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French History Seminar/Seminaire d'histoire de France. "Reforming the Republican Empire.” Speaker: Prof. Katie Edwards, Tulane University. When: 27 March. 2026, 4-6pm EDT, location: 108 N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7. In centre of poster, a headshot of a white woman with straight light brown hair and a smile. Bottom of poster lists financial sponsors at YorkU and UofT.

Announcing our final seminar of this year -- please join us in person on March 27th, 4-6 pm, for Dr. Katie Edwards' talk "Reforming the Republican Empire." More info and registration link here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/reform... 🗃️ #frenchhistory #indochine #colonialism

Appeals court rules against Trump administration’s efforts to end protected status for Haitians - The Boston Globe For now, the ruling shields some 45,000 Haitians living in Massachusetts from deportation.

This ruling is a lifeline for our Haitian neighbors who contribute so much to the #MA7 and nation.

I continue to use every legislative tool to support Haitian community members, including pushing for a vote to extend TPS for Haiti and save lives.

Screen shot of Rep. Andy Ogles tweet that says Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.

Religious freedom is literally in the First Amendment.

Muslims are part of America — full stop.

Those who promote this vile bigotry don’t belong in congress.

According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...

MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.

Stephen Miller Tweet from 11/4/24: If young men don't want to be drafted to fight in Kamala's and Cheney's 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

This didn't age well.

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I want to get back to my R&R & prepping for class - but today, life as a professor is (a) confs with students; and (b) organizing to round up folks across campus to sign my nomination letters for 2 students for outstanding grad awards. Way better to evidence love for them not just in my dept! 🤞🙏

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Halts Effort to Accelerate Deportation Process

I'm here at the Dilley detention center today and I'm SO relieved that the Gámez-Cuéllar family is coming home. Like many others, they have followed the rules and ICE detained them anyway. We will keep fighting to end mass detention and shut down Dilley.

Caleb and Joshua are OUT of the Dilley detention center. Now, we need to keep up the pressure to shut down Dilley for good.

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

Love this, Joseph!

Just heard from an MA alum that she's been tenured! 🥳 A lot of our terminal MA students don't go on to get PhDs but I'm super proud of her. We do our best to train students esp. in pedagogy and it makes me happy to see when they succeed. This univ also helped them solve the two-body problem!! 🎉

Film Konbit Kolektif – Spring 2026 Series The Film Konbit Kolektif, a collaborative effort of the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) with CUNY Haitian Studies Institute (HSI) at Brooklyn College, presents the Spring 2026 Film Series which features short and feature films on Women and Women’s Health: Douvan Jou Ka Leve (The Sun Will Rise) by Gessica Généus on March 20th 1PM EST Four Short Films by Al’Ikens Plancher on April 24th 1PM EST Ludi by Edson Jean on May 8th 1PM EST

Here's the schedule of the upcoming films! Our theme this spring is women & women's health - and we've got 2 great feature dramas & a shorts program!

RSVP for one or all here: www.haitianstudies.org/2026/03/onli...

Do you love film...or #Haiti? @haitianstudies.bsky.social Film Konbit Kollektif is hosting a spring screening series for you - free, but donations accepted. We're kicking things off with the new film from Gessica Généus, 🇭🇹's 🔥est young director. March 20, via Zoom - RSVP below! #FilmSky 🗃️

‘This Is Our Country Too!’: The Enduring Legacy of Spanish-Speaking Women in Early America Centuries before the American Revolution, Spanish-speaking women crossed oceans and deserts to build communities whose legacies still shape the United States. As anti-Latino sentiment coincides with ...

As Spanish-speaking women came under the jurisdiction of the newly-formed United States, they were erased from the narrative of American history.

New constituent here. I’m not sure “training” will fix this, when there are quotas to round up people by any means necessary.

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

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when our time comes we will make no excuses for the pronouns

Caption this! There aren’t any quote-skeets yet. And I know some of you whose work was also stolen by anthropic can come up with a bon mot or two.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Solidarity with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, who is a helluva critic. Journalism is imploding and sweeping up our best writers. Please consider supporting the bookstore he and his wife run @mzspress.bsky.social!!

(& hugs, Matt!!)

How many Americans will die for these cosplay Crusaders?

You are in the tefillah writing and leading business now!

It certainly beats murdering someone on 5th Avenue. Reagan as “Teflon President” has nothing on Trump as enabled by unbridled misogyny and racism.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?