I was trained as a political scientist specializing in institutions. But the abuse of history in what passes as originalism is pissing me off. And now I'm armed w/ 16 years of research in the very relevant topics of migration and citizenship. I'm joining other historians in calling out the BS.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you. Langston Hughes
USPS shouldn't even calculate "profit."
It's an essential service that should be fully funded by the government.
The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
Good.
I'm seeing a lot of takes on gender here, but I just thought we'd all collectively decided that people who've made it their brand to hate women also hate the women who align themselves with them?
Is anyone surprised that Trump is targeting the women in his cabinet? (like really...)
Congress has the constitutional authority to make the DOJ an independent agency. Maybe then we would get less embarrassing AGs.
Can politics be more than taking down bad faith hot takes from boys I would have beaten in high school debate? I hope that, one day, it is.
But today is not that day.
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No speakers *with* autism, as far as I can tell.
Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.
Everyone's an originalist until it comes to the Reconstruction Amendments...
Honestly the justices (particularly Justice Sotomayor) sound ... somewhat taken aback that they're even hearing this case.
And ... same?
Also - you didn't have to! You could have just issued a summary op saying "See the Fourteenth Amendment"! Even last year in the nationwide inujunction case!
alito’s birthday being april fool’s day is the surest sign yet of a cosmic order and a maker with an indulgent sense of humor
Hating the SCOTUS arguments right now, but at least I got Lily Allen tickets?
It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.
Note: *they* are saying it! They are the ones promising to use ICE to throw the election to the GOP.
I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good.
Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).
Like, the takeaway is to encourage ethical and humane scientific practices. Not to imagine a new version of history where the iterative process of science was not impacted by the social and political structures of the places and times in which it was happening
Today is World Tuberculosis Day. TB is the world's most deadly infectious disease and devastates millions globally each year. It doesn't have to be this way, but we need to counter the dismantling of the U.S. public health system to ensure cross-border leadership, investment, and action
"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™"
Be for real, come on.
Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science.
WHY are you sanitizing this?
A pile of Anna O. Law's Migrations and the Origins of American Citizenship and one copy propped up on top. The cover is an USA flag with a figure of a man behind it like the stripes are bars
📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...
I had a lot of fun writing about insurance and disability this week. Apparently, you can take the girl out of insurance coverage litigation, but you can't take insurance out of her work.
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Just re-upping this new target article I co-authored w/ the incredible @elangmann.bsky.social It integrates insights from 3 fields that generally aren't working together much: aging studies, disability studies, & #bioethics in context of #EpistemicJustice
Let us know if you'd like a PDF!
I will say that as a PhD student, I wrote things while an RA for a law professor that were both used, and I was unattributed as an author. And that left a really poor taste in my mouth. I’m glad to hear that’s not common practice!! I always include RAs as coauthors if they do drafting or analysis
The NYT presents this as an either-or situation and it is not. We can protect women and girls from predators and have justice for the common worker. We can protect women and girls while providing the civil rights to ALL. Rights that many shed blood and lost their lives for us to have.
A black and white photo of a woman's hand showing the back side of her hand, she wears nail polish and her nails are cut short. And on the back of her palm are four blisters caused by burning with a dolorimeter
Mar., 1951 INFLUENCE OF ANALGESICS ON PAIN INTENSITY DURING LABOR (WITH A NOTE ON "NATURAL CHILDBIRTH") * CARL T. JAVERT, M.D., AND JAMES D. HARDY, PE.D. New York, New York Received for publication August 9, 1950
Am teaching a course on Pain & the humanities this yr, and I can't stop thinking about this 1950 experiment conducted in New York hospitals and Cornell University hospital, where physicians burned the hands of women in labor (IN LABOR) to create a measure for pain/study pain thresholds.
#histmed