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Michelle Nickerson

@micnick.bsky.social

Historian of twentieth-century America who lives in Chicago

211 Followers  |  70 Following  |  33 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  1.4992

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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

10.01.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16658    πŸ” 6372    πŸ’¬ 577    πŸ“Œ 358

I was so excited to talk to Bill Ayres about my book on Catholic radicals. You can find the podcast here😊

11.01.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fox News is going to keep the deflection machine going as long as I can:

12.11.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good point, @nellstra.bsky.social my response to this, though, is that things change really fast. It feels too early to start planning for how to deal with that situation. I would love to hear what other people think, however

11.10.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social

10.10.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Really looking forward to this event at Villanova!

14.08.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations on finishing your dissertation, that is huge? Where are you now and what are you up to?

24.05.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So are you PhD’d?

23.05.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Colin, thanks for getting in touch again!

23.05.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a great thread. And it it comes from the great
State of New Jersey

14.05.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy

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β€œThe Disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social

09.05.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Troops could choose β€œvoluntary separation”. Yuck

08.05.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if some of the Cardinals voted kind of like Canadians… Where #PopeLeoIV was sort of like an anti-Trump vote?

08.05.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

08.05.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 28817    πŸ” 8111    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 761

Habemus Papam. The only thing better than getting off the plane at O’Hare to hear that we have Pope names Leo is that said Pope Leo is a Chicagoan

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I have been a feminist forever. I have a born-male child. I get what your saying, but I also felt like I spent my kiddos elementary school years trying to get him to β€œbehave” in ways that were, looking back, impossible

04.05.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is basically what trump is doing for everything now

27.04.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3722    πŸ” 857    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 30

Primping for the warrior ethos

23.04.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They can rant about woke science, but the truth is that people are interested in cures, discoveries, and breakthroughs. If American researchers are not doing it, the $$ and the treatments will move outside our borders.

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Ha!

18.04.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am relieved that he is still with us

18.04.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The only thing standing between voters and voter suppression is the U.S. Senate. If 60 Senators vote for the SAVE Act, millions of voters will be disenfranchised and we're headed down the path of one-party-rule. We can't let that happen. Call your Senator or message now: bit.ly/4hZ7B…

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Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership β€˜to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social

17.04.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have been wondering this myself

17.04.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@micnick is following 19 prominent accounts