Megan Threlkeld
@meganthrelkeld.bsky.social
Historian of 20thC US; women/gender/law/US & world. Writing a book on legal battles over the draft during Vietnam. She/her; views my own. Books are my happy place.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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One of the best pieces I’ve read in ages about where we are now. Does that brilliant and impossibly difficult thing of articulating core truths that you know and have even shouted across tables at people but reframing them so you see them with a different clarity & can redefine your own argument.
my latest with @newrepublic.com
liberalism isn't the 'referee of politics'. it's a player, & it must win
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
liberalism isn't the 'referee of politics'. it's a player, & it must win
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
newrepublic.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
One of the best pieces I’ve read in ages about where we are now. Does that brilliant and impossibly difficult thing of articulating core truths that you know and have even shouted across tables at people but reframing them so you see them with a different clarity & can redefine your own argument.
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
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On #IndieBookstoreDay, read more from Lanora Jennings—currently the Midwest Sales Representative and Indie Bookstore Relations Manager for Princeton University Press:
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
April 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
On #IndieBookstoreDay, read more from Lanora Jennings—currently the Midwest Sales Representative and Indie Bookstore Relations Manager for Princeton University Press:
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m@jpeg)
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater
February 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater
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An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Opinion | The Problem With FIRE’s Data
Their influential rankings are based on faulty information.
www.chronicle.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
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A Life magazine feature and map on the student sit-in movement, September 19, 1960.
February 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A Life magazine feature and map on the student sit-in movement, September 19, 1960.
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Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
February 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
Fuck. 🗃️
President Trump has just sacked the Archivist of the United States. I've worked at the National Archives there in Maryland loads of times. Staff were apolitical, unfailingly helpful and knew their subjects inside out. Another sinister and authoritarian move. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Colleen Shogan on LinkedIn: This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It… | 51 comments
This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited. It has been an honor serving as the 11th Archivist of the United States. I have zero… | 51 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Fuck. 🗃️
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Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
ICYMI: The head of Trump's Justice Department says she would "love to work with" a Louisiana district attorney lobbying for tougher federal punishment for people who mail medication abortion to states with abortion bans. #lalege #lagov
In New Orleans, Trump AG Pam Bondi supports tougher abortion pill rules after viral LA case
Days after Louisiana prosecutors indicted a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills, Trump's Attorney General said she would "love to work with" a district attorney pushing for tougher federal pena...
www.nola.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
Got some great mail today from @biblioracle.bsky.social. Can't wait to dig in!
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Got some great mail today from @biblioracle.bsky.social. Can't wait to dig in!
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For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025
The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...
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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
This is exactly where I'm at too. Thanks, Cate.
New blog post: Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI. (Does what it says on the tin.) catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Saying No to Generative AI – Cate Denial
catherinedenial.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is exactly where I'm at too. Thanks, Cate.
Sometimes grading is fun.
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Sometimes grading is fun.
Pro tip: when you have to spend Thanksgiving with your spouse's racist conservative relatives, make sure you have a son-in-law who's a sommelier and knows exactly what kind of wine you like. 🥂
November 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Pro tip: when you have to spend Thanksgiving with your spouse's racist conservative relatives, make sure you have a son-in-law who's a sommelier and knows exactly what kind of wine you like. 🥂
I've been able to recite this entire song since the age of 12, when I had no idea what it meant. Now I'm writing a book on the draft, and I appreciate it in a whole new way.
Every year on Thanksgiving at 12pm, I, like many others, turn on the radio to listen to "Alice's Restaurant." Growing up, I'd sit w/my parents and listen; now, I sit w/my kids
Alice died today at 83
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice)
www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
Alice died today at 83
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice)
www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83
The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl...
www.wbur.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:53 PM
I've been able to recite this entire song since the age of 12, when I had no idea what it meant. Now I'm writing a book on the draft, and I appreciate it in a whole new way.
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BREAKING: Gaetz out
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
BREAKING: Gaetz out
This is your periodic reminder - from a department chair whose colleague just had to go on emergency leave - that academia runs on uncompensated and undercompensated labor.
November 21, 2024 at 11:09 AM
This is your periodic reminder - from a department chair whose colleague just had to go on emergency leave - that academia runs on uncompensated and undercompensated labor.
"College classrooms are places for collective inquiry, not partisan competition." Great critique of "viewpoint diversity" from my Denison colleague John McHugh for @insidehighered.com.
"Viewpoint diversity" is not the answer (opinion)
Viewpoint diversity treats the symptoms of dogmatism, but curiosity treats the disease, John McHugh writes.
www.insidehighered.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 PM
"College classrooms are places for collective inquiry, not partisan competition." Great critique of "viewpoint diversity" from my Denison colleague John McHugh for @insidehighered.com.