Spring season opening day! And the team voted me MVP! I hit 7 for 8! Oh, and I got my World Series champion ring! The road to another championship starts now! 🥎 🏆

"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHg...

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Eeeeek! Foto flashback! Me at 21. My work badge for my first journalism job: an overnight news writer for WSVN (Miami) Channel 7. 😆

Americans hate ICE!

Alright, let’s make it official. This Thursday @hcrichardson.bsky.social makes her first appearance on Reckoning with Jason Herbert. We’re talking Lincoln. We’re talking mythology. We’re talking power. We’re talking…vampires. Subscribe below not to miss a thing.

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

In May 2020, I wrote a counter-editorial for Abusable Past about Bad Bunny. My love for him has only grown. It felt like an early love/admiration letter to someone who was doing such important cultural and political work. Tonight is going to be momentous! abusablepast.org/counter-edit...

Statement correcting administrative misinformation.... #LetUsTeach #BTHOcensorship

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

This essay by @juliocapojr.bsky.social, about how the 1985 film Clue represented Cold War realities, is so good! 🗃️ time.com/7341218/40-y...

the story of Dick Gregory, who was jailed with MLK in Birmingham, helped me to how important jailed people to the Civil Rights Movement. when people like Gregory were taken to jail, jailed people were right there ready to go with support and plans for direct action. www.pennpress.org/978151282349...

I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Welcome new BlueSkyers! Just a tip before you start following a ton of people. To get rid of bad actors, stay safe, & keep this place from becoming like X, many people here will block new followers with no bios & no posts. Tell us something about yourself before following a ton of people. Thanks!

Indeed, the project of "anti-communism" is cover for a whole lot of things! www.thejc.com/life/hunting...

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

Ummm did this really happen?! Still reading over & over message I received from the DIRECTOR of my favorite film, Clue, thanking me for writing the piece for Made By History in TIME. He said I really “got the point” of the film, including its “political subtext.” UNREAL, right?! 🕵🏻‍♂️🍿🎥

Have some extra broccoli in your fridge? Turn them into fritters! I loved it, and it paired well with some sour cream. 🤤🥦

ORDER THIS RIGHT NOW 👇🏽

Trump at press conference on #Venezuela: “it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal…we sort of forgot about it. It’s very important but we forgot about it.” I mean, he clearly doesn’t know what any of this means. This explanation wouldn’t pass a 6th grade history test.

Did Trump admin use Scarface as its source for these claims?

This piece is excellent for using Clue (1985) to think about the contemporary moment in which it as made. Highly recommend! Also will recommend my own (very informal) review of Clue for what it has to say about the contextual moment in which it is set, 1954 with all its HUAC goodness.

This is a well-assembled statement about a movie that's grown into the cultural bedrock whilst never losing its sense of immediate relevance. Thank you for writing it. And here's hoping that at some point in the future, we will all finally learn what one plus one plus two plus one equals.

Nice piece by @juliocapojr.bsky.social on the political overtones of Clue, something I've never seen addressed as directly as it is here. And here we are in 20s - mired in a new, new conservative movement. #Clue #filmsky

I wrote a new piece for TIME’s Made by History on one of my favorite films: #Clue! 🕵🏻‍♂️ I show how the film, set in 1950s during peak #McCarthyism, tells us more about the time it was created: the 1980s & new conservative movement. If you’ve never seen this #cultclassic, check it out!

*Call for Applications* Would you be interested in editing an academic journal? MAH editors Sarah Snyder and Darren Dochuk will reach the end of their term in summer 2027, and Cambridge is looking for a new editorial team. More details below.

Proud to have contributed to this roundtable published in @modamhist.bsky.social. A few of us discuss what is really happening in higher education today. 👇🏼

Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his family name because he was ashamed of his great-great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem witch trials.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

A group effort to identify the birth name of and other information about the pioneering trans author who went by the names Jennie June, Ralph Werther, and Earl Lind in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published originally in 2018; updated in September 2025. Link in bio.

We both have been working non-stop lately, so it’s especially nice to take some much-needed time away. Off to celebrate Patrick’s mom’s 70th birthday in Jamaica! 🎉❤️🥰 Other photo of our babies/obstructionists trying to tag along. 🤣

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

It's Tuesday which means: NEW BOOKS 🎉 Check out these four new titles hitting shelves today 📚 uncpressblog.com/2025/10/14/n...

We have an annual tradition of taking a boys’ weekend to Orlando to visit Halloween Horror Nights. It was perfect. 🙏🏼❤️👯‍♀️🎃👻

I can’t tell you how proud I feel. Our team, Whoosh, WON the Gay Softball World Series in Houston, beating out 57 other top teams from all over US and Canada! We worked so hard. I tore my ligament playing a couple of years ago & it took a lot to work my way back here. Love this group so very much.

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

This is so messed up.

@longleafserv.bsky.social is hiring an Editorial Project Manager to manage multiple editorial, design, and production projects for books and journals for multiple academic presses, libraries, and learning societies. Interested? Learn more & apply here ⤵️ uncpress.org/now-hiring-e...

I’ve been sick for a few days, but I followed through with playing in a little tennis tournament in our community this morning. I pushed through not feeling well and won! 🥇🎾❤️ Felt so good! And now back in bed. 🛌

“We’re in this full-fledged culture war where there’s this rapid movement to silence LGBTQ+ voices and an inclusive curriculum…” Don Romesburg notes the necessity of building real-life community and organizing intergenerational coalitions to push back. @donromesburg.bsky.social 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️‍🌈

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

I’ve been looking forward to this day for months! #USOpen with my ❤️ and his mom. 🎾🥰