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Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn

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Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024). .. more

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · Apr 11
Historian here posting for no reason at all.

U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4:

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Ugh!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 1d
Pathetic. This isn’t a deal. It’s a surrender. Don’t bend the knee!

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Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d
September 2025: Celebrates the 78th Birthday of the United States Air Force and boasts about the bravery of our men and women and the years of dominance and respect.

November 2025:

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian here, I sincerely apologize to all my male colleagues for ruining the workplace.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2d
March 10 is the release date of the book that took me 16 years to research and write. Here's the PRE-ORDER page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Oxford University Press webpage of Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants by Anna O. Law. paperback is $29.99

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d
History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.

Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Aaron Sojourner, Manisha Sinha

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago

For Americans: Bread lines

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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 2d
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: UConn's administration should consult its own experts
Genuine collaboration and shared governance - not outside consultants - should guide the decisions of a major university.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted. This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d
lmao

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d
Prices since Trump took office:

-Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7%
-Utilities: ⬆️ 11%
-ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26%
-Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3%

Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

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Norton History @nortonhistory.bsky.social · 3d
At the Southern Historical Association conference in St Pete Beach, FL? Check out sessions with our authors @profmsinha.bsky.social, Matthew Lockwood, Michael Honey, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Deborah Gray White. And stop by our booth #19 to pick up beach reading! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social #2025SHA

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 3d
Historian here if you are attending the Southern Historical Association conference hope to see you today afternoon for my panel marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of my first book! Grateful to Madam President Lorri Glover.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d
hear hear

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Opinion | More Democrats Need to Follow Pelosi’s Example and Retire
www.nytimes.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4d
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d
There are no words for how evil this is

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NPR @npr.org · 4d
NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals. n.pr/47uKYeQ
The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds
NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 4d
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 4d
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d
I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City.

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A group of women sitting at long banquet tables looking towards a camera in a black-and-white photo. The title says after the vote: feminist politics in LaGuardia’s New York.