Robin Bernstein
@robinmbernstein.bsky.social
Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
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Everyone needs to understand this
If what Mr. Miller is asking for happened here, the Trump administration could disappear ANYONE by simply claiming they were "illegal."
Citizen, non-citizen, red state, blue state, mom, dad, kid...ANYONE
If what Mr. Miller is asking for happened here, the Trump administration could disappear ANYONE by simply claiming they were "illegal."
Citizen, non-citizen, red state, blue state, mom, dad, kid...ANYONE
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Everyone needs to understand this
If what Mr. Miller is asking for happened here, the Trump administration could disappear ANYONE by simply claiming they were "illegal."
Citizen, non-citizen, red state, blue state, mom, dad, kid...ANYONE
If what Mr. Miller is asking for happened here, the Trump administration could disappear ANYONE by simply claiming they were "illegal."
Citizen, non-citizen, red state, blue state, mom, dad, kid...ANYONE
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Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia #WomensArt
December 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia #WomensArt
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
AI is a war on Christmas. Spread the word.
Fox tells Americans to buy artificial trees so Christmas tree farms can be used for data centers:
"Everybody needs to get on board."
"Everybody needs to get on board."
December 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
AI is a war on Christmas. Spread the word.
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YES INDEED
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
YES INDEED
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This summer I was in Toronto for the Graphic Medicine conference & on the path called Philosopher’s Walk, I found this memorial & grove of trees planted for the 14 women killed in the Montreal Massacre in 1989. "It is not enough to look back in pain. We must create a new future."
December 7, 2023 at 1:33 AM
This summer I was in Toronto for the Graphic Medicine conference & on the path called Philosopher’s Walk, I found this memorial & grove of trees planted for the 14 women killed in the Montreal Massacre in 1989. "It is not enough to look back in pain. We must create a new future."
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That’s Trump’s message to millions of struggling families. Your suffering isn't real. It's a hoax, just like the Epstein files!
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
That’s Trump’s message to millions of struggling families. Your suffering isn't real. It's a hoax, just like the Epstein files!
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I’m so sorry to bring your day to a screeching halt but think about if this was your own child. Your little first grader. Just think about it.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I’m so sorry to bring your day to a screeching halt but think about if this was your own child. Your little first grader. Just think about it.
Does #FunHome pass the #BechdelTest? I asked this question in the program notes for the @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social's production of this amazing musical. Hope you'll take a peek at my answer! It's on p. 10. And do check out this show! www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/fun...
Fun Home | Huntington Theatre Company
www.huntingtontheatre.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Does #FunHome pass the #BechdelTest? I asked this question in the program notes for the @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social's production of this amazing musical. Hope you'll take a peek at my answer! It's on p. 10. And do check out this show! www.huntingtontheatre.org/whats-on/fun...
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process — theonion.com/not-sure-how...
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process — theonion.com/not-sure-how...
Today I had a phone call with a repairman. He called me Carol. I just let it slide. After we hung up, he called me back.
Repair Guy: I just realized I called you Carol. I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK. I've been called worse.
Repair Guy: Thanks for understanding, Robin.
Me: No problem, Carol.
Repair Guy: I just realized I called you Carol. I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK. I've been called worse.
Repair Guy: Thanks for understanding, Robin.
Me: No problem, Carol.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today I had a phone call with a repairman. He called me Carol. I just let it slide. After we hung up, he called me back.
Repair Guy: I just realized I called you Carol. I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK. I've been called worse.
Repair Guy: Thanks for understanding, Robin.
Me: No problem, Carol.
Repair Guy: I just realized I called you Carol. I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK. I've been called worse.
Repair Guy: Thanks for understanding, Robin.
Me: No problem, Carol.
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I think it’s super weird that Americans normalized spotlighting individual social media posts as “news” and then responding by harassing and doxxing people because of them
Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter
Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I think it’s super weird that Americans normalized spotlighting individual social media posts as “news” and then responding by harassing and doxxing people because of them
Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter
Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter
A question for you: who is an author who has written more than 5 books, and you have read every book the author has published? My answers in the first comment.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A question for you: who is an author who has written more than 5 books, and you have read every book the author has published? My answers in the first comment.
Thank you, @draftingthepast.bsky.social! Kate Carpenter interviews #historians about how--and why--we do what we do. I loved talking with her about what I call the "disco ball of integrity." draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... And now she's sent me this awesome swag! Thanks for this awesome podcast.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Thank you, @draftingthepast.bsky.social! Kate Carpenter interviews #historians about how--and why--we do what we do. I loved talking with her about what I call the "disco ball of integrity." draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... And now she's sent me this awesome swag! Thanks for this awesome podcast.
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a very easy thing you can do right now if you're worried about the SNAP freeze and don't know how to help is Google "community fridge [your location]" and then drop stuff off at that fridge
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a very easy thing you can do right now if you're worried about the SNAP freeze and don't know how to help is Google "community fridge [your location]" and then drop stuff off at that fridge
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WDC met with Dr. Robin Bernstein from Harvard to talk about her latest book, non-fiction account of the earliest for-profit prisons in NY. She's fascinating!
www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com/posts/podcas...
www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com/posts/podcas...
Episode 219 - Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein - Writers Drinking Coffee
Dr. Bernstein and her book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, delves into the history of America’s prisons
www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
WDC met with Dr. Robin Bernstein from Harvard to talk about her latest book, non-fiction account of the earliest for-profit prisons in NY. She's fascinating!
www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com/posts/podcas...
www.writersdrinkingcoffee.com/posts/podcas...
On Saturday after the rally in Boston, I took a very crowded train. At one point, a man in the train became agitated. "I have to get out," he repeated. (1/4)
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
On Saturday after the rally in Boston, I took a very crowded train. At one point, a man in the train became agitated. "I have to get out," he repeated. (1/4)
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Or, as @lornab.bsky.social put it, don't let UT Austin succeed in its bid to become the University of Austin
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Or, as @lornab.bsky.social put it, don't let UT Austin succeed in its bid to become the University of Austin
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I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
Portland never stops being Portland.
wizard frog is insane
October 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
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If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist
If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down
If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down
Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
www.cnn.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist
If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down
If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down
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JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
