While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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Big new Flock camera at the front of my university, pointing at the bus stop, love that for us 💞💞

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last wk.

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

any time you can chase off one of your starters by recruiting a player from the country that threw the greatest player you ever coached in prison, you simply have to do it

Mitchell Northam@northam67.bsky.social · last wk.

Kim Mulkey signed a player from Russia earlier this month. Last week, she said a "conflict between two countries" wouldn't stop her from improving her basketball team. Now, Kate Koval, whose father serves in the Ukrainian military, is leaving LSU. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

UPDATE: Israel finally admits they murdered Hind Rajab. www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

My Christian students don't actually know a lot about Christianity, I've found. When I teach about Puritans and the faith by works debate during my colonial unit, it's the first time they've heard of it

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 2w ago

This is correct. You can't understand American literature and history without some understanding of the Bible and of American religious history. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Apply to (symbolically!) replace Linda Kerber and Landon Storrs! It’s a phenomenal department at a phenomenal university in a phenomenal college town. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70222/u...

In a one-woman fight with the accessibility scanner my university put into our LMS

New year new headshot! Soft smiles babey

Starting off the new semester by being a hater, on brand

This is exactly the same thing John Sununu did while chief of Staff under Bush I, which caused a months long scandal resulting in Sununu’s resignation and reimbursement of the cost of travel.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4w ago

Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.

Does Llama llama red pajama have a single mama?

Got me thinking about Sinclair's The Jungle, where he tried to show us the horrors of worker conditions and we made the FDA instead

Jesse Heinig@jesseheinig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You hear about "outbreak of foodborne illness" and think in the abstract "there should be an agency to catch that" but the way you stop it is labor power. Good working conditions. Good hygiene. Rigorous regulation and testing. And breaking up lobbying oligopolies.

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants

The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.

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Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Hamburg Massacre. Please consider checking out this podcast episode that my student wrote! open.spotify.com/episode/0DuL...

The Death of Democracy

The Death of Democracy: The Hamburg Massacre of 1876 · Episode

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Not to keep bringing ✨women✨ into it, but calling this "the most important match in U.S. Soccer history" is crazy work.

Hey academics with kids who become stay-at-home parents in the summer: How?

Anyone who is mad about the appropriation of @rachelcleves.bsky.social 's research should go buy her book and encourage others to do the same: bookshop.org/p/books/char...

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

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My friend is at Gettysburg right now. Way to ignore the U.S. Colored Troops...

My friend is at Gettysburg right now. Way to ignore the U.S. Colored Troops...

so, egg producers got together and basically organized a cartel that started an absurdly consequential political panic. gotta love capitalism

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states have reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers over allegations of that the companies illegally colluded in a multiyear scheme to raises prices.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

The Mall. Exists. For loitering.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

Amazing news: Thanh Tuan Phan, one of the people ICE sent to South Sudan last year, has been released. Source familiar tells me he has arrived in Vietnam, a place he left as a child in 1991. www.eyeradio.org/joyful-to-re...