Michelle Nickerson
@micnick.bsky.social
Historian of twentieth-century America who lives in Chicago
Fox News is going to keep the deflection machine going as long as I can:
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Fox News is going to keep the deflection machine going as long as I can:
Good point, @nellstra.bsky.social my response to this, though, is that things change really fast. It feels too early to start planning for how to deal with that situation. I would love to hear what other people think, however
I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Good point, @nellstra.bsky.social my response to this, though, is that things change really fast. It feels too early to start planning for how to deal with that situation. I would love to hear what other people think, however
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I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I haven't seen any discourse so far about the AHA conference and ICE activity. That being said, I'm tagging some people who I think are going to AHA... @benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social @micnick.bsky.social @drmendozan.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this event at Villanova!
Sept 17 | Film Screening: “The Camden 28”
How far would you go to stop a war?
Join us to explore an iconic Vietnam War story of faith, resistance and betrayal. Featuring historian @micnick.bsky.social and filmmaker @truecrimesny.bsky.social!
🔗 Register: bit.ly/camden28
How far would you go to stop a war?
Join us to explore an iconic Vietnam War story of faith, resistance and betrayal. Featuring historian @micnick.bsky.social and filmmaker @truecrimesny.bsky.social!
🔗 Register: bit.ly/camden28
The Camden 28: A Story of War, Faith, Resistance and Betrayal
Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 5:00 p.m. in Villanova University’s John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts, Topper Theater, for a screening of “The Camden 28,” a documentary by Oscar-wi...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Really looking forward to this event at Villanova!
This is a great thread. And it it comes from the great
State of New Jersey
State of New Jersey
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is a great thread. And it it comes from the great
State of New Jersey
State of New Jersey
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was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC.
The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
May 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
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“The Disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
Since there's not much going on in the Catholic world, I thought it'd be a good time to make my debut as a contributor to Catholic Women Preach. Get ready with me for Good Shepherd Sunday! www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/05...
Fourth Sunday of Easter: May 11, 2025
Mollie Wilson O’Reilly reflects on the readings for Fourth Sunday of Easter. Acts 13:14, 43-52 | Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 | John 10:27-30
www.catholicwomenpreach.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“The Disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
Preach!
Thank you @mollieoreilly.bsky.social
Troops could choose “voluntary separation”. Yuck
Exclusive: US military to start kicking out transgender troops next month, memo says reut.rs/4m6AqaP
Exclusive: US military to start kicking out transgender troops next month, memo says
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued internal instructions to the Pentagon to start kicking out transgender troops who do not elect to leave on their own by June 6, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.
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May 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Troops could choose “voluntary separation”. Yuck
I wonder if some of the Cardinals voted kind of like Canadians… Where #PopeLeoIV was sort of like an anti-Trump vote?
May 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I wonder if some of the Cardinals voted kind of like Canadians… Where #PopeLeoIV was sort of like an anti-Trump vote?
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Habemus Papam. The only thing better than getting off the plane at O’Hare to hear that we have Pope names Leo is that said Pope Leo is a Chicagoan
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Habemus Papam. The only thing better than getting off the plane at O’Hare to hear that we have Pope names Leo is that said Pope Leo is a Chicagoan
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This is basically what trump is doing for everything now
April 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is basically what trump is doing for everything now
Primping for the warrior ethos
April 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Primping for the warrior ethos
They can rant about woke science, but the truth is that people are interested in cures, discoveries, and breakthroughs. If American researchers are not doing it, the $$ and the treatments will move outside our borders.
So here we have a guy whose main achievement is spreading lies on Russian state television trying to block life-saving American medical research and intimidate American scientists.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump administration targets academic journals with attorney letter, proposed funding cuts
Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”
www.science.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
They can rant about woke science, but the truth is that people are interested in cures, discoveries, and breakthroughs. If American researchers are not doing it, the $$ and the treatments will move outside our borders.
Ha!
April 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ha!
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The only thing standing between voters and voter suppression is the U.S. Senate. If 60 Senators vote for the SAVE Act, millions of voters will be disenfranchised and we're headed down the path of one-party-rule. We can't let that happen. Call your Senator or message now: bit.ly/4hZ7B…
April 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The only thing standing between voters and voter suppression is the U.S. Senate. If 60 Senators vote for the SAVE Act, millions of voters will be disenfranchised and we're headed down the path of one-party-rule. We can't let that happen. Call your Senator or message now: bit.ly/4hZ7B…
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This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump
Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Omfg.
Bunch of fukwits on the north park Facebook page are bitching about the bryn mawr bikes lanes:
*”waste of resources”🤦🏻♂️
*”where are the NEIU students gonna park” 🤦🏻♂️
*”I have been biking on bryn mawr for decades with no problems” 🤦🏻♂️
*”the vision has consequences to business”
Bunch of fukwits on the north park Facebook page are bitching about the bryn mawr bikes lanes:
*”waste of resources”🤦🏻♂️
*”where are the NEIU students gonna park” 🤦🏻♂️
*”I have been biking on bryn mawr for decades with no problems” 🤦🏻♂️
*”the vision has consequences to business”
April 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have been wondering this myself
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
April 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I have been wondering this myself
Yes! Let’s see more of this!
Outstanding. More.
Cornell too!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yes! Let’s see more of this!
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This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
March 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.