Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

2 81 190

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

We must all stand up and speak out.

110 550 3.7K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 19h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

8 120 190

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

1K 7.2K 25K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

12 260 540

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social · 7d

Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

cuny.jobs

10 7

Reposted by Sara Lipton

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

210 3.9K 9.8K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

I talked this week with Chris Hayes and Anand Giradahadras, highlight was Chris mentioning No Kings protests on October 18th. Free speech is action not spectacle. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

20 470 1.3K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11d

bsky.app/profile/wyde...

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 11d

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

7 62 190

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 11d

Tenure track position in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley in HEBREW BIBLE.

The appointment will include the option to join the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, which I am chairing at the moment.

Happy to answer questions.

Assistant Professor - Hebrew Bible - Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

14 15

Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 12d

No historian can fail to be appalled by this exaltation of murder.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

1 4

Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · 18d

Me.

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 22d

We need your help to make October 18 the biggest peaceful protest of the year. Please spread the word, register your local event as soon as you can, and start RSVPing for the local protests to help build momentum: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

400 830 1.9K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 22d

Here is the deleted report in it's entirety: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

31 350 550

Reposted by Sara Lipton

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24d

60 600 1.7K

Sara Lipton @medievalsara.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is an excellent thread on the drawbacks of a computational approach to history that doesn't take historical methodology or scholarship into account.

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Aug 28

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

1/n

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

3

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Jul 7

Nothing that any university has done has "helped make it a White House target". Universities are targets bc they are *always* targeted by authoritarian regimes, and anything would have been a pretext. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

How Harvard’s Ties to China Helped Make It a White House Target

www.nytimes.com

17 130 410

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · Jul 2

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

www.rollingstone.com

230 2.8K 9.8K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 1

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

96 2.4K 3.7K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Jun 19

On Juneteenth, I celebrate Homer Neal, whose interest in ham radio acquired in the segregated south sparked an interest in science that led him to leading experiments in particle physics and positions of leadership as chair of the U of Michigan Physics Department, Stony Brook U Provost,...

6 120 400

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social

230 2.9K 11K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · Jun 12

“It is that process of showing where you found different pieces of your source material that allows peers and readers to judge whether or not there’s a good match between the questions you’re asking, the sources you examined, and the ways in which you examined them.” ⬇️

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Jun 12

This essay is about what doing history and humanities research looks like: the archives/sources, the questions, the decisions; why only a human can and should be making them: 3/n buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.

In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...

buttondown.com

4 7

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · Jun 12

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

Naval Academy history chair resigns over ordered removal of symposium paper

Tom McCarthy cited the removal of a paper on grounds beyond its academic standard.

www.baltimoresun.com

30 940 2.6K

Reposted by Sara Lipton

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jun 11

There are now just 6 days left before the final, final deadline for an independent, or a Dem, to enter the race against the GOP sheriffs in Virginia's two largest cities — a matter with heightened stakes given the ties sheriffs & ICE:
boltsmag.org/sheriff-elec...

“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged - Bolts

In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democra...

boltsmag.org

11 290 470