rlspang.bsky.social
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
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My very words!
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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Paris, February 1848.
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Much as it seems “so French” that the 1848 February Revolution was sparked by government prohibiting a political banquet so resistance to ICE at Home Depot could only happen in USA.
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THIS is the best use case for AI that I have yet heard!
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No kings and no military dictatorships, either!
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How history tends to get made. New things happen. If they can’t be tidily filed away under a familiar heading, they have the potential to be transformative, even revolutionary.
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I don’t even know if the poster said this in earnest or in jest, but it still made me laugh
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Confess I often feel I have few “friends” (lots of colleagues, neighbors, acquaintances) but maybe that’s preferable to the situation you describe?!
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Excellent point.
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Already happened at IU.
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Same!