Nimisha Barton
@nimishabarton.bsky.social
Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Lecturer at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
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Nimisha Barton
@nimishabarton.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Each year I update this table which surveys scholars programs at the top 10 colleges and unis. Were schools that cared so much about DEI in 2020 still committed 5 years later?
Here's what I found:
Here's what I found:
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February 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.
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Necessary reading from @nimishabarton.bsky.social
Fantastic history of where we are, and how we got here. BTW: this history of campus protest is what got us Hart Hall at @ucdavis.bsky.social. And the Bakke case? Also centered on UC Davis.
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
The DEI Debacle
BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…
academeblog.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Necessary reading from @nimishabarton.bsky.social
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Fantastic history of where we are, and how we got here. BTW: this history of campus protest is what got us Hart Hall at @ucdavis.bsky.social. And the Bakke case? Also centered on UC Davis.
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
The DEI Debacle
BY NIMISHA BARTON Following the infamous “Dear Colleague” letter sent out by the Department of Education in February 2025, colleges and universities rushed to shutter diversity, equity, and inclusi…
academeblog.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Fantastic history of where we are, and how we got here. BTW: this history of campus protest is what got us Hart Hall at @ucdavis.bsky.social. And the Bakke case? Also centered on UC Davis.
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
It's a national story, but it's also our campus history! Read on:
academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
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“Epstein Class” is catchy as fuck
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
“Epstein Class” is catchy as fuck
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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Please, my magic bean, it is very sick
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Please, my magic bean, it is very sick
Check out this article in Academe where I discuss the DEI Debacle through a historical lens. We've been here before, people, and we've taken the wrong lessons
Full text here: academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
Full text here: academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
February 5, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Check out this article in Academe where I discuss the DEI Debacle through a historical lens. We've been here before, people, and we've taken the wrong lessons
Full text here: academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
Full text here: academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...
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These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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a detailed look at the mechanics of the new American censorship regime
It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race
The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”
www.texastribune.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
a detailed look at the mechanics of the new American censorship regime
It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
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Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
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people who don't exchange most or nearly all of the money they have for goods and services just live in a totally different reality than the rest of us. they make insane decisions because of it.
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
people who don't exchange most or nearly all of the money they have for goods and services just live in a totally different reality than the rest of us. they make insane decisions because of it.
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"Trump and Steven Miller want a race war. They think they’ll win it. They think white people will tune in for it. Their operating theory is that most white people are viciously racist, like they are, and that most whites secretly pine to live in apartheid South Africa."
Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.
The Trump Administration Arrested Don Lemon Like He Was a Fugitive Slave
Lemon’s arrest is not only a clear violation of the First Amendment but a blatant throwback to the Constitution’s long-discarded Fugitive Slave Clause.
www.thenation.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"Trump and Steven Miller want a race war. They think they’ll win it. They think white people will tune in for it. Their operating theory is that most white people are viciously racist, like they are, and that most whites secretly pine to live in apartheid South Africa."
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but don't call them Nazis
After brutally arresting Aliya Rahman, an autistic, disabled woman, in Minneapolis, ICE agents told her that "this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being."
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
https://bit.ly/3ZHX3IC
ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling.
“They laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Aliya Rahman tells The Nation.
bit.ly
January 30, 2026 at 9:34 PM
but don't call them Nazis
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Melania’s first screening in Times Square draws four people, at least three of them professional critics. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
🤣🤣🤣
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"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
Love this.
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Love this.
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I’m a NO — not one more penny for ICE without stopping this violence. Two American citizens were killed by federal agents.
No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes.
Get ICE out of Minnesota.
No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes.
Get ICE out of Minnesota.
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I’m a NO — not one more penny for ICE without stopping this violence. Two American citizens were killed by federal agents.
No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes.
Get ICE out of Minnesota.
No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes.
Get ICE out of Minnesota.
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 AM
They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.
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I spend my days oscillating between being tremendously inspired by what the people of Minnesota are accomplishing and being terribly depressed that they’re under siege and have to do it at all.
BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.
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The twin cities are under siege. Every tenant needs a union. We are launching a twin cities-wide tenant union. Organize your neighbors. Join the Union NOW.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I spend my days oscillating between being tremendously inspired by what the people of Minnesota are accomplishing and being terribly depressed that they’re under siege and have to do it at all.
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This is a terrible time to be a person if you hate bullshit
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM
This is a terrible time to be a person if you hate bullshit
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"Franklin offers a crucial study of the racial policies at the heart of the French welfare state makes," Writes @nimishabarton.bsky.social for the American Historical Review of DISINTEGRATING EMPIRE by @elisefranklin.bsky.social. bit.ly/46j2WQb
January 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"Franklin offers a crucial study of the racial policies at the heart of the French welfare state makes," Writes @nimishabarton.bsky.social for the American Historical Review of DISINTEGRATING EMPIRE by @elisefranklin.bsky.social. bit.ly/46j2WQb
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I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...
fuck. off.
"Meanwhile, the modes through which Europe and Canada have sought to suppress populism involve harsh restrictions on speech, elite collusion and other expression of managerial illiberalism"
"Meanwhile, the modes through which Europe and Canada have sought to suppress populism involve harsh restrictions on speech, elite collusion and other expression of managerial illiberalism"
January 25, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.