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It’s possible to completely disable the AI via gmail settings. Takes a few minutes, and there are a bunch of tutorials online if you need guidance.

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At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once.

Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

Just a reminder as Trump spews complete lies about voter fraud that he put the full weight of his first administration into proving some of this bullshit and they came up completely empty.

The Central Fire of the Iroquois A comprehensive history of the Native American community at the heart of the HaudenosauneeThe people of the Onondaga Nation have lived in central New York St...

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Library Company names its new chief, the first-ever woman to lead the group in 295 years

Jessica Chopin Roney will take over after the Library Company of Philadelphia merges with Temple University. She has existing ties to both institutions.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

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I keep thinking of this horrific comparison.

They don’t know what they’re missing….

Hard to believe it’s been 24 years since The Wire premiered.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

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Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibits to the President’s House

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibits removed from the President's House in Philadelphia.

“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe

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This is an incredible photo.

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Despite Budget Surge, ICE Fails to Make the Country Safer The administration has diverted law enforcement officers from across government to help ICE but has increased arrests only of immigrants with no criminal conviction.

The Trump administration has diverted law enforcement officers from across the government to help ICE, yet arrests have increased only among immigrants with no criminal convictions.

Just a reminder that Minneapolis is still under siege. Horrifying things happened while we were all distracted with certain football game halftime drama. This is all still happening and you all need to refocus. Your civil liberties are being dismantled in real time.

During an ongoing audit of Ohio’s Statewide Voter Registration Database, investigators with the Secretary of State’s Election Integrity Unit used newly available state and federal records to uncover evidence of an additional 78 noncitizen voter registrations, including nine individuals who cast potentially fraudulent votes. “My office has a zero-tolerance policy for election crime in Ohio, and I’m hopeful that our prosecutors will as well,” said Secretary LaRose. “Even one illegal vote can spoil the outcome of an election, which is why we established the first-ever Election Integrity Unit in this state to root out lawbreakers and demand accountability and justice.” https://www.ohiosos.gov/media-center/press-releases/2025/2025-09-16/

As in Ohio, national Republicans haven’t produced any evidence that noncitizen voting is a substantial problem. There are severe penalties for noncitizen voting, and they seem to be an effective deterrent. A Brennan Center for Justice study of the 2016 election found noncitizen voting occurred at the vanishingly small rate of 0.0001%. That’s one-fifth the rate of fraud of all types that LaRose found in the 2020 election — 0.0005%. But those infinitesimal numbers haven’t stopped him from conducting massive voter purges, limiting drop boxes, and otherwise making it harder to vote. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/26/noncitizen-voting-is-very-rare-in-ohio-and-america-not-having-proof-of-citizenship-isnt/

I'm an election worker in Ohio. Did you know:
- ballots are checked repeatedly by humans and computers
- we check ID and do provisional ballots if there is a discrepency
- bipartisan party members handle ballots
- election sites are graded on our accuracy

Election fraud is nearly non-existent.

As someone who has co-written two National Historic Landmarks, I know just how much work goes into getting these important sites designated (even more so for monuments). I keep thinking about the group of scholars who must have dedicated so much time to this, only to have it made meaningless.

The first thing I wanted to post this morning is how that Bad Bunny halftime show could be used as a teaching tool in any American history course and then I saw this. Of course!

Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question

Amplify Garrett's inspired reporting on decades of wrongdoing at CBP and ICE. Nearly 5000 officers & agents arrested over last 20 years. See his 50-page report documenting decades of criminality & corruption, & the threat these rotten institutions pose to democracy drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6...

Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.

Video of LRADs deployed in Minneapolis immediately reminded me of militarized assault on #NoDAPL water protectors in 2016/17, which echoed 20th c assaults. Detention at Ft. Snelling has an older, longer, painful history.

If you know Indigenous history, you recognize the patterns immediately.

ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | About the 2026 Black History Month 93rd Annual Black History Luncheon - February 16, 2019, Washington, DC. It’s the premier event and hottest ticket in the Nation’s Capital in the month of February. And, YOU don’t want to miss it.

As we observe the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, this is your yearly reminder to be clear in teaching the kids who established it, and why. #tellthemwhatwedid

Don't know the history? Here you go: asalh.org/black-histor... #bhm100 #bhmat100

They can't take what they didn't give.

This trend is giving me life. College is cool, knowledge is great. The liberal arts is rad. Being well rounded is the GOAT.

Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. History of the City of NY (all night bike ride, iykyk!)
2. American Radical Tradition
3. Intro to Astronomy
4. Women, Power, and Politics
5. Advanced French for Conversation