Justin Randolph

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

obligatory unboxing photos of *Mississippi Law* author copies from @uncpress.bsky.social! and check out the GENEROUS blurbs from Jane Dailey, Françoise Hamlin, Walter Johnson, and Jason Ward. they put a smile on my face. uncpress.org/978146968948...

oh lord. Will their table be in the same place the segregationist authorities created a stockade for civil rights workers in 1963/65?

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

between the HPAD response and this in the Boston Review, Joan Scott’s recent writing is really helping me think through the moment. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

The Ritual of Civic Apology More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Resolution on Academic Freedom and Firing of Tom Alter Statement by the Labor and Working-Class History Association on Academic Freedom and the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter We, the Officers and Members of the Board of Directors of the Labor ...

LAWCHA Statement on the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter

5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1

www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...

Thanks to the @naucivilwar.bsky.social for the opportunity to serve on this year's book prize committee. If you authored a book on the Civil War in 2025, consider asking your publisher to submit it for this prestigious prize. Click the link for the details. 🗃️ naucenter.as.virginia.edu/nau-book-prize

Ooh. Maybe this one??

this post is hall of fame material

Book cover of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics by Oscar Winberg.

Archie Bunker for President is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!!

Pre-ordering is the best way of support a book so please consider heading over to the @uncpress.bsky.social site and make sure to use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!!

Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

Hey friends, it would mean a lot to me if you took a minute to sign this petition to defend my friends and colleagues at my alma mater. Cuts to Oregon’s humanities are widespread and devastating, and I genuinely fear for the future of intellectual life at UO.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

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*Mississippi Law* is two months away! Don’t believe me? Just look at these proofs! Table of contents too.

Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into immigration detention facility Officials in a rural Tennessee town have voted to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset re...

don’t know about writing but remember a recent case from Tennessee? abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

some rare good news: a Georgia judge has dismissed the Cop City domestic terrorism charges against Jamie Mariscano in DeKalb County, noting that the "Attorney General's Office appears to have delayed this matter in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defense."

"Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the [fascist] agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.” ~Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

‘A radical act’: the rich history behind the centuries-long tradition of Black family reunions Festivities usually take place in the summer and often include traditional foods, matching T-shirts and the chance to learn about family ancestry

a great piece on Black family reunions and the amazing Jack Johnson family of Kemper County, Mississippi www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Watercolor. Flowers against a yellow rising moon or setting sun. Words by Mike Davis: It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to live each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.

Instructions for today. And every day.

The attempt to ban, erase etc.. marginalized people's histories demands responses at the grassroots level. Regular people can be cultural stewards, can be archivists, can be storytellers, can be preservers of oral history. And these are all fun things to do!

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW visual investigation:

ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside

There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces

We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records

Insiders told us this used to be rare

projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda

The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

This idea is so bad that when the guy from Axon proposed it his entire board resigned in protest.

Four stickers against a pink background: 1) “we are born in flames” written against fire, 2) two arms clutching one another with “your risk is my risk” etched upon them, 3) a woman in a bathtub with the words “my home is not your asset” written on the tub, 4) an apartment building with a fire escape and clothesline, tomato and sunflower plant, and residents waving to each other, reading “tenants built this city”

The BORN IN FLAMES stickers are here and they’re beautiful! Made in collaboration with my dear friend, Jenna Peters-Golden, + an original by Mary Tremonte
@justseeds.bsky.social, these will be sent to you free if you order BORN IN FLAMES by Aug 19th and submit here: tinyurl.com/4nx7rcv8

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America by John Fabian Witt Pulitzer finalist Witt (American Contagions) unearths the nearly forgotten history of the American Fund for Public Service, an e...

Starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social says The Radical Fund is “an immense and essential achievement” with an “exhilarating range of figures” and “stark parallels with the present.” www.publishersweekly.com/9781476765877

going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities