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Manisha Sinha
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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."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20h
Ha I knew the final clue Virgin Islands that none of the Champions did but of course they know way more than me! #Jeopardy tournament of champions. Congrats Paolo!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 21h
Hope to see you there!

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 22h
“What do you think the odds are that person is a goat fucker?!”

Grade A trolling

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Very impressed with the enthusiastic students at Groton who filled the auditorium and cheered and clapped (I don’t think that has ever happened to me before!). Plus FDR was an alum!

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 1d
you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d
I’m teaching a 1 credit class “America at 250: The Revolution” and the final paper asks students to pick one of the grievances in the declaration and assemble primary sources to tell a story of how the issue has played out since in US history.

Fair to say the students are fired up.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d
Wish I could like this @newyorker.com graphic a million times. media.newyorker.com/photos/69725...
An image depicts about a dozen red hands on the left and and a dozen blue hands on the right. The red hands are all lined up in perfect rows, all oriented toward the blue hands, and all are pointing at the blue hands in identical positions. The blue hands are each oriented in a different direction, each is in a different position. Some are pointing at other blue hands, some are closed fists, and a couple are giving a thumbs down.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 1d
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
A final but especially important reason that popularism has put the United States at greater, not lower, risk of authoritarianism is the Democratic Party’s overly cautious use of institutional authority and political power beyond elections. Popularism doesn’t just urge candidates to check the polls before making a campaign decision; by defining politics down to poll-watching, it trains leaders to check with polls before governing—any use of their legislative and administrative power. Successful opposition parties in authoritarian environments around the world don’t do this: they engage in politics in order to wield power, not just to win or maintain it. But in the United States, the opposition party sees elections as its only tool, even as the regime repeatedly and brazenly threatens electoral integrity. The implicit pitch is “at least if you vote for us, you keep the right from governing.” Examples of Democratic squeamishness about power abound. The Democrats have just now begun to engage in partisan gerrymandering, fifteen years after Republicans used it to tremendous gain. And Democratic politicians who call Trump a dictator have voted for nearly all of his nominees in the Senate. In this, Democratic leaders are the ultimate popularists—waiting to use their institutional power until it is overwhelmingly clear that public opinion is on their side. The results have been disastrous. Most consequential was the hesitancy of the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland to swiftly and aggressively prosecute Trump for the coup attempt on January 6, 2021. That’s exactly the opposite of what Lula’s government has done to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil after Bolsonaro’s own coup attempt. As seen across more than two dozen other countries that convicted or banned from office national leaders for constitutional violations and crimes since 2010, this is not an impossible task.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.

"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
froomkin.bsky.social Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley demanding DoJ investigate anti ICe activists in Minnesota

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
professormusgrave.bsky.social Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2d
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for sharing!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Not sure they are recording them but you could see the event I did at the Seattle Public Library. It's on You Tube.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Black History month! To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week. It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution. May we revive that again!

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2d
Comparing FDR and Trump because they both had disdain for extant liberal constitutional norms is akin to comparing a brain surgeon to Norman Bates in Psycho because they both use knives to do their work.
nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-execut...
The Executive Fetish
Why Moyn and Goldsmith's Roosevelt-Trump analogy fails
nilsgilman.substack.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d
Took me a moment, but ooof. Latest New Yorker cover.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d
Right now from the far left to center right the only divisions I care about are: Team fight vs Team don’t fight. Opposition vs politics as usual.

and it’s not a division that maps to precious ideological categories.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for responding. I do make case in my book for doing away with them as they perpetuate stereotypes. BTW, I am a big fan!

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 2d
Renee Good’s son’s school has faced threats, and Liam Ramos’s district was closed due to bomb threats, so you’ll have to pardon me when I don’t give a shit if a church service was briefly interrupted.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 2d
This is an index of the work I’ve done on Jeffrey Epstein. And like Jeffrey Epstein, there are links to everything.
The Epstein Files
An index of PREVAIL's extensive coverage of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump, and the most notorious child sex trafficking operation in recent memory.
open.substack.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d
DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
samtlevin.bsky.social Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 2d
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.

But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
www.theguardian.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
AOC: Why haven’t so many people been prosecuted? Why are Pam Bondi and the DOJ continuing to hide the majority of the Epstein files, which they admit contain even more direct evidence of genuinely shocking crimes and abuse of women, minors, and increasingly men…

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Historian here Ugh @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social perpetrating the Dunning school of Reconstruction by making its clue “scalawag” for southern unionists and calling northerners “carpetbaggers” Hope you change that @kenjennings.bsky.social #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 3d
People walked out all over the country in solidarity. I would call that national! And cursing!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."