Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966
Liette Gidlow
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Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
While many US historians and ordinary folks have been fixated on the semiquincentennial this year, the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 may very well be the more significant milestone—at least when it comes to understanding our present national crises. The past quarter-century has been 🗃️ 1/
Gov. Whitmer’s hot mic comment confirmed what we already suspected: Our voices and opposition are flat out ignored in favor of destructive corporations.
Whitmer’s Data Center Push Isn’t Just Bad for Michigan—It’s Bad for the World
Data center development depends on imported critical conflict minerals and massive amounts of electricity generated by fossil fuels, which contribute directly to US-backed conflicts and war.
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Book Bans Are Surging In Iowa. So Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Bringing Banned Authors to the State for a Free Read-In open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
Book Bans Are Surging In Iowa. So Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Bringing Banned Authors to the State for a Free Read-In
For the second year in a row, "The 1619 Project" author returns to her hometown to host Black authors whose books have been targeted by Iowa's anti-DEI laws.
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Some book news: -- I'll be on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social on @wnyc.org starting around 11:10 a.m. to discuss it -- The @nytimes.com review is out: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/b... This generous review focuses on the role of conservatives; the book discusses liberals & the left at equal length
Conservatives Tried to Fix New York City. Here’s What Happened.
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Mason B. Williams@masonbwilliams.bsky.social · last mo.My book is out today! City of Fortune tells the story of how, as it rebuilt after the 1970s, New York turned mid-century forms of inequality into contemporary ones -- and how NYers fought those transformations & preserved visions of a democratic city against great odds. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
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Four years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, we're revisiting a #AHAPerspectives article by Karissa Haugeberg. As a historian of antiabortion movements, Haugeberg argues that the decision is part of a broader movement to contract American civil liberties. Read more:
Dobbs v. Jackson, One Year Later – AHA
Historian Karissa Haugeberg reflects on the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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Watch the vid of Whitmer pandering to Oracle's CEO. It's like she's trying to impress him with how bad she can f*ck voters over. Also, I write from Saline.
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is infuriating, but we’ve known she’s willing to compromise values for corporate interests. She should have stayed hiding behind that folder.
The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote. Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote
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What keeps me going on the days I don't just throw up my hands and run into the woods
"[Most stay-at-home moms aren't the tradwives of social media; they're] just exhausted, low-income moms who can’t afford child care. 'The real path to becoming a tradwife,” Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, 'is typically through economic precarity.'"
yesandMissHavisham@steenyswank.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd again! #GiftArticle🎁 Keeping things sad and real: @jessicacalarco.com www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
"This event will focus on exposing the activity of ICE in the Metro Detroit area and the ways in which municipalities — including the city of Detroit — cooperate with ICE. Our goal is to use the public tribunal as a way to continue and strengthen the movement against ICE."
Here you go! academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
Slip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule Slavery
Speaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune:
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I lived in Bham for a month while doing diss research. My accommodations at UAB boasted a clear view of Vulcan's a$$
AL.com@al.com · 2mo agoOn this day, Vulcan was unveiled as the symbol of Birmingham’s growing iron and mining industry. Designed by Giuseppe Moretti, its first appearance was today at the St. Louis World’s Fair. #alabama #history #vulcan #birmingham
Shortly after the 2025 elections, I published a list of seven voting laws every blue state should enact. While I stand by all seven, I want to highlight three. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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It's pub day! No better way to resist the erasure of Black history then to buy Black books! Available anywhere books are sold!
Bill Pulte, the unqualified 37-year-old man Trump just chose to be director of national intelligence, was so shady that he was kicked off the board of his family's construction company. Now he owns some run-down trailer parks in Florida.
Housing Official Who Attacked Democrats Invokes a Disputed Family Legacy
nytimes.com
The issue was curated by guest eds. Liat Kozma and Gülhan Balsoy. It features articles by Anabella Esperanza, Nicole Hayat and Liat Kozma, Adam Anabosi, and Lydia Wytenbroek. It includes a book review essays by Cassia Roth.
SecDef's "anti-diversity stance"? Try "segregationist" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
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Asif Siddiqi@historyasif.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on pad 36 at Cape Canaveral during a routine static test. Possibly the biggest rocket explosion ... ever on US soil?. All pad personnel reported safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZiy...
Well there’s a new phishing scam out there aimed at academics. Someone contacts you out of the blue offering to write a #Wikipedia page on you. The message is so obsequious that I knew right away something was up. Flag and delete.
Between this and the Talarcio stuff, there's a lot of "legitimate claim to participation in political life is earned through correct performance of a highly specific vision of heterosexuality that only we get to define" coming from MAGA lately.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2mo agoUh, I don’t know if your definition of sad, unhappy would hold up in a court of law
What if women got to participate in public and civic life on dignified and equal terms even if they really were in fact ugly, unmarried, childless, gay, or otherwise broadly sexually unappealing to men? ha ha ha ha ha what if.