Jermaine Thibodeaux
@drconvictsandcane.bsky.social
Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
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US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
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I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...
Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...
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YES INDEED
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
YES INDEED
We are indeed living in a hellscape. Hopeless.
December 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
We are indeed living in a hellscape. Hopeless.
Glad Mamdani stood on business! 🤭🤭
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Glad Mamdani stood on business! 🤭🤭
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Pauli Murray.
The great Pauli Murray.
Born 115 years ago today. She wrote the "Bible" of civil rights law. Coined "Jane Crow" before intersectionality existed. Architect of the Brown v Board arguments. Influenced Justice RBG. First Black woman Episcopal priest.
Songs in a Weary Throat
The great Pauli Murray.
Born 115 years ago today. She wrote the "Bible" of civil rights law. Coined "Jane Crow" before intersectionality existed. Architect of the Brown v Board arguments. Influenced Justice RBG. First Black woman Episcopal priest.
Songs in a Weary Throat
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pauli Murray.
The great Pauli Murray.
Born 115 years ago today. She wrote the "Bible" of civil rights law. Coined "Jane Crow" before intersectionality existed. Architect of the Brown v Board arguments. Influenced Justice RBG. First Black woman Episcopal priest.
Songs in a Weary Throat
The great Pauli Murray.
Born 115 years ago today. She wrote the "Bible" of civil rights law. Coined "Jane Crow" before intersectionality existed. Architect of the Brown v Board arguments. Influenced Justice RBG. First Black woman Episcopal priest.
Songs in a Weary Throat
The butter pecan muffins from Sam’s have me in a chokehold! For some reason, the Mounjaro allows me to eat too many of them in a day. 🤭🤷🏾♂️
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The butter pecan muffins from Sam’s have me in a chokehold! For some reason, the Mounjaro allows me to eat too many of them in a day. 🤭🤷🏾♂️
This DOJ is absolutely corrupt! Disbar them all.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This DOJ is absolutely corrupt! Disbar them all.
Thinking of Claudine Gay this morning.
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thinking of Claudine Gay this morning.
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Good morning! Texas is revising its K-12 social studies standards (TEKS) for 5.5 million kids, & the State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting today to discuss their progress today. I will be live-tweeting (posting?) about anything that concerns social studies. Follow this thread for updates!
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good morning! Texas is revising its K-12 social studies standards (TEKS) for 5.5 million kids, & the State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting today to discuss their progress today. I will be live-tweeting (posting?) about anything that concerns social studies. Follow this thread for updates!
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
This!!
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This!!
Love this! Cool photo and a much needed historical corrective!
This is one of my favorite photos - it shows collaboration between 3 of the most important Black leaders of the 20th century. Anna Arnold Hedgeman is often cropped out -- yet she was as influential as Malcolm X and A Philip Randolph. Here, she's identified as Rosa Parks! Please, learn your history!
Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Rosa Parks were two of the civil rights leaders assembled by A. Philip Randolph for a 1962 rally supporting poorly-paid Black, Hispanic, and Caribbean hospital workers in their bid for.....
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November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Love this! Cool photo and a much needed historical corrective!
Undergraduate research assistant found a delicious newspaper story about one of the Texas convicts I write about in my book. Easily adds another 5 to 8 pages to that chapter! I will call that a win! 💪🏾
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Undergraduate research assistant found a delicious newspaper story about one of the Texas convicts I write about in my book. Easily adds another 5 to 8 pages to that chapter! I will call that a win! 💪🏾
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The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
I can’t seem to figure out how to edit this draft without my footnotes going crazy. Maybe it’s time to migrate to Scrivener…finally. 🤦🏾♂️
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I can’t seem to figure out how to edit this draft without my footnotes going crazy. Maybe it’s time to migrate to Scrivener…finally. 🤦🏾♂️
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WOW!
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
WOW!
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — US Mint ends production of the penny, its lowest denomination coin, in cost-saving move.
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Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
I remember a certain Harvard professor leading the charge to oust Claudine Gay from the university’s presidency. He seems to dodge all complicity in the Epstein mess, interestingly. 💅🏾🤷🏾♂️
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I remember a certain Harvard professor leading the charge to oust Claudine Gay from the university’s presidency. He seems to dodge all complicity in the Epstein mess, interestingly. 💅🏾🤷🏾♂️
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
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MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton.
Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife
Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton.
Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife
Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife
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Why should the judgment of the wealthiest NYers be given deference? Simply b/c the victims of their choices don’t have money & power?
The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Why should the judgment of the wealthiest NYers be given deference? Simply b/c the victims of their choices don’t have money & power?
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It's Election Day!
Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards.
Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.
Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards.
Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts
Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More
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November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's Election Day!
Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards.
Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.
Our team is keeping an eye on nearly 200 races up and down the ballot, from governors and supreme court justices to sheriffs, DAs, and school boards.
Explore our guide, and be sure to save it as we'll update it with results tonight.
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I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”