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Because it’s a Liquor Cabinet.

For those who don’t know her, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social is one of the leading legal historians of our time, and president of the American Society for Legal History!

Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines

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I didn’t go looking for affirmation that Trump’s birthright citizenship claims are spurious, but old Charlie Sumner thought otherwise. I might have to write a quick op-ed about this letter.

And, again, one of my favorite things about archival research is finding a gem like this on accident. (4/4)

“For whatever the condition of the foreign immigrant under the Acts of Congress, I cannot doubt that his children, BORN IN THE UNITES STATES are CITIZENS thereof…The accident of BIRTH impresses upon the infant this indelible character.” [All emphases in original] (3/4)

He said, “The genius of our institutions invites immigration, but it does not say ‘come,’ then add ‘but all who come must be of the purest white, and you cannot have offspring entitled to privileges and immunities of citizenship.’”(2/4)

I love accidental archival finds! Knee deep in the records of the Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social. I was scrolling through the letters of Robert C Winthrop, curious about some of his politicking in the early 1840s when I come across an absolute banger from Charles Sumner (1/4)

Preach, Queen

kant erasure on the daily, pangram to boot

Spring is for purple!!

mostly reading the papers of Amos Adams Lawrence, who helped fund the New England Emigrant Aid Company. That org facilitated the migration of New Englanders to Kansas in hopes of securing enough votes to make Kansas a state w/o slavery. The violence that erupted there foreshadowed secession & war

Selfie with a portrait of Charles Sumner in the background

Just finished up day one at @mhs1791.bsky.social the MHS. I had Charles Sumner looking over my shoulder, keeping me on my toes.

Thanks, Mark

I’m building off the recent works of Samantha Seeley,
@kevinkenny.bsky.social and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social while invoking the old masters: Ira Berlin, John Hope Franklin, and G Carter Woodson.

About to start my fellowship at @mhs1791.bsky.social in a few minutes. I’m working on a book about the origins of criminalized migration in the US, largely from the vantage point of the migrants themselves. What did it mean to be an illegal migrant before the Civil War? I’m finding out.

Book cover for Rachel A. Shelden, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

FIFA is dropping hotel rooms in host cities three months before the World Cup FIFA is cancelling hotel reservations in multiple World Cup host cities, with only three months until the tournament. Here's what we know.

FIFA canceled 2,000 of their 10,000 hotel room reservations in Philadelphia last week. … Philly is not the only city to experience FIFA hotel cancellations, as FIFA reportedly canceled 40% of its hotel bookings in Mexico City earlier this month.

Kid skiing down a giant slalom course

Four children on an outside podium celebrating the finish of a ski race

An absolutely necessary diversion from…everything.

My kid and his bestie took 1st and 2nd in the under-6 GS race this afternoon.

"People were held in detention facilities for weeks for an immigration judge to essentially find that they were not a danger or a flight risk and should be released," said Jenny Beverly, an immigration attorney…. "That tells me that the arrests were needless to begin with."

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4 Minnesota guys

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act.

by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

ME: why do you have your little brother in a figure-four leg lock?

9YO: the Dow is at 50,000, dad. That’s what we should be talking about out.

If ICE is gonna mimic slave catchers, then state assemblies should enact modern-day personal liberty laws

immigrants don't cause nativism, nativists do!

I used to show my methods class the clip of the gang sitting on the street talking about Columbus. That was back when my students knew who the Sopranos were