Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The Early Republic Tracker The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…

Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

Minnesota is the best of us.

The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago

Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

CONGRATULATIONS to our own Gloria Whiting 🎉 Her book, “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” is one of four finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Prize! Congrats to Gloria and all this years finalists!

macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life. Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.

⚡️New from Drop Site:

We Tried to Stay in Gaza City. There Are No Longer Any Means of Sustaining Life.

Journalist Rasha Abou Jalal (@rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social) documents her family’s forced displacement from Gaza City as Israeli forces bear down.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...

I wrote about a freedom seeker named Ishmael Mux. His “white complexion” first caught my attention. What I discovered was the story of a boy whose mother was sold away in infancy by one of Connecticut’s most established families.

My latest for Freedom Seekers

Runaway advertisement for freedom seeker George Samba from Gazatteer and New Daily Advertiser (London), 16 August 1776.

On August 12, 1776, a fourteen-year-old boy named George Samba escaped his enslavers home in the heart of London’s East End. Read his story here: freedom-seekers.org/story/george...

Runaway advertisement for escaped freedom seeker Daniel Anderson who had been enslaved by James Young

In August 1783, an enslaver named James Young posted an ad seeking the return of Daniel Anderson. But as @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social reveals, Anderson had already eluded capture for five years and had not intention of returning. Read his story: freedom-seekers.org/story/daniel...

A runaway advertisement from the Jamaica Mercury for freedom seeker Augustus Thomson/Dr. Caesar

It was a typical advertisement. But the story of Dr. Caesar (or Augustus Thomson) is anything but typical. Follow his journey from Jamaica to the door of his absentee enslaver in Britain on our website: freedom-seekers.org/story/doctor...

The Department of anti-Government?

Great stuff from Joan Scott. So disappointing to see so many full and emeritus folks defend an organization that has: (1) failed to advocate for young scholars entering a collapsing profession; and (2) refused to take its members’ grievances and demands seriously—esp. on the issue of scholasticide.🗃️

That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Hell of a photo

Western Association of Women Historians Promoting the interests of women historians since 1969

Congrats to UW-Madison’s Gloria Whiting, whose book “Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England” has won the 2025 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the WAWH! wawh.org/keller-sierr...

Under growing international pressure, Israel has allowed a trickle of food into Gaza for the first time in more than 11 weeks. But Mahmoud Alsaqqa with Oxfam says it's "merely a drop in the ocean" compared to the desperate need. "People here in Gaza are starving."

ICE efforts in DC thwarted by solidarity Kristi Noem has been denied another camera-ready moment of cruelty.

Read my latest:

Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail.

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

@pocan.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov need to follow Rep. Clancy’s example and stand by Judge Dugan

Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media pos...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...