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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 15h

"Caught between the government and faculty are campus administrators, some who have expressed distrust of Trump’s civil rights investigations. But they fear that resisting would not only be illegal but could result in devastating funding cuts."

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash

Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...

www.latimes.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

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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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 2d

that's why they want to censor history class!

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 2d

I have many reading recommendations and specific points of arguments to make for this, but the real problem is that someone who says this kind of thing would never care.

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 13d

Today's announcement about using the military to fight the "internal enemy" means we've left the Bleeding Kansas portion of the story and gotten to Harper's Ferry.

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 14d

What are your favorite scholarly pieces on birthright citizenship?

I'm doing the Oxford bibliography on "Law and Society in Reconstruction America (basically everything), and I know there's a ton of new stuff on this out there that I'm afraid I'm missing.

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 19d

I mean, I’m not NOT a French and Indian war nerd… though it’s not my primary nerdly occupation

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 20d

Our modern brain drain.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

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

www.theguardian.com

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 27d

I think we should assume so.

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · 28d

This was a literal plot line in Parks and Rec a decade ago. We laughed at fictional people thinking fluoride was bad but "TDazzle" was amazing.

Reuters @reuters.com · 28d

Colgate to change toothpaste packaging to address Texas AG fluoride concerns reut.rs/4nDE2Bj

Colgate to change toothpaste packaging to address Texas AG fluoride concerns

Colgate-Palmolive will introduce new packaging and marketing for its toothpaste products, after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expressed concern that its marketing of fluoride could harm parents and children.

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 13

As a legal historian of the Civil War Era, I've been thinking a lot about the rapidly shifting nature of American federalism. Really wish I weren't living through it, though.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 13

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington.

The result is a patchwork approach that leaves many areas uncovered.

(Published May)

“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...

www.propublica.org

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 12

Shocking and indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve been thinking the same thing all day.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 11

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 10

An invocation of Nostradamus?? Yes please.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 10

Jared Moskowitz calls on Chairman Jim Jordan to appoint House Republicans’ top investigator James Comer to retain a handwriting expert to find out who forged Trump’s signature on the Epstein birthday card 22 years ago.

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 10

I thought of you this morning when I saw the guardian’s reporting on the deportation flights.

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wait until they find the actual historical sources. The Red Record would probably cause a stroke. jfc

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 6

I just never regret cancelling my subscription to the NYT. jfc.

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 4

I remember having conversations back in November about how the administration and its allies could mess with accreditation. Evidently, now it's happening. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

How UNC Led a First-of-Its-Kind Plan to Shake Up College Accreditation

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, publicly announced the new six-state oversight body. Behind the scenes, the University of North Carolina system shaped the vision.

www.chronicle.com

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 3

As a historian of slavery, (leaving aside the public health idiocy of this), this is exceptionally offensive.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

www.theguardian.com

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Sep 3

sweet merciful crap

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Aug 31

Giving me some real committees of correspondence vibes.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Aug 29

DC's night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, they document the occupation forces' constitutional violations, write Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano.

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing How To Fight Trump's Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

www.thenation.com

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Jamaica’s Maroons keep their culture alive – and spearhead fight for justice

Mama G, a spiritual leader of descendants of Africans who escaped enslavement to form their own communities, says what was taken from her ancestors must be restored: ‘Restoration is reparation’

www.theguardian.com

Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Aug 27

Frankly, if you have the extra cash, invest your money in Blue Books, because demand is about to surge. I'll be responsible for 700 or so just this coming year alone.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 26

So far, the main businesses that have been financially benefited from AI have been the producers of blue books
www.wsj.com/business/cha...

They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.

Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.

www.wsj.com

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Giuliana Perrone @gperrone.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wait. There's still time to get a job with the American Girl company????

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Aug 25

SAY THIS FUCKING LOUDER

Yet recent history grads have a lower unemployment rate (4.6 percent) than recent computer science grads (6.1 percent), according to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. History is one of the most popular college majors among congressional staff members, and historians find work in some surprising places, such as the National Security Agency and the American Girl doll company.

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