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Manisha Sinha
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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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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 30m
And the Supreme Courts decision in Cruikshank comparable to its Trump decisions.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 9h
Not making my day either!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11h
I hear ya! I live in a permanent state of dread nowadays.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11h
An indicator of the times we live in which is not good!

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11h
Historian here the Donroe doctrine which is as idiotic as it sounds. The Triple Axis sounds like the world on the eve of the First World War which is not a good thing!
World map divided between Trump Putin and Xi

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h
Today is the anniversary of the J6 insurrection.

They got away with it.
youtube.com/shorts/Bt8Kb...
What’s in the newly released Jack Smith deposition
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtube.com

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11h
Historian here January 6, 2021 a day, to paraphrase FDR, that shall live in infamy in American history.
libradunn1.bsky.social Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow the House Democrats will host a hearing with witness accounts from January 6th 2021.

Watch here www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

Reposted by Manisha Sinha

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 12h
Remembering and Forgetting January 6, 2021 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Remembering and Forgetting January 6, 2021
Every historical event exists within a constant tug between remembering and forgetting.
open.substack.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Mark D. White, Fabián Muniesa , and 4 more

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/

(new piece)
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Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 12h
Jan. 6, 2021:

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21h
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 21h
The evidence is more than clear:

Suppressing voter turnout.
Vandalizing vote by mail.
Attempting to overturn an election defeat on January 6th.

Donald Trump does not believe in free and fair elections.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian here, I am really looking forward to my stay at the Chicago Hilton for the American Historical Association conference this week!
thefemdem.bsky.social thefemdem.bsky.social @thefemdem.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis canceled ICE agents reservations and alerted them that DHS agents are not allowed to stay at their property.

Thank you, Hilton for standing on business! 👏🏼

#FUCKICE

Reposted by Manisha Sinha

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow the House Democrats will host a hearing with witness accounts from January 6th 2021.

Watch here www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Historian here,”For years this is what our authoritarianism has looked like: not autocratic socialism but the worst kind of primitive capitalism.” Via @nytimes.com from Venezuela. This is why I have insisted on differentiating between social statism and repressive statism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

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thefemdem.bsky.social @thefemdem.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis canceled ICE agents reservations and alerted them that DHS agents are not allowed to stay at their property.

Thank you, Hilton for standing on business! 👏🏼

#FUCKICE

Reposted by Greg Linden, Manisha Sinha

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d
The English teacher in me loves this cartoon…

From Benjamin Slyngstad.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Nandita Sharma , and 15 more

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d
hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Henry Jones, Manisha Sinha , and 2 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
so many of my favorite ordinary abolitionists, Garrison, Weld, Frances Watkins Harper, William Wells Brown, Douglass is well known, etc etc

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d
So this is going to end up with Trump spending billions in U.S. government funds on Venezuela to support a corrupt regime, same as he spent billions in Argentina to keep Milei in power and billions in El Salvador for Bukele's prisons, isn't it? That's the "Donroe" Doctrine.
Trump’s Venezuela Oil Revival Plan Is a $100 Billion Gamble
Realizing President Donald Trump’s plan for a US-led revival of Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could be a years-long and challenging process costing upwards of $100 billion.
www.bloomberg.com

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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 1d
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 1d
A spokesperson for the European Commission said it was “very seriously looking into” the creation of sexually explicit images of girls – including minors – by Grok, the AI model integrated into X.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/h6ZS

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Since Trump has brought back old fashioned imperialism it might be the time to think about how we can prevent the fall of the Third republic on the 250th anniversary of the American Republic. Some of my thoughts on this great democracy podcast.
stevenel.bsky.social Steven Nelson @stevenel.bsky.social · 5d
A new year, but the same concerns for democracy dating back to the Civil War (and before). To better understand the connections and to take lessons for today, I spoke with an expert on Reconstruction: @profmsinha.bsky.social . We covered a lot so I broke it up into two episodes. Here’s part 1.
DIY Democracy: Lessons from American Reconstruction for a New Founding, Pt. 1
For this episode, I spoke with Prof. Manisha Sinha of the University of Connecticut, historian and author of the recent book . We spoke about what a "new founding" of American democracy has looked lik...
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
When I heard Chris Murphy our senator say that it freaked me out. I mean he is surely more in the know than I am!

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d
Let’s just transition to clean energy and ruin the Trump kleptocracy and polluting oil companies, shall we?