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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 1h

Local pastor, historian and activist Clarence Glover, who is also a member of the Dallas County Pioneer Association — which maintains municipal cemetery sites — said the organization initially contacted him about the vandalism.

‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

www.dallasnews.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 2h

We're going to start getting random arrests in the Whole Foods parking lot.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/08/k...

AG Ken Paxton announces undercover investigations of “leftist terror cells”

Paxton cited the recent attack on a Dallas immigration field office, though the shooter’s political affiliation was unclear and there was no evidence he was linked to organized “cells.”

www.texastribune.org

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 2h

For the moment.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 11h

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 6h

This is gorgeous. Thanks!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 6h

It was an absolute joy to write about the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a nonprofit that works tirelessly to preserve Texas' film history by digitizing tapes and film before they degrade. Their website is a treasure trove of cool state history: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Meet the people preserving Texas history, one home movie at a time.

Your home footage may be more special than you think, the nonprofit says.

www.chron.com

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 7h

Texas Republicans are soulsick.

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 7h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 7h

It's a grind, but at least the legislature isn't coming back for a while! And we have some great candidates to back in state elections next year. ✊

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 7h

The only thing more futile and demoralizing than teaching in Texas is the academic job market.

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

This is not enough, but it is a start. And we should celebrate that start and keep pushing for more.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

All of the living hostages in Gaza are expected to be released on Monday in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, under the first phase of a new cease-fire deal.

Israelis and Palestinians Await Hostage-Prisoner Swap With Relief and Elation

Under the first phase of the new cease-fire deal, all of living hostages in Gaza are expected to be released in the next 24 hours in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

nyti.ms

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8h

But few Democrats vote in the other party's primary anyway, probably never enough to make a difference in the result. This move solves no problem.

Paxton only wants to muddy voting rights, imply there are misdeeds when there aren't any, and dilute the impact of Democratic voters even further.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8h

Oddly, he also wants to preclude the possibility that a voter might be truly independent or might change their party between elections.

What defines a Democrat is someone who voted in the previous Democratic primary, which would bar them from deciding later to become a Republican.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8h

I'm a loyal Democratic voter, but I've voted in the GOP primary many times when the Dem nominations weren't contested — as is my right. In a democracy it often makes sense to cast your vote in the elections that matter most.

Paxton wants to take away that freedom.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8h

Paxton's bid to prohibit Democrats from voting in the Texas GOP primary is nothing but a move to help himself in an election where many Dems may be tempted to back Cornyn as the less obnoxious alternative.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t...

Paxton sides with Texas GOP, against secretary of state in lawsuit seeking to close primaries

Secretary of State Jane Nelson said in a filing that Paxton’s office gave her less than an hour’s warning that they’d be siding against her agency in court.

www.texastribune.org

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 10h

My paternal grandma’s family is from New Orleans, & part of the family is still there. Jews live everywhere. We take part in the cultures of the places we live, & transform them as well. We are part of the cultures where we live, not strangers or outsiders.

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 13h

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks!

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🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 13h

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

See also, nearly thirty years of peer-reviewed scholarship in the annual journal "Southern Jewish History." It's all available free to download from the journal's Academia page.

independent.academia.edu/SouthernJewi...

Southern Jewish History - Profile on Academia.edu

Southern Jewish History is the peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. It has been published annually each fall since 1998. Our focus…

independent.academia.edu

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone interested in the long history of Jews in the South (or who doubts its existence) should read Shari Rabin's terrific new book, "The Jewish South: An American History."

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Jewish South

A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today

press.princeton.edu

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Those of us who grade a lot of college essays already knew that all books are novels. Now I've been informed that all pictures are photos.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

A Supreme Court justice is on the FoxNews commenting on another Supreme Court justice who isn't there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

They won on the dogs and cats thing so they'll never stop lying because they always get away with it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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