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Greg Koos
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Irish immigrants in the 19th century Midwest, local history museums, not-for- profit boards, historic preservation, cooking, vegetable gardening, golden age Hollywood, omnivorous reading.
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Midwestern rural Irish study.
In Vol. 117, Iss. 4 of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, @gjkoos.bsky.social studies New Orleans as a key point of entry for Irish immigrants who moved up the Mississippi to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other midwestern states. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/ar...
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Another excellent @jamellebouie.net column: We do not have a president, we have a junta (my word), unelected extremists empowered by the Supreme Court and the so-called unitary executive. Gift link.
The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Florida: Gov. DeSantis’ admin diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds — an amount far greater than previously known — as part of a brazen agenda last year to defeat two ballot amendments he staunchly opposed, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously kn...
www.miamiherald.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
American gulags exposed.
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.

In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."

Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Leader of Noem's terrorist squad, Greg Bovino, tells everyone who lives in the United States that they must always carry their papers. That's not a law. So we have reached the "show me your papers" stage of fascism.
2paragraphs.com/2025/12/kris...
Kristi Noem’s “Commander-at-Large” Says U.S. Citizens Need to Carry Proof of Citizenship
Immigration rights lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council amplified a report this week about a U.S. citizen in Minnesota who was recently detained by ICE agents allegedly f
2paragraphs.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Rowe on Voter ID Laws

Hadric Rowe has posted The Voter ID Paradox from Administrative Verification to Constitutional Restoration on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This study examines the constitutional implications of voter identification laws within the broader trajectory of American electoral…
Rowe on Voter ID Laws
Hadric Rowe has posted The Voter ID Paradox from Administrative Verification to Constitutional Restoration on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This study examines the constitutional implications of voter identification laws within the broader trajectory of American electoral governance. It argues that the institutionalization of voter identification transforms the right to vote—a sovereign entitlement rooted in the people—into an administrative privilege contingent upon government approval.
legaltheoryblog.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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“In 2019, researchers estimated that CBP officers are 5 times more likely to be arrested than local and state law enforcement personnel. CBP personel have been arrested for corruption, sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and sex crimes against children.”
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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"Jig dancing matches were taken as seriously as boxing matches in the mid-nineteenth century."

The Q&A for DIAMOND AND JUBA is live!
www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/qa...

cc: @historydancer.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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My new book, 'The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism' is now live in the NYU Press catalogue and due for release in early June, fittingly on the 160th anniversary of the first major Fenian raid on Canada

nyupress.org/978147983258...
The Fenian Empire
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...
nyupress.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Knowles on the New Lochnerism

Robert Knowles (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted How Lochnerism Ends (56 Seton Hall Law Review 65) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court's aggressive push for deregulation-often called New Lochnerism-seems ascendant in constitutional…
Knowles on the New Lochnerism
Robert Knowles (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted How Lochnerism Ends (56 Seton Hall Law Review 65) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court's aggressive push for deregulation-often called New Lochnerism-seems ascendant in constitutional jurisprudence. The Court has revived Lochner-era judicial activism-dismantling bases for agency power, constitutionalizing free-market principles via the First Amendment, and using novel interpretive doctrines to curb the reach of major regulatory statutes.
legaltheoryblog.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Don't miss this OPEN ACCESS article in Polish American Studies 82.2 by Izabella Kimak that analyzes two works by John Guzlowski and uses the concepts of memory studies to draw attention to the impact of his parents' refugee experience on his work. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was just awarded the
Del Monte PEAS prize!
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Biblical exegesis is the root of legal theory. For that reason we should not be surprised that this cultural base would result in theocratic nonsense from SCOTUS, particularly that element who admire the Catholic notion of papal infallibility.
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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On this #NationalMinersDay, we draw attention to @johngav.bsky.social & Gabe Schwartzman's book, POWER & JUST TRANSITIONS, which merges historical perspective w/interviews to look at how coal’s decline impacted power & resistance in an Appalachian community
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Free to access until December 31: "The Battle of Nauvoo" by David L. Herron from Vol. 50, Iss. 1 of @jmormonhist.bsky.social
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jmh/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Polish American Studies 82.2 is available online! Article contributors include Anna Podciborska, Marek Skurski, Silvia Dapía ( @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
), David J. Jackson, and Izabella Kimak (whose article is OPEN ACCESS!).
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trump is going to end up hated by the military.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Reporter: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order 

Leavitt: The latter is true
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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With language like this FDR would never gain the endorsement of such Democratic titans as Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries
Listen to FDR’s fifth fireside chat:

millercenter.org/the-presiden...
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Last day to get your *free* e-book of CARCERAL LIBERALISM: Feminist Voices against State Violence edited by Shreerekha Pillai!
mailchi.mp/illinois/q6l...

#CriminalJustice #CulturalStudies #WomensStudies
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
More AI hallucinations.
Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM