Mark Healey
@healeyparera.bsky.social
Historian, Head of UConn History. Cities, architecture, planning, disasters, environment, Latin America.
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Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame
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Pretty wild -- If it was a nation, greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. vehicles sector would be the fifth-largest source in the world
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5 Facts About the Endangerment Finding
If the EPA scraps the endangerment finding, this would fundamentally undermine the nation’s safety, health, and economic well-being.
www.nrdc.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Pretty wild -- If it was a nation, greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. vehicles sector would be the fifth-largest source in the world
www.nrdc.org/media/5-fact...
www.nrdc.org/media/5-fact...
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Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
As ever, just want to ask "What is your damage Harper?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhA...
"what is your damage heather?"
YouTube video by hoey
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February 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
As ever, just want to ask "What is your damage Harper?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhA...
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Of the 52 million jobs created in America since 1989, 51 million, 97%, have been created under Dem Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Of the 52 million jobs created in America since 1989, 51 million, 97%, have been created under Dem Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/
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The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
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The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
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DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death.
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post.
This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide.
wapo.st/4qR1T1U
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He's junior faculty with so much potential!
More seriously, though, most of the rest of the faculty in Chase look pretty sold, replacement-value academics of a conservative bent. What's curious here is this guy & 1-2 others doing US foreign relations -- which OSU is already HUGE in.
More seriously, though, most of the rest of the faculty in Chase look pretty sold, replacement-value academics of a conservative bent. What's curious here is this guy & 1-2 others doing US foreign relations -- which OSU is already HUGE in.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
He's junior faculty with so much potential!
More seriously, though, most of the rest of the faculty in Chase look pretty sold, replacement-value academics of a conservative bent. What's curious here is this guy & 1-2 others doing US foreign relations -- which OSU is already HUGE in.
More seriously, though, most of the rest of the faculty in Chase look pretty sold, replacement-value academics of a conservative bent. What's curious here is this guy & 1-2 others doing US foreign relations -- which OSU is already HUGE in.
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If you have to say that...
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
If you have to say that...
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Low-engagement voters exist, & what little they did hear in 2024 was from the actual realities of the 2 parties & the stakes of 🇺🇸 politics. But you don’t have to follow politics closely in 2026 to have heard that awful crazy stuff is happening every day:
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New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Low-engagement voters exist, & what little they did hear in 2024 was from the actual realities of the 2 parties & the stakes of 🇺🇸 politics. But you don’t have to follow politics closely in 2026 to have heard that awful crazy stuff is happening every day:
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A metro area of 1.1M Americans was on track to lose access to its biggest airport for 10 days because DOD gave Greg Bovino's employer a laser to play with? Do I have that right? I'm just trying to make sure I have that clear.
Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
A metro area of 1.1M Americans was on track to lose access to its biggest airport for 10 days because DOD gave Greg Bovino's employer a laser to play with? Do I have that right? I'm just trying to make sure I have that clear.
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Imagine risking your career for Gordon Gee?
A Chase Center affiliate assaulted a journalist trying to interview Gordon Gee. See @dispatch.com coverage of the incident, which includes our statement.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
Ohio State professor on leave after tackling cameraman filming Gordon Gee
An Ohio State University professor was suspended after tackling a cameraman attempting to film former university president E. Gordon Gee.
www.dispatch.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Imagine risking your career for Gordon Gee?
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Ivan Dixon, who played Sgt Kinchloe, later directed a film about radical Black revolutionaries. FBI pressured theaters to cease showing the film, and all but 1 copy was destroyed.
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
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Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
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February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Ivan Dixon, who played Sgt Kinchloe, later directed a film about radical Black revolutionaries. FBI pressured theaters to cease showing the film, and all but 1 copy was destroyed.
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
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The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
February 12, 2026 at 5:12 AM
The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.
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what I most appreciate about this update: when I first heard of this story I *do* recall thinking "no this isn't dumb enough"
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According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
what I most appreciate about this update: when I first heard of this story I *do* recall thinking "no this isn't dumb enough"
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"The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data."
IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS
The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data."
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Concerned about drones from cartels, the US military shot down a "party balloon" (www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...).
Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.
Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.
February 11, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Concerned about drones from cartels, the US military shot down a "party balloon" (www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...).
Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.
Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.
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We are fully in the @gabrielwinant.bsky.social economy where all job growth is in nursing and the retirees living off the proceeds of the last accumulation cycle are furious at their Filipina nurse because of it
The job market was already dependent on health care for most of its growth, but the pattern is even more dramatic after today's revisions. Private-sector employment would have fallen outright last year if it weren't for health care. #NumbersDay
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We are fully in the @gabrielwinant.bsky.social economy where all job growth is in nursing and the retirees living off the proceeds of the last accumulation cycle are furious at their Filipina nurse because of it
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political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media
We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media