The dog tags of 58,307 US soldiers killed during the Vietnam War at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 18, Number 3, Fall 2025 tinyurl.com/23h329p5 CONTRIBUTORS Karen Sánchez-Eppler
 Chris Babits
 Karl Bergemann
 Lu Liu
 Yifan Shi
 Sait Kirtepe 
Karen Dubinsky
 Marnie Hay
 and more!

Wow! theconversation.com/the-chil… Check it out @BenStiller. Thanks to @annamaeduane . #severance

Holy crap. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable anticancer T cells that attack pancreatic cancer. 75% of patients cancer free at three years.

The Huskies are BIG EAST Champions! 🏆

Just a reminder to the maga crowd cheering on these mass firings... These are scientists. Park rangers. Disabled Veterans. Humanitarians. Civil servants. They are human. They have bills to pay. Families who depend on them. Children. Many of them took pride in their work. Some were just getting started in their careers. Losing a job and financial hardship is not funny. It impacts every member of the family. It impacts self worth. It impacts the economy. Finding satisfaction in the indiscriminate firing of tens of thousands of Americans at the hands of a punch drunk billionaire is not only cruel, it's unAmerican. This is not patriotism.

Police in Alabama shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in his own home during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night. Body camera footage allegedly shows Randall Adjessom raising his hands and backing away just before an officer opened fire. He was left bleeding on the floor for 4 minutes before officers attempted to render aid. Randall is remembered as a loving family member who brought joy to those around him. RIP

We need to find something for our biggest donor to do. So please join me in welcoming our new Dean for Efficiency and Innovation. See we told we would stay committed to DEI!

“There is no one who has done more for young people in American musical history than Ella Jenkins,” children’s musician Dan Zanes has said. Read the @nytimes’ obituary to learn more: nytimes.com/2024/11/10/obitu…

As someone writing (in a roundabout way) on the history of higher ed, I have no illusions that higher ed ever had moral authority - founded explicitly & implicitly via settler-colonialism & chattel slavery - but it’s a good aspiration to address and repair past and ongoing harms.

Colleges & universities adopting institutional neutrality policies are acceding to & complicit with right-wing assaults on institutions and are ensuring that higher ed will never have a chance at having moral authority as we edge closer to our autocratic dystopian near future. 🧵

What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen/build relationships.

“Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students voting for the first time this election.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

#CFP: Diversity Committee of the Children’s Literature Association “One Day and Someday and Now”: Exploring Time in Diverse Youth Literatures Virtual Conference, June 9-14, 2025 Submission deadline for proposals: November 11th, 2024 Email: capshaw@uconn.edu @chlatweets

Meet the Haitian immigrant who founded the city of Chicago. britannica.com/biography/Jea…

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When you buy a gun, you’re shown pictures of gunshot victims. If your neighbor suspects you of buying a gun, they can call a hotline. If you’re from a state where guns are illegal, you can be arrested if you buy a gun out of state. Oh sorry, these are all abortion laws.

Euphemia Toussaint was freed by her uncle, Pierre Toussaint, a formerly enslaved man from Haiti who became a very successful entrepreneur & philanthropist in New York. She wrote him weekly letters in English & French. This one is from June 20, 1828.