Manisha Sinha

@profmsinha.bsky.social

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Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn

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Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024). .. more

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · Apr 11

Historian here posting for no reason at all.

U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4:

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry thought people would get it from the context. Probably American doesn’t cut it either, maybe US Civil War.

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 5h

Very much looking forward to this!

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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 6h

If you are in Cambridge on December 2, join me at this Harvard Bookstore event on Capitalism: A Global History with the great @profmsinha.bsky.social .
www.harvard.com/event/sven-b...

www.harvard.com

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 8h

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 9h

So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE

www.nytimes.com

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 10h

I think it was for everyone but apparently there is still a way to locate people.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12h

For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 12h

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 12h

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

www.thedailybeast.com

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 14h

Civil War historian here only a fake MAGAt account based in Serbia would make this idiotic claim. In the hellsite leading MAGAt accounts have been found based outside the country and now Twitter has turned off its location function!

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax @portlandken.bsky.social · 21h

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Brendan Nyhan, Jacob T. Levy , and 2 more Elizabeth Saunders, Brendan Nyhan, Jacob T. Levy, Samantha Brennan, Manisha Sinha

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.

In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.

Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

It is good to see the pushback on Trump lead to real losses for him. But it's hard to be optimistic when he still wields the enormous power of the presidency. ICE is still rampaging, HHS is harming people, the U.S. may be about to sell out Ukraine, the boat strikes...he's still doing so much damage.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.

Ted Cruz #@tedcruz•20h
I'm the son of a Cuban immigrant — I hate communists.
But when I was at Harvard Law School, I went out of my way to take classes from the communists because you can't fight something you don't understand.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Why Donald Trump Seems Taken With Zohran Mamdani
Michael Powell

This was one of several moments in the press conference that felt more like a Saturday Night Live skit than a newscast. But perhaps all this was not as improbable as it looked and sounded. Trump bellows and insults and demeans, but so much of that is an act, guff and bullying. His earlier talk of Mamdani as “my little communist mayor” even carried an odd hint of affection, and there was evident admiration in the way in which he spoke of Mamdani’s unlikely mayoral victory. These men are, in their very different ways, populists, Queens men, and sometimes statists; they share a disdain for political establishments. And Trump, the developer, is aware of the extremely high cost of New York real estate, a focus of Mamdani’s campaign.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 1d

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 1d

VOTE EARLY, VOTE AFTYN

Today is the last Saturday to vote early in the TN-7 special congressional race in Tennessee. Not sure where or when to vote? Not in the district, but want to canvass to get out the vote? Check out the links in our BIO!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE

Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.

www.13newsnow.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

You should be paying attention to Tennessee.

The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Trump’s base are starting to show.

The Tennessee race that suddenly has Trump world nervous

Democrat Aftyn Behn is putting up a fight.

www.motherjones.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the money shot, but you should watch the whole thing.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Amen to that!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.

The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open

From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.

newrepublic.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 2d

I've long maintained that the Democratic party tolerates criticism of Israel as long as it doesn't trip into anti-semitism. The Republican party tolerates anti-semitism as long as it doesn't trip into criticism of Israel. And here we are.