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Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

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this makes them seem abysmally stupid to many, but it’s actually deeply cynical & effective propaganda—they don’t care it's wrong, because while we correct & mock it, it scored its point last night & gets repeated in false controversy like they’re-eating-the-cats&dogs & achieves the intended harm

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TOMORROW: I'll be @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (K St. location)! I'll share the story of #WilliamFreeman, the Afro-Native teen who challenged America's original #PrisonForProfit -- almost 200 years ago. Join us! This event is free and open to all. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Speaking of resources that are informative and helpful for this moment, we want to share some recent books by or featuring our co-founders. 📚 If you're looking for resources on abolition, organizing, and building towards a better world, check these out from your library or local bookstore:

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“Bird flu does not fully explain the sticker shock consumers experience… corporate consolidation is a key culprit behind egg price spikes,” said Amanda Starbuck, lead author of the FWW report The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Postdoc Opportunity! The Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to be located in the Department of Africana Studies, beginning in August 2025. raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

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OMG.

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“The businessmen who helped Hitler into power naively believed that they were only supporting a dictator, one of their own making, who would naturally rule to the advantage of their own class and the disadvantage of all others.” — Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism

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This was EXACTLY my thought this morning. Gianduja is totally a word--indeed, a delicious one! How can the #NYTSpellingBee not know that? #pangram

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Washington DC-area folks! Please join me this Thursday @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (K St) for conversation about the true origins of #PrisonForProfit (spoiler: it didn't start in the South, and it didn't begin with the Civil War and the #13thAmendment). Free & open to the public. @UChicagoPress

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Excellent framing

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If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

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Trump has based his ENTIRE tariff attack on Canada on the claim that 43 pounds of fentanyl, of the 4,500 that entered the United States last year, came through the northern border. This investigation found that the actual figure is closer to zero www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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I'll be in Wash. DC @busboysandpoets.bsky.social, K St. store, this coming Thurs! If you're in the area, come by for conversation about the true origins of prison for profit and the Afro-Native teen who challenged the system at its root. www.eventbrite.com/e/freemans-c... @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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It's absolutely insane that Elon Musk and his wrecking crew are saying they're firing entire swaths of our government infrastructure and the press are just like "oh that's sad but what are you gonna do, guess they're fired." It is batshit crazypants, and it's being covered like normal policy choices

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

The man is anti American to the core he wants to destroy the government of the United States and its international standing. No wonder he is bad mouthing the country!

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 6 days ago • 2325 comments

fElon is lying to you

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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 7 days ago • 991 comments

Flu is going around! A student in my class today looked on the verge if collapse. I asked if she wanted to leave class and go get some rest. She looked so relieved (and she did go home). Take care, everyone!

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Over 50% of people in state prisons in a typical year are punished at least once for misconduct – and they have no meaningful way to defend themselves once accused Does this look like a system centered around "justice"? https://buff.ly/4aF0Wmy

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‼️ Also newly released is @drariahalliday.bsky.social’s new book on how society fails Black girls! Timely as fuck. #BookSky #BlackHistoryMonth uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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The golden idol of Trump is a subtle touch

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

This is not worrying at all

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On episode 078, we talk about Rhaisa Williams' essay on Mamie Till Bradley and "grief capital," the Trump administration's attempts to reshape federal arts funding, and the documentary about Taylor Mac's 24-decade History of Popular Music... soundcloud.com/ontappod/on-...

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Military contractors, including a former Blackwater CEO pitched Trump "a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, & a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests." www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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For those playing along at home we are now at the: "Ok sure they're Nazi salutes - but that doesn't make them expressions of Nazism" stage of denial.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

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Every day it’s like “we’re getting rid of a highly qualified woman or minority or disabled person and replacing them with a white guy who majored in skull measuring.”

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

"If you wanted the green one and not the blue one and now you are inconsolable, please throw the phone through a screen door."

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The $400M worth of State Department Teslas? Trump admin said that started in Biden White House. But I obtained a document showing the amount Biden's State Department planned to spend on EVs: $483,000. Former WH official on $400M: "I don’t think this is a clerical error" www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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Breaking: The Supreme Court has declined to consider overturning a 25-year-old precedent that upheld "buffer zone" laws — limiting how close protesters can get to abortion clinic entrances. It's a serious setback for abortion opponents. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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New Gloria Anzaldúa with 14 never-before-published stories! 🎉🎉 Edited by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social at @sunypress.bsky.social #booksky #chicana #chicane #latine #latinx #latina #feminist #feminism #nepantla #mestiza 📚💙

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

submitted 10 days ago • 1329 comments

TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

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This is a shamefully racist movement that should be resisted by every person of good will. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s forthcoming book is incredible and it’s honestly the archive’s loss (and the nation’s). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

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Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Dr. @eveewing.bsky.social to get deep into her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. Wherever you listen to How to Survive the End of the World.

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🎥📺🚨Premiering Feb 25: #ForgottenHeroPBS: Walter White and the NAACP, which traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and his anti-lynching work and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history. www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid

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An excellent piece on The Resegregation.

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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

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I should revise this to say: the goal of the men and monied interests behind the coup is not just to loot and monetize the collapse of the United States. It’s to loot, collapse and capture the whole world. They are coming for the whole world. That’s what the sitch with Russia/Ukraine is teaching us.

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