I wonder whether the Gen Alpha version of “millennial beige” will be a new Arts & Crafts movement. I don’t mean the current iteration of sticking a vinyl William Morris reproduction to a backsplash. I mean stenciling their walls with paint made from foraged berries.

By targeting defendants in open criminal cases, ICE creates an infinite legal limbo: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m...

Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

#31DaysOfGraves from @annaandthedead.bsky.social Day 1: Flower Samuel, Son of Mr Jabez West- cot & Anne his Wife who died March 24th AD. 1765. Aged 11 Months and 9 Days North Burial Ground, Providence, RI

*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores Today #CivilWarMemory #booksky 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-glorious...

*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores Today

It’s been a long time coming, but today is the official release of A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

kevinmlevin.substack.com

Gravestone of Pompey Brenton in God's Little Acre, Newport, RI, 1772 This stone was carved by John Stevens III, who carved many portrait stones in the 1770s, including several for Black Newporters like Pompey Brenton.

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

assignedmedia.org

Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362

Five months ago I was fired by the US government. Now, one of the biggest categories on the academic job market is "being right wing." I wrote about what's at stake. buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

The "free speech" government fired me

"Free speech" advocates are killing free speech

buttondown.com

While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

My high schooler has a teacher who requires that all assignments be submitted by typing answers into the speaker's notes on Google Slides, in case you're scratching your head over the baffling formatting choices in your college students' work.

cw: discussion of how the campaign against trans athletes is part of the larger attack on Title IX that makes it even more difficult to punish sexual abusers on college campuses

Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!

There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4d ago

"Making day care free, while offering nothing to stay-at-home parents, appeals to the educated, urban, affluent voters who have come to make up the Democratic base, but not to the electorate at large," Marc Novicoff argues:

Big congratulations to two of my dear friends on their book releases today. First up is @civilwarmemory.bsky.social's new book on the life and legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. You can get this for 30% at @uncpress.bsky.social by using code 01HATM30 uncpress.org/978146969717...

A Glorious Fate

Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black so...

uncpress.org

I'm astounded that the Boston Public Schools is still pushing forward with their "AI Ambassadors" program that pays students and staff to act as tech evangelists in the district. When your education policy aligns with Linda McMahon's, you are gravely off-course.

Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 3d ago

There are so many tragic things this administration has done on so many levels, but putting Linda McMahon in charge of the Department of Education still shocks me whenever I think about it. Especially at this moment, with the AI companies trying to get their hooks into schools.

As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.

Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

nytimes.com

And listen, I don’t know *shit* about this story and: None of this happens in a vacuum, either. Whole situation is vastly heartbreaking to me, this family’s story, this paper’s complicity with and erasure of trans genocide, etc. Obvs as a DV survivor, whole situation breaks my entire heart.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Killing a trans man in cold blood in a parking lot and like, burying that he’s trans in the coverage is … no words for how evil this is, when it’s your own *employee*. I just hope anybody who’s still subscribed to this evil right-wing rag grows some brains today and drops them.

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

🏺 🗃️ Archaeologists/Historians - please shoot me your favourite examples & sources on ancient named animals, the older the better! Prefer farm animals but others also welcome 🐏 🐂 🐖 🫏... 🐕 #histsky (I already have Bramati 2025, & Alivernini & Bramanti 2023)

Chuck Groenink@cgroenink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Finally found this list of 15th century Italian names for cows I had saved ages ago and lost, but don't remember where I first got it from.

This country is horrifying

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 5d ago

ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t... The cruelty.

Soggy storrowing www.universalhub.com/2026/soggy-s... #CambridgeMA #MemorialDrive #storrowed

Made a little pouch for a relative who is turning 2 this week.

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

theguardian.com

Some historians draw distinctions between "slave societies" and "societies with slaves." As Jaimie argues in this video, when it comes to New England's ties to slavery, the truth is more complicated.

Relatedly: of the 777 students admitted to Stuyvesant's freshman class this autumn, three (3) are Black www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...

An Elite N.Y.C. Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black.

New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism.

nytimes.com

I'll be presenting a paper on nonbinary erasure at Critical Feminist Histories in Canada, a hybrid conference taking place in Kingston and online next week. 🌈🗃️ 🏳️‍⚧️

See me at the Critical Feminist Histories in Canada conference | Nico Mara-McKay

I will be presenting a paper at the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History's 2026 conference, Critical Feminist Histories in Canada.

nicomaramckay.com

This looks like a cool queer history conference!

Fantastic article on the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. We're living in an era of the government trying to erase our achievements and darken our futures.

For Years, the Smithsonian Strove to Bring the African American History and Culture Museum to the National Mall. Now, It Celebrates a Decade as a Beacon of Understanding, Community and Resilience

The museum lovingly called the "Blacksonian" chronicles the past and present and envisions the future to tell the stories of Black life in America

smithsonianmag.com