Holly Brewer
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
· Dec 18
The King's Slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America
press.princeton.edu
My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.
Cover will be added soon.
The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
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Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship:
”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
Opinion | Soil, Not Blood, Determines U.S. Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship:
”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
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⚡️UPDATE: Under Trump the Tennessee Valley Authority is sticking with coal rather than clean energy — and letting Elon DOUBLE xAI’s power draw… with no public input.
The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...
The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...
February 20, 2026 at 1:21 AM
⚡️UPDATE: Under Trump the Tennessee Valley Authority is sticking with coal rather than clean energy — and letting Elon DOUBLE xAI’s power draw… with no public input.
The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...
The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country.
grist.org/energy/the-n...
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Forget the Alamo!
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...
University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects
Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.
www.texastribune.org
February 20, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Forget the Alamo!
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/t...
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Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/nbxsKE
February 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/nbxsKE
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This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...
February 20, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...
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They are posing for a scene in a low-budget film
February 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM
They are posing for a scene in a low-budget film
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‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu
February 20, 2026 at 2:36 AM
‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
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I just explained to my students that crooked politicians always like to use the passive voice to avoid accountability, and this is a pretty solid example.
Exonerated by whom, sir? When? How?
Exonerated by whom, sir? When? How?
DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
February 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I just explained to my students that crooked politicians always like to use the passive voice to avoid accountability, and this is a pretty solid example.
Exonerated by whom, sir? When? How?
Exonerated by whom, sir? When? How?
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I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.
Jared Kushner at the "Board of Peace" -- "People are not personally profiting from this"
February 19, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.
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[cough cough]
🚨BREAKING: During a rambling rehash of false assertions of voter fraud, President Donald Trump claimed that Republicans will never lose an election “for 50 years” if his allies in Congress pass the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump says Republicans will ‘never lose a race’ if Congress restricts voting
“We'll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won't lose a race.”
www.democracydocket.com
February 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM
[cough cough]
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
February 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
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And a third one!
Norway's former PM Jagland charged with gross corruption over Epstein links
The charge was brought after the Council of Europe lifted his immunity, which he had as its former secretary general.
www.bbc.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
And a third one!
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The way it works here is you're arrested on the most immediately provable charge, and the police then investigate EVERYTHING else, adding other charges to the file before trial. The investigation is into Epstein/Andrew links - girls AND financial impropriety. The ball is now rolling downhill.
February 19, 2026 at 9:12 PM
The way it works here is you're arrested on the most immediately provable charge, and the police then investigate EVERYTHING else, adding other charges to the file before trial. The investigation is into Epstein/Andrew links - girls AND financial impropriety. The ball is now rolling downhill.
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"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
February 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
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I literally wrote about this for @nursingclio.bsky.social! The draft included a section on hazing and the military in the 1990s, which conservatives opined was essential to being made into a man. (I originally bragged about my blood wings and E5 party.)
nursingclio.org/2025/06/04/n...
nursingclio.org/2025/06/04/n...
February 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I literally wrote about this for @nursingclio.bsky.social! The draft included a section on hazing and the military in the 1990s, which conservatives opined was essential to being made into a man. (I originally bragged about my blood wings and E5 party.)
nursingclio.org/2025/06/04/n...
nursingclio.org/2025/06/04/n...
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Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
February 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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2/19/1871 — b. Lugenia Burns Hope, American social reformer, community services organizer. Af-Am champion of #civilrights in Atlanta (30+ yrs). The first VP of the Atlanta chapter of the #NAACP; her work served as a model for the civil rights mvmnt #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #PolSky #BHM #woc
February 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
2/19/1871 — b. Lugenia Burns Hope, American social reformer, community services organizer. Af-Am champion of #civilrights in Atlanta (30+ yrs). The first VP of the Atlanta chapter of the #NAACP; her work served as a model for the civil rights mvmnt #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #PolSky #BHM #woc
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Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.
February 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.
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Taught class in Smith College special collections today and spied this pilgrim badge impression in a 13C Bible. Also curious to hear what people think--this is catalogued as French but it looks like an Italian vulgate to me. Digitized MS here: search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS307
February 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Taught class in Smith College special collections today and spied this pilgrim badge impression in a 13C Bible. Also curious to hear what people think--this is catalogued as French but it looks like an Italian vulgate to me. Digitized MS here: search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS307
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Yesterday, we filed this amicus brief in Trump v Barbara: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It's an updated/expanded version of the brief we filed last spring in the circuit courts. Summary below. TL;DR: birthright citizenship is guaranteed by BOTH the Constitution AND federal statute.
February 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Yesterday, we filed this amicus brief in Trump v Barbara: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It's an updated/expanded version of the brief we filed last spring in the circuit courts. Summary below. TL;DR: birthright citizenship is guaranteed by BOTH the Constitution AND federal statute.
Yep.
If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.
February 19, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Yep.
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love to be looted by our criminal president
Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)
February 19, 2026 at 6:57 PM
love to be looted by our criminal president
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Trumpification of global health continues apace. Withdraw from a body that mostly functioned to duplicate it at cost with him at the helm.
🚨 WaPo scoop: You've heard of Trump's "board of peace."
Now HHS wants to build its own World Health Organization that will cost exponentially more than the U.S.'s contribution to the WHO.
-- with the incredible @lenasun.bsky.social
Now HHS wants to build its own World Health Organization that will cost exponentially more than the U.S.'s contribution to the WHO.
-- with the incredible @lenasun.bsky.social
After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it
HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.
wapo.st
February 19, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Trumpification of global health continues apace. Withdraw from a body that mostly functioned to duplicate it at cost with him at the helm.
We are living in a golden age for political cartoons
February 19, 2026 at 10:54 PM
We are living in a golden age for political cartoons
