Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
· Feb 3
No Elon, No Coup, No Fascist Shiba Inu!
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In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo
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Happy 2026! If you will be in Chicago for #AHA26, our roundtable on Teaching Migration History Under Authoritarianism will be an opportunity at community for faculty of contested topics in a moment that makes boldness ever more necessary. Gratefully sponsored by HPAD and the Radical History Review!
January 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Happy 2026! If you will be in Chicago for #AHA26, our roundtable on Teaching Migration History Under Authoritarianism will be an opportunity at community for faculty of contested topics in a moment that makes boldness ever more necessary. Gratefully sponsored by HPAD and the Radical History Review!
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Friday’s inauguration launches the first term for Kaohly Her, who makes history as the capital city’s first Asian American mayor.
Kaohly Her begins her term as St. Paul mayor at inauguration ceremony
Friday’s inauguration launches the first term for Her, who makes history as the capital city’s first Asian American mayor.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Friday’s inauguration launches the first term for Kaohly Her, who makes history as the capital city’s first Asian American mayor.
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There is a lovely community of real people On Here because people can actually see posts from other humans they follow. This is not the case on other platforms where algorithms throttle links and feeds are flooded with bots and ragebait
Bluesky is way way better for business than Twitter ever was.
Bluesky is way way better for business than Twitter ever was.
This is crazy man. Bluesky is the only place I “promote” my newsletter or post my stories.
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
January 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
There is a lovely community of real people On Here because people can actually see posts from other humans they follow. This is not the case on other platforms where algorithms throttle links and feeds are flooded with bots and ragebait
Bluesky is way way better for business than Twitter ever was.
Bluesky is way way better for business than Twitter ever was.
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This is crazy man. Bluesky is the only place I “promote” my newsletter or post my stories.
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
January 2, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This is crazy man. Bluesky is the only place I “promote” my newsletter or post my stories.
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
I’ve also never done a public sale before because I hate promo. As a woman in sports I also have to fight the understandable survival instinct to make myself small every day.
this is v v humbling!
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I do agree with the core thesis here - Mamdani doesn’t really have some other ambition he is known to be beholden to and it opens up a lot more space to actually accomplish something which probably triggers both the oligarchs & the strivers
Too much of US politics is dominated by the (silly but powerful) warping force that “You might be president someday!” It’s not possible for Mamdani—and that opens up space for a political imagination inaccessible to most by the the new mayor and his constituents lithub.com/why-its-a-go...
January 2, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I do agree with the core thesis here - Mamdani doesn’t really have some other ambition he is known to be beholden to and it opens up a lot more space to actually accomplish something which probably triggers both the oligarchs & the strivers
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Cannot wait for this to be out!
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Cannot wait for this to be out!
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I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
All the things I wrote
...in 2025
substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I revived my dead substack and did a roundup of everything i wrote last year: all my essays and investigations and magazine pieces on immigration, the topic I've covered for a decade at this point. PLS READ & SUBSCRIBE
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Participated in this fun year-end exercise with some other journalist names you may recognize. AI and fascism tended to be the most important of 2025 — but the least important were fun to peruse too. And @mattielubchansky.com did beautiful art!
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
themorningnews.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Participated in this fun year-end exercise with some other journalist names you may recognize. AI and fascism tended to be the most important of 2025 — but the least important were fun to peruse too. And @mattielubchansky.com did beautiful art!
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
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without African American and Native American history. Most of the historiography silos these literatures into subfields. But SCOTUS opinions talked about slavery in voluntary migration cases. Also, federal Indian law cases are cited as precedent for Chinese exclusion. It was too good to be true. 2/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
without African American and Native American history. Most of the historiography silos these literatures into subfields. But SCOTUS opinions talked about slavery in voluntary migration cases. Also, federal Indian law cases are cited as precedent for Chinese exclusion. It was too good to be true. 2/
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
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When the Times wants to keep a narrative alive, there's no holding it back. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
New York Magazine Put Mamdani’s Team on Its Cover. One Aide Was Erased.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
When the Times wants to keep a narrative alive, there's no holding it back. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
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On this day in 1896, Sadie Alexander was born. She was the first black woman to graduate from U. Penn Law School and triumphed over a dean who tried to block her from the law review. She went on to become a civil rights champion who served on Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights. #WeTheMen
January 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
On this day in 1896, Sadie Alexander was born. She was the first black woman to graduate from U. Penn Law School and triumphed over a dean who tried to block her from the law review. She went on to become a civil rights champion who served on Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights. #WeTheMen
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I think I should have said walk off, not walk out. He used it leaving the stage once he was in!
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I think I should have said walk off, not walk out. He used it leaving the stage once he was in!
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how are we not talking about mamdani’s walk out song being “this is what dreams are made of” by hilary duff 😭
January 2, 2026 at 2:31 PM
how are we not talking about mamdani’s walk out song being “this is what dreams are made of” by hilary duff 😭
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Houston's police force and Texas Senate Bill 8 resulted in the most anti-immigrant implementation of ICE enforcement in all of the U.S. in 2025. ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions in about 9 months is simply devastating.
Houston leads all U.S. cities in ICE arrests in 2025: ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions from Jan 20 to Oct 15. That's more than NYC, LA, or Chicago in both categories. 🧵
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Houston's police force and Texas Senate Bill 8 resulted in the most anti-immigrant implementation of ICE enforcement in all of the U.S. in 2025. ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions in about 9 months is simply devastating.
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The tension is showing up in local politics: Harris County Democratic precinct chairs voted not to endorse Mayor Whitmire this month, citing concerns over his approach to ICE cooperation and his public comments about enforcement in Houston.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
The tension is showing up in local politics: Harris County Democratic precinct chairs voted not to endorse Mayor Whitmire this month, citing concerns over his approach to ICE cooperation and his public comments about enforcement in Houston.
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City officials say HPD doesn't enforce immigration law. But Houston Chronicle reporting found HPD calls to ICE are up more than 1,000% compared to last year. The mayor says this is "standard law enforcement cooperation," not immigration enforcement.
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
City officials say HPD doesn't enforce immigration law. But Houston Chronicle reporting found HPD calls to ICE are up more than 1,000% compared to last year. The mayor says this is "standard law enforcement cooperation," not immigration enforcement.
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Houston leads all U.S. cities in ICE arrests in 2025: ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions from Jan 20 to Oct 15. That's more than NYC, LA, or Chicago in both categories. 🧵
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Houston leads all U.S. cities in ICE arrests in 2025: ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions from Jan 20 to Oct 15. That's more than NYC, LA, or Chicago in both categories. 🧵
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Back in Sept., both DHS and Louisiana's governor used a cruel alliterative name for Angola when announcing that the penitentiary would start detaining immigrants. Maybe it's just me, but I haven't seen them persist much with this macabre branding exercise.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Back in Sept., both DHS and Louisiana's governor used a cruel alliterative name for Angola when announcing that the penitentiary would start detaining immigrants. Maybe it's just me, but I haven't seen them persist much with this macabre branding exercise.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
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My productivity blocker has these different messages when it turns on but "you are free from this site" always makes me laugh
YOU ARE FREE FROM THIS SITE
BEGONE
BE FREE
THE CURSE HAS LIFTED
YOU ARE FREE FROM THIS SITE
BEGONE
BE FREE
THE CURSE HAS LIFTED
January 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
My productivity blocker has these different messages when it turns on but "you are free from this site" always makes me laugh
YOU ARE FREE FROM THIS SITE
BEGONE
BE FREE
THE CURSE HAS LIFTED
YOU ARE FREE FROM THIS SITE
BEGONE
BE FREE
THE CURSE HAS LIFTED
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What is also important—maybe, not Mamdani’s entire point, but we will see—is that executive orders are weak ways of asserting power in a democracy. You want to create something permanent: write a statute and build a democratic coalition to pass it.
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
What is also important—maybe, not Mamdani’s entire point, but we will see—is that executive orders are weak ways of asserting power in a democracy. You want to create something permanent: write a statute and build a democratic coalition to pass it.
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The man wants a war, any war will do
January 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
The man wants a war, any war will do