The Return of Family Detention Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,117 - Lawyers, Guns & Money This is the grave of Mamie Till Mobley. Born in 1921 in Webb, Mississippi, Mamie Carthan grew up in Chicago. Her parents got out of Mississippi shortly after she was born, following the jobs and the r...

For the 2,117th post in the grave series, I visit Mamie Till-Mobley, whose courage in the face of the lynching of her son is truly astonishing.

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Daisy Hernández on the Myth of Citizenship Award-winning author Daisy Hernández joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell to talk about her new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. Hernández explains the history …

NEW EPISODE: Award-winning author @dazeher.bsky.social shares the history of "Citizenship," its wavering definition in the U.S., and its negative impact on marginalized groups. Join co-hosts @maritza4770.bsky.social & Whitney Terrell at lithub.com/daisy-hernan... to listen! @literaryhub.bsky.social

Northwestern's Daisy Hernández and her new history of the (quickly) changing meaning of citizenship Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Citizen pain: Northwestern's Daisy Hernández and her new history of the (quickly) changing meaning of citizenship www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/n...

Who Can I Dance With? From sneaking into underground basements in Tehran [...] to learning to dance with almost no words in Northern California, I had done everything I could.

"The class was less about dancing than about confronting ourselves—confronting a freedom that felt both thrilling and forbidden."

Arash Dabestani for Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/who-can-i-da...

Who Can I Dance With? From sneaking into underground basements in Tehran [...] to learning to dance with almost no words in Northern California, I had done everything I could.

www.guernicamag.com/who-can-i-da...

Who Can I Dance With? longreads.com/2026/03/02/d...

Did you know that the Cuban revolutionary José Martí lived in the U.S. for the majority of his adult life, & that while working for an NYC publisher he translated Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona into its first Spanish edition? That & more in my new Considering History column! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

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After the Boston Slave Riot in 1854, a group of Harvard faculty formed a vigilance committee, to walk the streets of Cambridge, MA and chase off slave hunters. Being academics, they of course appointed a club secretary, who noted that they planned to "brandish clubs or crude bludgeons." -OS

And a percent of such interest also being a reader and fan of our host is also entirely possible. That’s part of being a person who is just starting to read history. The plus is now Said Person might be interested in a suggestion, debunking Foote.

It’s entirely possible if he is young that he not only has heard of our host, but reads him. A young person picking up a civil war book for the 1st time and saying to themselves “ hey that’s the author who narrated that 15 minute clip of a documentary I saw in history class” Is plausible….

Came from Longreads. Thank you for the engaging and evocative read on your stepfather.

Thank you to Carolyn Wells and the @longreads.com team for selecting my @electricliterature.com essay as an Editor’s Pick. I’m grateful for the chance to appear alongside so many talented writers.

i'm not a voting member for either the nebulas or hugos but guys hear me out--

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Do It Now On rosebuds and responsibilities. Or: How to approach 2026.

"I’ve come to believe that, when you’re very young, it makes sense to err on the side of delayed gratification. But as you get older, you really ought to err on the side of gathering rosebuds."
www.thebulwark.com/p/do-it-now-...

AI is pretty much a mansplainer you can’t escape from.

My dancing-obsessed 6-year-old daughter is watching 'It's a Wonderful Life' for the first time and is understandably smitten by this silly scene

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

More on Bill Burr via @nsarchive.bsky.social. What a hero. When Kissinger stole his files rather than giving them to the archives, Burr found copies elsewhere and made them publicly available.
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Happy Clara Barton Day! The spirit of Christmas indeed.

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Watchers of the Sky Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Documentary HD YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Indie

Rewatching "The Watchers of the Skies" which is a hard but beautiful film on genocide. Rafael Lemkin quote:

"It is not the cargo of a vessel that is at stake, but humanity with its spiritual heritage in which the whole world partakes."

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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

The WP Post on my feed is 'The Scourge of Automatic Hand Dryers'

Amazing.

Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert Pulaski News is a fixture of the community, a tool to prepare students for the workforce and the last official source keeping residents informed about hyperlocal happenings.

Love this. Teens keeping the town informed in Pulaski, WI wisconsinwatch.org/2025/10/wisc...

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

The only two places in the world free of mosquitoes are Antarctica and Iceland — that is, until now. This month, three specimens were discovered in Iceland, which is warming four times faster than any other country in the Northern Hemisphere.

Thanks! Reading currently ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ by same.