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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 2d

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North

Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 2d

Well, she was recently at dinner with the Kushners, so there’s that. 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2d

MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton.

Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Why should the judgment of the wealthiest NYers be given deference? Simply b/c the victims of their choices don’t have money & power?

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 3d

It's Election Day!

Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards.

Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3d

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 9d

Yes! Checking out folks and services now! Let me know!

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 11d

Please do!

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 15d

ok who did this? ☹️

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

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Sharron Wilkins Conrad @sharronwconrad.bsky.social · 18d

I'm new here, but I just had to share! My book, The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop through @uncpress.bsky.social
Follow along on my website: www.sharronconrad.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16d

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit created by Congress to help preserve historic buildings, said Tuesday that Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom would 'overwhelm the White House itself,' which is about 55,000 square feet..."

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Trump's Ballroom Will 'Overwhelm' White House, National Trust Warns

Preservationists fear for how Trump's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom will sit alongside the White House itself, which is about 55,000 square feet.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks! Will check her out.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 16d

Ha! She was on my dissertation committee! We cool! 😂😂

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 16d

Any leads on an affordable developmental editor for a first book (History)??

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Alexandra Finley @alexfinley.bsky.social · 16d

More ways to support Tim Alter - register here

Register Now – Speak Out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the Fight for Free Speech – YouTube

Speak Out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the Fight for Free Speech – YouTube, Thu Nov 6, 2025 - The U.S. is experiencing one of the largest waves of political repression in its history. Academics,...

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 16d

“W/o urgent, sector-wide reform, the global academic publishing ecosystem is at risk of collapse.
We urge academic institutions to weaken the link b/n academic reward & journal article output, & to adopt holistic approaches to evaluating academic performance.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Major Academic Press Calls for “Publish or Perish” Reform

Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from Cambridge University Press.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 17d

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ We have lost the plot. This man isn’t even a credible hip-hop critic, so I can’t imagine what he’d have to offer us during these perilous times.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17d

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique.

The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc.

If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 19d

Lord, I hope the energy on display today spreads and multiplies 1,000-fold in time for midterms, and if necessary, after the Supreme Court fully guts the VRA in June. We need all hands on deck! #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 23d

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social · 22d

Sadly, we don’t teach Reconstruction enough!! So many folks remain oblivious to where this country is headed. Buckle up! It won’t be pretty.

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