If you’re in Boston on July 2, stop by BPL for Special Collections’ open house/pop-up exhibition with items relating to revolutions, declarations, and liberation. 12-4pm in the BPL exhibition hall. My colleagues have worked so hard on this & have chosen some truly fantastic items to share!

I'd like to hear more about the citizenship requirements that opponents of birthright citizenship have in mind. I'm a descendant of the second colonial governor of Rhode Island, but how EXACTLY am I a citizen if "born here" isn't a sufficient condition for me or my ancestors? What's the rule?

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

Between you and me, I don't think this is going to be the biggest impediment to navigation down there right now...

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

Two different federal judges struck down the Department of Education's effort to limit Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility if employers had a "substantial illegal purpose." That, like so many other things, was scheduled to take effect tomorrow.

This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.

I just want to reiterate how bonkers it is that in Alito's view, whether you get birthright citizenship in the United States depends entirely on the laws of other countries.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

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I am texting with my chapter head right now and APPARENTLY the delegates had to hold the floor for TWELVE HOURS without a PEE BREAK to keep the TERFs—who showed up WEARING DEPENDS—from pulling a sneak vote Y’ALL

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The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reached a $1.9 million settlement with Tamar Shirinian, a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk. Shirinian claimed that the school violated her constitutional rights.

This reminds me: do people know any audio transcription tools that aren't AI? Working on a local project and that's a non-negotiable.

Foundation budget review commission is IN! #mapoli #MAEdu

It’s not just setting up the Esplanade and the Hatch Shell for the Fourth of July festivities — DCR also makes sure the fireworks barge can safely travel through Charles River Basin via the New Charles River Dam locks!

We meet again Mercury in retrograde…

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

YOU: Yay, the Supreme Court ruled that states have to accept election mail on election day!!! ME: Tell me who the usps postmaster is YOU: ME: TELL ME WHO THE USPS POSTMASTER IS

If you live in Massachusetts, you live in a state where trans kids have equal rights in school and on the field. We welcome people fleeing persecution in authoritarian states. We just need to work on our housing costs.

Jackson, correctly points out that Thomas is in concurrence with Dred Scott.

Congresspeople, we are also pleased a bare majority of the Supreme Court actually read the Constitution itself, but I could use a little less celebratory language, and a lot more expressions of horror both at how close it was and at their other decisions.

Christ, Kavanaugh joined the judgement but dissented on the Constitutional question... meaning that the vote is only 5-4 that the 14th Amendment exists.

6-3 on something the constitution just straight up says

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, agrees that the trans plaintiff's Title IX claim fails, but accuses the majority of reaching an overly broad conclusion about Title IX's tolerance of anti-trans discrimination. The three fully dissent on equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

As MA celebrates the nation's 250th anniversary, history books often point us toward the big dramatic moments in Boston, but a lot of the heavy work that won the Revolutionary War happened in the mud and snow of Western Massachusetts. 🎤 Interview by Carrie Healy 📝 Edited by Elizabeth Román

The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

It is, as expected, a two-box day at SCOTUS. All of the remaining decisions are expected at 10a. Birthright citizenship, trans sports bans, and coordinated party expenditure limits cases remain.

That image of a golden eagle on the exterior of the White House is AI-generated. There is no such decoration on the Truman Balcony—at least not at this time.

Here's info for the other end of the state!

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Pope Leo has named Sister Alessandra Smerilli as Prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, the Vatican office that deals with migration; she becomes the third woman to lead a Vatican Dicastery.

For those following the Pius XIV back and forth:

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Obviously an earthquake wasn't predictable. But mass deportation inherently means some number will, on net, die. Indifference is baked in to the premise. You're sending large numbers of people to statistically more dangerous places. Not just violence but including, for example, weak building codes.

Morocco on penalties too!

You know, I like this tale better when it’s about why the Ankh-Morpork Firefighters’ Guild doesn’t exist.

I gotta be honest, setting reasonable limits on the technology for my kids is really easy and I would like the democrats to help with literally any other aspect of having children instead of

Yesterday, I looked at the Baptism Record Book for King’s Chapel, Boston. I signed a waiver which means I can’t post the contents, but just look at the title page, with an excerpt from Keble’s poems and a pasted in steel engraving of a baptismal font, clipped from who knows where 🗃️ #bookhistory

Well, today I lost at lightsabers to a five year old who was born super early and is only here because of modern medicine. Today, he’s an unstoppable bundle of energy who let me have his World Cup drawing. So yay, science.

I was being snarky, but it’s incredible we we went from declaring independence, winning a war, creating a government, building a capitol city and the executive’s mansion all in under 25 years. For perspective, 9/11 would be about the same timeframe ago. (we are a little further removed from 9/11)

when it zoomed out I gasped

Visiting family in Pocatello, ID, and they have a playground across a quiet street from their public library. The playground has both a public bathroom and an outdoor water fountain*. This should not be unusual.

This is remarkable.

Detained by ICE on her way to Mass yesterday, Sr. Letty is reunited finally with Sr. Norma Pimental, Pope Francis used called Sr. Norma his “favorite nun.” Quite a moment that shows the human face of rounding up people randomly.

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...