Highlight of this year’s Mississippi Book Festival were the posters advertising Hard Women, Hard War, out November 1 with @ugapress.bsky.social
Laura Mammina, PhD
@lauramammina.bsky.social
Historian of 19th c. U.S. race and gender at the University of Southern Mississippi. Faculty Fellow at the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. Preoder Hard Women, Hard War here: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820380605/hard-women-hard-war/
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Grateful to Zeteo UK, which launches properly next month, for lifting the paywall on this piece at my request. Please do consider subscribing! In this piece, I suggest that the Cambridge Genome Campus is too WOKE. 😅😅😅 zeteo.uk/p/the-jason-...
The Jason Arday Affair and the 'Oprahfication' of Antiracism
Culture warriors blame 'woke' Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies for the scandal surrounding the Cambridge professor. The real problem is that EDI has been rendered symbolic and superficial.
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if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2mo ago"We are preparing for the next war that is coming": Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan and the rise of DSA candidates in multiple states have Democrats at odds with each other over the identity and future of the party. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
Twenty percent of the new company to run FIFA would be given to Joshua Kushner, Jared’s brother, which explains Trump and Infantino’s coziness: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but little mention of women’s game
Fifa’s pitch to persuade members to approve sale of World Cup’s commercial rights includes more tournaments, higher ticket prices and debt financing
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Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 2mo agoGOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
We should make it a thing to burn Confederate flags on July 4
Absolutely horrific disregard for human life by MDPS
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 4mo agoWhen Vellesiya Wiley saw Senatobia police officers draw guns and point them toward the car where she was riding in the passenger seat with her 1-year-old son, Kohen Wiley, she says she lifted the child up to show them he was with her. Moments later, the toddler was dead. buff.ly/4Te8IMg
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...
just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 5mo agoAt the Rededicate 250 event on the National Mall today today, the product of a public-private partnership with the federal government to “rededicate America to one nation under God.” Lines to get in are huge.
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
Community matters, even in "red" South Mississippi. This is why we don't write off any part of the country, or define whole swaths of the country with "red" and "blue" labels. People are people, everywhere. And people like this, being in community with one another, is how we defeat fascism.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 5mo agoBREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka, the brothers who were waiting for their school bus when ICE arrested them, are headed home after the arrests galvanized their Mississippi Gulf Coast community. "It’s a blessing to be around a community who cares about you,” Israel Makoka, 18, says.
This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.
Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took Them Instead.
ICE detained Max and Israel Makoka, two Hancock County high school students who were waiting for a bus when agents arrested them.
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Happening tomorrow! My brilliant friend, Dr. Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, talks about her recent book with @uncpress.bsky.social “The Surgeon’s Battle,” a medical and environmental history of the Vicksburg Campaign.
Lead story this morning at the campus paper at UGA
Protesters rally against TPUSA tour featuring JD Vance
Protesters gathered in front of the Classic Center Tuesday in response to Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) “This is the Turning Point” tour featuring Vice President JD Vance. The protest was
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“Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair?” This piece from Colton Whitehead is the shit www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This
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Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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“We Interviewed Two Hundred Childless Women, and Every Single One Was Doing Something Fun”
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6mo ago"We Spent Six Months Investigating the Birth Rate Crisis and Found Women at Every Turn" "Birth Rates Are Down Across the Western World. One Variable Has Remained Constant: Women" "Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men"
Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Talked to a student journalist at Southern Miss about the gender and racial pay gap! sm2media.com/37883/news/g...
Gender pay gap remains stark in Mississippi
Mississippi currently ranks seventh in the United States for income inequality. For every dollar a man makes, a woman working full-time makes 75 cents. According to the National Women’s Law Center, th...
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I want folks to understand that Trump's argument in the birthright citizenship case is that he has the power to reimpose a pre-Civil War legal order, recreating an inheritable racialized underclass and denying citizenship to newborns with disfavored ancestry ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
For Once, the Supreme Court Seems to Think the Fourteenth Amendment Means What It Says
Several conservative justices sounded skeptical of Trump’s attempt to unilaterally end birthright citizenship.
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Excited to share the cover of Hard Women, Hard War: How Southern Women Shaped U.S. Policy During the Civil War! It's bold and colorful, perfect for a volume advancing a new interpretation of white and Black southern women's engagement with the U.S. Army. Forthcoming with @ugapress.bsky.social !
Lawmakers agreed to fund a $2,000 pay raise for teachers, down from the House's proposed $5,000 and the Senate's proposed $6,000. Raises for assistant teachers, special education teachers and school attendance officers are also being included. buff.ly/1tv9wON
Mississippi Slashes Teacher Pay Raise to Offset Medicaid Cuts in Trump's 'Beautiful Bill'
Mississippi K-12 teachers are set to receive a smaller pay raise than initially expected due to Medicaid funding cuts in Trump’s “Beautiful Bill.”
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Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
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