Brendan P. O'Malley
@bomalley500.bsky.social
Public school teacher in Worcester, MA. DSA🌹. Holden DTC Chair. Historian of immigration politics in the 19th-century US. NYC history. CUNY GC PhD. Sloppy indie rock drummer. Massachusetts politics. He/Him/His. Diss topic essay: https://tinyurl.com/cm55m
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Still can't believe this happened! One of my favorite things about 2024 was playing with Love Child again after a 31 year hiatus, and this took the cake. Huge gratitude to @actualylt.bsky.social, whose set with Marc Ribot was transcendent. Still smiling about the surprise appearance by Swamp Dogg.
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They killed a woman & called her a fucking bitch. Then, they killed a man for protecting a woman they likely wanted to murder and call her a fucking bitch, too.
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 AM
They killed a woman & called her a fucking bitch. Then, they killed a man for protecting a woman they likely wanted to murder and call her a fucking bitch, too.
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ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas.
These euphemisms have to die.
These euphemisms have to die.
ICE detained four children from Columbia Heights, Minnesota and sent them to detention centers in Texas.
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ICE detains 4 Columbia Heights students, including 5- and 10-year-olds sent to Texas
Columbia Heights Public Schools leaders addressed the ICE surge into the district, saying the community is "shattered."
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January 22, 2026 at 2:11 AM
ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas.
These euphemisms have to die.
These euphemisms have to die.
Learning this lesson over and over again: the complete dumbness of everything breaking my brain (today it’s ICE and Greenland). People can’t possibly be this stupid. But apparently they can.
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Learning this lesson over and over again: the complete dumbness of everything breaking my brain (today it’s ICE and Greenland). People can’t possibly be this stupid. But apparently they can.
Got a recent request from a health insurer to help a third party vendor to "find out if someone else...is responsible for the cost" for a recent procedure. OH HELL NO. Help a third party to find a reason to deny my claim for a legit health expense? This needs to be regulated out of existence.
January 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Got a recent request from a health insurer to help a third party vendor to "find out if someone else...is responsible for the cost" for a recent procedure. OH HELL NO. Help a third party to find a reason to deny my claim for a legit health expense? This needs to be regulated out of existence.
Where is ICE agent John E. Ross? Somebody who just shot someone in the face three times for no good reason is a danger to society and should be in jail awaiting arraignment. That he is not in jail right now at a time when SO many people are for doing so much less is disgusting to me.
January 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Where is ICE agent John E. Ross? Somebody who just shot someone in the face three times for no good reason is a danger to society and should be in jail awaiting arraignment. That he is not in jail right now at a time when SO many people are for doing so much less is disgusting to me.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
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“Maybe tomorrow.”
January 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
“Maybe tomorrow.”
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Not that anyone asked me but: on #MAEdu state education priorities
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Not that anyone asked me but: on state education priorities
In their past two meetings, the Board of Ed has established priorities; in November, for the FY27 budget request, and in December, for the C...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Not that anyone asked me but: on #MAEdu state education priorities
who-cester.blogspot.com/2026/01/not-...
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My complete NUMTOT subway nerd 15yo is over the moon about Zohran’s inauguration location!
December 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My complete NUMTOT subway nerd 15yo is over the moon about Zohran’s inauguration location!
Recent innovation of which I approve: the 30-minute middle school holiday concert. These were interminable back in the day.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Recent innovation of which I approve: the 30-minute middle school holiday concert. These were interminable back in the day.
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Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@jessethorn.bsky.social on making his company worker-owned:“The thing about worker ownership is that it is demonstrably studied by economists, more sustainable, because workers are interested in sustainability. They're not interested in risk and infinite growth.” A path beyond the VC tech hellscape.
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@jessethorn.bsky.social on making his company worker-owned:“The thing about worker ownership is that it is demonstrably studied by economists, more sustainable, because workers are interested in sustainability. They're not interested in risk and infinite growth.” A path beyond the VC tech hellscape.
@julianbrash.bsky.social Just a word of appreciation for _Bloomberg's New York_--still think about it a lot. Used a chapter in my History of New York City course I taught at Brooklyn College and the students really got it. The TCC and its emphasis on dealmaking resonates now more than ever.
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@julianbrash.bsky.social Just a word of appreciation for _Bloomberg's New York_--still think about it a lot. Used a chapter in my History of New York City course I taught at Brooklyn College and the students really got it. The TCC and its emphasis on dealmaking resonates now more than ever.
Citizenship in the US has never been a simple binary, encompassing a complex array of rights and privileges unevenly distributed. @unlawfulentries.bsky.social breaks down the historical evolution of citizenship in her forthcoming book, distilling a central argument in the thread below. Please read!
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Citizenship in the US has never been a simple binary, encompassing a complex array of rights and privileges unevenly distributed. @unlawfulentries.bsky.social breaks down the historical evolution of citizenship in her forthcoming book, distilling a central argument in the thread below. Please read!
A lemon-shaped gas giant that orbits a pulsar every eight hours! And it’s only 2000 light years from earth. Would like to visit some day! Love this (gift link)! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A lemon-shaped gas giant that orbits a pulsar every eight hours! And it’s only 2000 light years from earth. Would like to visit some day! Love this (gift link)! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
The great irony is it took electing an utterly bereft hateful racist and corrupt scumbag twice to help people realize this. Immigration is the defining characteristic of the US.
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The great irony is it took electing an utterly bereft hateful racist and corrupt scumbag twice to help people realize this. Immigration is the defining characteristic of the US.
DEI fortune cookie!
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
DEI fortune cookie!
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Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law.
Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️
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Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️
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Yesterday, Gerald Neuman, Kris Collins and I filed an amicus brief arguing that the birthright citizenship executive order is clearly unlawful on statutory grounds. clearinghouse.net/doc/160190/ 🧵
Brief of Amici Curiae Immigration Law Scholars Kristin Collins, Gerald Neuman, and Rachel Rosenbloom in Support of Appellees | CASA Inc. v. Trump 4th | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Civil Rights Litigation Clearninghouse document Brief of Amici Curiae Immigration Law Scholars Kristin Collins, Gerald Neuman, and Rachel Rosenbloom in Support of Appellees of CASA Inc. v. Trump
clearinghouse.net
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law.
Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️
bsky.app/profile/rose...
Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️
bsky.app/profile/rose...
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If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
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teachers, take the cop in your head & beat it to death with its own batons
Christ we’re doing the worthy and unworthy poor again, but with accommodations
Reminded of that guy who wrote an exposé about students claiming they had ADHD and getting extra time in tests when "maybe they didn't all need it" and the article was just every professional he spoke to desperately trying to explain to him that this was fine actually and the best they could do.
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
teachers, take the cop in your head & beat it to death with its own batons
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Immigration enforcement is usually thought of as a federal issue, but ICE's work is intertwined with state law in a number of ways. @aliciabannon.bsky.social examines recent state litigation WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states & localities in which it operates.
State Challenges to Immigration Enforcement Practices
Recent lawsuits in Wisconsin, New York, and California explore questions about the role of state law in federal immigration enforcement.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Immigration enforcement is usually thought of as a federal issue, but ICE's work is intertwined with state law in a number of ways. @aliciabannon.bsky.social examines recent state litigation WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states & localities in which it operates.