Kelli Vaughn-Johnson

Geneva, Switzerland
11 June & 12 June 2026
This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. #histsci #history #science #histpsy
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Movement Makers: Clara Luper Plaza honors Oklahoma City sit-in that helped desegregate Katz Stores Sixty-seven years after a group of kids started a sit-in protest for equal rights in Oklahoma City, their impact on the civil rights movement is being recognized.

My mom was a 10 yr old white girl watching this sit in through the window from the street. It changed her .. love to see the recognition now www.news9.com/story/69042c...

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

“Some of those strategists have spoken of their desire to dismantle public #education. Others hope to push it in the same direction as Oklahoma “ www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half … So it begins www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

Iraq: New Personal Status Code Makes Women Second Class Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s guardianship and c...

“Iraq’s new Personal Status Code further institutionalizes discrimination against women, legally relegating them to second class citizens...It should be repealed immediately.” - Sarah Sanbar, Iraq researcher at @hrw

Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

Firings of federal workers underway as government shutdown drags on, Trump budget chief announces | CNN Politics The Trump administration has begun firing federal workers, the White House’s budget chief announced Friday, as Republicans look to maximize pressure on the Democratic Party more than a week into the g...

“ White House is initiating layoffs during shutdown by choice – administrations are not required to carry out firings when gov funding lapses. Layoffs are separate from the furloughs when government funding runs out. “ www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

His latest work to appear in English is “Herscht 07769,” features only one period in its 400 pages…
“I wanted to be free to stray far from my literary ancestors, and not make some new version of Kafka or Dostoyevsky or Faulkner.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”

#highered Take the time today

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Rest in Power & Peace

Supt. Ryan Walters announces resignation State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced his resignation on Wednesday night on FOX News.

Christmas comes early to the Oklahoma education system, parents , children, random strangers .. Today was a good day. bit.ly/485HjEZ

A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. A new DOGE tool called SweetREX Deregulation AI automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

Congress tried to control D.C. police in 1989. The results were disastrous. Today, relaxed criminal laws and a pandemic-era crime spike have again made D.C. a federal target. But little is known about exactly how federal officials plan to improve the conditions they complain ...

Congress attempted to take over Washington, DC, in 1989, when crime was actually a problem, and the results were disastrous. wapo.st/3UnZail

Pew poll: Trump job approval

38% approve
60% disapprove

Aug. 4-10, U.S. adults

Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

“In a letter sent to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three top White House officials want to ensure the museums..reflect the president’s executive order calling for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

(PDF) Those catalytic women teachers: Mary Marvin, Margaret Maguire, and the social history of the psychological clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, 1870–1920 PDF | The emergence of clinical psychology as a distinct scholarly field is usually traced to 1896, when Lightner Witmer established the country’s first... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

Fun things! A little history of two women’s influence on the founding of clinical psychology. #psychology #history www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Rest in power!

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

American history museum removes Trump's name from impeachment exhibit The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

“The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has removed explicit reference to President Donald Trump from an exhibit about impeachment, a spokesperson said on Thursday.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

“To the stewards of our nation’s cultural and commercial institutions: Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that - an illusion. Your principled leadership matters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

DNA of 133,000 migrant children have been added to a criminal database which now allows police to treat them like suspects “indefinitely”

Sen. @wyden.senate.gov criticizes the “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system that withholds basic facts about its operation

Reports @wired.com

From @apajournals.bsky.social,"Storytelling as Activism: Combatting Anti-Asian Racism with Asian American Feminist, Critical Autoethnography" by @drsherrycwang.bsky.social - There is a pressing need for women of color and Third World Women feminist autoethnographies psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Damn, I was so close.

Justice Dept. Demands Patient Details From Trans Medicine Providers

First they came for… “The Justice Department has issued subpoenas demanding confidential patient information from more than 20 doctors and hospitals that provide gender-related treatments to minors, according to officials with knowledge of the move.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/h...

Proposed Medicaid cuts could be $8.7 billion hit for Oklahoma hospitals As many as 17 hospitals in the state are expected to have to close if the changes contemplated by congressional leaders and the Trump administration are enacted.

Oklahoma hospitals expect to lose $873 million a year in revenue and as many as 17 will close if changes to Medicaid contemplated by congressional leaders and the Trump administration are enacted, the president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association said this week.

tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

Break on Through: Betty Eisner's Problematic Use of Psychedelics, Groups, and Control for Integrative Experiences Betty Eisner represents a prominent figure in the “golden age” of psychedelics research, as well as a cautionary tale about questionable therapeutic practices, exercising authority and control, and t...

A little history of psychology beauty in the world today! Break on Through: Betty Eisner's Problematic Use of Psychedelics, Groups, and Control for Integrative Experiences
Tal Davidson, Patric Plesa #psychology #womenshistory #histpsych #mentalhealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Link www.americanpsychologist-digital.org/americanpsyc...

Special Issue: Practicing Decolonial and Liberation Psychologies
Special Issue Editors: Mercedes Santana, Gitika T., Thema Bryant, Lillian Comas-Díaz, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, Shelly P. Harrell, Liza Hita, Iva GreyWolf, Maryam Kia-Keating, B. Andi Lee, Helen A. Neville, and Karen L. Suyemoto

The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.