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Sarah R. Meiners, PhD
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Dickey Center @ Dartmouth College // Historian of US refugee policy and territorial status adjustment // sometimes a historian of childhood
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In this episode, @akelalacy.bsky.social spoke to Benjamin Osorio, Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney; @tylermcbrien.com, managing editor at @lawfaremedia.org; and Gauri Bahuguna, deputy director of research at @situ-research.bsky.social, about the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.
Deportation, Inc.
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney shares updates on his case, and Lawfare and SITU Research share their investigative video series examining the deportation economy.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Almost everyone but US foreign relations and CIA historians: OMG what are all these reductions of sensitive information? How can they do this?

US foreign relations and CIA historians:
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ALT: a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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What is there even to say?

Suspending the lottery serves the administration’s anti-Black, nativist, xenophobic goals, makes US life worse across every measure.

But read about the recent past, when the US was a more open and generative country, when the future belonged to more of us:
Why do we have the green card lottery? As with every aspect of US immigration, there is a history, a complicated one. Here's the @carlygoodman.bsky.social award winning book you need for that.
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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My new book — Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction — is now available as an e-book (paperback in March 2026)! The book offers a concise history of humanitarianism in an international perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.

www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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“Cutting costs” does a lot of work to obscure that they want to cut very particular costs, the labor of faculty, TAs, staff, while being extremely excited to funnel large, maybe infinite, amounts to private corporations, while destroying the core mission and alienating students etc
If you think I'm going to pay $80k a year in tuition you better believe I want my kid taught by an underpaid human TA who is slowly beating eaten alive by ennui and his marinating feelings of grievance over the impossibility of ever landing a tenure track job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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It’s terrible to imagine how many more people the US will kill this way next year
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.

28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Watching Fellowship of the rings while I ride on the indoor trainer, and I really like the archives scene where Gandolf is smoking his pipe and drinking beer, looking at thousand-year-old documents with no gloves.
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Energy bills have increased 13% since Trump took office.

Families have paid an extra $1,200 on goods this year because of his tariffs.

Popular holiday gifts are 26% more expensive this year compared to 2024.

Remember this as Trump calls affordability a "hoax" and a "con job."
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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100 days of Kavanaugh stops.

Read my report at Law Dork:
100 days of Kavanaugh stops and the justices who silently allowed them — and a bill to change that
The Shadow Docket Sunlight Act is being introduced on Wednesday. And, Justice Kavanaugh still isn't saying if he's having second thoughts on his September opinion.
www.lawdork.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Context:

Last night, on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
-- residents assembled at the Old South Meeting House
-- listened to several rousing speeches
-- marched to the Harbor
-- and yelled "Huzzah!" as protest leaders dumped hundreds of pounds of ice into the water
In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history.

#teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16
December 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Congratulations, Julia!
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations.

Julia Stephens' Worldly Afterlives is now available (10 Feb UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #BritishEmpire #ReadUP
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.
One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!

For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Just a reminder, Buck v. Bell was never overturned!

A 2022 report by National Women's Law Center found that 31 states & D.C. still have laws allowing forced sterilization of disabled people (and some of the states where it's still allowed may surprise you)

More here: nwlc.org/resource/for...
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Everyone is getting deskilled, as a legal secretary in 2004 I could have solved this instantly
Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Check out the new issue of our journal, the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):
Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, is here, featuring three new articles, plus book reviews by @loriflores.bsky.social, @nellstra.bsky.social, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I moderated a discussion of the Page Act of 1875 with Catherine Ceniza Choy, Cybelle Fox, and Leti Volpp in April. You can now watch a video of the event!

news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/12/b...
Berkeley Talks: The Page Act and the making of racialized US immigration control - Berkeley News
A panel of UC Berkeley scholars unpack how the 1875 law helped institutionalize racially targeted exclusion at the border and laid the groundwork for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later U.S. immi...
news.berkeley.edu
December 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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“In her ruling, she chided the administration for its conduct during those hearings, saying that government lawyers had at various times stonewalled her, disobeyed her direct instructions and even “affirmatively misled” her.”

In short, the gov’t lied.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Judge Orders Abrego Garcia’s Release From ICE Detention
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Ok great let me read the article about our new overlords! Oh but wait you’ve covered up a third of the screen with a dumb AI tool nobody wants and that you can’t turn off, so the text is unreadable! The innovation! Wow!
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM