The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95. By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630 (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan) She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in. Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.

This is NOT OK!

Good morning, all. I’m back to cover today’s Texas SBOE meeting. Livestream and agenda are at the link below. They’re planning to get started at 9 AM CT. I aim to cover all of it, with special attention to item 5 on the social studies standards. Follow this thread for more. ⬇️

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

The things I want to say about higher ed and lawmakers is not fit for the public but has something to do with our need to have job requirements for leadership positions.

Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.

Yo samesies

OK Cherelle, calm it down

I have not read this AT ALL but I am convinced she is correct

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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every word of this sentence was an adventure

Friends in Spanish, Portuguese, and other language departments, do you offer a pro seminar for your grads? if so, do you have materials you'd be willing to share? Thank you!

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

On top of everything else There’s a snow bowl game on to decide the Superb Owl And the Eagles aren’t in it (Somehow this is my attempt at a timeline cleanse)

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."

America as you have known it dying because we have to build this country better. Full stop. Holding on to the fantasy nostalgia doesn't help the people of Minneapolis, or anyone captured by ICE. You have lived with an illusion of freedom, but this is Authoritarianism 101.

Sniveling cowards

As a long time fan of KFAN I won’t ever listen again until Paul Allen is fired. Making jokes about Minneapolis residents putting their lives on the line and sometimes losing them in order to defend our neighbors is immoral and wrong

We’re well past knowing who we and our friends or family would have been in Nazi Germany/slavery/whatever deeply evil historical moment. Abolish. Prosecute. Now.

As brutal temperatures blanket the U.S., people behind bars experience particularly deadly conditions. Here's what data show about the dangers of extreme cold in prison 🧵

Some Democrat is going to propose a truth and reconciliation commission but it’s gotta be truth and consequences. There’s no way to find out what happened, get transparency, and move on. We have to salt the earth under the DHS, dismantle the policing and surveillance infrastructure that allowed it.

roses are red deserts have drought

There’s an old saying in journalism: “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.” It’s always been true, but it goes quadruple now.

Reporters need to immediately stop entertaining statements from the US government as if they have a shred of truth to them

There it is. He was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. They executed a man for exercising his 2nd amendment right.

It’s fantastic* watching us all learn that we only ever had a constitution in theory */s

They recruited the comments section and gave them weapons and sovereign immunity.

Listen, I am not God’s strongest soldier.

GO BIRDS FUCK ICE 🦅

From a family member in Philly, this little sign is now at the Presidents House site where the slavery exhibit was removed.

Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE. If other businesses participated in a national strike, Trump will Taco www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

I can’t believe their defense for kidnapping a 5-year-old was we fed him at McDonald’s

Last night's seminar, we're reading 5th Sun. I have the hard copy, most of the students have the e-book, one has a printout. There is no less than 3 different page options for when we are looking for the quotes we are referencing. Make it make sense.

Interested in the history of enslaved people, Black history, and George Washington? Download this report, which is still on the NPS site (for now). My research team spent 3 years collaborating with descendants of people enslaved at the Washington's Headquarters site and the wonderful NPS staff:

Good morning to all freedom fighters, and to the millions of people who are googling “abolish ICE” for the first time

What is extreme cold like in prison? "My cell was like a walk-in freezer... I taped cardboard across the vent using sanitary pads and propped my travel-sized blow dryer on the high setting in my toilet hole roll as a portable heater" By @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:

Didn’t think it’d be this one that blew up. Book info here: bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Announcing Thread 1 of a series on how to design an interesting feed for yourself on Bluesky, and getting started with posting so that you aren't screaming into an empty void. I'll number these threads and tag them #BlueskyHacks. HACK NUMBER 1: finding & pinning interesting feeds. 1/

Philly is suing Trump for taking down the National Parks displays about slavery yesterday.

“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused." Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.

We need to bring back shame. I would be so embarrassed to admit to doing any of this. (I would never do any of this)

It’s time to dismantle ICE, we cannot continue to fund reckless terror. I will NOT be supporting DHS funding for the lawless, dangerous, and murderous ICE.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."