Giuliana Perrone

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

that's why they want to censor history class!

I have many reading recommendations and specific points of arguments to make for this, but the real problem is that someone who says this kind of thing would never care.

Today's announcement about using the military to fight the "internal enemy" means we've left the Bleeding Kansas portion of the story and gotten to Harper's Ferry.

What are your favorite scholarly pieces on birthright citizenship?

I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.

I mean, I’m not NOT a French and Indian war nerd… though it’s not my primary nerdly occupation

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

Our modern brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think we should assume so.

This was a literal plot line in Parks and Rec a decade ago. We laughed at fictional people thinking fluoride was bad but "TDazzle" was amazing.

As a legal historian of the Civil War Era, I've been thinking a lot about the rapidly shifting nature of American federalism. Really wish I weren't living through it, though.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

Shocking and indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’ve been thinking the same thing all day.

An invocation of Nostradamus?? Yes please.

I thought of you this morning when I saw the guardian’s reporting on the deportation flights.

Wait until they find the actual historical sources. The Red Record would probably cause a stroke. jfc

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

I just never regret cancelling my subscription to the NYT. jfc.

How UNC Led a First-of-Its-Kind Plan to Shake Up College Accreditation Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, publicly announced the new six-state oversight body. Behind the scenes, the University of North Carolina system shaped the vision.

I remember having conversations back in November about how the administration and its allies could mess with accreditation. Evidently, now it's happening. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’ Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

As a historian of slavery, (leaving aside the public health idiocy of this), this is exceptionally offensive.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

sweet merciful crap

Giving me some real committees of correspondence vibes.

Jamaica’s Maroons keep their culture alive – and spearhead fight for justice Mama G, a spiritual leader of descendants of Africans who escaped enslavement to form their own communities, says what was taken from her ancestors must be restored: ‘Restoration is reparation’

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Frankly, if you have the extra cash, invest your money in Blue Books, because demand is about to surge. I'll be responsible for 700 or so just this coming year alone.

Wait. There's still time to get a job with the American Girl company????

Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University Researcher The group asked for the retraction of work led by Timmons Roberts and said it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.

Another reason universities should not settle w/the Trump admin:

Far right, private actors who don’t like research topics or findings can use settlement terms to threaten professors. Here, they threaten to “tell on” a professor doing disinfo research @ Brown.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

jfc

This article should also include the costs for those of us in fire-risk areas where faulty utility lines caused major fires. We get to pay for that in several ways, including with higher rates to offset settlements.

Texas Redistricting Showdown: Why the Fight Over Five GOP Seats Reveals a Broken System Democrats flee the state, Republicans threaten arrests, and the battle over mid-decade gerrymandering exposes deep flaws in congressional representation.

my latest:
thefulcrum.us/democracy/te...

Contributor: Unlike at Columbia, Trump's attack on UCLA is aimed at taxpayer money The UC system is a public gem, and punishing it harms all Californians. This salvo in the war on higher education crosses a line: It's different to pressure a public institution.

Check out my latest. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"took a footlong to the chest" should be the insult of the year. And now all I can think about is Ned Flanders' discomfort with footlongs.