So who's going to write the Tax Day op-ed on how replacing tariffs with the income tax was a great Progressive achievement?

Thank you! That’s really kind of you and I appreciate it.

Thank you for moving this over here

I hate to be a "historian here" ass bitch but i'm gonna. I'm a historian of US immigration and citizenship law, and i have a lot of thoughts on not only the ICE abductions but some of the popular liberal responses to them. 1/x During the Palmer Raids of the 1920s, US AG J. Mitchell Palmer targeted for denaturalization and deportation "political radicals" (communists, labor organizers, etc). Most famous was Emma Goldman. 2/x That's the closest we've ever gotten to a law of exile. but denaturalization proceedings are administrative, so not in court (by default; you could file habeas petitions). all of this has always happened behind closed doors. 3/x Deportation and denaturalization have ALWAYS been civil and not criminal procedures. that means that the bill of rights has NEVER applied. this includes the rights to an attorney and a fair/speedy/public trial. 4/x I'm not saying this to be like "calm down this is how it's always been." quite the opposite. i'm saying this because it has Always Been This Bad. this is just another example of how US institutions have always been evil, and you've just been fine with it bc you liked Obama 5/x "If they can do this to undocumented people and legal permanent residents they can do it to anybody!!!" 1. yes that's what we've been trying to tell you and 2. kidnapping someone and ripping them away from their family has Always Been Evil, regardless of immigration status 6/x This is why when we say "Abolish ICE" we mean it. ICE has always been a loaded gun pointed at US citizens, but more importantly, its stated mission of deportations without hearings has always been evil. 7/x Your political engagement needs to start kicking in before when you personally are affected. people are suffering under the normal, regular-ass system, and you thinking it's abnormal because now citizens are affected too is too late. 8/x When we say "Abolish ICE," we mean it. when we say "Abolish the police," we mean it. the systems are not broken. they a…

@jannaehaider.bsky.social posted a thread re: immmigration on the Shitter site and it's worth reposting here if for nothing else because the usual troop of white dudes pushed back on her.

"The systems are not broken, they are operating as intended and that's bad."

Oh hey that’s me

Barr was one of the senior editors alleged to have banned Felicia Sonmez from covering Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing because she had spoken publicly about the experience - estimated to be shared by 1 out of every 6 women - of being sexually assaulted.

adding a lecture about the freedom of the press to my legal/constitutional history class and i have to talk about this gremlin

is the entire literature in the room with us right now

(also has this dude never read a district court opinion or)

Docile or dangerous? An intersectional analysis of Asian-descent adults’ policing experiences Drawing from the experiences of sixty-three interviewees, I elucidate how Asian-descent people in the United States make sense of the intersecting dynamics that configure the link between racial ty...

🚨New Pub🚨
I illustrate how police-citizen interactions function as boundary-making events that brighten racial group boundaries via the differential deployment of authority and legal violence according to gendered and classed constructions of racial prototypes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

i just think it would be cool if we brought lyndon johnson back from the dead to have a chat with the three living former democratic presidents

that's my new answer to the "ideal dinner party guests living or dead" question

Encountering false things when you expect factual information is confusing, a tax on each of us as we scramble to assess, but what happens at scale when nobody can have any certainty that the answers are true? Total collapse. And nobody approaches the problem with a hint of care.

Apropos AI, ChatGPT, etc., in universities:

Thomas Pfau's wise Memo.

I honestly think Zuck is just mad no one liked his dumbass virtual reality game, Musk is mad we think he’s not funny, all these guys are just embarrassed & overcompensating & as Social Network put so succinctly: they think people hate them cause they’re nerds, but it’s because they’re assholes

Of course. 💚

As a journalist & scholar, I’m inspired by @srseikaly.bsky.social’s words on @democracynow.org: “The way forward is not to be passive & obedient. The way forward is to be ethical & to stand for what is just & to stand against this Israeli genocide which—again—is armed & abetted by the United States”

American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehen...

“Scholars and students of history know…the way forward is not to be passive and obedient. The way forward is to be ethical and to stand for what is just”

www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...

Bye Bye Bye

Even after that wardrobe malfunction in India, comely Canadian Justin Trudeau’s no Justin Timberlake. But I’d still be happy to rock his body. Will the next Canadian PM be more NSYNC with the Donald?

by Maureen Dowd

As a sign of what’s to come.
This Laken Riley act is the kitchen sink. It allows states attorneys general to challenge all federal immigration policy — including parole and the issuing of visas.
Agh.

www.majorityleader.gov/uploadedfile...

Further evidence here that US (reactionary) conservatism is a metastasising cancer in the global body politic.

When I was younger and someone told me to not fight wars you can't win, I thought they were dumb because why would I fight a war I can't win. I was so naive

Elon Musk is ‘unofficial president’ of the US, Netanyahu says Tech billionaire reveals Iran sent him ‘Charles Dickens-level polite’ letter to shut down Starlink

Indicted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calls Musk "unofficial president" on X while in discussion with Musk.

www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-mu...

Findings from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into the Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis':

• Scalia accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and others with business before the Court for over a decade, in violation of federal law, including 258 personal trips, dozens of which weren't disclosed.

Image of a hand holding a coffee cup surrounded by fire; text: ‘twas the strike before Christmas, Dec. 20-24th

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨

Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces.
jewishcurrents.org/inside-yale-...

We take what we can get

Unearthing the 'hidden' racist history of America's sundown towns Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Mississippi, maintains the only active database of sundown towns in the United States.

Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Mississippi, maintains the only active database of sundown towns in the United States

One huge improvement of bluesky is that y’all can’t call yourselves “twitterstorians”