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Anna O. Law

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social

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Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law /development, US migration(s) / citizenship law & legal history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie. .. more

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Who believes book review karma is a thing? Im reviewing two now just in case it is.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

A rare one

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

Yes

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 8h

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

Chengdu style dumplings from The Dumpling Lady's stand in Charlotte. Half of them have already been eaten.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 8h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 8h

When in doubt, dumplings for dinner is never the wrong choice

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 8h

The video you didn’t know you needed

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 13d

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 10h

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

👀"Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” - GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association.

Maybe @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov's notices to the NGA are having impact?

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 11h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 11h

I try

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 11h

I resisted quote dunking on a condescending random’s tweet and just blocked

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 13h

Cc @oxfordacademic.bsky.social just in case this happens to my book…

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14h

When my second book came out, Alyssa Milano tweeted that she wanted to buy a copy for every member of Congress.

@yalepress.bsky.social saw the tweet even before I did and had the brilliant idea to cut the price of the book roughly in half.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14h

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 14h

Game it out. Dem president instantly does exactly what Trump did. Rs instantly get Kacsmaryk to block it. Fifth Circuit upholds, sloooooowly. And Supreme Court doesn't even need to rule, they just deny emergency review. Or they uphold, unsigned and unreasoned. Easy peasy.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, the title…

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 15h

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 15h

This is true of most commonly used history textbooks, including the unironically titled: "Give Me Liberty!" wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 15h

Changed times new Roman to Garamond

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 15h

“Textbooks have inched toward acknowledging these histories, yet they still fall short of explaining how ‘liberty and freedom’ for some was often used to justify the conquest and dispossession of others.”

Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 15h

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 15h

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 16h

The font, not the font size.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 16h

I admit to changing the font to bring the page count down on my paper for an upcoming conference. 😬

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think I've ever seen one live. Haven't gone snorkeling in forever.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 18h

I loved listening to this interview @marcusrediker.bsky.social did on @kpfa.org about his new book *Freedom Ship*! Rediker tells the inspiring history of enslaved Black people in the U.S. deep South who escaped by ship with the help of free Black communities and abolitionist white sailors.

Escaping Over Water | KPFA

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, enslaved people who traveled to freedom on foot did so mainly from Southern states that bordered free states. But those in the deep South didn’t have that o...

kpfa.org

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 19h

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Citizenship Reimagined

Cambridge Core - American Studies - Citizenship Reimagined

www.cambridge.org

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 19h

The major themes of my book are: voluntary & involuntary migration, ability to remain (set roots where you want without legal prohibitions), citizenship, federalism.

Depending on the venue, (history or polisci, liberal arts college, law school) I tailor the talks with subsets of those themes.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 19h

Book authors: You can't and shouldn't try to present the whole book in one talk. You'll lose people. I've gotten better at narrowing it to a *slice* of the book. Writing a talk for another college in which I slice into the book argument from a different angle.

Powerpoint slide of a 19th century map of states with title "Citizenship. What is it good for?" by Anna O. Law, Herb Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College

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