described. I am glad this is clear to some, and it’s esp good to see in policing context. But unfortunately those ‘some’ do not currently include most of our media. Many continue to go with the immensely dangerous ‘legitimate concerns’ protest line.

Block with swift vengeance.

This is how it’s done. State the facts and refuse to entertain their bullshit.

I just wrapped up a manuscript that described the Civil Rights Division helping to *de*segregate universities in Alabama and Mississippi, so it's more than a bit jarring to see the current head of the Civil Rights Division pushing things in the other direction.

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this

Just had a great 250th-themed US foreign relations conversation on #BBC's American History Hit (podcast out soon), & I am reminded how much hope serious, nuanced long form discussions give me. Also, I wish there were more of them/more people listened & engaged.🗃️ www.historyhit.com/podcast/amer...

I wish we lived in the world where this is true, but we don't. You cannot respond to an orchestrated partisan attack on the very nature of our democracy with bipartisanship and status quoist legalism. This Supreme Court has made itself an opponent to democracy, it should be treated as such

I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man

Had a great time at the local library tonight speaking on immigrant allies who trained the continental army. #historian #library

Doing research in Matthew Shepard’s papers at the Smithsonian this morning. Stumbled upon Matt’s eighth-grade student identification card, which stopped me in my tracks. He was murdered about eight years after this picture was taken. 🗃️

Don't miss this fantastic #AMA #Skystorians!

Can I show you something I’m really proud of? The revised version of American Yawp now covers the disability rights movement including 504 and the ADA! 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8sDCC39/

Apparently being racist is fine but being called a racist is not fine.

My great-aunt Ann was one of these women! Here she is with her mother, my great-grandmother Margaret Campbell, in the 1980s. Both Margaret and Ann lived to 100! Aunt Ann was a real character. She never married - "And it wasn't that I wasn't asked!" and travelled the world skiing and birdwatching.

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Guaranteed entry into host country for everyone associated with the sporting event has been a requirement since 1960s b/c of the problems w/NATO’s non-recognition of East Germany #skystorians 🗃️ #sporthistory I wrote a whole book on that: www.umasspress.com/978162534595... @umasspress.bsky.social

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

I just finished publishing my online summer courses that start tomorrow! Have a wonderful watch party #HATM

Folks I've got a 90 minute drive home from the airport so tonight we are going to try something different: #HATM ronin style. Y'all just kick off at 8 eastern and start talking. See ya in a bit.

My Apple watch thinks crocheting is great exercise!

Well, you see, Democrats stole the 2020 election when Republicans were in charge, but then Democrats couldn't steal the 2024 election when Democrats were in charge because of, uh

i also have very little to add to this other than if you fell for this extremely artificial panic, fucking shame on you, and it got you absolutely nothing and nowhere and now your life is worse too.

Let’s talk about Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Progressive Party & why @herberthistory.bsky.social is watching his mailbox closely this week! How cool is this?! 🗃️ #HATM www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8sk7nuM/

Happy Griswold Day. Hopefully birth control remains constitutionally protected despite Justice Thomas’s views. 🗃️

Reconstruction is not "often overlooked." Historians are. 🗃️ www.aol.com/lifestyle/ba...

if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults

The existence of non-subordinated women with college degrees has driven a substantial proportion of men completely fucking insane. It's not great.

There are an infinity number of actual historians Obama could’ve done this with instead

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

Pete Hegseth using the language and date of D-Day to say immigrants are storming the beaches, denigrating the American, Canadian, British and French troops who died 82 years ago insuring my grandparents got to live in a free France, is an insult to America, to Europe, and to the military.

Many of the Americans who landed on the beaches on D-Day were immigrants and the children of immigrants. The "America First" xenophobes who supported the Nazis hated them.

My great-uncle Herb Reichlin lost an eye fighting for this country in Europe and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. I am confident that he would have been furious to hear the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean described as an invasion in comparison to D-Day.

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️

Pete Hegseth dropping deism and Unitarian Universalism from accepted religions in the military is honestly almost too fucking hilarious for me to be properly outraged about.

@universalhub.com someone set a box of Juneteenth items on fire behind the Museum of African American History. This fire could have devastated the oldest African Church in the US and the site of the Abiel Smith School, not to mention the rest of the neighborhood. 🗃️📜 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Important article on censorship of LGBTQ history in museums and how you can push back. By @eocieslik.bsky.social @washblade.bsky.social www.washingtonblade.com/2026/06/04/f... 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️

🚨BREAKING: The Senate blocked another Republican attempt Thursday to attach the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package, marking the second failed GOP effort to move the sweeping voting restrictions bill through the chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is a fascist attack on higher education, an attempt to cut the financial legs out from under one of the America's truly world-leading industries out of a blinding hatred for its project and those who believe in it.

a big part of being a republican is cutting programs that keep disasters from happening because we dont need to try to prevent something that isnt happening