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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 · 3h
Minnesotans inspiring Americans all over the country! Thank you!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 5h
Imperial boomerang much. And why I argue that the demise of an interracial democracy in the late 19th century or the overthrow of Reconstruction was linked to the rise of American empire.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 5h
Maybe he should learn to spell Scots first?

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer A. Richeson, Manisha Sinha

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 7h
This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
fieldsmeyer.com Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 27d
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.

I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20h
Seriously is being in the Epstein files the most important qualification for members of the Trump regime?
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Henning Melber, Manisha Sinha

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h
Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22h
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

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this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22h
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Robert C. Richards, Manisha Sinha , and 1 more

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h
A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
It is. Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety. Just look at Boston; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and even New York itself, all of which have tried it to excellent effect. And it doesn't have to be costly - in fact, it can come out just about even. As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it's most needed.

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 23h
Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.
Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian of abolition here. Only resistance works and always has. Read this great piece by Prof Ananya Roy of UCLA IN Jewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/fugitive-san...
Fugitive Sanctuaries
It has only ever been migrant movements, rather than benevolent states, that have granted true safety for the endangered.
jewishcurrents.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

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sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social · 1d
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
#desihallofshame

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
Reuters Exclusive:

The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from USAID, the former U.S. foreign aid agency, to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul cut thousands of federal jobs.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 2d
Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
Trump: The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not! Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 465 ReTruths 1.28k Likes 2/13/26, 1:35 PM

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hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
Tyler Austin Harper on twitter: I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 2d
Don't have a gift link, but hoo boy... somma these tech guys have brain rot as bad as RFK JR.

Mark Benioff made jokes about ICE in his company-wide speech, and they did not go over very well. This after he urged Trump to send troops to San Francisco.

www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff...
CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes stir outrage in a pivotal time for Salesforce
CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a Salesforce event stirred employee backlash, adding to company challenges like stock decline.
www.businessinsider.com

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen A. Smith tells CBS News’s Robert Costa that he is moving closer to a 2028 Presidential campaign, in an interview to air Sunday.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio, Manisha Sinha

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d
The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
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How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.
newrepublic.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
DHS is shutting down. Why? Because Democrats took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and ICE is lawless and out of control. We cannot fund an agency that is murdering our citizens, tear gassing school zones, and disappearing legal immigrants.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 2d
Bondi is to Trump what Maxwell was to Epstein.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 2d
In December 2016, Jeffrey Epstein invited Bill Gates to visit his island—and promised that incoming Trump administration officials would be there.

Epstein emailed: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting.” 👀👀👀