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

Political science 49%

Sociology 20%

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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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

Took me a moment, but ooof. Latest New Yorker cover.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

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.

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 20h

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.

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d

People walked out all over the country in solidarity. I would call that national! And cursing!

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

The White House cover up continues.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 1d

College Republicans are truly the Hitler Youth of our era

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini

In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

dailyillini.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

“[R]easonably this graphic does not glorify nor valorize any incident because it lacks any reasonable connection.”

Picture of Pretti shooting, an exact replica.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 1d

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini

In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

dailyillini.com

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.

Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 1d

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."

'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.

www.jta.org

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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 2d

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Always a good exercise!

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I guess our profession has done enough damage in the past. Lost Cause mythology and the Dunning school on Reconstruction!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

From: Larry Summers <
To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:40 +0000
Jamaica very good
Kids great though tired of some of their admiration for Bernie sanders.
How ru?
Sent from my iPad

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Historian here happy to see not a single historian here!

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 3d

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed! His son actually saying he represented the common man was the most laughable thing I saw on television! So glad Mayor Wu wiped the floor with him!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

"Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday."

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