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Margot Mifflin

@mmifflin.bsky.social
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Lehman/CUNY prof, journalist, author: books on women’s history. Now writing Brazen Infidels: Radical Quaker Women and the Fight for Civil Rights (Beacon Press, 2028)

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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 8h
Hell yeah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at Cornell
New York attorney general brought in by governor after recent questions raised over university’s 2024 investigation
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today in Pervert Glasses News: www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
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Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
Prosecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.'
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The misinformation going around right now about Todd Blanche is burying the real threat—and squandering an opportunity to mobilize voter outrage against it
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: An appeals court rejected the Trump administration's bid to re-detain Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown peace scholar who ICE arrested and sent to Texas for his speech in support of Palestinian rights. This makes it clear: The government can't weaponize immigration law to silence dissent.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024.
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This reminds me of the day (in the late '80s) I interviewed Robert Mapplethorpe (for a Vogue roundup on shock in art) and told him about Karen Finley (also included), who he’d never heard of: He exclaimed (repeatedly), “Oh my God! That’s *so* disgusting! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars
In a new book, Isaac Butler goes back to the 1980s to trace how battles started against the arts, from Piss Christ to Mapplethorpe, and looks at what we can learn for today
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“At the Harvards and Yales of the world, mostly wealthy students earn degrees that help them mostly stay wealthy. But with its quarter of a million students—many of whom come from households that earn less than $30,000 a year—CUNY is a one-of-a-kind mobility machine.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/n...
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Can America’s Best Engine of Social Mobility Weather a Bad Job Market?
New York City’s public universities propel young graduates into the middle class. But some worry that a bleaker early career job market has added hurdles.
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport newrepublic.com/article/2129... via @newrepublic.com
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/07/2026
This is bigger than one incident. At events across Texas today, Indivisible groups are standing with immigrant communities and demanding accountability from DHS and ICE.
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ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by immigration enforcement as he was looking to hire workers, his son says
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you’re born in America, you’re American.   That fundamental truth has been affirmed today — a decisive blow to the vile MAGA campaign to redefine who we are as a people. This is an important victory. But we know our fight to uphold justice, opportunity, and dignity for all must continue.
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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship
The Trump administration sought to upend the historical understanding of the 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to extend birthright citizenship broadly.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 27/06/2026
Watch as Rep. Ayana Pressley honors the women who have died because they were denied essential abortion care. Abortion care is a human right. We must keep up the fight for body autonomy.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The message tonight is clear: the era of spineless corporate Dems in safe seats is ending. We get the party we demand, and we're demanding fighters. And primary season ain't over. More endorsements to come!
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Bruno Fernandes needs punched in the throat @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/06/2026
This will hurt students with disabilities and their families. Donald Trump and Linda McMahon are trying to gut public education — we need to keep standing up for every student in America.
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Trump ramps up Education Department's dismantling with changes on special education and civil rights
President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pouring one out for Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes tonight. Respect to everyone who speaks truth to power and is willing to accept the consequences.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
More than 300 people detained by ICE at Delaney Hall in New Jersey have launched a hunger & work strike, citing lack of medical care and fair due process. Via: www.instagram.com/p/DYp1m5KEa35/
image of delaney hall detention center with a banner of bold text across the front of it reading: ACROSS ALL UNITS, HUNDREDS OF IMMIGRANTS DETAINED AT DELANEY HALL ARE LAUNCHING A HUNGER AND WORK STRIKE.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21/05/2026
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston has just been released from Israeli prison. Alex was abducted while traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla and details the abuses he experienced while detained.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/05/2026
Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.
A couple hundred marchers in Brooklyn holding signs that say things like "NO LIFE SHOULD BEGIN OR END IN FUCKING CRIMINAL COURT" and "NOT A HOSPITAL"
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/04/2026
Join us in telling Meta: We don't consent to being spied on by your eyewear.
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Tell Meta: Eyewear, Not Spywear
Meta intends to add facial recognition technology to their glasses so anyone wearing the product can immediately and invisibly identify strangers. Tell Meta: Your glasses shouldn’t know our names. Dem...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This week it comes to a vote and Trump is demanding passage. Call your Senators AGAIN. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
All Eyes on the Senate
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Honored (and grateful!) to get this vote of confidence in (and funding help for) my research. My book (which constellates antebellum Quaker women—Black and white—who fought for emancipation and suffrage from the 1830s-1860s) will be out via Beacon Press in 2028.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 26/02/2026
Hillary Clinton doesn't recall meeting Jeffrey Epstein - yet we're led to believe she'll have valuable testimony. While Leon Black had $507 million in wire transfers to Epstein's shell companies & his wife Debra Black another $385 million. ARE WE SEEING THEIR DEPOSITIONS NEXT WEEK?
Twelve names sit at the terminal end of this financial structure. These are the people the money reached - or in some cases, the people who fed money back into it

Jeffrey Epstein
$785. 4M

Leon Black
$507 .9M

Debra Black
$385. 4M

Ghislaine Maxwell
$328.5M

Brad Wechsler
$250 .8M

Donald Trump
$64.7M

Larry Visosk
$44.2M

Leslie Wexner
$37.2M

Bill Clinton
$17.6M

Prince Andrew
$11.9M
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/02/2026
Trump is lying. Coffee is up 18.3% Ground beef is up 17.2% Cereal is up 6.2 Bananas are up 5.4% Fish is up 5.1% Cookies are up 5%
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Fact check: The tariffs aren't paid for by foreign countries like Trump just claimed. They are paid for by Americans, and foreign countries are bullied into doing Trump and his cronies favors to get out of them. This grifter in chief is full of it!
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/02/2026
Trump stole $1,700 from the average American family with his illegal tariff tax. It’s been 30 minutes. He hasn’t once mentioned how he is going to pay back your hard-earned money.
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Emily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
…the women will get a $25 gift certificate to Sephora, or whatever chicks like
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
Trump: "In one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans -- a record -- off of food stamps" (In other words, Republicans cut food stamps)
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If you're going to PLA or ALA, you might want this app, given what we know happened at the last ALA from unsavory folks.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I think it’s important to look at this kind of project within the broader frame of coordinated attacks from the state and the right on gender, post-colonial and area studies, as well as the push to revive/launder biologically essentialist views of sex, race and intelligence
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Arresting journalists. Good God.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
wait they removed Bovino? maximum respect to the people of Minneapolis: you did this. power to the people forever
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Holy shit.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Margaret Atwood
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And a new beginning in NYC
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Impeach, Convict, Remove! On the anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection, we will publicly list the crimes and constitutional violations perpetrated against the American people by the Trump regime. Join us! For info about how you can help “Impeach Convict Remove”: freespeechforpeople.org
Photo of the White House, in black and white, with foreboding special effects. Text reads: January 6, Tuesday, 1-2pm, NYPL steps, 41 Street and 5th Ave
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
 No healthcare for you peasants but a ballroom for the queen, with an illustration of Trump dressed as Marie Antoinette
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Up on JSTOR Daily today: my article on the history and perplexing persistence of women taking men’s names in marriage, something almost 80% of hetero brides still do. (“Women’s rights, forsooth!”)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/12/2025
This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2025
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
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Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
An AI prompt says “long stockings a red headed girl with braids sticking straight out”Four sexually suggestive images of a Pippi Longstocking type in various states of undress.
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is mind-blowing, especially because she gave us $30 million 5 years ago! bronx.news12.com/lehman-colle...
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Lehman College receives $50M donation
The MacKenzie Scott Foundation donated $50 million to Lehman College today.
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Margot Mifflin @mmifflin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So good, so righteously angry, and packed with crucial stats/facts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
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