Elisabeth Macias

People sitting at tables with computers typing transcriptions

People sitting at tables with computers typing transcriptions with large painting of Frederick Douglass on a wall in the background.

Georgetown’s annual celebration of Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-A-Thon with the Colored Conventions Project!

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.

Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.

This is the thing the cultural commodity spectacle of Super Bowl Sunday requires we bracket: the sport is predicated on human sacrifice.

The players you watch today are being killed in front you, slowly, whether it looks like it or not.

And the NFL can only get away with it because *we* watch.

1. The History of the Notion of Sin (the only class in which I received an A+ lol)
2. History of American Families
3. History of Roman Palestine
4. Teaching and Learning: The Having of Wonderful Ideas
5. Great Books in US History?

Thank you!

My targeted instagram ads are getting weird.

Thanks!!! A big relief.

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Thank you, Professor Roshwald!

Officially a PhD candidate now that I've passed my comprehensive examinations. Yay!

I'm sorry they Miltoned you. 🫡

I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

The plot of "Speed 2: The Ex-Interim Chair"

Baltimore! Join the great Nathan Connolly and me at @redemmas.org on January 29th!!

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (“Abrego Garcia”) petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus to release him from the custody of Respondents, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) Kristi Noem, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) Director Todd Lyons, ICE Baltimore Field Office Director Nikita Baker, and Attorney General Pamela Bondi. ECF No. 1. Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority. Id. For this reason, the Court will GRANT Abrego Garcia’s Petition for immediate release from ICE custody.

BREAKING

Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.

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Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.

A parent at a DC middle school is urging staff to reconsider its new curriculum, which removes all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum

Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels

from a thread about whether or not capitalism will "trump" racism. my 2 cents: mistakes here stem from a two very different orientations one can have: 1) capital is a key constraint on/enabler of political developments vs. 2) changes in capital *are* the (real) political developments

obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good

A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days. Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.

She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.

“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.

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Trump out here making "The name is Mamdani" tiktoks

"Adam Moth Rothman" has a nice ring to it.

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

How souvenir penny presses could survive after the end of the one-cent coin What does the end of penny production mean for novelty penny press machines? Collectors say it might change how the machines work.

I've been fretting about this all week

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?

I see the next book project ideas are flowing lol

The mayor-elect has opened a portal!!!!