Micah Carlson 🗃️

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest,...

Ayatollah Khamenei killed, Reuters reports

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A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate

Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.

What's Plan B? Options the Trump Administration Could Pursue if the Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs If the Supreme Court rules President Trump cannot levy tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), his administration may look to alternatives to levy new tariffs and/or continue collecting revenue from imports that could include: Law/Framework Details Limitations Sec. 232 tariffs Limited to imports deemed a threat to national security. Requires investigations, which may take months. Sec. 301 tariffs Allows for tariffs against countries USTR determines are engaged in unfair trade practices. Each tariff is limited to a particular country. Requires investigations and consultations with foreign governments, which may take months. Sec. 122 tariffs Allows for tariffs to address "balance-of-payment" deficits, which can include trade deficits. Can only last for up to 150 days, and are limited to a 15% ad valorem rate. Sec. 338 tariffs Allows for tariffs when the president finds a foreign country is disadvantaging or discriminating against U.S. commerce. Generally limited to 50% of the value of the goods. There is a 30-day delay after a presidential proclamation before tariffs are triggered. Sec. 201 tariffs Allows for tariffs to address harm to U.S. domestic industries. May only last for up to 8 years (initial 4 years plus optional 4-year renewal), and are limited to a 50% ad valorem rate. After 1 year, tariffs must phase down "at regular intervals." Requires investigation from ITC. Reclassify as "licensing fees" President Trump suggested that if SCOTUS strikes down lEEPA tariffs, he may reframe them as licensing fees. If the same or substantially similar to lEEP tariffs, any lEEPA licensing fees" may be subject to further legal challenges. Congress codifies tariffs Congress could codify some or all of President Trump's tariffs in statute. Unclear if there are majority votes in either chamber to codify tariffs. Bilateral trade agreements Presid…

Incredibly helpful table from @andrewlautz.bsky.social

At sixteen, I checked myself out of high school to join Reverend Jesse Jackson as he opposed the death penalty for Wanda Jean Allen. I sat in the federal courtroom with him. I knew no one there, but his protest gave me something to do with my feet that agreed with my heart.

Rest in power.

“How soon?” asked Toad.

“Quite soon,” said Frog.

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."

The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

Butterfinger is not nearly as bad as I remembered.

Today is the day to brush up on what we did for Citi Bank in Haiti and Vera Cruz for Oil in the early 20th century. #surveyprep 🗃️

Is our sense of instability, of a darker future than past, a result of the democratization of internal field critique without pre-requisite? Is part of the way we meet this moment learning how to talk to the public about our methods so they, too, can see History (and other fields) as resilient? 9/9

Returning back to my original thought right quick and then I'll stop adding on so that conversation can begin, but if I can imagine the way stepping into field-specific critique without context could turn the public against History, could that be happening in other fields too? 8/9

Today, you can find these debates online without a single pre-requisite. Further, you can get them explained to you by a chatbot.

If I didn't understand how History was produced and, instead, bumped into Michel Rolph-Trouillot via GenAI, I think I would feel lied to by a lot of teachers, too. 7/?

Until the internet, internal debates required extensive training to encounter. In our historian example, by the time a new historian felt their first epistemic shock, they were trained in the method of history and felt empowered to participate in debates aimed at a healthier field for us all. 6/?

What about other internal 🗃️ debates? Narrative control, interpretative subjectivity--should we counterbalance past power or present it as it exists in archive? Should we explain structural problems we see or is that an abuse of the historical pulpit? Are we bending toward justice or contorting it? 🧵

What if the public suddenly discovered the shortcomings of the archive 🗃️ ? Would they experience it as a brand new degradation/"enshitification" of history?

Further, how would we get the word out that it is not a new problem without wrecking the public's perception of our field altogether? 4/?

Surely legal minds knew about the missing code coverage and PH professionals knew trust was a key component in health discourse way before we experienced the "failure" of both fields. So, are we just experiencing the exploitation of a known failure in both fields? Is it even exploitation? 3/?

Here's what I am thinking about:

I'm considering the rules I assumed were codified that I have recently learned exist only as custom. Or, what about the limits of public health (cooperation, public trust)? 2/?

Is it possible that the instability and (gestures broadly) loss-of-luster we have experienced over the last 10-15 years is the result of widespread access to specialized knowledge (INCLUSIVE OF ALL SHORTCOMINGS!) without normal prerequisites thanks to the world wide web? Keep reading as I muse 1/? 🗃️

"When you revise a sentence you are revising not only the words of the sentence but also the *thought* in the sentence."

—Lydia Davis, "Essays One"

Happy course eval day to those who celebrate.

“Tank Top Christmas” is the slippery slope to WNV Valentine’s Day.

If you could go ahead and deploy whatever tricks and/or magic or divinations or futuristic cloud seeding science you’re proficient in to cool down NTX, my people would be greatful. 🪄🧞🔮☁️🌱💫✨

The Developers who built The Standard student housing on West Main Street—the giant high-rise that towers over Westhaven and the 10th & Page neighborhood—now want to build a juggernaut of a building atop of another historically Black community: Fifeville.

The only effective response to monsters is heroism.

Perhaps early rumblings of the punitive policies we're seeing take full form targeting diversity and humanities in higher ed?

But for a brief moment as the cultural hegemon's facade cracks we are able to see the monster beneath. Because it must transform to appeal to the masses it is bitter, ugly, punitive.

This is why transition = a time of monsters

"The old world is dying, and the new struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."

Gramsci reminding us to pay attention to transitions because they are where power disciplines itself for popular consumption. 🗃️

I want to hear much more about your thinking. This is a time of monsters and ghosts.

White Power Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

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Don't worry, once I go and figure out the dress code for this conference, I'll forget to write it down for you so you'll get to awkwardly ask someone who doesn't care anymore & says to just wear hawaiian shirts and then you'll go and forget and we can keep this charade going for a long, long time.

This is specifically the space I am engaging in. I just want to say hello and that there are other ways to write history that achieve rigor while honoring the intent of Hartman. 🗃️

It is so painful to watch. I want to transform the class into a safe space but they're scared of collective spaces.