Britt P. Tevis
@britttevis.bsky.social
Historian of US law, American Jewry, and antisemitism. JD/PhD, #T1D.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300282542/sanctioned-bigotry/
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300282542/sanctioned-bigotry/
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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If these numbers turn out to be true, it's a sign that the rabbinic mobilization against Mamdani had a real effect.
At the same time, this means a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted for Mamdani than Jews nationwide voted for Trump, and pro-Trump Jews are treated like a major constituency.
At the same time, this means a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted for Mamdani than Jews nationwide voted for Trump, and pro-Trump Jews are treated like a major constituency.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If these numbers turn out to be true, it's a sign that the rabbinic mobilization against Mamdani had a real effect.
At the same time, this means a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted for Mamdani than Jews nationwide voted for Trump, and pro-Trump Jews are treated like a major constituency.
At the same time, this means a higher percentage of NYC Jews voted for Mamdani than Jews nationwide voted for Trump, and pro-Trump Jews are treated like a major constituency.
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” @matteowong.bsky.social on how Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his image:
What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” @matteowong.bsky.social on how Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his image:
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I wrote this a year ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I wrote this a year ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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If only someone had written a book warning about this…
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If only someone had written a book warning about this…
Headline fits my theory that everyone secretly wants to be a historian.
Banana Republic has an “archive” collection. Sydney Sweeney has worn an "archival" Versace dress.
Why is everything in fashion “archival” all of a sudden?
Why is everything in fashion “archival” all of a sudden?
The Word Everyone in Fashion Can’t Stop Using
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Headline fits my theory that everyone secretly wants to be a historian.
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From The New Yorker
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
From The New Yorker
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May the United States be inscribed for a good year in the book of life.
A year of empathy and community.
A year of peace.
A year of empathy and community.
A year of peace.
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
May the United States be inscribed for a good year in the book of life.
A year of empathy and community.
A year of peace.
A year of empathy and community.
A year of peace.
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JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.
JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.
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teach more history in law schools
September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
teach more history in law schools
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Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy
Wary of changes under Trump, 'citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian
Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.
n.pr
September 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network. n.pr/3Kdrsdy
Americans' historical illiteracy on full display today. 🤦🏻♀️
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Americans' historical illiteracy on full display today. 🤦🏻♀️
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anyone offering up hagiographies of kirk is a poltroon of the first water. mouthing pieties about that hatemonger is just absolutely vile
September 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
anyone offering up hagiographies of kirk is a poltroon of the first water. mouthing pieties about that hatemonger is just absolutely vile
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*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way.
www.sup.org/books/middle...
(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
www.sup.org/books/middle...
(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way.
www.sup.org/books/middle...
(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
www.sup.org/books/middle...
(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
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The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
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Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton."
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.
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IT DOESN’T
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
IT DOESN’T
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL
IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW
IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
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The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
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As Trump exerts ever more dictatorial powers using baseless claims of "emergencies" to do so, I'm reminded of how "America First" far right orgs like Liberty Lobby in the 1970s was obsessed with the idea that Presidents would use EO's to impose full communism on America by declaring emergencies.
August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As Trump exerts ever more dictatorial powers using baseless claims of "emergencies" to do so, I'm reminded of how "America First" far right orgs like Liberty Lobby in the 1970s was obsessed with the idea that Presidents would use EO's to impose full communism on America by declaring emergencies.
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My god this is creepy.
The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My god this is creepy.
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this