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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#migration and #refugee scholars, I'm making a list of possible journals to submit an article on aging Jewish refugees in Shanghai. (I've already published in a journal in Jewish history and would like to diversify) I have Humanity; Journal of Refugee Studies; Migration Journal...

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our book is on its way to publication! “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is a collection of short stories translated by me & Harriet Murav from Yiddish & Russian, written after WWII by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/jewish...

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In the Shadow of the Holocaust | Stanford University Press

In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish au...

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Delighted that my essay, "Statelessness, National Sovereignty, and German and Austrian Jewish Refugees in China during and after the Treaty Port Era”, has been published! A bridge between projects to help me think about statelessness more deeply. Thank you, Jay and Kolleen, for this opportunity!

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

All forms of antisemitism except for religious antisemitism to be unacceptable. Ok… then what do we do if blood libels revive?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The wife of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil says Khalil missed the birth of his first child after immigration officials denied his request for temporary release so that he could attend. Reminder: Khalil is a legal permanent resident in the U.S.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The difference between closed captions and open captions: Closed captions are on a separate track that can be turned on or off. Open captions are captions that are burned into the video, so that they are always showing. The viewer cannot turn them off. www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...

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Captions/Subtitles

Helps you understand and create captions (also called “subtitles”) for audio and video media accessibility.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Nailed. Required reading for all. If you aren't afraid yet, then you haven't accepted historical realities how a constitutional democracy can readily into state-sponsored terror regime with just the right people in right places within the bureaucracy. snyder.substack.com/p/state-terr...

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Watch “Judgement at Nuremberg” (1961) and let’s consider a possibility of SCOTUS justices being tried. By, say, Europeans.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Rewatching Judgement at Nuremberg (1961). Not even 40 min in and I’m already unnerved. I truly hope for our courts staying independent.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

getting absolutely bodied every day by canada was not on my bingo card

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This was on my bingo card. Undoing past century's worth of work done by women and African Americans, including WEB DuBois. I won't tell you what's next but if you know me well, you already know. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Explain to me again how did musk get “elected” to the highest office with zero regard for the Constitution and national security? Also he’s not even US born.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It’s wild to see academic talks continue when there is a wildfire happening as if it’s business as usual. Now it is not the time to toot your own own horn without engaging the public. This is why I’ve started posting on LinkedIn.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Is anyone not paying attention to domestic terrorists? Of course because they’re US citizens. Let’s discuss privileges of citizenship, shall we?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Seriously just fucking shut March Madness down

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I cannot keep up with the grief of watching education getting gutted. Bloodbath underway at Department of Education. I do not trust the DOJ to handle OCR cases.

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Oh surprise. Woman from DOE saying that women and POC are disproportionately impacted by layoffs. White men, especially from certain schools, are surviving.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 The Trump administration has Marco Rubio *personally* signing off on orders to deport Mahmoud Khalil, according to sources inside DHS & State Dept. With no stated evidence of crime. Source said the administration has “multiple targets” beyond Khalil to detain, in similar fashion.

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Marco Rubio Personally Signed Off to Detain Mahmoud Khalil on 'Foreign Policy Grounds,' Sources Confirm

The government is staking its entire case to deport Khalil on whether Rubio “personally” thinks the Columbia student protest negotiator would “compromise” US foreign policy.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When DEI compliance goes way too far. Makes me think that any book or film that has “gay” in it to mean “fun” way back when like Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has been banned.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

So how did I do with this bingo board I made? If I’d had “Dem” instead of “Squad”…

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

New nightmare for parents: Children kidnapped by ICE.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

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Carolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The horrors of this past month didn’t happen. Right?! RIGHT?! Bc another nail hit on my coffin of academic career hit today. Two more nails to go. Musk’s actions are simply speeding up the death. Every job, academic and non, that I want is tied to federal funding.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum, an hybrid federal entity with 41% of funds from the Fed, is not immune from DOGE. All jobs except for one have been suspended. Per email from HR about a job I applied to two months ago. It's a *donated* position.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So I need a job…. My current contract ends this academic year. 😕 I would love to be able to continue researching and teaching history of the Holocaust, Jews. Europe, and refugees/migration. Any leads would be appreciated!

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

America’s having its own Sonderweg moment, right?

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How is it that I haven’t vomited yet as I write my syllabi for Modern Germany and the History of Human Rights yet? For all this labor that I do, I still have no job for next year.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Long story: Anyone teaching with Oberbrechen? I'm planning to do so this semester for my German history course. Would love to discuss possible assessments and activities!

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The suspension of passport applications in State Dept is a step much too far to eliminate DEI. Marking X for sex (neither male or male) cost the government nothing. It’s not even DEI. At all. It’s a recognition of intersexed people. ACLU needs to stop these punitive actions.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Why hasn't anyone made reference to McCarthyism? This is McCarthyism in new clothes. Instead of communism, it's DEI.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Important: The AAUP released a statement urging universities not to engage in “anticipatory obedience,” which it defined as “acting to comply in advance of any pressure to do so.” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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AAUP opposes "anticipatory obedience" to Trump, GOP

The American Association of University Professors released a statement Thursday urging universities not to engage in “anticipatory obedience,” which it defined as “acting to comply in advance of any p...

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Completed Ch. 5: "On Humanitarian Grounds". A lesson here: Humanitarian advocates *will* always find loopholes and challenges in immigration systems to keep the flow of refugees going. It explores how Shanghai's Jewish refugees were incorporated into policies meant for Europe's "war sufferers."

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Statelessness is a global problem. This country does not need to be a new player here. Also, there’s a long process of repealing an amendment which apparently escaped attention.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Do I have any followers who works on Dutch Jewish communities or mixed marriages in 1930s/1940s? I have a student who is curious to learn more about her family's history and I'd like to be able to direct her to right resources in the Netherlands.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Completed Ch. 4: "Wir Sind Keine Fremde!" (We're not enemies!), which explores the power of local resistance to carefully negotiated policies governed by respect for national sovereignty while acknowledging the complexity of war's impact on victims.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The timing couldn't be just as bad as when I first drafted these dissertation chapters on post-Holocaust immigration battles in the US and Australia and now I'm revising them for the book. Xenophobia trumped any form of humanitarianism.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/01/2025

If you are arrested in Illinois protesting deportation actions are under the Trump administration, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Dear Canada, Please invade Minnesota as soon as the new administration takes over. Then I won't move from here and I will pledge 1000% allegiance to the maple leaf.

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Dr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Should I use this on the first or last day of my German history course?

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