As always, thanks for including us in your roundup, @americanstudier.bsky.social.

The world in 2026.

In this essay, I discuss Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton, his odious career in the Texas Legislature, and the harms caused by his ban on LGBQ+ research at the sixth largest university in the Lone Star State. drmphillips2001.substack.com/p/texas-tech...

Fetterman has to go.

Kristoff has repeatedly shown bravery.

Deborah Lipstadt ceased being an actual historian and turned into a manipulative propagandist a long time ago.

Thank you as always @americanstudier.bsky.social for compiling these links and including an essay on human rights and the World Cup matches to be played n Dallas-Fort Worth I wrote with Hadi Jawad of Human Rights Dallas and Dr. Rick Halperin of SMU.

I promise that if you elect me as president in 2028, I will not erect a giant golden statue of myself and will leave the White House intact except for taking down the tacky shit Trump has plastered everywhere.

Here I am with my friend Arash Farasat of the Workers Defense Project in Dallas.

In an op-ed I co-authored I warn that unless local cities act to shield intentional football fans from abuse by ICE when the World Cup comes to the Dallas area this summer, the games could become a financial disaster and a human rights tragedy. www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-...

He's bored w/ crushing free thought at colleges, & universities, vote suppression, stripping women of bodily autonomy, & making lives miserable for the LGBTQ+ community. So Texas autocrat Greg Abbott will go full-on Islamophobic every day until November. His hate-addled base will love him for it.

A group shot of our vigil at Dallas ICE headquarters this past Monday.

My co-author and partner in all things @betsyfriauf.bsky.social making her voice heard during the one-year anniversary vigil outside of Dallas ICE headquarters on Monday.

On May 14, Texas will execute a prisoner by lethal injection for the 600th time since it pioneered that death house protocol in 1982. On that day, Human Rights Dallas will be holding a vigil near the Kennedy Memorial and the Old Red Courthouse from 5-7 p.m.

One of my favorite photos of me with my co-author and partner in all things, Betsy Friauf, when I was a guest on my friend Ed Gray's "The Commish" radio show July 30, 2017 talking about the campaign to remove Confederate monuments in Dallas.

Father Christopher Blake Thomas of the Episcopal Church of St. Thomas The Apostle in Dallas leads a processional in front of Dallas ICE headquarters The Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response (CLEAR) DFW has held a vigil every week there for the past year & provides services for migrants.

Thanks again for the shout out about our article on Texas Islamophobia @americanstudier.bsky.social.

Last Saturday, I attended a reunion of former University of Texas at Arlington student newspaper reporters, photographers, staffers and editors. I worked there from 1980-1983. Here I am, on the left, with alums Lynne Swihart, Rickie Windle, and Jon Weist.

A rare photo of the U.S. Supreme Court deliberating Louisiana v. Callais.

John Roberts has done more practical damage to African Americans in this country than David Duke.

Along with Dr. Rick Halperin at the Human Rights program at SMU and Hadi Jawad at Human Rights Dallas, I co-authored an essay on how the Islamophobia in Texas today echoes that anti-Catholic politics of an earlier era of Texas history. www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/texa...

Last Tuesday, my co-author and partner in all things Betsy Friauf made a presentation based on our book "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas" to an engaged audience at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.

I’m here for the sick jokes.

It’s really disgusting.

I spoke yesterday at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth about the book I co-authored with Betsy Friauf. “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.” We had a great response from the audience.

I'm proud to work with Hadi Jawad of Human Rights Dallas in an effort to get the city to adopt policies that would make it a Human Rights City. Kathleen Thompson of Progress Texas is a great interviewer. You can hear her interview with Hadi here: www.facebook.com/reel/3913371...

Last Tuesday, Betsy Friauf and I made presentations at Texas A&M University based on our book “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.” We had a good crowd that asked smart questions. On Tuesday we bring our road show to Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.

Thanks again for including us, @americanstudier.bsky.social. In our interview we discuss “sportswashing” in past world sports events and the need for Dallas to establish human rights standards before the World Cup comes to town.

There’s nothing exceptional about villains. In some times and places they form a working majority.

I love Dominic's attitude in this photo, taken from around the time he was 12.

Hadi Jawad (co-founder of Human Rights Dallas), Dr. Rick Halperin (SMU's Human Rights Program director), and me were interviewed by Kathleen Thompson of Progress Texas about human rights in Dallas as the city prepares to host the World Cup games this summer. progresstexas.org/podcast/happ...

It is hilarious.

If you are in the College Station area @betsyfriauf.bsky.social will be making a presentation based on our book "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas" at Texas A&M tomorrow afternoon. calendar.tamu.edu/event/381237...

It’s always great to make this list. Thank you for providing this service, @americanstudier.bsky.social.

In this essay, I discuss the odious career of the late Dallas DA Henry Wade of Roe v. Wade fame and urge the county to take his name off of the juvenile justice center. www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/henr...

“A whole civilization will die tonight.” The child molester in the White House is completely demented.”

Want to support the troops? Oppose this war.

I think we already have an oversupply.

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I were on a panel at the recent Southwestern Social Sciences Association meeting in Nashville with @phdrachel.bsky.social and sociologist Christopher Mathey. We discussed various aspects of the history of disability in the U.S. and in military life.

The president you elected twice bragging about the war crimes he's about to commit. Nice Easter message. I'm tired of being grossed out by my country.

Pam Bondi, we hardly knew ye. That was quite enough.

As bad as Boomer Republicans and older are, young Republicans who grew up in the Trump era are much, much worse. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

In 1898, the Supreme Court weighed in on whether the 14th Amendment means what it clearly says: you are a citizen if you are born in the United States. Phiot

@betsyfriauf.bsky.social and I heard an inspiring talk at a special Refugee Shabbat hosted by a Jewish congregation in Dallas this past Friday. (For security, I won't say where.) Ghazan Abdullah, of the Mosaic Family Services Program, told us of the hardships refugees face in the U.S. today.

Thank for including us again, @americanstudier.bsky.social.

Doing my small part today.

I like AOC but the rest are a pretty grim lot.

Dominic’s internship with the steel company has ended and he has begun his work with LG.

Today is the 54th anniversary of being diagnosed as diabetic. Here's a picture of me in 5th grade, one year before the diagnoses.

This is one of my favorite photos of Betsy Friauf of all time. I couldn't ask for a better co-author, travel companion, fellow fighter for justice, and friend.