Trump v Barbara on birthright citizenship being argued today is a very narrow portion of US immigration history. In this podcast which was great fun, I spoke with @isaacsloftus.bsky.social & @lynnprobbins.bsky.social about the larger context. They have thoughtfully provided segments in the notes.
lol we A/B tested a few thumbnails and of course it picked the most ridiculous. Algorithm gods are undefeated.
But the convo is SUPER interesting. Thanks for posting Jim!
Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
This is a pretty odd post. Even the headline is more honest.
I’m so excited and grateful to my friend the brilliant historian Leslie Harris for coming to Providence for this conversation about the sharp politics of family history. 11.11 and there’s a zoom link coming…
^^^this is the content I’m here for
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
Book stack of Opium Slavery on a table with curtains as a backdrop.
It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...
LOL
Does sliding doors count?
Toddlers all of them
Do you have a history podcast idea? We want to hear it for the #AHA2026 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. Submit an application before November 15th!
@herberthistory.bsky.social are you a tng fan?
One of the things that Chairman Tahdooahnippah and I both wanted to talk about was how to do ethical scholarship with Tribes. So if you’re interested in those thoughts or feel that your students could hear them, check out the current episode of Reckoning with Jason Herbert below.
Very much looking forward to this
New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o
The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies.
It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check.
Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous.
Or a boat full of fishermen.
That’s awesome
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
Michael Jackson — specially Bad
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Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
“But are there not many Fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.”
- Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered from…what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.
My coworker and I watched plainclothes people grab two community members and put them into unmarked cars this morning. One was yelling for help. And all we could do was film. They're disappearing people.
