Memory Makes History

I want to start an underground school to teach all the things they are trying to erase.

This energy.

DJT is going to the Super Bowl. This is a great time for Kendrick Lamar to shine and drop a really awesome diss track and it would be amazing if he brought out Dre to sing Arrest the President.

Trump cut USAID and is laying claim to Gaza...we are so much less safe today than a week ago.

What I post anytime MAGA posts about the border:
"Here's the thing I don't understand, maybe you can explain it to me. I hear about women and children being trafficked into the United States as part of the sex trade. What is America doing to stop American men who are customers of these traffickers?"

Someone needs to come up with a better counter than "None of this is legal." The American people elected a man with 34 felony convictions; they don't care about legality!

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.

I read your comment out loud, and he said, "You need that on a shirt."

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

Today, my students asked me what would happen to me if I were a teacher in a public school, and I told them I would probably be fired because I wouldn't stop teaching real history. The fact they were about to riot at the thought of that gave me strength.🗃️
#historyteacher

Trump wants "Patriotic education" just like Mildred Rutherford, the UDC historian general, as she said on November 21, 1912. I swear, I am about to start an underground history class to fill in all the blanks these children are about to experience.
#TeachHistory #SkyStory #BLM

Tomorrow, my American History class is discussing the fact that race is a social construct, sharecropping, the convict leasing system, and Indian schools. It seems like the best way to stand up to the latest EO.
#teachhistory #skystorians #resist

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

Quakers sue Trump administration to keep immigration agents out of houses of worship Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Center City is one of the plaintiffs

The Quakers have entered the ring!
Every Americanist historian ->🙌

Every historian rn, really.

Yep

I can't remember any other regime that live-streamed their minority roundups. Before anyone says that they are going after white undocumented immigrants, I ask that you show me a picture released by the Department of Defense showing shackled white people on a tarmac or filling a military plane.

My son is another year older! I am so proud of the man he is & that no matter the situation, his 1st instinct is to put the world to right. He makes the world a better place for all who are privileged to know him, and I am the most privileged to be his mom. Happy Birthday, my darling! I love you!

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As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important.

As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.

Oct 2024 "[The Central Park 5] pled guilty, and I said, well if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. They pled guilty, then they pled, we're not guilty."
Jan 2025 Pardons J6ers, even those who pled guilty. "They served years in jail. Their lives have been ruined."

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.

They are talking about civil rights

Anybody else notice the Partus Sequistor Ventrem-esque language in Trump's new immigration EI?

YouTube video by Politics and Prose Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens"

In prep to read @marthasjones.bsky.social's book Birthright Citizens, I watched this talk, which remains relevant to Trump 2.0, the Laiken Riley Act that allows immigrants to be held indefinitely based on nothing more than an accusation, and the EO attempting to negate birthright citizenship.

YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj Trump is back. What now?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pH...

Make no mistake. Republican attacks on teachers and the teaching of history has helped to pave the way for this moment. Teach the history of Reconstruction. 🗃️

Watching the inauguration

"And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them."