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Sara McDougall
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Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
And next fall @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for me and @prithik.bsky.social you promised!
Brief self-promotion: This spring I am doing workshops and talks for a humanities collective at nyu, association of women in math, teaching advancement folks at UNT, a school of social work, a bunch of brain scientists, an anonymous neighborhood group in occupied MN, and some folks at UVA.
The Public Scholar Workshop
There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher educat...
www.davidmperry.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...
Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage
The Miami Herald's original series, videos, timeline and more
jkbjournalist.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Sunday reading #merci #Gisèle
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Ma joie de la semaine, du mois, de l’année! merci @celinerastello.bsky.social et merci au photographe Dorian Prost
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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“Women are proud of you, thank you”

Gisèle Pelicot becomes emotional as she responds to messages of support from women across France

The interview with this incredible woman is on BBC iplayer now (‘Gisele Pelicot - the Newsnight Interview’)
February 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
slate.com/news-and-pol... “This is a horrible, grotesque, and ongoing wrong, and that’s the level at which we need to engage.” @dahlialithwick.bsky.social
The Uniquely American Legal Kink That Is Threatening to Destroy Our Democracy
Peas in a pod?
slate.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Opinion | In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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On encore parlé de l’idée du « Puy du Fou de gauche », cette fois sur France Inter ce matin autour d’un débat qui a opposé @mathildelarrere.bsky.social et Arnaud Fossier, un historien partisan de cette « idée » (ouais, ça existe) 1/
www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Faut-il vraiment un "Puy du Fou de gauche" ?
Arnaud Fossier, historien médiéviste à l’université de Bourgogne, auteur de "Cathares, ennemis de l’intérieur" (La Fabrique). Mathilde Larrère, enseignante-chercheuse à l’université Gustave-Eiffel, s...
www.radiofrance.fr
February 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
ICE Detained a 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and her Honduran Family in Hotels for Weeks www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...
ICE Detained a 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen and her Honduran Family in Hotels for Weeks
The mother and her two young children, one of them born in the United States, were not able to contact the outside world for nearly three weeks while being held in hotel rooms in Queens and Louisiana.
www.thecity.nyc
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Important. There has not been a deescalation.
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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ITS WILD THAT THEY ARE JUST DOING THIS CASUALLY MULTIPLE TIMES EVERY DAY
Thank you so much for bringing this up because there has been almost no media coverage or necessary emphasis added to the fact that ice is now just releasing people into the cold like you said to die of exposure.
January 30, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Dumping people has always been a brutal law enforcement sport; doing it in this weather could be a lethal one. (David is responding to Jeffries deciding to take a stand against deporting citizens, which is not what they're doing; it's a catch, abuse, and release program when it's not lethal.)
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.

It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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I want people to understand Columbia Heights as a first ring suburb of working class Minnesotans. It has my favorite Palestinian grocery, one of the best Mexican ones, a huge Indian grocery store, an East Asian store I haven't tried yet because there are so many, and a Palestinian sweets store.
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.

It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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can you please share the link to the story? Journalists gotta eat and these big screenshots that go viral don't help. Here's a gift link.

www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM