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Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). NO KINGS

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Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords.

Wow.
I’m remembering when reform of the House of Lords was first proposed in 1999 (!) and reading an opinion article in the @theguardian.com then that sounded like it was straight out of Tom Paine’s Common Sense.
Some hereditary peers were then allowed to remain.
Now they are all out..,

11.03.2026 16:36 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1

Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.

11.03.2026 19:55 👍 332 🔁 57 💬 7 📌 1
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

11.03.2026 18:06 👍 943 🔁 203 💬 35 📌 105

outrageous

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Citizens Bank: Cut Ties with ICE prisons
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07.03.2026 18:09 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2
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To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth

FREE LEQAA

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.03.2026 12:24 👍 307 🔁 120 💬 2 📌 3
Psychosocial Wellbeing and Parenting Responses during Intensified ICE in Minnesota The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10.

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09.03.2026 21:06 👍 235 🔁 231 💬 8 📌 7
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The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

08.03.2026 14:30 👍 3018 🔁 1383 💬 283 📌 289

I can’t help but think we knew doge was using chatgpt to cut grants at the time they were doing that…this feels like the reporting from the times that should have been done at the time.

08.03.2026 12:58 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 9293 🔁 6068 💬 608 📌 1538
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Clinton had us debt-free by 2010. Bush blew it. Obama fixed it. Trump crashed it. Biden fixed it. Trump crashed it again — 92,000 jobs gone last month. Want a good economy? Elect Democrats.

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08.03.2026 12:30 👍 666 🔁 254 💬 23 📌 9
A black chalk drawing of a woman facing to the left and holding a dagger.

A black chalk drawing of a woman facing to the left and holding a dagger.

Happy International Women’s Day!

Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) was a star of the art world in the 18th century. Her paintings emphasised the female experience, which was radical for the time.

08.03.2026 08:01 👍 48 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 14:18 👍 6451 🔁 4052 💬 0 📌 277

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

07.03.2026 17:12 👍 4762 🔁 1920 💬 69 📌 30
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#OnThisDay: Bloody Sunday Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred #onthisday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The march was named for the 600 marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law...

Sixty-one years ago today, on Bloody Sunday, Alabama law enforcement attacked peaceful civil and voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They broke John Lewis’s skull. 🗃️ #EduSky nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

07.03.2026 13:43 👍 236 🔁 158 💬 0 📌 0
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Events & Programs « Moravian Archives

Dutch Atlanticists, the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA, is offering a two-week reading course on German handwriting (June 1 – 12, 2026) Participants will learn to read German manuscripts dating from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries. More info: www.moravianchurcharchives.org/events/#tabs-3

23.02.2026 18:23 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

06.03.2026 14:26 👍 4190 🔁 1752 💬 134 📌 569

The @aaup.org & @aft.org stand with @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social. We will join them to make sure the research scientists at the NIH do not lose their collective bargaining rights! The Trump administration hates workers, hates research, hates higher education and hates UNIONS.

05.03.2026 23:00 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Proton Mail is not secure 👇👇

05.03.2026 20:59 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 👍 5472 🔁 1276 💬 46 📌 45

Sorry boss, I can't work, I'm watching Kristi Noem do a press conference and she doesn't know she's been shitcanned

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 1764 🔁 185 💬 2 📌 4

Disgraced Kristi Noem will go down in history as a bigoted cabinet member who oversaw the killing of Americans and the terrorizing of our communities.

05.03.2026 19:11 👍 1309 🔁 237 💬 57 📌 11

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 👍 14939 🔁 2681 💬 312 📌 123

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

04.03.2026 21:03 👍 2442 🔁 1200 💬 3 📌 49
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 👍 2426 🔁 1544 💬 62 📌 157

RFK Jr targets Boston

04.03.2026 15:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm hoping to propose a panel for the SCS on the 1570s, that most pivotal decade in the later Reformation. If you're interested in joining me, send me a DM. #reformazing

03.03.2026 21:06 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
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Lessons from the Iraq invasion for Trump's Iran war The parallels aren't perfect, but they tell us something about our domestic politics around war

Wrote a thing about the lessons of the 2003 Iraq invasion for the current situation. tl;dr, the world is a serious place and we're an increasingly unserious country goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

02.03.2026 12:52 👍 61 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 3
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

01.03.2026 15:06 👍 19470 🔁 6098 💬 1669 📌 479