Camille Walsh
@redheadmenace.bsky.social
Author “Racial Taxation” (UNC Press), professor at UW Bothell. 20th c US legal historian researching and writing on race, tax and education. Primary teaching areas are sourdough, gardening and vegan cooking. Currently in a pre-career crochet fellowship.
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Okay thanks.
As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship
Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt
As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship
Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt
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I'm happy to use that construct! I was just wondering who you had in mind and in what pieces, that's really it.
I'm happy to use that construct! I was just wondering who you had in mind and in what pieces, that's really it.
And so we are using the same constructs here, welfare queens as a proxy for “people who abuse wasteful social welfare programs”. Is that shared?
July 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Okay thanks.
As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship
Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt
As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship
Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt
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BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock.
We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 24–394 and 24–396
OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE CHARTER SCHOOL
BOARD, ET AL., PETITIONERS
24–394 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE CATHOLIC VIRTUAL
SCHOOL, PETITIONER
24–396 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF OKLAHOMA
[May 22, 2025]
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
JUSTICE BARRETT took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreibp2eua3jzyxhu3irqfmlxnjlvwg7zcgq6tecw7mawviwqgvhzpre@jpeg)
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock.
We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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disparate impact might be the closest legal acknowledgement of structural racism we have. so, of course they're going to attack it because denying structural racism is at the core of colorblindness, white innocence, victimhood, and nostalgia, racism, resegregation, and whitewashing history
April 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
disparate impact might be the closest legal acknowledgement of structural racism we have. so, of course they're going to attack it because denying structural racism is at the core of colorblindness, white innocence, victimhood, and nostalgia, racism, resegregation, and whitewashing history
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Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy.
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
April 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy.
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Why do so many voters assume that “running a government like a business” will lead to beneficial outcomes, even with very little historical evidence? Read @redheadmenace.bsky.social on the history of promising an “efficient” government. www.hnn.us/article/how-...
How to Succeed in Government Without Really Trying
The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government.
www.hnn.us
April 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Why do so many voters assume that “running a government like a business” will lead to beneficial outcomes, even with very little historical evidence? Read @redheadmenace.bsky.social on the history of promising an “efficient” government. www.hnn.us/article/how-...
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What the plaintiffs and the GOP want is a world where religious parents can object to anything and everything in public school they find offensive with the end game of destroying public schools.
April 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What the plaintiffs and the GOP want is a world where religious parents can object to anything and everything in public school they find offensive with the end game of destroying public schools.
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The message is: crowd large.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The message is: crowd large.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
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Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Friendly reminder:
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
www.aaup.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
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Anyway, I'm interested in book recs about Vichy France
March 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Anyway, I'm interested in book recs about Vichy France
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A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
March 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
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"taxpayer money"
February 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"taxpayer money"
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This is a really good analysis. The Department of Education's Dear Colleague Letter on Title VI rests on an overbroad and ultimately unsupportable interpretation of the law. Educational institutions shouldn't let themselves be intimidated.
Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:
Regulation By Intimidation: OCR's Title VI Dear Colleague Letter
In a move that appears motivated more by intimidation than actual enforcement power, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a Dear Colleague Letter late in the evening on Fri...
educationcivilrights.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is a really good analysis. The Department of Education's Dear Colleague Letter on Title VI rests on an overbroad and ultimately unsupportable interpretation of the law. Educational institutions shouldn't let themselves be intimidated.
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I was going to wait until this was ready, but as we’re publishing unfinished far-right-wing SCOTUS primers these days, I guess this is fine.
This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in.
padlet.com/lawandlibera...
This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in.
padlet.com/lawandlibera...
Race, Law, and Power in the United States
A digital repository, anthology, and reading room from the Law and Liberation Lab
padlet.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I was going to wait until this was ready, but as we’re publishing unfinished far-right-wing SCOTUS primers these days, I guess this is fine.
This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in.
padlet.com/lawandlibera...
This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in.
padlet.com/lawandlibera...
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I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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I spend a lot of time writing about many of the horrors of American history, but one consistent bright spot, something about which it is right to be proud, is that we've never had a king.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I spend a lot of time writing about many of the horrors of American history, but one consistent bright spot, something about which it is right to be proud, is that we've never had a king.
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We have a lost child alert.
Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office.
Please come pick him up before he burns it down.
Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office.
Please come pick him up before he burns it down.
February 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We have a lost child alert.
Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office.
Please come pick him up before he burns it down.
Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office.
Please come pick him up before he burns it down.
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Now *this* is how you tell the public what's happening. Democratic party, please take note.
Hell yeah CFPB Union NTEU 335. This press release is incredible. nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros - CFPB Union
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consumer...
nteu335.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Now *this* is how you tell the public what's happening. Democratic party, please take note.
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I mean, it couldn't be more obvious that this is a threat to leverage government power to retaliate against people who report critically on DOGE. An emergency for the future of free speech/free press.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin says he will open an inquiry following a criminal “referral” of certain individuals by Elon Musk.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.
February 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I mean, it couldn't be more obvious that this is a threat to leverage government power to retaliate against people who report critically on DOGE. An emergency for the future of free speech/free press.
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3 fed gov't spending areas that seem less efficient (& lower ROI) than federal educ spending:
1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem;
2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries;
3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.
1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem;
2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries;
3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.
February 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
3 fed gov't spending areas that seem less efficient (& lower ROI) than federal educ spending:
1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem;
2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries;
3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.
1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem;
2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries;
3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.