I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Any Cal PhDs-Jr faculty need regalia? Pref. details below ❤️. Go Bears.
Can’t wait to read this!
Trump’s proposed cuts to NASA are an insult to astronauts like the Artemis crew
By Bill Nye
www.ms.now/opinion/arte...
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
The federal govt wants to end the block on new leasing for mineral extraction at Chaco Canyon. They announced a 7-day comment period and it ends tomorrow, April 7. Submit a comment now to remind the govt of their obligations to tribes. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...
Horrifying.
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function. From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress. If Trump is able to get away with ignoring that, with arrogating the entire power of the purse to himself, then Congress has pretty much no way of checking him.
Feels appropriate to point out on No Kings day:
Allowing Trump to selectively pay employees he likes, when he feels like it, rather than having Congress solve the problem, is a real constitutional threat.
From @joshchafetz.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...
New job:
Senior Historian
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69898
It was not.
Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃
academic.oup.com/jah/article/...
The famous David Blight formulation (in Race & Reunion) is, the country chose healing over justice and thereby achieved neither.
Suddenly those mini Coronas they were drinking at the Olympics are looking good.
Long time listener, first time caller: CONGRATS on the FIANCÉ! Happy for you two 🍾.
I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that.
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Some noble, inclusive, and democratic "real America" from the past is not coming to save us, nor are we doomed to forever live in an oppressive, racist, and exclusionary "real America" that has always existed. Both versions of "our" history are real. America's future is up to us.
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
Villa's Tacos founder Victor Villa appeared with his taco cart during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show, marking a rare moment of L.A. street food culture being showcased on one of the world's biggest stages.
🔗 See it: https://ow.ly/gRxg50Ybp64
✍️ Gab Chabrán
📸 Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLSz... (should go to playlist, not just first video)
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
You might enjoy this. I'm guessing he tapped the historian to help with ideas for the halftime show too.
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Steve Vladeck: For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wrote about Monday's NYT scoop regarding Chief Justice Roberts having clerks and other employees sign non-disclosure agreements, and why #SCOTUS's transparency problems run far deeper and wider than just NDAs:
Have your monthly premiums increased under the Affordable Care Act? Has this been affecting your cost of living?
We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/4qmoBOK
The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building. https://cnn.it/4k6uaiR
