Melissa DeVelvis
@melissadevelvis.org
GA/SC boundary dweller, historian of women & the U.S. South. Author of Gendering Secession: White Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859-1861. Bit.ly/genderingsecession
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Melissa DeVelvis
@melissadevelvis.org
· Mar 13
Let's just say I worked on two big projects this past year 😊
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
Gendering Secession is OUT NOW! I can't believe!
Bit.ly/genderingsecession
I mean, you and I have already been called this on the Internet plenty 🙃
What is the fascist state going to say about you when its Secret Police shoot you unprovoked in broad daylight?
Mine’s easy: “he was a dangerous radical Marxist professor.”
Mine’s easy: “he was a dangerous radical Marxist professor.”
January 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I mean, you and I have already been called this on the Internet plenty 🙃
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Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
Proudly, openly a liar.
Proudly, openly a liar.
January 9, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
Proudly, openly a liar.
Proudly, openly a liar.
announcers refusing to even mention that last play being PI...
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
announcers refusing to even mention that last play being PI...
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The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
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Dear media covering Homeland Security's killing of a woman in Minneapolis,
Homeland Security has routinely lied about violence against the public. It was caught lying repeatedly in Chicago. A federal judge determined that Homeland Security lied.
Share any government statements with that context.
Homeland Security has routinely lied about violence against the public. It was caught lying repeatedly in Chicago. A federal judge determined that Homeland Security lied.
Share any government statements with that context.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Dear media covering Homeland Security's killing of a woman in Minneapolis,
Homeland Security has routinely lied about violence against the public. It was caught lying repeatedly in Chicago. A federal judge determined that Homeland Security lied.
Share any government statements with that context.
Homeland Security has routinely lied about violence against the public. It was caught lying repeatedly in Chicago. A federal judge determined that Homeland Security lied.
Share any government statements with that context.
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Video makes clear almost every word of this is a lie.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Video makes clear almost every word of this is a lie.
I got scammed by a fake Cotopaxi site and felt like a total boomer until I realized that it's so common that the poor company has to post about it
January 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
I got scammed by a fake Cotopaxi site and felt like a total boomer until I realized that it's so common that the poor company has to post about it
Happy 2026! Giving a talk at my local bookstore this month!
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Happy 2026! Giving a talk at my local bookstore this month!
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an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
How does launching air strikes and a commando raid fall under the remit of self defense for an arrest operation
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
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All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN!
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN!
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.
This is helpful because I had no idea what was going on
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is helpful because I had no idea what was going on
I told my students that my bosses read the evals and apparently they took that to heart I love them sm 🥹
December 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I told my students that my bosses read the evals and apparently they took that to heart I love them sm 🥹
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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Nothing says “full transparency” like begging staffers to spend their holidays blacking out names in the Epstein files. Funny how there’s always time to redact, never time to tell the truth.
Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says | CNN Politics
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push towa...
www.cnn.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Nothing says “full transparency” like begging staffers to spend their holidays blacking out names in the Epstein files. Funny how there’s always time to redact, never time to tell the truth.
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Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
It's gonna be 70 on Christmas Day in Georgia
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It's gonna be 70 on Christmas Day in Georgia
Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help.
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MH booklist
Colonial North America and Revolution Wayne Lee, The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800, 300 pages Vaughn Scribner, Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and ...
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help.
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
Gonna show this to my students as proof that you can't do history through AI. The Senate investigation into Hamburg was THREE VOLUMES
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Gonna show this to my students as proof that you can't do history through AI. The Senate investigation into Hamburg was THREE VOLUMES
Accidentally assigned a textbook that's so old that I don't get an instructor copy 😬😬 (it's print to order and too old for even an ebook)
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Accidentally assigned a textbook that's so old that I don't get an instructor copy 😬😬 (it's print to order and too old for even an ebook)
All men's rooms should have changing tables
December 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
All men's rooms should have changing tables
History found me on vacation: unionism in Blue Ridge, GA!
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
History found me on vacation: unionism in Blue Ridge, GA!
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids