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Cathleen D. Cahill
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Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.
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This kind of idiocy and chaos not only betrays our allies, but also makes every one of us less safe.
What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Have you written an excellent article on women’s and gender history in Canada? If so, please consider submitting it for the French or English Hilda Neatby prize by January 1st. The prizes will be awarded at the CHA’s annual meeting in Charlottetown. #cdnhist #prize
Prizes | History of Canada | Canadian Historical Association
The CHA awards many successes throughout the year. Here are some of the prizes that could be awarded to you, as a historian.
cha-shc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The current administration intends to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25.
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It's increasingly clear that these people portray immigrants, LGBT folks, and trans people as creepy predators who prey on women and children because they themselves are creepy predators who prety on women and children.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.

(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)

Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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During Jim Crow, everything from restaraunts to stores to hotels to pharmacies to gas stations required making safe choices. They shaped every trip a Black person made. We document that history, and you can add your story to it here #CommunityMap: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #EconSky
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed***

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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hey, this is the opposite of the NM erasure that usually happens, so progress? #OneOfOurFiftyIsMissing
Emmer: "I believe Mike Johnson will be swearing in the new representative from New Mexico before we start voting." (Adelita Grijalva is from Arizona)
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Please take a few minutes to read this beautiful tribute to our friend and scholar Dr. Lloyd Ambrosius. Dr. Jeanette Eileen Jones, who authored the tribute, is hosting a panel on his legacy at the OAH in Philadelphia. More information can be found at the link.
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Tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius - SHGAPE Blog
The following is a tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius (1941-2024) by Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, who will be chairing the panel "Lloyd Ambrosius and His Historical Legacies" at the 2026 meeting of the Organiz...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Politico says the cavers have won. CR in exchange for fake vote on ACA subsidies in December. Politico at least says other Dems will give them cover. We’ll see. 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
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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So Democrats get:

1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays

2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail

3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts

Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Our most recent @shgape.bsky.social pod dropped this week. We are revisiting a few of Michael Cullinane's 100 great episodes (w/ some help from @mikeconnolly.bsky.social ) so tough choices--which are your favorite past episodes & why? Let us know in the comments

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November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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perfect Election Day thread
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The suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 demanding the passage of the 19th Amendment endured arrest & imprisonment for the cause. Many of them, estranged from their own families because of their commitment to the fight for democracy, relied on each other for support...
#GOTV #Vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
History has its eyes on you! Vote!
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Good morning, Pennsylvania, we’ve got some voting to do! Retain, retain, retain!!
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM