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Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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This is palpably true. The chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom has been swift and fierce, as intended.

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www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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Let's focus on the 95% it didn't fall. www.reuters.com/world/japan/...

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Deporting refugees from South Sudan while courting Afrikaners pretty much tells you what you need to know.

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"expected beliefs" straight out of Minority Report

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Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars

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A lifeline for humanities & social science research

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Trump destroyed National History Day and is replacing it with a dumb Garden of Heroes.

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Illegal ideas.

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Something quaint and outdated is that the president takes an oath to "faithfully execute" his office and "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution."

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Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows.

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The State Department:

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The State Department:

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Now for the begging, and the bribes, to get favors from the personalist regime

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Mississippi, birthplace of the blues, a musical genre based on how great everything used to be.

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These are people who study the slave trade for "best practices."

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This is the best thing I have seen all day.

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On this day 160 years ago

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It's horrible whatever you call it, but forcibly sending citizens out of the country is more like exile than deportation. They are working on sending citizens into exile, which at a minimum is cruel and unusual punishment for any crime, and therefore highly unconstitutional.

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Where's the beef? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Spotted in the wild

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Where's the beef? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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"There is good reason to think that we may be entering fullblown bond market meltdown. The headlines of Bloomberg and the FT and the WSJ all concur. The bond market is the story. This is not normal."

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🎶Do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the Pontiff🎶

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All I can say is that you're going to have a hard time studying the history of Mississippi without the database of scholarship on "race relations." mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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This is a terrible time for a tariff on pharmaceuticals seeing as how we have a national shortage of crazy pills.

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Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

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Originalism!

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From Mississippi Rep. Jeffrey Harness

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All I can say is that you're going to have a hard time studying the history of Mississippi without the database of scholarship on "race relations." mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left Toulouse

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Historians know: the false confidence & frequency with which Musk says “throughout history” signals the immediate historical mendacity that will follow. He hasn’t ever done the reading & makes up “facts” about Rome—which reached its pop. height around the 2ndC CE & didn’t “fall” from pop. decline.

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I was told there would be no gender ideology

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