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Los Angeles is still reeling from its most devastating wildfires ever. In the next few months, temperatures could hit triple digits. Yet Mayor Karen Bass wants to eliminate the city’s climate emergency office. I asked @mayor.lacity.gov what is going on: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Attention fellow historians, scholars, and concerned individuals The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit. If you would like to keep this essential resource afloat, please consider donating: www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

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No matter how earnestly those folks believed in “universal rights… by the people for the people,” they secured the universality of those rights by oppressing others and denying their full personhood. It’s the defining problem of US political history, and pretending it wasn’t a paradox at all is… 🥴🥴

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Abolish ICE.

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Last April, South LA Cafe owner Joe Ward-Wallace approached two LAPD officers about a cop he saw driving recklessly in the community. In response, Joe was assaulted and arrested by the cops, denied bail, and held in solitary confinement for days. He is now suing LAPD.

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University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

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Pixie after a double shift handing out side quests in video games.

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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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Computers provided to the staff at the Ohio State University Medical Center aren't even allowed to connect to Eduroam for security reasons

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"'Excuse me,' a visitor asked as they tapped my shoulder . . . 'Is this one of those woke tours?'”

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Turning your lesson plans over to an LLM is bewildering to me because teaching is a lot like standup. You have a set that you've worked on AND you have to be ready to pivot at any moment because different audiences respond to different material.

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Fish and chips. Shepherd’s pie. English breakfast.

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We tried to warn you… Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left And now “their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In Ep 219, "How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class," we break down the centuries-old tactic of selectively appealing to "efficiency" to subjugate the poor and and transfer wealth to the rich with @reallandsend.bsky.social

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It’s interesting the way race science continues to live in contemporary discourse, for example the continued popularity of talking about people in fractions of racial identities and the unwillingness to understand whiteness as a binary power structure

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#OTD in 1943, Senator Tom Stewart of Tennessee calls for stripping Japanese Americans of their citizenship and placing them all in camps. Stewart claimed, "They cannot and never will be honest," before adding, "They are unworthy of the rights of citizens." 🗃 #skystorians

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I want ppl to really understand what it means to have armed agents of the state raiding a courthouse

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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

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How many things do you do without your ID on you? Have you left home without your wallet on accident? Have you ever had your ID or wallet stolen and been without it until you could replace it?

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Wait until people hear that lots of people are in prison because of defunct registries and discredited police. Some for life. Some have been executed. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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If. Data. Is. Collected. no matter what it's on (robot, smart toothbrush, self-driving car, social media account, etc) police are going to want it and given our current data landscape, they are going to get it.

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The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers who are out laboring to harvest crops. Farm workers like Cruz who shared this photo of the green pepper harvest and Salvador who shared this photo from the dates. #WeFeedYou

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A "young historian’s superlative debut" says this starred review of my book from Kirkus. It's the first (!) review of my book and ofc I'm over here rejoicing in the idea that somebody still thinks I'm young www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Okay who needs a smile from Piglet? 💕

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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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QUICK QUESTION Willow needs to know if he can deduct treats as a business expense because they give him the happy glow he needs for his modeling career?? We said we didn't think so but he doesn't believe us.

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the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

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“every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender

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do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state

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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

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If I want to learn about First Lightning—the Soviet nuclear experiment—what secondary sources should I be reading? #Skystorians 🗃️

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Morning inbox check revealed some dismaying news: the CA state legislature's proposed 2026 budget has cut funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection. This is such an important resource — and per its director will go offline if it does not receive its typical state support 🗃️🧵

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