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Houston and the Permanence of Segregation is out!
Historian and professor on weekdays. Ororo Munroe been my homie. My posts are my personal views and/or evidence-based research. I do not speak for or represent my employer in any capacity here.
Historian and professor on weekdays. Ororo Munroe been my homie. My posts are my personal views and/or evidence-based research. I do not speak for or represent my employer in any capacity here.
US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion in Kentucky even though self-management of abortion is legal and despite that it is the only option since KY banned doctors from performing any abortion after conception
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion in Kentucky even though self-management of abortion is legal and despite that it is the only option since KY banned doctors from performing any abortion after conception
The rest of the world needs to understand that Donald Trump is a planetary existential threat, drop their differences for a minute, and handle this. The United States is not all-powerful or untouchable. Sure, it's a many-headed Hydra, but you can't be afraid to handle it.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The rest of the world needs to understand that Donald Trump is a planetary existential threat, drop their differences for a minute, and handle this. The United States is not all-powerful or untouchable. Sure, it's a many-headed Hydra, but you can't be afraid to handle it.
Florida Supreme Court rules sperm donor didn't automatically give up paternal rights
www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
Florida Supreme Court rules sperm donor didn't automatically give up paternal rights
The Florida Supreme Court ruled that a man didn't automatically give up his paternal rights when he provided sperm for an at-home artificial insemination.
www.cbsnews.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Florida Supreme Court rules sperm donor didn't automatically give up paternal rights
www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
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They reduced cases, hospitalizations and (rare but real) deaths from the disease massively.
And the worries that it might increase shingles risks (which were honestly based on very limited data) turned out wrong.
Adults benefitted as well, and shingles rates began to fall.
And the worries that it might increase shingles risks (which were honestly based on very limited data) turned out wrong.
Adults benefitted as well, and shingles rates began to fall.
January 2, 2026 at 12:17 PM
They reduced cases, hospitalizations and (rare but real) deaths from the disease massively.
And the worries that it might increase shingles risks (which were honestly based on very limited data) turned out wrong.
Adults benefitted as well, and shingles rates began to fall.
And the worries that it might increase shingles risks (which were honestly based on very limited data) turned out wrong.
Adults benefitted as well, and shingles rates began to fall.
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“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
Justice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants
The Xenophobic White Nationalist Department of Justice seems to be claiming out-of-state residential status as a protected class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...
The Xenophobic White Nationalist Department of Justice seems to be claiming out-of-state residential status as a protected class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...
Justice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Justice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants
The Xenophobic White Nationalist Department of Justice seems to be claiming out-of-state residential status as a protected class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...
The Xenophobic White Nationalist Department of Justice seems to be claiming out-of-state residential status as a protected class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/u...
Hostility, Betrayal, Threats: Why I Quit My Job as a Professor at a Public University in Florida
youtu.be/X8sVwxwAIA8
youtu.be/X8sVwxwAIA8
Hostility, Betrayal, Threats: Why I Quit My Job as a Professor at a Public University in Florida
YouTube video by Professing David
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December 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hostility, Betrayal, Threats: Why I Quit My Job as a Professor at a Public University in Florida
youtu.be/X8sVwxwAIA8
youtu.be/X8sVwxwAIA8
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
December 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
✍️ YEAR IN REVIEW ✍️ Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
The November 2025 JSH is a special #openaccess issue on "Teaching about the South," with 21 contributors.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
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A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
Conservatives: My right to not have to show compassion to those who are different shall not be abridged.
Liberals: It's only fair that you have the right to be a bigot.
Decency: To hell with both of you.
Liberals: It's only fair that you have the right to be a bigot.
Decency: To hell with both of you.
December 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Conservatives: My right to not have to show compassion to those who are different shall not be abridged.
Liberals: It's only fair that you have the right to be a bigot.
Decency: To hell with both of you.
Liberals: It's only fair that you have the right to be a bigot.
Decency: To hell with both of you.
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“They asked if I was Black.”
Did they?
Did they?
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“They asked if I was Black.”
Did they?
Did they?
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A pretty striking recurring feature of the Supreme Court is the insistence on ruling as if their ideological preferences are reality and then insisting everyone trust their good intentions and judgment when dealing with the fallout.
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A pretty striking recurring feature of the Supreme Court is the insistence on ruling as if their ideological preferences are reality and then insisting everyone trust their good intentions and judgment when dealing with the fallout.
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This video shows that she doesn't even understand the purpose of an education. Just wild she would agree to say this on camera.
And all an indication that OU does not at all have its faculty back! She admits she didn't do the work!
And all an indication that OU does not at all have its faculty back! She admits she didn't do the work!
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This video shows that she doesn't even understand the purpose of an education. Just wild she would agree to say this on camera.
And all an indication that OU does not at all have its faculty back! She admits she didn't do the work!
And all an indication that OU does not at all have its faculty back! She admits she didn't do the work!
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It's a particular kind of cruelty to deny families the help they need to stay together, take their children, and then—despite a *multibillion-dollar state surplus*—cut transportation for visits, family preservation services, and parent support programs.
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It's a particular kind of cruelty to deny families the help they need to stay together, take their children, and then—despite a *multibillion-dollar state surplus*—cut transportation for visits, family preservation services, and parent support programs.
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In Georgia, the state has made "catastrophic" cuts at DHS, citing an $85 million deficit.
A provider described one result: a mom who relapsed last week. "Visits with her child were keeping her sober, but transportation services had been cut."
Georgia is sitting on a $14.6 *billion* budget surplus.
A provider described one result: a mom who relapsed last week. "Visits with her child were keeping her sober, but transportation services had been cut."
Georgia is sitting on a $14.6 *billion* budget surplus.
Department of Human Services cuts services to families to deal with deficit
As Georgia's Department of Human Services struggles with a massive deficit, Commissioner Candice Broce pleaded with state lawmakers for more funding.
www.ajc.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In Georgia, the state has made "catastrophic" cuts at DHS, citing an $85 million deficit.
A provider described one result: a mom who relapsed last week. "Visits with her child were keeping her sober, but transportation services had been cut."
Georgia is sitting on a $14.6 *billion* budget surplus.
A provider described one result: a mom who relapsed last week. "Visits with her child were keeping her sober, but transportation services had been cut."
Georgia is sitting on a $14.6 *billion* budget surplus.
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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Jean Wilson Brutus would've otherwise been alive
This is state murder facilitated at a for-profit detention center
Delaney Hall is projected to earn $60M this year through its contract with the federal government and $1,000,000,000 over the course of its full contract
Meaningless murder for money
This is state murder facilitated at a for-profit detention center
Delaney Hall is projected to earn $60M this year through its contract with the federal government and $1,000,000,000 over the course of its full contract
Meaningless murder for money
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Jean Wilson Brutus would've otherwise been alive
This is state murder facilitated at a for-profit detention center
Delaney Hall is projected to earn $60M this year through its contract with the federal government and $1,000,000,000 over the course of its full contract
Meaningless murder for money
This is state murder facilitated at a for-profit detention center
Delaney Hall is projected to earn $60M this year through its contract with the federal government and $1,000,000,000 over the course of its full contract
Meaningless murder for money
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Harris self destructed on 2 issues and tactics.
- Gaza
- Going for the right wing white women vote. Trump increased his vote by then..
Trying to get right wing votes is the most common idiocy of left/liberal/social democrats parties with voluntary voting in their country.
- Gaza
- Going for the right wing white women vote. Trump increased his vote by then..
Trying to get right wing votes is the most common idiocy of left/liberal/social democrats parties with voluntary voting in their country.
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Harris self destructed on 2 issues and tactics.
- Gaza
- Going for the right wing white women vote. Trump increased his vote by then..
Trying to get right wing votes is the most common idiocy of left/liberal/social democrats parties with voluntary voting in their country.
- Gaza
- Going for the right wing white women vote. Trump increased his vote by then..
Trying to get right wing votes is the most common idiocy of left/liberal/social democrats parties with voluntary voting in their country.
UNC being like your syllabi are work for hire so you don't own it is legally dubious.
Many of us write syllabi when we have time--that is, when we're off contract.
Many bring syllabi they created at other institutions.
Many adjuncts create syllabi for teaching at multiple schools simultaneously.
Many of us write syllabi when we have time--that is, when we're off contract.
Many bring syllabi they created at other institutions.
Many adjuncts create syllabi for teaching at multiple schools simultaneously.
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UNC being like your syllabi are work for hire so you don't own it is legally dubious.
Many of us write syllabi when we have time--that is, when we're off contract.
Many bring syllabi they created at other institutions.
Many adjuncts create syllabi for teaching at multiple schools simultaneously.
Many of us write syllabi when we have time--that is, when we're off contract.
Many bring syllabi they created at other institutions.
Many adjuncts create syllabi for teaching at multiple schools simultaneously.
Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center share.google/YMxhPXJHx24y...
I can totally see how the civil war happened. They are willing to destroy their own institutions.
I can totally see how the civil war happened. They are willing to destroy their own institutions.
share.google
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center share.google/YMxhPXJHx24y...
I can totally see how the civil war happened. They are willing to destroy their own institutions.
I can totally see how the civil war happened. They are willing to destroy their own institutions.
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As a white guy with an ivy degree who is bad at math, I'm exactly the target audience for that article.
it's a really striking example of the way white resentment is aimed and shaped; the way the visibility of race & gender (combined with their interpretive flexibility) make them into flashpoints
it's a really striking example of the way white resentment is aimed and shaped; the way the visibility of race & gender (combined with their interpretive flexibility) make them into flashpoints
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As a white guy with an ivy degree who is bad at math, I'm exactly the target audience for that article.
it's a really striking example of the way white resentment is aimed and shaped; the way the visibility of race & gender (combined with their interpretive flexibility) make them into flashpoints
it's a really striking example of the way white resentment is aimed and shaped; the way the visibility of race & gender (combined with their interpretive flexibility) make them into flashpoints
"Yeah, dude, that's what we've been saying this whole time. "
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Yeah, dude, that's what we've been saying this whole time. "