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So my senators, @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov, voted to unleash the grifter economy and give the GOP everything they want.

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News from me and @garnethenderson.com on discussions Planned Parenthood Federation of America is having as the Senate tries to "defund" the organization for its non-abortion services

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News from the 9th Circuit tonight www.newsfromthestates.com/article/appe...

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NEW: Oklahoma Republicans have been frustrated at a bunch of citizen initiatives—to expand Medicaid, hike the minimum wage, & more. And they just passed a wide-ranging law that cracks down on direct democracy, and will make it a lot tougher to qualify measures going forward. I wrote about it all:

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MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

Census data says Los Angeles has 4 million total residents. A birther crypto scammer convicted of 34 felony fraud charges says the city harbors "Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens." For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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PUBLICATION DAY! _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

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Really puts the discussion of AI and history into perspective

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A spontaneous strike at the Louvre shut down the world's most-visited museum on Monday. Workers refused to take up their posts in frustration at "overtourism" and what they call an an institution crumbling from within. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

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Hey, did I predict today's historian discourse or what?

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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A raid in Montebello, Calif., has stirred fears that federal agents are detaining and racially profiling U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent. It's despicable, so yeah, I'm thinking it's true. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

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ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.

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🗃️ I read the article and agree with @kawulf.bsky.social. I would add a few points in support: This article is premised on a basic misunderstanding of the historical research process. It’s important to note that, as far as I can tell, the author of the article is not a professional historian, i.e.

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This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho. 1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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I know most folks on Bsky have left Facebook & for good reason, but I think it's important to note how that platform is distorting our information environment & breaking the brains of our fellow citizens. See, for example, the case of former local TV news anchor & shameless propagandist, Rick Dancer

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A sad reminder that it is nearly impossible to fire into or near a crowd safely, even if you have a clear target. A tragedy all around.

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Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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An interesting account of the way that some writers are using AI to conceptualize and write works of history. Most of the benefits described here involve ways of amalgamating and synthesizing materials from already-existing digital databases. I remain concerned... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

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Although millions took the streets today to demonstrate against Donald Trump's power grab, there was only one shooting, in Salt Lake City. Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide. crimethinc.com/gunshotwounds 🧵⬇️

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About 1.5% of the U.S. population protested today. (Closer to 1.9% if you only count the adult population.)

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L.A. TACO is working on confirming the total of vendors and customers taken by ICE but it's estimated that 40 to 50 of them were detained. A video shared from a vendor's son who saw everything unfold as ICE raided the Santa Fe Springs Swap meet. Tonight's event was cancelled. @janettev.bsky.social

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LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.

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"Reporters surveyed state and local law enforcement agencies and found that at least 145 of them had resold guns on at least one occasion between 2006 and 2024. That's about 90 percent of the more than 160 agencies that responded."

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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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Folks Please don't act like soldiers can just say no to something they don't agree with It would have to be an illegal order And have any of you gone to your CO and said "nah boss I ain't"? It doesn't work like that. These folks are largely doing their jobs They don't have rights like you

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Gift article. Everyone should know how fucking ugly this is.

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An important discussion of the tangled politics of women and MAHA. Unfortunately, no historian was cited or interviewed for the piece so it has almost nothing to say about the history of women's unwaged food labor, the rise of processed food, and womens liberation from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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It is truly terrible to see my former division used as the spear tip for rebuilding the military as a partisan tool of GOP politicians.

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If you’re going to the No Kings protest in Nassau County, be aware they have a mask ban (including respirators). The “medical exemption” is 100% police discretion. You have to prove you’re “sick enough” to mask. Mask bans are the result of people refusing to help disabled folks normalize masking

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