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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 3 days ago • 525 comments

So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

it is crazy to me that we have pundits, pollsters and democratic strategists staring directly at trump diving head first in a quagmire of a scandal and insisting that it is bad politics to make hay of it

submitted 9 days ago • 253 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 9 days ago • 656 comments

We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all. documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...

submitted 10 days ago • 225 comments

It’s weird that I’m on a freeway in LA and all I’m thinking is: “No way Sandra Bullock could keep a bus going 55mph on this thing.”

submitted 10 days ago • 280 comments

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

submitted 10 days ago • 159 comments

cuomo’s position here is basically that it is unsporting to do politics www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 10 days ago • 698 comments

Bill Ackman giving a quarter mil to get Cuomo the NYC mayoralty should tell you all you need to know about the both of them

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 11 days ago • 1378 comments

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

submitted 13 days ago • 173 comments

We're being forced into a cultural revolution, the kind of action the Right has always pretended to fear from liberalism and actually projected their own desires onto the culture. It's happening and it's coupling state violence, economic terrorism, and seizure of education. And it's happening fast.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

I still believe it all should've ended the moment he mocked a disabled reporter.

submitted 16 days ago • 70 comments

A lot of this can be traced directly to America's failed War on Terror and demonization of Muslim and Arab Americans. The Patriot Act, the creation of ICE, and the voluntary removal of our freedoms for the brief feeling of safety. We warned it would be used against us all. Voila.

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

I never realized there was a class of people for whom the History Channel version of WWII was “too complicated”

submitted 16 days ago • 143 comments

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

submitted 17 days ago • 423 comments

The day is coming and I mean very soon where any speech deemed “a threat to national security” by any citizen will be subject to censure and prosecution. That anti terrorism loophole is going to be everyone’s downfall. Everyone.

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

I say this as a historian — history will remember you utterly failing to meet the challenge of this moment. At the rate you’re going, “Schumer” is going to end up somewhere between “Chamberlain” or “Quisling”

submitted 16 days ago • 131 comments

Someday, I hope to look at the news and be absolutely crushed by boredom

submitted 16 days ago • 76 comments

House Republicans just passed a sweeping anti-voting bill that historians are saying is the most anti-voting piece of legislation to come out of Congress in the nation's history. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/XS8aePRgFU4

submitted 16 days ago • 200 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 17 days ago • 482 comments

I think seeing the leadership we want in this country will require unexpected leaders. I don’t think it’ll be obvious. They’ll have to work harder to show us a vision for the future and we will have to work harder to see it.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Never forget that Roberts enabled all of this - ALL OF THIS - by letting billionaires corrupt the entire political system via the Citizens United decision and destroying the Voting Rights Act.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 19 days ago • 803 comments

make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health

submitted 19 days ago • 182 comments

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

I know crashing the economy on purpose seems harsh, but it’ll all be worth it when the seventh Little Mermaid is white

submitted 24 days ago • 122 comments

It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

With every week of additional horrors in the news I find a different part of my lecture course I feel I should expand. “Yeah, need to add more on McCarthyism and education …” “Well, probably could beef up wartime internment …” “OK, so time to revisit the depths of the Great Depression …”

submitted 24 days ago • 210 comments

Measles and tariffs, what century is this?

submitted 24 days ago • 721 comments

It's never ever true that people with power 'can't do anything.'

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

submitted 27 days ago • 108 comments

Let's talk about the so-called Save Act. Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill. The House is voting on this bill on THURSDAY! Light up those phones! (202) 224-3121 #HandsOffHerVote

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

submitted 30 days ago • 451 comments

I spoke with the Washington Post about why the Trump administration is so focused on US history: because authoritarian regimes rewrite history to legitimize their projects and normalize their chaotic, violent governance. Gift link: wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

submitted 31 days ago • 556 comments

We're disappearing college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.

submitted 32 days ago • 45 comments

Pretty cool how the bulk of the media ecosystem refused to utter words like "fascist" in order to maintain a sober appearance of impartiality and now we have the Stasi kidnapping people in broad daylight

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

I tell you what, it was pretty simple and easy to explain the existence of trans people to my kid (at age 5) and it is going to be WAY harder to explain to him why masked and hooded people grabbed a Tufts student off the street in a neighborhood he's in often

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 32 days ago • 617 comments

Am also out here asking people to fight against privatization of the post office.

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

submitted 36 days ago • 80 comments

Has Columbia politely asked Mr. Trump if they can still give out the Pulitzers or

submitted 36 days ago • 56 comments

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

submitted 37 days ago • 76 comments

Fiction really did not prepare me for how stupid the real life villains would be.

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back. These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

submitted 36 days ago • 135 comments