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Justin Randolph

@randolphjustin.bsky.social

U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060

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Ben Johnson@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Great news on the freedom of speech/honest history front. JP Bryan’s specious lawsuit against the @historians.org and Carlos Blanton has been tossed. /1 file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/8715AB9F-B356-40AB-B248-EBCBE4CC21C0/tmp/2026-07-30%252cReversedandRemandedOpinio1B8.pdf

Jaime Dear@potatofuzz.bsky.social · 5d ago

Did something called a "squat bicep curl" this morning and now I feel ready to pressure the oppressors on #FreeTheFiveFriday These shirts are not only super cool but also support A GOOD CAUSE!

User potatofuzz smiling wide with their hands in fists on their hips. They look a little sweaty. They are wearing a t shirt that is lime green tie dye and says "Pressure the Oppressors. Free the Mississippi Five!" A drawing of a huge anvil is crushing the word pressure and it is causing the word oppressors to shatter. It was drawn by Teddie Bernard.
Jaime Dear@potatofuzz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Campaign to Free the Mississippi Five launched our Bonfire store today! All the money supports incarcerated women in Mississippi. Plus some amazing artists volunteered their time to make SUCH cool designs for us - check it out!!! www.bonfire.com/store/free-t...

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 3w ago

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails. These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the federal government's deportation agenda.

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.
Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay.bsky.social · 4w ago

CoreCivic. Remember the history prof getting in trouble for outing a journalism scion for being on its board and a benefactor? CoreCivic long run prisons in Mississippi. www.mississippifreepress.org/emails-show-...

Emails Show UM Officials’ Concern Over Fired Historian Criticizing Private Prison Ties

Before the University of Mississippi terminated Dr. Garrett Felber, an anti-racist history professor, his public criticisms of its ties to the private-prison industry drew concern from administrators ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.

Justin Randolph@randolphjustin.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy #FreeTheFiveFriday ! Need some great looking swag for an even better cause? Get some clothes and raise some funds for a Deep South campaign. Free the Mississippi Five and Free Them All!

light pink tshirt reading “free them all” and “free the Mississippi five”
Jaime Dear@potatofuzz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Campaign to Free the Mississippi Five launched our Bonfire store today! All the money supports incarcerated women in Mississippi. Plus some amazing artists volunteered their time to make SUCH cool designs for us - check it out!!! www.bonfire.com/store/free-t...

Dan Berger@dnbrgr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a pleasure to publish in the Defensing Prison Journalism series that @inquest.bsky.social is doing. The crisis of prison is, in part, the crisis of American media. Prison journalism helps us ask the questions that need asking

Inquest@inquest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The prison journalist needs what every journalist needs: the ability to speak freely with a range of sources, to publish truthfully without fear of reprisal, and to work in a safe, well-compensated, union-eligible newsroom." — Dan Berger

Anisa Khalifa@anisa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This week on The Broadside from @wunc.org, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social tells us the story of the unlikely first chapter of the Black Panther Party in the South. What it means to her, why Winston-Salem was ripe for its establishment, and its relevance to America at 250. www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...

Power to the People, Y’all

A new documentary film from Tressie McMillan Cottom is highlighting the incredible history of the first Black Panther Party chapter in the South.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo ago

This past week at the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes meeting, I was part of one of the most intellectually generative conversations I've ever experienced, organized by the extraordinary @cnewf.bsky.social. Read what Chris said: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/banf...

Liner Note 54. The Humanities We Can Build Right Now: Introduction

Banff, Alberta back country on June 3, 2026   This piece is my introduction to a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities...

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Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I should write about how a historian of the early 20th century ended up doing cutting edge technology policy work. Closest articulation I have is this piece from 2020 where I show how the the civil liberties problems of face recognition have more to do with the invention of the mugshot than AI.

Facial Recognition Technology Is the New Rogues’ Gallery

The problem with facial recognition technology isn’t just that you could be mistaken for a suspect—it’s that it means your government doesn’t trust you.

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Baltimore Magazine’s @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social interviewed Police Against the Movement author @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social on how the Civil Rights Movement tackled police injustice and how their efforts inform modern activism:

New Book Explores How the Civil Rights Era Shaped Political Resistance Today

In ‘Police Against the Movement’, University of Baltimore history professor Joshua Clark Davis documents how the movement tackled police injustice head-on.

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Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 3mo ago

Before, the Makoka brothers faced an uphill climb of hearings, motions and paperwork to return to their home on the Gulf Coast, to say nothing of the challenge of avoiding deportation. Now, come what may, they face the future with the Mississippi Gulf Coast community that has come to love them.

Israel and Max Makoka Are Coming Home After ICE Arrests Galvanized Their Mississippi Community

Israel and Max Makoka, the Hancock High School students whom ICE arrested, are free after Mississippi's U.S. senators intervened.

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Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#tdih 1963 Birmingham "May 2nd, is 'D-Day' as students 'ditch' class to march for justice. In disciplined groups of 50, children singing freedom songs, march out of 16th St. Baptist Church, 2 by 2. When police arrest each group, another takes its place." ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...

May 2, 1963: Children of Birmingham Fill the Jails

In disciplined groups and singing freedom songs, students “ditch” class to march for justice and fill the jails.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 3mo ago

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