It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty!!!!!!

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

I love how shit for sale online is labeled as “mid century modern” and it’s like, a kokopelli

my 2yo rejected his nice new shoes this morning in a pouty voice— “they’re too comfy”

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

congrats, Mike!!

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: an author's pitch from @pennpress.bsky.social author @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social! carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

People incarcerated in Iowa state prisons earn between 28 and 95 cents per hour according to the ACLU. This is legal because the Iowa state constitution still permits slavery for people convicted of crimes.

You used to be able to learn about this history in the materials the state is disappearing.

Stay in your lane remains sound advice

there’s a very good history in the pipeline

oof: “It is worth noting that Beyoncé released Lemonade, an album with an accompanying movie that was as beautiful and well-directed and inspired as the album itself, at about the same age”

Join us tomorrow!

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CPD did this for years, like centuries: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875...

supposed to lecture on the Red Scare tomorrow. I don’t usually fw comparisons but now feels worse

Research fellowships at the Rhode Island Historical Society! Come spend some time in Providence in 2026. Applications due 12/23/25

“DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda—and sometimes, for what appears to be purely recreational violence. This is a pivotal moment in the struggle against fascism and authoritarianism…”

good read even if you are not in uva networks

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

I stg the way dachshunds get as the seasons change

my most caustic tendencies were cultivated in Philadelphia, which serves me well as a poster

see, all the real ones were right on the edge! the one year they let me in was because no girls had tested in.

ok now I have to see it

fwiw, i asked the illinois attorney general kwame raoul’s office last week (before the addition of state police and cook county sheriffs) about broadview police helping move protesters out of the way for ice agents.

this is what they told me: