Dael Norwood

The public can continue to report ICE activity and detentions in the State of Delaware by contacting the Delaware Coalition for Immigrant Justice helpline. If a loved one has been detained in Delaware by immigration agents, resources and assistance are also available via our helpline (in bio).

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

Friday, February 13, 2026 12-3 PM (EST) A day of love & collective action for Black history! Save the Date for Douglass Day

If you are doing @douglassday.bsky.social with various history and digital humanities classes across the country, there is an info session to learn more this Friday, February 6, 2026, at 12 PM EST. Remember to register and come help us put our knowledge of cursive to good use! douglassday.org

UD removes student research on slavery, Newark history amid federal pressure Over the past year, UD has reacted to pressure under a second Trump administration, while tuning a “long-term strategy” on campus inclusion.

Today, in local news (paywalled alas)

Kelly Powers, “UD Removes Student Research on Slavery, Newark History amid Federal Pressure,” The News Journal, February 3, 2026,

www.delawareonline.com/story/news/e...

in NY:

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explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video

This is as close to motivational speaker as I’m ever gonna get.

🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️

The federal government is afraid of your whistles and your emails.

Out-of-state police are using Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement A full record of which police departments are using the equipment is not kept by state officials.

via Hearst:

Out-of-state police are using Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement

"In another instance, police in Johnson County, Texas searched the Connecticut data for a woman it said had an abortion, records from five departments show."

Akin to UVA or Texas A&M but without the publicity, until now.

As we changed chief executives in July 2025, the site hosting 5 years of my students’ community-engaged research on the history of racial inequality went dark; no explanation given, or process outlined. To the press, now, the admin here is saying it is Trump’s fault.

Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database

In which @tressiemcphd.bsky.social scares the shit out of me.

“ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

As the article notes, UD removed my students' research from public access on the internet in July 2025.

However, you can see a pre-deletion version of their work on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250612...

(Of course, any further work on these projects within UD has stopped.)

Anisha Gupta struggled to focus on other work. Just a few more minutes. A few more pages of census records, of Newark land deeds, of university archives, might reveal details on African Americans living around her university in the mid 1800s. “My research was on free Black landownership around UD, and that was really difficult,” the doctoral student recalled. “I mean, we didn't even have the names of the people who did incredible things, like free themselves, and then buy land and homes for their families.” Finally, one hand-drawn map of Newark’s New London Road neighborhood unlocked the names of a burgeoning Black community. These families owned their land years before owning other people was outlawed in the U.S., or just down the street. Others even fought in the Civil War.

This University of Delaware graduate student plugged away at her research with the help of UD archives, professors and local historians. By 2022, she published a paper that even surprised living decedents. “This was the first time I really felt like I was doing work alongside these community members,” said the student of preservation studies, who had just left a museum job that felt too detached. “And the impact – it didn't matter if my work was published in an academic journal, which would have been a previous goal – it really was sharing it with the community members who it mattered to the most.” It was published on a university-hosted website, among some five years' worth of other student and faculty work exploring the history of slavery, segregation and Black history around UD. Now, it’s gone.

Over the past year, Delaware’s largest university has been quietly reacting to pressure under a second Trump administration, while fine-tuning a “long-term strategy” to review campus practices on diversity and inclusion. In one small part, that has included taking down a website dedicated to research. Gupta’s work was published in one area of the broader “UD Anti-Racism Initiative." This site now reroutes users to a letter announcing the “Campus Culture and Engagement” initiative.

On this Newark campus, the past year has hummed along like any other for many. But for some faculty and diverse student leaders, they sense an ongoing air of confusion and uncertainty. “I think it's just another act of erasure for this history,” Gupta said. “And it absolutely demonstrates how easy it can be. It took us so much time to do this work, and it felt like such a drop in the bucket.”

The journalist, Kelly Powers, did a very thorough job reporting this out.

Here's the opening of the feature, which spotlights the amazing work a UD PhD student did in recovering the deep history of a neighborhood adjacent to campus, that once was an Af-Am community, but now is student housing:

UD removes student research on slavery, Newark history amid federal pressure Over the past year, UD has reacted to pressure under a second Trump administration, while tuning a “long-term strategy” on campus inclusion.

Today, in local news (paywalled alas)

Kelly Powers, “UD Removes Student Research on Slavery, Newark History amid Federal Pressure,” The News Journal, February 3, 2026,

www.delawareonline.com/story/news/e...

“It should be the policy of the United States to leave no place on earth where a corrupt man fleeing from this country can rest in peace.”

I have many questions, and also absolutely none that I want answered

“Flesh-Witnesses”?

Fully expect a DOJ indictment for disrupting church services to come down imminently

“the amazing credulity and gullibility of the moneyed men”

The Early Republic Tracker The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…

Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

Oh cmon!!! The author of this season of Humanity is tripping.

I'm a big believer in outlets stating their perspective clearly.

The editors and publishers of @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social have a POV - individually, & as a collective institution - but unlike trad newspapers w/ editorials, you have to suss it out by implication.

That's irritating.

That's part of what makes @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social choices here so disturbing: a news organization that claims it seeks to "to engage, empower and connect Delawareans" is deliberately muddying the waters on an absolutely critical issue, framing indisputable advocacy as plain fact.

Shameful!

What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Dover? | Delaware Call Or, What to Expect When You’re Expecting Oligarchy’s Expansion

Indeed, it seems like the calls to turn Delaware law over entirely to Trump's minions are only getting louder & more effective.

Now, there is a real problem in DE's political economy: the state *is* dependent on the corporate franchise – and has only grown *more so* in recent years.

The issue here, of course, is that the last few years have seen Delaware politicians kowtow like never before to outside billionaires, who have bent Delaware corporate law into a shape that directly benefits MAGA-allied fascist oligarchs, at the expense of ordinary investors – and Delawareans.

Despite claiming joint production at the top of the page, at the bottom of the article it says "the editorial staff of Spotlight Delaware had no role in its production."

It's almost like this group – with the help of @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social – is paying to intentionally mislead readers!

These articles are framed as straight civics journalism "designed to help readers understand how state government works and how budget decisions affect everyday life in Delaware."

They're marked as sponsored, but the header says they are "produced jointly by Delaware LIVE and Spotlight Delaware"