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Manisha Sinha

@profmsinha.bsky.social
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Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 5h
OMG I am so happy to be going to the UK just saw one of those Trump ads paid for by my tax money, makes me mad! Only silver lining they are so bad that they might actually put people off!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6h
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 17h
London calling! So happy to keynote the BrANCH conference in Warwick, it's my first time attending BrANCH so looking forward to it. Hope to see some of you there! www.branch.org.uk/warwick-2026
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Warwick 2026 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9h
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee sues the Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded television ads violate propaganda law.
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DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law
The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 9h
Elon's money is funding a truly abhorrent racist campaign in Texas
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11h
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 9h
Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Historian here even Andrew Johnson did not threaten to level Boston New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 17h
London calling! So happy to keynote the BrANCH conference in Warwick, it's my first time attending BrANCH so looking forward to it. Hope to see some of you there! www.branch.org.uk/warwick-2026
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Warwick 2026 — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Historian here even Andrew Johnson did not threaten to level Boston New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cartoon of Trump Vance and Hegseth
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dude’s pretty much fessing up to being a common law constitutionalist like Stevens and Souter, but with none of the small-c conservative restraint either showed even as they turned left
Alito usefully highlights important theoretical conundrums for originalism. A central one is how to tell whether the invariably fuzzy meaning of an old term (equal protection, for example) should be applied in specific contexts that the Framers never imagined.
Scholars offer an array of complex and clashing solutions to this and related difficulties. Alito invokes judicial "judgment" as the global solution. "Broadly worded constitutional provisions can be regarded as delegating a degree of authority to apply those provisions to new situations that could not be anticipated at the time of adoption," he maintains. "Identifying just how far this delegation of authority extends calls for the exercise of judgment."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The president of the United States says that "the New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested" for denying that the arena in which he spoke had empty seats. It's really bad! www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — And yet these people were still trying to get in. The New York Times said, “There were empty seats” when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country. When Bernie Sanders has 500 to 1,000 people, they make it sound like it’s the biggest event that ever took place. When PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP has 50,000 people, they make it sound like nobody showed up! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They keep me going in these dismal times!
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A nice memory, the Groton school just published a nice piece on the lecture I did there in February for their all school assembly. Thanks to Erik Chaput for sending it to me!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A nice memory, the Groton school just published a nice piece on the lecture I did there in February for their all school assembly. Thanks to Erik Chaput for sending it to me!
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
An excellent documentary with an especially powerful final sequence and clear parallels to the US variety.com/2024/film/ne...
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‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’ Review: Petra Costa Offers a Sobering Look at the Evangelical Age of Brazilian Politics
Five years after her Oscar-nominated 'The Edge of Democracy,' Petra Costa takes stock of the far-right Bolsonaro era in 'Apocalypse in the Tropics.'
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's a parody about the price of gas having soared (with everything else) since the Iran war, called "Gasoline". It's adapted from the classic "Jolene" by the incredible Dolly Parton who sadly died a few weeks ago, but left an incredible legacy of music, generosity & heart ❤️ youtu.be/WhwPBlI4u0A
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"Gasoline" - Marsh Family parody of "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, on the rising cost of fuel & inflation
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not worth watching any longer!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Indian American derangement syndrome is something to behold on Twitter and amplified by the Trump regime. “The eligible Indian American population is small. However they are concentrated in GA, NC, TX, NJ and California. GOP losing senate due to Indian Americans voting 95-5 blue would be fun.” 🎯
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Imagine if we HADN'T elected a rapist. TWICE!!!
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell Police and the County Prosecutor's office seem intent on saying, in barely concealed terms, the other is to blame. It's a system where they're both happy to be able to pass off any responsibility while preserving their authority / power / territory; something fundamental has to change.
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Mood at Cornell University darkens amid mounting pressure on investigators of alleged sex assault | CNN
At first glance, the Cornell University looks like a picture-perfect college brochure. But students say the mood on campus has turned somber amid allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cartoon of Trump Vance and Hegseth
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one ever says “that’s not true”
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza, Irving, Texas. The local Indian population put this up in Thomas Jefferson Park in 2014.
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza, Irving, TexasPlaque on a post at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza In Irving, Texas. It reads:

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza
Thomas Jefferson Park - Irving, TX
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary
October 2, 2014 - October 2, 2024

Proud supporters of this Project
Mrs. Lata & Mr. Sante S. Chary JD., LILM
Sid Chary Esq., NYC and Jay Chary NYC
The Chebrolu Family
Mr. Ramki Chebrolu
Dr. Sneha Chebrolu and Mr. Suman Chebrolu
Mrs. Avani & Mr. Kuntesh Chokshi
Mr. Dhruv Chokshi and Mr. Krish Chokshi
Dr. Rajni & Mrs. Ranna Jani
Dr. Alap & Mrs. Shreya. Anish, Avyaan
Mrs. Ami & Mr. Lyman Lee.
Adidev, Avashya
Mrs. Shantaben & Mr. Kanaiyalal Jani
Kancharla Family
Mrs. Bindu & Mr. Kishore Kancharla
Gautam Kancharla, Harini Kancharla and Janani Kancharla
Mrs. Aparna & Mr. Lokesh Konidala
Rishik Konidala and Samika Konidala
In loving memory of
Mrs. Ramalaskhumma & Mr. Thirumala Reddy
Mr. Thirumala Reddy Kumbum
Anirudh Kumbum and Prabhay Kumbum
Mrs. Surekha & Mr. Ananth Chowdary Mallavarapu
Rachana Mallavarapu and Ramitha Mallavarapu
R2 Realty LLC

"Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."
- Mahatma GandhiSign that says “Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza.” It’s at the entrance to the sidewalk at Thomas Jefferson Park in Irving, Texas, that takes you to the plaza.Statue of Gandhi at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza in Irving, Texas
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah it’s interesting how The Indian Question is reminiscent or The Jewish Question from the 1930s!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since they hate nearly everyone I am sure they will find another population to scapegoat!
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry
A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We were always the blacks in England.
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