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My favorite hobby is emailing folks that I know do not hate me and convincing myself that they actually do hate me when I don't get a response in 24 hours. I'm sure that's totally normal and healthy 😃

Applied to a 9-month research fellowship a while back specifically for folks who just finished their MA. Hadn't heard much of anything since then, so I reached out to ask about any updates. Turns out I would've been a finalist for it 🤩 if the funding hadn't evaporated. I hate it here.

To think I wasted all that time "earning degrees" and "doing research" when all I had to do was become a right-wing grifter

I'm at Mass Historic and there are bunch of letters to this kid from his aunt where she goes: you're such a good kid now, you were such a trouble maker when you were little, *immediately describes horrifying incident about a random child* I hope you stay good so this doesn't happen to you

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

Homeland Security & @DHSgov Coming soon! An AI generated image of alligators wearing ICE hats

“For 30 or 40 miles…I staggered on, fearing every instant I should be …crushed within the jaws of some disturbed alligator. The dread of them now almost equalled the fear of the pursuing hounds.” -Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave

It'd be so cool if the government did anything to stop the entire country from boiling alive once or twice a month. But that's a lot to ask, I suppose.

UPDATED QUESTION: Does anyone know of an 18th-c printed (not handwriting) font that I can use for commercial use?

The Trump administration's war on non-US citizens ought to terrify everyone: if he can violate the Constitution with impunity in targeting foreigners, don't imagine for a moment he won't come for citizens next

Organization of American Historians votes to condemn Israeli 'scholasticide' in Gaza The largest professional society for the teaching and study of American history passed the resolution last weekend

Historians are goated as usual.
The Israeli state's efforts to eradicate Gaza's education infrastructure is one of its many crimes in service of its greater goal to eradicate the Palestinian people in Gaza and more scholars need to stand against the genocide.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/organis...

Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Trump just literally eliminated an Executive Order to reduce the price of prescription drugs. They are ripping you off, personally. They never gave a shit about the price of anything.

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.

“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.

I’m in for the night.

1 like for a 5-star book rec that I read this year 📚

#OtD 25 Dec 1914 100,000 troops during World War I held an unofficial truce and refused to fight one another. German soldiers began singing Silent Night, and were joined by British troops who then met up and exchanged gifts. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/...

Tweet from Alex Press: “NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol” 5-6 NYPD officers locking arms with signs from striking Amazon employees are seen in the background.

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

New This Week: December 17th - UNC Press Blog From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Publishin...

🔔new this week 🔔 Mary Hicks new book, CAPTIVE COSMOPOLITANS, reveals a new history of South Atlantic slavery centered on subaltern commercial and cultural exchange.

Learn more about the book on the blog 👇

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Best rebuttal they have for Ta-Nahesi Coates' argument that Israel is a modern day Jim Crow state is doing a modern day "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" chant

Detroit style, without a doubt, is the second best pizza. New Haven will always be first 🙏🙏🙏

Love that this is just indistinguishable from something that'd get published on CNN or in the NYT. We're so cooked.

Been rewatching DBZ Kai and seeing Goku go Super Saiyan for the first time again is just as exciting as seeing it happen during a Nicktoons marathon when I was 10.

Justice Abandoned — Harvard University Press An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of...

I'm happy to announce my new book on the Supreme Court's role in fostering mass incarceration will go on sale March 4. I hope you'll check it out!
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It's really funny to see the NYPD commissioner brag about all the big, expensive toys they tried (and failed) to use to find this guy. Then it was some old person at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania who ended up finding him. Really embarrassing for the NYPD.

This is what the insurers are expecting doctors to do when they set time limits on anesthesia I imagine

Report: Japan Monitored Korean Students After Kanto Massacre to Keep Them Quiet - Unseen Japan A new report based on historical documents shows that Japan's government feared Korean students would talk about the Kanto Massacre.

Recently unearthed records show a Japanese soldier telling a student he couldn’t return to Korea because he’d “spread the story” of the Kanto Massacre. Authorities in Korea, then colonized by Japan, moved to squelch any mention of the murders.