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Tina Shull

@tinashull.bsky.social

Associate Professor and public historian at UNC Charotte | Author of DETENTION EMPIRE | Carceral Studies, Climate Migration, Abolition | Creator, Climate Refugee Stories digital history project

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β€œBut what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."Β 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

20.01.2026 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2860    πŸ” 900    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 78

Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.

24.12.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Things Can Happen" (an important thing to do so they don't)

AAUP NC President Belle Boggs has written this powerful essay in response to both the Brown shooting and developments in the UNC system, with an urgent call to action for all of us in NC. Excerpts and action link in thread: 1/ @aaup.org

frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/things-can...

15.12.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

11.12.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UNC System President Peter Hans confirms all syllabuses will be public records in forthcoming policy The Daily Tar Heel obtained a draft of the policy on Wednesday, which denies that syllabuses are the intellectual property of the instructor and stipulates that all instructors must publish course syl...

Hans acknowledged that "outright harassment" will be a consequence, and mumbled something about protecting faculty who are just "doing their jobs" - which he is also in the process of redefining.
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL. WE FIGHT. @aaup.org
dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

11.12.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank god

05.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference

I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist

10.10.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally β€œyes, they do.”"

01.10.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2500    πŸ” 643    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 38

Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United.

This is my first post πŸŽ‰ and I’m excited to connect with everyone here.

I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.

17.09.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
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With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere - Public Books Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose borderin...

πŸ—£οΈ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social.

The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technologyβ€”a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.

🧡 ‡️

www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...

09.09.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

what a win. read my story on the facility for @climateconnections.bsky.social

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...

22.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

18.08.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 13115    πŸ” 3253    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 100

Homeland Heritage.

15.07.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was an honor to give a keynote speech welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July in #Charlotte last week. My message? Immigrants (not the Dec of Independence or β€œnation” or the Statue of Liberty or so-called golden door) are a beacon and what make America great

10.07.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547

1/12 🧡 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ‡️

academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

06.07.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

29.06.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8612    πŸ” 3361    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 138

Read this opening.

04.06.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY.

None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record β€” and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.

Read the story below.

04.06.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3517    πŸ” 1548    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 63
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Support Support

Invisible Histories is doing extraordinary work to protect and preserve the queer histories of the U.S. south. They need help filling the gap produced by federal funding cuts.

invisiblehistory.org/support/

03.06.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yes!! πŸ™ŒπŸ»

30.05.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE turned back in Somerville

So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.

30.05.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9180    πŸ” 3189    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 298
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Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing β€” which ICE had just had dismissed.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

30.05.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9458    πŸ” 5749    πŸ’¬ 1034    πŸ“Œ 840

Happy International Workers' Day, especially to migrant workers.

01.05.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:SectionΒ 1.Β Β Purpose and

More executive orders on immigration. (Sorry!)

28.04.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts β€” likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating β€œyour parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

12.04.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8558    πŸ” 4760    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 546
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Budget airline Avelo to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May

If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlinesβ€”don’t.

09.04.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3382    πŸ” 1278    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 68

Horrific; also CBP have been murderers by design and by neglect for decades

04.04.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s time

31.03.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 210    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

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