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“Franco died in 1975, and he did so peacefully in his bed clutching the mummified hand of Saint Teresa—not at the end of a rope or before a tribunal, but swaddled in power to the very last breath. Fascism in Spain was not defeated. It simply ran out of time.”

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Just sitting here thinking of EVERY editor and publication since 2012 who turned down my stories because either these folk “aren’t important” or “we don’t need to give them any more attention.” www.kaxe.org/news/2025-05...

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The media won't acknowledge it but there is no justification for Trump's South African immigration policy (in comparison to South and Central America) other than white supremacy. Every article about Trump and immigration should be using a form of the phrase "white supremacy."

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Israel accused of ethnic cleansing after more than 140 killed in Gaza in 24 hours

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New issue of History of the Present on Reproductive Racial Capitalism, co-edited by Jennifer Morgan and Alys Eve Weinbaum - will be available online soon!

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"Between Fires in Los Angeles and Fascism in America" by Robin D.G. Kelley. "Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all." Brilliant and moving piece, rich with history. Read @hammerandhope.bsky.social! hammerandhope.org/article/los-...

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One day Im gonna tell my kids that Bluesky helped me launch a resistance school

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Honestly want to do this for all the academics I haven’t met yet but were so critical to how I see the world.

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and while you're at it you can also look up the things liberals were saying to actual Palestinians on here and elsewhere (including the Democratic convention) during the genocide of their family members and decide on the meanness scale where this rates next to Bernie bros yelling about Medicare

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What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?

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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

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Tariffs have become the latest cover for price gouging, wage suppression, and concentration of ownership in the agriculture & food sector. Large grocery store chains have doubled their profits in past few years since pandemic. Loblaws pocketed approx extra $1 million per day. Eat the Rich.

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"Dire." If things continue as is, V-Dem expects democracy in the U.S. to "die by summer."

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“Se me fue un gran amigo”: Petro tras la muerte del papa Francisco elpayanes.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/s...

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Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”

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Did you miss one of our past Sawyer Seminar events? You can now watch all recordings online at our website: sites.psu.edu/birthingthen... 🗓️ Save the date: February 11 – Our next event with Rob Topinka is coming up soon. Don't miss it! sites.psu.edu/birthingthen...

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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.” www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in May on Trump trying to end birthright citizenship

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Changing demographics—an aging white population matched by an expanding nonwhite population—led some neoliberals to rethink the conditions necessary for capitalism. Perhaps cultural homogeneity, they mused, was a precondition for social stability and peaceful market exchange.

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When I worked at the Bronx Defenders we helped so many immigrants file back taxes. Promised them it would be ok. I hate myself for ever trusting that information would be safe.

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Imagine needing care… and being denied it. 💔 ➡️ That’s not just unfair. It’s inhuman. ⚖️🏥 #WorldHealthDay

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“If liberalism has a single desperate weakness,” Trilling wrote, “it is an inadequacy of imagination: it is always being surprised. There is always the liberal work to do over again because hard upon surprise disillusionment follows and for the moment of liberal fatigue reaction is always ready.”

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“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn

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While W. E. B. Du Bois was traveling in newly independent Ghana in 1963, the State Department refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his United States citizenship. The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.

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“Universities will never be engines of social transformation. Such a task is the work of political education and activism.” Robin D. G. Kelley in 2016:

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”The 2024 killing of a student suggested that there were unspoken limits to protest, what you can defy and defile—and that those limits will be violently enforced.” Claudio Lomnitz:

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Join @dreanyc123.bsky.social , Rachel Herzing, Scot Nakagawa, @ejeris.bsky.social , and Woods Ervin as they explore the role of challenging criminalization at the core of authoritarianism. W/ @interruptcrim.bsky.social Wednesday, April 9th at 6:30PM ET RSVP www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Are you a doula or a midwife working in Texas right now? Would you be willing to talk to a journalist? Reach out [email protected]

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There are a lot of myths about homelessness, and Brian Goldstone's deeply reported new book demolishes a number of them. He shows how how five Atlanta families found themselves in the direst of straits yet statistically invisible: “They literally did not count.”

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Charities rarely discussed the Global South’s dependency on European imports in terms of correcting historical wrongs; it was rather imagined as an act of benevolence and charity.

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