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Cathleen D. Cahill
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Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Politico says the cavers have won. CR in exchange for fake vote on ACA subsidies in December. Politico at least says other Dems will give them cover. We’ll see. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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So Democrats get:

1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays

2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail

3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts

Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Our most recent @shgape.bsky.social pod dropped this week. We are revisiting a few of Michael Cullinane's 100 great episodes (w/ some help from @mikeconnolly.bsky.social ) so tough choices--which are your favorite past episodes & why? Let us know in the comments

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November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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perfect Election Day thread
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The suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 demanding the passage of the 19th Amendment endured arrest & imprisonment for the cause. Many of them, estranged from their own families because of their commitment to the fight for democracy, relied on each other for support...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
History has its eyes on you! Vote!
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Good morning, Pennsylvania, we’ve got some voting to do! Retain, retain, retain!!
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.

Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close
County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general.

The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals.

John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Took a look at the entry they have for me in Elon's Grokipedia.

There are some surprisingly deep details, dredged up from interviews I'd long ago forgotten about, and then there are some incredibly big points that are completely wrong.

Let's roll the tape.
October 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Come join us (or send your students) to Penn State for this fantastic post-doc!
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In this week's Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast Boyd and I talked about my recent book, _Recasting the Vote_, and what the history of suffrage looks like from different perspectives. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the conversation @shgape.bsky.social

shows.acast.com/gildedageand...
106: Recasting the Vote | The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
with Cathleen D. Cahill
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October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The September Minding the GAPE is here! There's some exciting stuff including women's rights and bowling, public history at Gilded Age mansions in Newport, and the return of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era podcast! Please take a look and share with friends!
Minding the GAPE – September 2025 - SHGAPE Blog
Bowling and women's rights, public history at the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, playing with fire in turn-of-the-century New York City, the long history of political violence in the U.S., the return...
blog.shgape.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Hello Historians - the CWWH is looking forward to seeing everyone in ABQ for the WHA Conference.
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Join this community forum to help NPS and ASALH design a plan for National Historic Landmark designation for Black public secondary schools.

Black Public High Schools 1870-1970 Project, led by Principal Investigator Amber N. Wiley, PhD.
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
UNM is awesome! Happy to sing its praises
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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First, an important & exciting announcement for folks used to reading these threads on Substack—my wife @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have a new public scholarly website Black & White & Read All Over, & these threads will be fully migrating over here.

blackwhiteandread.com
Black and White and Read All Over
Where Scholarship Meets the Public
blackwhiteandread.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM