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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #histodons #caribbean

https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeting/

Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Now, Illinois has sued Trump regime to stop it from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago. From the summary from Illinois AG’s office, appears theory of case is the same as what federal Judge Immergut has relied on to issue TRO against National Guard troops in Oregon. Will now read the […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Chicago Sun-Times - Illinois sued President Trump early this morning over the deployment of National Guard troops into the state against the wishes of Gov. Pritzker. https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/06/illinois-sues-trump-over-national-guard-deployment

Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment

The lawsuit comes hours after a federal judge in Oregon barred Trump from deploying federalized members of the any National Guard troops under Trump's command to Oregon.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM OF LAW
I. INTRODUCTION
Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the
heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order
Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those
principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon
National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants
filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth
Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision.
Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the
process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could
not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have
deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were
federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That
redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August
violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

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“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.” […]

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Photo of an elderly woman's torso with blood running down her shirt.

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Stephen Miller now sending goons to target judges. SCOTUS: you cool with this? Because, you know, you’re enabling it.

SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews

https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/10/04/sled-investigate-alleged-arson-incident-at-s-c-judges-home/ […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

TL;DR: Trump’s decision to send out-of-state U.S. military troops to Portland represents a decision to potentially use the entire U.S. military to invade Oregon. That’s a declaration of war by the federal executive branch on the state. And since Trump equates Portland, OR with other blue cities […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

In Oregon, the Republican Fascist President’s introduction of U.S. military troops is even more egregious. Trump has ordered the use of troops stationed in California to invade Oregon. Not only is this the use of the federal military to occupy a peaceful state, it is in direct contravention of a […]

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Dr. Flowers @alliflowers.talkedabout.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I want to live in a world where the
flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

If you're looking for something beautiful this Friday evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxJbqTCr3M&list=PLoth48xsiR79C6bCGigChcWf4fDLv2dfD&index=2

A fourteenth-century mozarabic-rite Alleluia combined with a fourteenth or fifteenth-century North African sufi chant.

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

When each day is a dark day in America, pretty soon they're all dark days.

SHAME on the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court lets Trump strip deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants […]

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The U.S. dollar has recently fallen to its lowest level in nearly three decades, with its share in global foreign exchange reserves dropping to 56.3%, the lowest since 1995.

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#trumpkillseverything #impeachdonaldtrump #norepublicanseveragain #republicansownitall #republicankakistocracy […]

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

There are so many things making me angry and frightened right now that I feel silly tooting about this, but:

I'm trying to acquire a rare recording of the monks of Santo Domingo de Silos singing a 10th-century Mozarabic-rite Latin Mass. No copies in the US, but plenty in the UK, Spain, and […]

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Scratchy @itchy.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum was ousted from his position this week after refusing a request from the Trump administration to gift King Charles III one of former President Eisenhower’s swords.

Ahead of Trump’s visit to the UK... the Eisenhower Library […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 6d

NY Post - Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days. https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/media/paramount-skydance-to-name-bari-weiss-editor-in-chief-of-cbs-news-sources/

Exclusive | Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources

Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

What's the over/under on Trump having watched A Clear and Present Danger for the first time sometime in the last six weeks?

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@JochenLingelba1 absolutely killer line.

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

One of my pet peeves: journalists and pop historians taking the work of hard-working scholars, repackaging it, and getting sizeable advances and royalties for it.

Really glad that Geggus had something to say about this […]

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AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

#trump admin FBI found and fires several agents for being in a 2020 photo taking the knee during a racial justice protest

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@SRDas gorgeous!

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Empty threats from a broke, morally bankrupt evil oligarchy. Russian people: resist!

Russia will give ‘decisive response’ if provoked by the West, says Lavrov
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/27/russia-will-give-decisive-response-if-provoked-by-the-west-says-lavrov

Russia will give ‘decisive response’ if provoked by the West, says Lavrov

The Russian foreign minister made the comment in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Thinking again about yesterday’s EO in the States declaring that trespass and property damage associated with protests will be prosecuted as terrorism, along with the UK’s decision that holding a sign can constitute terrorism.

And some of us were saying 20+ years ago that the whole concept of […]

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

When I got home there were several NYPD officers in the lobby. Turns out someone hacked a neighbor's Amazon account and bought thousands of dollars in computer equipment. (The NYPD was involved because of the scale of the theft.)

I came upstairs and immediately removed my saved credit cards […]

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean #histodons

Call for papers! […]

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

OK, so I read through the omnibus chapters six and seven. I think I see a good way to split them up that builds on the theme of fire and blood. (The title of the chapter currently is, "To Make War with Fire and Blood.")

#amwriting #amrevising

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