Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

Some liberals are OBSESSED with "private" prisons as though the problem is not simply PRISONS. Folks, the vast majority of prisons in the U.S. are PUBLIC NOT PRIVATE. And they are HELL HOLES. OK? I need folks to stop and actually focus on the PROBLEM which is PRISONS AND JAILS.

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This is horrifying. I don't think it's an overstatement to say, based on the extensive reporting here and in so many other reputable places, that these are American concentration camps and places of terrible cruelty. Gift link: share.inquirer.com/i8a5AZ

ICYMI: DOJ is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, issuing grand jury subpoenas to the companies as it escalates efforts to identify critics of the Trump administration's deportation efforts buff.ly/xNSIF16 (gift link)

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Link to text of Trump administration's proposed government-wide NDA agreement. Link to submit comments about it in thread below. Also, very briefly, this appears wildly unconstitutional to me. A sweeping prior restraint on essentially whatever the admin. decides 1/x urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Young MC has joined Morris Day in announcing he won't be performing for the Freedom 250 concert which was announced all of 12 hours ago. I've been working concerts since 1996 and this is one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It's looking very much like the talent buyer lied to the artists.

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

Just when you thought you'd seen it all

zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

What if taxing the rich works?

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

(((It is also, not incidentally, how abolitionists built democratic power when litigating against the Fugitive Slave Act. They put the prosecution on public trial.)) www.californialawreview.org/print/resist...

Note: two of these three judges were appointed by Donald Trump

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Just FYI, the Supreme Court Database is now organized and hosted at Penn State: scdb.la.psu.edu

The crosstabs on the latest Fox News poll showing Trump 22 points underwater (39 - 61) astound me. Trump is underwater w/ white men, white women, white w/o college degree, white women w/o college degree, Catholics, urban, suburban and rural voters. Only positive with white men w/o college degree.

may have to update my banner

Never in my life have I seen such a perfect depiction of this moment in our history

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

My Uncle Lou was the last survivor of the Arizona. He passed away a couple of years ago after spending a lifetime honoring his shipmates, but if he could have a chat with Patel, I’m sure Patel would never forget it. 🤬

"Accounts by her victims alleged that she had trained her German Shephard Volodia to rape female left-wing dissidents during the Pinochet regime. The film is inspired by Journalist Nancy Guzman’s book La Mujer de los Perros (The Dog Lady)." theconversation.com/bestia-oscar...

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

May I humbly suggest Nathan Evans Fox for some modern outlaw country. Hillbilly Hymn went viral last year and it's a good 'un.

"Funny how firing your London bureau chief with institutional knowledge means you fuck up huge overseas stories," one CBS News senior staffer just told me regarding the visa screw-up.

"Multiple others were recruited from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, allegedly during the many years of friendship between the now-president and Epstein." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On the subject of Pharaoh, Ben Franklin actually wanted the obverse of the Great Seal of the US to be a picture of the Pharaoh from Exodus fucking dying, surrounded with the words "REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD"

After losing their map in Virginia, Strength In Numbers estimates Dems are now down 6 seats in the House from mid-decade + post-VRA redistricting. Could lose 2-3 more across the South. Dems need to win the House pop. vote by 4 to win the majority of seats. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

Ah. Thanks for telling me. I felt good. Now I feel bad.

I don't know if @aoc.bsky.social's told this story about orientation before, but I've never heard it

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation