Margaret McMullan

Lit Hub Daily: November 3, 2025 Jennifer Acker talks to Teju Cole about genre-bending and how artists bear witness to tragedy: “I really believe in the novel as an innovative form. Yet I didn’t want novelty for its own sake.” | L…

The clever team at @literaryhub, rounded up some great No Kings, anti-Fascist reading today, including my article in @damemagazine
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Can Italy’s History Offer Lessons for Surviving Our Current Moment? - Dame Magazine Before visiting the school in Amandola, a small town in Italy, my husband Pat and I meet English teacher Daniela for coffee on Piazza Risorgimento. We’re there to talk to Daniela’s 12- and 13-year-old...

There will be a day when he’s no longer in office. There will be a day when he’s gone. -- I wrote about all this and more for @damemagazine www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/30/c...

At the 42nd Annual meeting of the Southeastern Regional Genetics Group (SERGG) in Asheville, NC, Patrick O’Connor screened his documentary The Zebra and the Bear. P. J. Brooks from NIH spoke about the future of genetic testing. Powerful evening. I'm not used to seeing scientists get so emotional.

Detained under Trump’s immigration policies, Danish immigrant blames Biden—and still supports Trump It was President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration enforcement policies that put Danish national Kasper Eriksen in detention. But from behind bars in Louisiana, the MAGA-supporting Eriksen lays blam...

This MS/DanishTrumper forgot to file his immigration form in 2015, when President Obama was still in office. A removal order issued during Trump’s first term led to his current detention. But he blames Biden—and still supports Trump. msindy.org/p/detained-u...

'What if a student asks why?' Holocaust lessons may be banned under state's law Author and educator Margaret McMullan sounded the alarm in The Bulwark about a new Republican-written law in Mississippi that intends to abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, which is wri...

'What if a student asks why?' Holocaust lessons may be banned under state's law

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“Author and educator Margaret McMullan sounded the alarm in The Bulwark about a new Republican-written law in Mississippi that intends to abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion programs…effectively make teaching about the Holocaust impossible.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

It seems to me long past time to question the 79-year-old president’s mental health. — @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Teaching the Holocaust just got harder in Mississippi A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

Many thanks to the @msindy.bsky.social for reprinting this article from @thebulwark.com : Teaching the Holocaust just got harder in Mississippi msindy.org/p/teaching-t...

Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

"I’m always a bit anxious when discussing the Holocaust in Southern classrooms because I never know if I’ll encounter antisemitism, hate, denial, or conspiracist nonsense...But another problem has since come up." @margaretmcmullan.bsky.social on a new Mississippi law:

Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

Important @thebulwark.com article by Margaret McMullan this morning about a new Mississippi law that can punish broadly defined infractions (e.g. education that raises "awareness" of "issues related to race") by stripping funding from whole school districts www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...

Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

I wrote about a new state law that forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. Think about that. How are educators supposed to teach history? www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...

I Was a Glamour Don’t by Margaret McMullan Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash

"From shoulder pads to swimsuit makeovers, from celebrity interviews to heartbreaking loss—Margaret McMullan’s essay is a funny deeply moving look at Glamour in the 1980s. A must-read on identity, ambition, and the stories we choose to tell." chicagostorypress.com/f/i-was-a-gl...

I Was a Glamour Don’t by Margaret McMullan Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash

I was a Glamour “Don’t” way more often than I was a “Do.” A “Wrong” more than I was a “Right.” chicagostorypress.com/f/i-was-a-gl...

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement Writer among millions of Americans who turn out for mass marches, many for the first time

I interviewed a man with a gun at the No King's protest in Gulfport, MS. He also waved a Don't Tread On Me flag (cue irony). He would not tell me his name. After the shootings in Minnesota that very morning, tensions were high. Still, it was a joyful, nonviolent occasion. msindy.org/p/opinion-on...

Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement Writer among millions of Americans who turn out for mass marches, many for the first time

I wrote about the No Kings Protest yesterday in Gulfport, MS for @msindy.bsky.social Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement msindy.org/p/opinion-on...

It’s past time for the mainstream media to describe this authoritarian madness accurately.

We are not alarmed enough and his base still adores him.

June 8, 2025 Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.

He’s trying to establish a police state. And he stumbled. Here are the facts
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No notes. The winner.

Time to focus on Peter Thiel. He is the shadowy billionaire behind the curtain pulling the strings. His company Palantir is a huge threat to American freedoms. We need greater exposure to the philosophy and the people who surround Thiel and what they are trying to accomplish. #peterthiel #palantir

Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct

Trump and the G.O.P. have decided to think of batteries as a culture-war issue...They think they’re attacking hippie-dippy green energy...they’re really disarming America’s future drone force and ceding the key weapon of the modern battlefield to China. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

June 2, 2025 The Republicans’ giant budget reconciliation bill has focused attention on the drastic cuts the Trump administration is making to the American government.

More about the Bill that Kills.
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Democrat J.D. Scholten, a member of the Iowa state House, just announced that he's launching a campaign for U.S. Senate against Republican Joni Ernst on the heels of her dismissive remarks about Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget bill.

June 1, 2025 Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ramp up their arrests and confrontations, the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen.

“…after reports that his Department of Government Efficiency had actually cost the government money, President Donald J. Trump reportedly asked his aides, “Was it all bullsh*t?”

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He has become something of a litmus test for public empathy in the Trump-era immigration debate. Mississippi man’s ICE detention draws attention of Danish foreign ministry msindy.org/p/mississipp...

Oh goodness! My apologies. Will attempt to fix.

Join me on June 14

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/9NjOqlPU

May 27, 2025 Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in May…there is a script for rising authoritarians. When the courts rule against the leader, the leader and his loyalists attack judges…just as Trump and his cronies have been doing.

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Army veteran: Memorial Day should remind people that some gave all while having few rights back home - Mississippi Today Memorial Day is a sacred holiday honoring Americans of all backgrounds who have long played a significant role in securing our liberties.

“This holiday is more than symbolic. It is a sacred testament to sacrifice, service and the enduring legacy of groups like the Tuskegee Airmen, who helped change the course of World War II, even as they faced discrimination at home.” mississippitoday.org/2025/05/26/a...