Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Just as Frederick Douglass was denied lying in honor in the rotunda in 1895 (in case you didn’t believe Speaker Johnson wanted to repeat Jim Crow: wapo.st/3MSFhzG
The U.S. didn't become the wealthiest country in the world because we were under draconian leadership depriving us of freedom and human rights.
Expanding democracy meant human flourishing, which in turn led to a more productive populace and a strong economy.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
This is striking: New Senate Majority PAC poll finds that GOP's advantage on immigration has been wiped out by unpopularity of Trump's agenda. Dems now at parity with Republicans.
This is a Dem poll but it dovetails with what other polls are showing (see piece/thread below)
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
A Ukrainian dad escaped Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
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...
What can you do with a history degree?
Did You Know: More than 90% of hotels in the United States refused to take reservations from Black guests? The Green Book Project tells the story Black travel during Jim Crow. Share your story and contribute to the Community Map: greenbookproject.osu.edu
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
I am excited to debut a new segment I am co-creating with @wgbh.org and The Curiosity Desk.
This week, we discussed a new website, inequalities.ai, which reveals the biases and opinions of ChatGPT on a range of topics.
Listen and explore the website!
Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.
The video was 62 seconds long.
I realize for him that’s a long time but still ….
Lol
Chatting with the local public librarian today about some interactions I was having two other public libraries nearby, and she amusedly called me a “poly” library user. 🤣 I can’t deny it! #polybiblio #booklover
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
Folks:
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
Call for Papers: Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia invite you to submit a paper proposal for an edited anthology, tentatively titled Immigrants in Challenging Times, by March 15, 2026. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
So we know there are images of death, physical abuse, and injury in the #EpsteinFiles. Got it.
The book will be written about geographies of authoritarianism and how this regime zeroed in on cities w/ large Black populations, African immigrant populations, Black leadership and histories of Black protest. That book has already been written many times over about US history, but history repeats
