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If you wrote a book about US civil rights, especially in the 19th century, I would like to know about it. I also like dumb jokes.
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My students researched, wrote, recorded, and edited a podcast called “Who Cares about the Marquis de Lafayette?” It is great. I am so proud. csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...

It's ridiculous we're arguing about the Stuart Constitution in the Year of Our Lord 2025. It is irritating to fight battles with people who think they can learn 400 years of Anglo-American law on the fly and think everyone else is wrong but them. It's obnoxious in ordinary times; it's dangerous now.

Please join me for my first YouTube live talk about Alaska history and the Second World War 11AM Pacific Time Feb 11- today!! 🗃️ Tagging @uwapress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/HoiQ-hk...

It looks like Kendrick has won for now but sources tell me Drake has a devastating rebuttal planned for his performance at the Kids’ Choice Awards

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

what if we kissed under the constant imminent threat of societal collapse

The Gitmo announcement is a good reminder to read @radleybalko.bsky.social’s nuts and bolts of mass deportation if you haven’t already open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

This is the second in a series of threads about Jeff Fynn-Paul’s book NOT STOLEN. The first thread focused on chapter 13, “Was America Stolen?” Amazingly, F-P actually winds up answering this question with a YES. twitter.com/Jeff__Ostler...

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:

I’ll note that the question I answered was more about individual immigration judges who are deciding case, and all the people fired today were management, but yes, this is unusual. The EOIR Director has changed in the past between administrations but I’m not aware of a similar leadership purge.

One thing I used to do on Twitter sometimes was post a list of less-quoted MLK writings that have shaped me and are freely available online. Here’s that list (in chronological order) if you would like some reading for tomorrow.

🧵The debate over the failure to place a plaque honoring the agencies that defended the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 is a wonderful case study on the difference between history and memory. In 2022, Congress authorized the a plaque for the west front of the Capitol complex by March 2023. 🗃️

me after killing a werewolf: more like werewolf {but this time i pronounce it were, like the second person singular past, plural past, and past subjunctive of be}