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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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Show Workshops4Sudan some love!!! Sign up and donate immediately to their first two incredible-sounding workshops that support people and orgs doing life-saving work on the ground in Sudan ❤️❤️❤️

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goldsmiths, tomorrow ✨ www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions! www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...

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we need a social usage history of the term "woke ideology" -- which is both fake and a ruse, with real consequences

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the ppl commenting that they'd rather take past robber barons cuz of their "gifts" make me feel like i should break my do not fight with random strangers on the internet cuz they might be 14 rule......

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Carnegie was an absolute piece of shit who bet that he could donate, bequeath, and endow his way into being remembered as a good guy and it worked.

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

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fear of disappointing comrades vs. fear of oppressors

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No kings, no masters

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In response to attacks on DEI, many have increased calls for inclusion instead of autonomy and self-determination. I wrote about the risks of mixing old integrationist rhetoric with Black capitalism and looking to representation and more consumerism as solutions. prismreports.org/2025/02/18/d...

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those arguing that past oligarchs were better or that they didnt have a political agenda are updates of the-past-is-better-white-nostalgia but are also categorically incorrect. Carnegie's lawyer who pursed treason charges against workers became attorney general at the robberbarons' explicit request

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"Perhaps the most trenchant critique of the imbrication of art, property and racialization today can be found in scholar Eunsong Kim’s 2024 book The Politics of Collecting...in which she traces how the mid-19th-century consolidation of wealth+ www.frieze.com/article/gala...

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"In a world where workers are increasingly excluded from the economic gains of the platform economy, this shift should, in theory, re-anchor economic value in labor, reversing decades of wealth concentration in asset-light, rentier industries."

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psyops abound no alien invasion in sight ㅠ.ㅠ

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In April. Paperback. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The #CAA113 exhibit hall is open! Stop by booth 206 to browse titles in #Art #VisualStudies #ArtHistory and more! Books are only $15! #CAA2025

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some ppl await the singularity and others, any asteroid! don't say they're the same thing, one is def prettier

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Efforts to paint the moments we're in as “anti-American” while romanticizing US history and its foundations do not dig us out of fascism; they dig us deeper in. Tell the truth about how this country came to be and what it is now, or expect more problems.

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which past is better? lol

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such a powerful discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsAx...

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the most korean thing abt me is that i expect everyone to have long memories routed towards revenge. don't forget ur enemies??? hello???

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In 2022, when Elon Musk took over Twitter, Clarissa and I were union staffers working with the platform's employees to organize a union. We saw firsthand how he gutted the company... and our union drive along with it. What we learned was that Musk’s playbook wasn’t efficiency—it was control. 1/

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eunsong kim, from gospel of regicide

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For those of you asking what pro-Palestine campus protesters are up to under Trump- From Bowdoin College SJP: “This encampment is the 1st of its kind since start of the Trump admin. Trump has vowed unequivocal support for Israel's genocide, most recently calling for the US to ethnically cleanse..."

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Happy to reshare this great list, now full up! go.bsky.app/D2cEz4t

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“This current exodus of curators from Toronto institutions underscores, on the one hand, the disposability of those hired to assuage calls for diversity and, on the other, the repression of those who are vocal about the ongoing brutalities against Palestinian people.“ momus.ca/disposabilit...

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Go listen to this brilliance on Thursday if you’re in Chicago.

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hello friends comrades things are terrible beyond terrible so there is no proper announcement transition......if you're in chicago next week, perhaps I will see you ❤️‍🩹 today.uic.edu/events/book-...

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