Reposted by Alan ParkesStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...chronicle.comOpinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington PlaybookDid the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members? 11332196
Reposted by Alan ParkesJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records sayThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c... 451421643
Reposted by Alan ParkesBruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"“I heard a howl that came from your soul, that your whole life had just changed and it was never going to be the same.” -Mary Hayes, Biddeford, ME, resident Too painful, too often--must end! What We Know About the ICE Shooting in Maine www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...nytimes.comMaine ICE Shooting: What We Know About the Death of Joan Sebastian GuerreroA federal immigration agent shot and killed a man in a car on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal encounter in a week involving an agent and a person in a vehicle. 052
Reposted by Alan ParkesWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I want to know why ICE is allowed to break the law and why there is zero accountability. Why. Why is Susan Collins allowed, for example, to just say she's urging an investigation or whatever when she voted to fund these death squads less than three months ago. 319554
Reposted by Alan ParkesI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026“The data indicates that 74.2% of North Carolina’s 143,998 private school students received an Opportunity Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year.” We’re living through the resegregation of US education. Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...newsobserver.comMost NC private school students now get a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay costsNorth Carolina now provides vouchers to nearly 75% of private school students, up from a quarter of pupils two years ago. 10507237
Reposted by Alan ParkesGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGUreut.rsEleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer saysEleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a policy of sending them to third countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ... 1817401263
Reposted by Alan ParkesPaul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.orgusscholarsspeak.orgUS Scholars Speak 05037
Reposted by Alan ParkesPaul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026One hundred and one years ago next month: 1184
Reposted by Alan ParkesJosh Donovan @jmaydonovan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I attended & asked what the AHA can/should do to help Mideast historians navigate growing threats to their academic freedom. Rather than address my question, the moderator ended the event early! The refusal of @historians.org to listen to, much less advocate for us is why we need new leadership. 121
Reposted by Alan ParkesJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress 71502348
Reposted by Alan ParkesBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This appeal by Palestinians to recipients of the Dan David Prize to reject the award to help dismantle Israel's system of apartheid was penned three years ago. The need to reject these prizes has never been more urgent. bdsmovement.net/news/palesti...bdsmovement.netPalestinians Urge Dan David Prize Recipients To Help Dismantle Israeli Apartheid by Rejecting Complicit AwardThe following letter was sent to the 2023 recipients of Israel's Dan David Prize Dear Dr. Saheed Aderinto, Dr. Ana Antic, Dr. Karma Ben... 03323
Reposted by Alan ParkesZack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026One person was effectively sentenced to decades in prison for zines. “During the trial, prosecutors highlighted many of the zines that the book club read as evidence of the conspiracy and ideology that linked the demonstrators.”theguardian.comTexas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prisonActivists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent 01314
Reposted by Alan ParkesStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Endlessly disappointed by historians willing to accept the Dan David Prize. This appeal outlines why no historian who respects their own work or supports our discipline should lend this prize their name. 02711
Reposted by Alan ParkesW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.” 812140333
Reposted by Alan ParkesAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/06/2026It’s interesting how, at the very same time as university leaders are decrying Trump’s attacks on knowledge, they are relying on his NLRB to quash the academic labor movement. They need a right-wing NLRB. newrepublic.com/article/2111...newrepublic.comHow Trump Is Wrecking the Agency That Protects Workers’ Labor RightsIn his first term, Trump’s NLRB issued bad decisions. In his second, it’s being dismantled. 0183
Reposted by Alan ParkesStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 03/06/2026AHA members, the elections are open till July 15! I was eager to support this year's Democracy Slate! This graphic introduces those petition candidates. 083
Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Great response to AHA leadership’s efforts to subvert members and democracy: www.historiansforpeace.org/2026/05/29/h... If your academic discipline can’t call out genocide, it ain’t worth saving 240
Reposted by Alan ParkesStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Powerful statement calling out the AHA exec committee's unethical electioneering. "We do not agree the AHA needs to be more cautious since it was created by an act of Congress. If anything, that means the AHA has a greater responsibility to speak out." 💯 www.historiansforpeace.org/2026/05/29/h... 0248
Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The AHA acknowledges that history is always political. It seems like the suggestion here is that the organization can exist outside that reality, but we all know that such suggestions are themselves political. To say that the AHA isn’t political is to say a lot about the politics of the AHA 251
Reposted by Alan ParkesElise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I’m astounded (in the worst way) and embarrassed to be a member of AHA today, as the organization misconstrues the meaning of “democratic” for ends that I fear can only be described as xenophobic and racist. 1174
Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026By “activists,” John means historians who want to represent the democratically-determined will of the AHA membership 040
Reposted by Alan ParkesKaren Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 26/05/2026That email from the AHA Executive Council asking members to vote for their pre-vetted slate of candidates in the name of saving the discipline from scholars opposed to genocide in Gaza is not doing the work they think it is. 54913
Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The petition candidates are uncompromising opponents of genocide. That AHA leadership takes issue with that says a lot. This should be an easy choice for anybody who takes history seriously 0124
Reposted by Alan ParkesPaul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The AHA (@historians.org) sent this condescending, chicken-shit email to its members today. While the organization has done next to nothing to advocate for scholars navigating a dismal academic job market, it has fought assiduously to silence pro-Palestinian voices within its ranks. For shame. 🗃️ 46320
