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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

In ACTS OF LOVE, author Allyson Nadia Field delves into the rediscovery of the first film to depict African American affection. For #SCMS26, she writes about the afterlives of ragtime romance. Read it here: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r... 📽️ #SCMS2026 @allyfield.bsky.social

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Ragtime Romance and its Afterlives

Author Allyson Nadia Field on rediscovering film and the first cinematic depiction of Black romance.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

For people in the Chicago area: Please join Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social and me on March 4 at the Seminary Co-op @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for a conversation about my book ARCHIVING THE PAST (University of California Press). www.semcoop.com/event/aurore...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This new book by Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social is a gift to film history and cinema and media studies more broadly. Field's work has been and remains an inspiration. Many congratulations for this major achievement, dear Ally! @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/acts-o...

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Tina Sfondeles @tinasfon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents." chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social

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U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Indeed, this issue enters the world at a different moment from the one in which it began. In my introduction, I try to make sense of the histories embedded within the issue itself and clarify my own understanding of just what methods we might require from here. 5/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

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On Historical Methods, or Trying Not to Lose So Much

I had planned to write a different kind of introduction to this special issue on feminism’s contemporary historical methods and metahistorical concerns. That one—imagined, drafted, never completed—wou...

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

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Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

10/21/67: Melvin Van Peebles breakthrough feature, Story of a Three Day Pass More: @hamrahrama.bsky.social: 4columns.org/hamrah-a-s/t... @allyfield.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... Renata Adler: www.nytimes.com/1968/07/09/a... @nicolasrapold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/m...

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The Film That Made ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ Possible (Published 2021)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/06/2025

At immigration court in Chicago this morning. Per reporter inside who was told he can't use his phone, at least three people have been detained by ICE this morning after their hearings; two men and one woman. Two black SUVs with plainclothes agents inside have arrived, presumably for transport.

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Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار @doostdar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

For the Gaza Scholasticide project, we spoke with Ahmed Abu Shaban, a professor and dean of agriculture at Al-Azhar University-Gaza. You can listen here: voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticid...

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🧵 Under Shira Perlmutter, the Copyright Office identified major harms to copyright holders from AI training, as well as writers who must compete with AI-generated material that was trained on our own creative works.

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White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup

The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It is really important--no matter how often it happens--that we not normalize college presidents calling in militarized police to clear students engaged in peaceful protests from their campuses.

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This seems like a big deal: The NYPD shared a Palestinian Columbia protester's sealed arrest information with ICE, which promptly detained her and whisked her to a Texas jail. The NYPD claims, without offering evidence, that this doesn't violate NYC sanctuary city laws: apnews.com/article/nypd...

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NYPD shared a Palestinian protester's info with ICE. Now it's evidence in her deportation case

New York City’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with information about a Palestinian woman who was arrested at a protest.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Every day, a new reason to despise this asshole. Every. Day.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/04/2025

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." theatln.tc/81hXXEqK

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14/04/2025

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/04/2025

U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government’s long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds.

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DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions

A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11/04/2025

I know they can’t respond, but to my friends at the ODH, we love you and are so angry on your behalf and we haven’t even begun to fight back yet.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

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The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

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Liam Z. Stephens 🏳️‍🌈 @bstingstl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It looks as if the National Endowment for the Humanities is at risk of imminent collapse, following DOGE going in and apparently firing everyone. Please consider reading the short legislation that established the NEH, and embodies its mission: www.neh.gov/about/histor...

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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It's looking less like a story of "Trump forces Columbia..." and more of a story of Trump, reactionary Columbia Trustees and donors, and Bari Weiss types forming a coalition that feeds off of each other

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.

Betar:

She was on our list. Many more jihadis are. We will be making a new submission Monday with approximately 1800 more jihadis. Submit to us candidates with proof for @ICEgov to consider! 🇺🇸

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025

With global attention fixed on the war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation. On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening ⤵️

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Mapping how Israel’s land grabs are reshaping the occupied West Bank

Israel’s assault in Jenin and Tulkarem seeks to suppress resistance and tighten control amid a demographic crisis.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/03/2025

I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom. I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it takes a full NINE paragraphs in this nyt story from today before there is any mention that hundreds of palestinians have been killed www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

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Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death

Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In case you, like me, are a high-anxiety human who missed this piece of moderately reassuring news: Despite many broken things, the FDA *did* make a flu shot recommendation for this fall. www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/h...

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After canceling meeting of independent advisers, FDA issues 2025-26 flu vaccine recommendations | CNN

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine ...

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The images in these stories are really not ones you want to have associated with your country's criminal justice system.

Photograph of deportees in the El Salvador prison they are being held in.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

OK I teased this the other day--here's me and Jessie Lee Rubin (my daughter) in the Guardian: "Columbia University is now at the vanguard of our political...moment, serving the Trumpist agenda of 'free speech except Palestine' and 'free of DEI except Zionism'." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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‘The Palestinian exception’: Trump limits campus free speech with the complicity of Zionist Jews | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin

The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In loving memory of Rachel Corrie 💔

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The IMLS is a kindred agency to NEH, and supports work across the humanities.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Here's the list

A list dividing 43 countries into three categories: Red (All travel banned), Orange (Visas Sharply Restricted), and Yellow (60 days to address)

Red countries are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen

Orange countries are Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan

Yellow countries are almost exclusively African and Caribbean countries, with the exception of Vanuatu

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Erin Richardson @erinrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Cottom: I don’t know, Patrick. My colleagues have lost their jobs, their decades-long research projects, are receiving death threats, and their students are concerned about being surveilled and deported. Hysteria — if that is what we will call protest, outrage and fear — seems reasonable.

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

colonizing the neh ffs

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

NEW: Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil filed their amended and significantly expanded habeas petition tonight seeking his release. Among the most significant additions is a challenge to Sec. Rubio's "determination" about Khalil. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Mahmoud KHALIL,
Petitioner,
v.
Donald J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as
President of the United States; William P. JOYCE,
in his official capacity as Acting Field Office
Director of New York, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement; Caleb VITELLO, Acting Director,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Kristi
NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of the
United States Department of Homeland Security;
Marco RUBIO, in his official capacity as Secretary of
State; and Pamela BONDI, in her official capacity
as Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice,
Respondents.
Case No. 25-cv-01935
AMENDED
PETITION FOR
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
AND COMPLAINT
INTRODUCTION
1. This case concerns the government’s targeted, retaliatory detention and
attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech.
Petitioner Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian, a lawful permanent resident of the United
States, and a recent graduate student at Columbia University. Over the last year and a
half, Mr. Khalil has been a mediator, an active participant in, and at times the public face
of, student protests on Columbia’s campus related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its opposition to those protests and has
repeatedly threatened to weaponize immigration law to punish noncitizens who have
participated.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests that this Court:
Assume jurisdiction over this matter;
2)
Vacate and set aside Respondents' unlawful Policy of targeting noncitizens
for removal based on First Amendment protected speech advocating for
Palestinian rights;
Vacate and set aside the Rubio Determination;
4)
Enjoin Respondents from transferring the Petitioner from the jurisdiction
of this
District pending these proceedings;
Order the immediate release of Petitioner pending these proceedings;
Order the release of Petitioner;
Declare that Respondents' actions to arrest and detain Petitioner violate the
First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment;
Award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs for this action; and
Grant such further relief as the Court deems just and proper.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A record number of people visited America's national parks last year -- not that the Trump administration is trumpeting that fact, as the federal government normally would: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @jackdolan.bsky.social

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National park visits hit record high last year, agency reports as it endures deep cuts

Nearly 332 million people visited America's national parks last year, a record high. That popularity hasn't shielded the agency from the Elon Musk team's purge of the federal workforce.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The irony of Columbia being the first target after being at the vanguard against its own students and faculty exercising their right of free speech. Shafik’s unnecessary and preemptive appeasement totally backfiring

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm no fancy Strategist but this seems like much more effective messaging than "I love Reagan too!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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