Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty reports that her office is looking into 17 cases that might result in charges against ICE officers, including Bovino
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty reports that her office is looking into 17 cases that might result in charges against ICE officers, including Bovino
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
03.03.2026 12:30 β π 385 π 146 π¬ 8 π 2Trump went from an obviously fake βNo More Forever Warsβ to βNo! More Forever Warsβ pretty fast
03.03.2026 12:51 β π 1143 π 172 π¬ 23 π 7
An enslaved potter left messages for the future, inscribed in clay
www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...
Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens β 10 Household income <$30,000 β 20 $30Kβ$74,999 β 15 $75,000+ β 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25βOct. 9, 2025. βHow Teens Use and View AIβ PEW RESEARCH CENTER
According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.
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Financial Aid is being positioned as a weapon to assert ideological control over higher education. The process is wonky and most of us don't pay attention to it. This year, we must. Consider attending. You will learn what is happening & what you can do.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been βinundatedβ with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesusβ¦
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
***Call for Proposals for New Edited Volume***
Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia are inviting IEHS members to submit a paper proposal for an edited anthology, tentatively titled Immigrants in Challenging Times, by March 15, 2026.
More info and to submit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Civil War battlefield driving tour map was also flagged for its inclusion of direct quotes about the cause of the war from secession documents and Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. The quotes cite slavery as the cause
Quoting secessionists about why they seceded? Outrageous!
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Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis.
"I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable."
www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.
Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! π₯³
Looks awesome! Have you seen the Off-Broadway show "Mexodus"?
02.03.2026 19:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. π₯π₯π₯
01.03.2026 16:39 β π 561 π 248 π¬ 20 π 35
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps ποΈ
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
Look at this chart
02.03.2026 13:30 β π 463 π 190 π¬ 13 π 10And listening to the Caine/Hegseth briefing, it's really striking that Trump has not spoken live since he started this war.
02.03.2026 13:26 β π 170 π 63 π¬ 12 π 2The rules of engagement flow out of US military law. It is how our armed forces differentiate themselves from murderers and assassins.
02.03.2026 13:28 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
02.03.2026 13:11 β π 37 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.
02.03.2026 00:00 β π 2510 π 411 π¬ 85 π 55Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.
01.03.2026 22:55 β π 46 π 23 π¬ 3 π 1
Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.
This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.
Please share widely. I want everyone to know the truth about whatβs happening at UT Austin. Faculty arenβt brainwashing anyone!
01.03.2026 14:55 β π 8 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1Itβs unnerving for sure
01.03.2026 14:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The EPA issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice efforts to address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities.
01.03.2026 14:46 β π 948 π 313 π¬ 34 π 16A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Not sure if we have learned that much in the intervening century and a half
01.03.2026 13:45 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
According to The Economist, Cubaβs imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34 last year, faster than anywhere else in the world
They're trying to prepare for the inevitable next attack from Trump
billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-...
This logic played a substantial role in the US-Mexico War of 1846-8: the US imagined it was βliberatingβ Mexico from despotism and could not understand the opposition of the Mexican people to their invasion
01.03.2026 13:38 β π 58 π 12 π¬ 5 π 1
The judges in WV have seen enough.
They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings β including against state officials who help them carry it out.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...