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melanienewport.bsky.social
melanienewport.com. US carceral and urban history. concerned citizen in CT and AAUP member. abolitionist. working mom. dachshund lady. personal account. wrote a book about Cook County Jail
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the Bluey “sleepytime episode” 🥹 🌞

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Don’t miss my colleague @kendradboyd.bsky.social’s fantastic new book. Preorder now and get 40% off!!

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Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

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Ready to take on anything.

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I have put together the ikea play kitchen I bought when it felt like the world was ending

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We really went from, “We can’t possibly defund the police,” to “let’s defund everything else.” Smh

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folks with the expectation that university presidents will act nobly: may I introduce you to the Board of Trustees

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are we ready to talk about how much research and programming has occurred *despite* universities?

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rescinding admissions is gross and at a well-endowed private school, seems to have little to do with actual coin

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can’t wait to get my copy. I love teaching with these images and John is the best ✨

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just to make sure: are there any carceral historians (or historians doing police, crime, incarceration-related topics) still looking to join a panel submission for Urban History Association?

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I wrote this for Time on the history of legal challenges to the ban on trans military personnel: time.com/7216460/figh...

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icymi the bipartisan austerity project of destroying liberal institutions is of a kind with what Trump, DOGE etc are doing. it’s time to ask legislators, “Which side are you on?”

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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it’s ya girl asking the CT legislature to step up for higher ed! so proud to roll with @uconnaaup.bsky.social and our union sibs from across the state!

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Timeline cleanse. I realized I can’t afford to keep my house heated to the temperature that maximizes the comfort of a tiny puppy with short fur so I busted out the heating pad. Reviews are positive.

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Hercules, a brown dachshund, displays heroic self control as a toddler eats cereal with a play ladle on the couch

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People laughed when someone testified that Ned Lamont wants to be remembered as the “education governor.” lol

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Lamont is trying to DOGE literally everything in CT

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one of the people testifying at the CT legislature higher ed appropriations committee was talking about the NIH cuts and asked “what’s your plan B?” and imo that is THE question for this legislature that’s been straight up bipartisan lazy about making sure our institutions were strong before this

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bro we are so burdened by what has been rn

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to be honest, I got into critcal university studies so I could be more annoying

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my brain keeps replacing LLM with MLM and I am fine with this

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I miss this era of the internet so much

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I keep making the most bullshit resolutions at the gym. “I’m going to be a person who drinks water” “this week I’m going to be a person who eats food”

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It's not savings if we paid for those services and expect them? If I buy a slice of pizza, and someone slaps it to the ground before it gets to me---that's not savings for me or the pizza place. Why not try cutting some of the billions of dollars the pizza place is spending on border surveillance.

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panicked about the world and ordered my kid a 52-piece kit for making pretend salad www.target.com/p/melissa-do...

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Here’s the playbook: raid public coffers, dismantle public services, use the breakdown of infrastructure they engineer to scapegoat and repress political enemies, and to further privatize what was, is, and should be public.

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This!! Underfunding public higher education hurts everyone in the state.

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referenced the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and my students were clearly not sure what I was talking about

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hey #nutmegsky today is a great day to call your state legislators to ask them to challenge Lamont’s sorry higher ed budget proposal and demand FULL funding for Connecticut’s public colleges and universities!

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🚨 New Kim Phillips-Fein just dropped 🚨 t.co/TWqPkOpywA 🗃️

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you make a life with someone and it’s like, we finally got around to exchanging valentine’s gifts and it turned out we got each other highly specific books from university presses based on undergraduate courses we loved

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“To be clear, the SFFA decision… did not place restrictions on the goals of diversity, equity, or inclusion, particularly when those goals are rooted in the mission of a university, college, department, or program”

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Great interview by @melanienewport.bsky.social and now need to read John Bardes's book! www.publicbooks.org/slavery-is-n...

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Though against their short-term economic interest, some slaveholders sent their slaves to jail “because they saw it as an investment in their enslaved capital. They thought that the enslaved prisoner would be returned a broken person, a better slave, as horrific as that sounds”

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