@gomantler.bsky.social
Historian, teacher, writer, activist, Baltimore native, and author of Power to the Poor and The Multiracial Promise. Also a fan of tennis, baseball, and cats. And now writing about memorials. Views are my own.
I could not agree more with historian Ada Palmer about the future of higher ed in Chronicle of Higher Ed: "We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose."
Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it."
That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.
Putting my historian's hat on here. Jesse Jackson ran for president only after Harold Washington's mayoral victory in Chicago in 1983 demonstrated that a rainbow coalition message could be viable. Washington was a very important figure here, but he's not mentioned in most media reports today.
As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
So much wrong with this but…they sold his phone?!? Like, for profit?? Now ICE can just confiscate and pawn your property???
Minneapolis unions and community orgs call for one day boycott of work, school, and shopping on January 23 to protest ICE assault, murder.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
While the Department of Defense (War) supposedly changed its name, it seems like the Department of Injustice and the Environmental Pollution Agency are more appropriate changes and should be next.
I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...
A reminder that not so long ago we honored immigrants in the US, even by carving monuments like this one at Immigration Point, over the Golden Gate connecting the Pacific to SF Bay.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Remembering the crimes and treason of the dictator and his brown shirts five years after the attack on the Capitol. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
As someone who has taught and now writes about memorialization, I found this WaPo essay to be a fascinating exploration of how we could change the Emancipation Memorial in D.C. and two others in ways that are more historically accurate and inclusive. wapo.st/3Na5WaN
The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”…
BULLSHIT.
@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.
This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
Utterly absurd and offensive. Note that the Kennedy Center was about to be built when the President was assassinated. It is in part a memorial to him, determined by Congress. This just cheapens what was once a great institution. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.
Federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia have been calling out the Trump DOJ in court for continuing to list Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney in court filings, more than a week after she was ruled invalidly appointed to the position.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Janelle Bouie's column in the dictator's abuse of the presidential pardon is worth a read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Quite a headline, especially for a George Will column (who is far from a favorite of mine): "A sickening moral slum of an administration"
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
Wilson was mocked for acknowledging that the cost of childcare is outrageous and her parents help her with that expense. But it turns out a majority of voters feel the same squeeze, liked her universal childcare plan, and voted accordingly.
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
