Doug Sackman
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History
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MN NoIce!
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
MN NoIce!
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You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.
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Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
Trump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
It should say”trumps immigration policies are almost all not popular”
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 AM
It should say”trumps immigration policies are almost all not popular”
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The attempted coup was made into a rolling and ultimately successful coup by Mitch McConnell’s covering for it in the senate and by McConnell’s
Hand-packed SCOTUS - no figure worked harder or more successfully to destroy the protections we had against a man like Trump whom he purports to disdain
Hand-packed SCOTUS - no figure worked harder or more successfully to destroy the protections we had against a man like Trump whom he purports to disdain
No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
We must speak plainly: January 6th was an attempted coup. It was an effort to nullify millions of lawful votes and subvert the will of the American people.
January 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The attempted coup was made into a rolling and ultimately successful coup by Mitch McConnell’s covering for it in the senate and by McConnell’s
Hand-packed SCOTUS - no figure worked harder or more successfully to destroy the protections we had against a man like Trump whom he purports to disdain
Hand-packed SCOTUS - no figure worked harder or more successfully to destroy the protections we had against a man like Trump whom he purports to disdain
January 6, a day that lives on in infamy.
Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
January 6, a day that lives on in infamy.
January 6, a day that lives on in infamy.
January 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
January 6, a day that lives on in infamy.
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Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
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Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something."
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
January 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something."
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
Who's "importing" what now?
HERE is the newly unsealed superseding indictment against Maduro, his wife, and others:
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
www.justice.gov
January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Who's "importing" what now?
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The link to their condemnation is missing.
Here is the full post
Here is the link
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
Here is the full post
Here is the link
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The link to their condemnation is missing.
Here is the full post
Here is the link
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
Here is the full post
Here is the link
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
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Farm workers in Watsonville CA are hard at work planting strawberries for the next harvest season. Workers spend their 8-hour work day walking up and down long rows bent over putting the plants percisely in place as too deep kills the plant & too shallow dries it out. #WeFeedYou
January 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Farm workers in Watsonville CA are hard at work planting strawberries for the next harvest season. Workers spend their 8-hour work day walking up and down long rows bent over putting the plants percisely in place as too deep kills the plant & too shallow dries it out. #WeFeedYou
Tylenol for women: NO!
Aspirin for old men: YES!
Aspirin for old men: YES!
Very smart sir, keep it up
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Tylenol for women: NO!
Aspirin for old men: YES!
Aspirin for old men: YES!
Jeffersonian Agrarianism (a contradiction wrapped in a deflection and smothered in white supremacist ideology) + what Frederick Jackson Turner tapped into makes the US version especially entrenched.
I mean, this is just various shades of racism and thus universal in all majority white and/or European settled nations, right?
Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Jeffersonian Agrarianism (a contradiction wrapped in a deflection and smothered in white supremacist ideology) + what Frederick Jackson Turner tapped into makes the US version especially entrenched.
Hey Stephen,
It doesn't take an Einstein to know your full of BS
It doesn't take an Einstein to know your full of BS
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hey Stephen,
It doesn't take an Einstein to know your full of BS
It doesn't take an Einstein to know your full of BS
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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7... Supreme Court, tax the billionaires, regulate AI and restore real democracy to America. Stop waiting for the Godot of an Epstein "bombshell" when a corrupt house is dealing the cards, and let's get to work -30-
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
7... Supreme Court, tax the billionaires, regulate AI and restore real democracy to America. Stop waiting for the Godot of an Epstein "bombshell" when a corrupt house is dealing the cards, and let's get to work -30-
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Great thread on the 60 MINUTES segment that Bari Weiss spiked
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Great thread on the 60 MINUTES segment that Bari Weiss spiked
That’s all you got, in your scripted speech, Mr AppalYalechia? Let’s hear from Representative Crockett, off the cuff.
JD Vance: "Jasmine Crockett, the record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails."
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
That’s all you got, in your scripted speech, Mr AppalYalechia? Let’s hear from Representative Crockett, off the cuff.
Four frictions.
Like Savio said: “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part…And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop…”
Like Savio said: “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part…And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop…”
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Four frictions.
Like Savio said: “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part…And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop…”
Like Savio said: “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part…And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop…”
The bottom of my boat keeps rutting into reefs.
It’s my Achilles keel
It’s my Achilles keel
I will admit, if somebody gets hurt in front of me, I kinda freeze up and it takes me a minute before I start to administer first aid.
You might call it my Achilles heal.
You might call it my Achilles heal.
I’ve never managed to get the right mixture of iron and carbon combined at high temperatures.
You might say it’s my Achilles steel
You might say it’s my Achilles steel
December 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The bottom of my boat keeps rutting into reefs.
It’s my Achilles keel
It’s my Achilles keel
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And my neighbors who are cold, wet, hungry, and overwhelmed…are now happy that their humble little refuge — where love gets traction, and prayers are answered — will stay in business.
🧵 8 of 9
🧵 8 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
And my neighbors who are cold, wet, hungry, and overwhelmed…are now happy that their humble little refuge — where love gets traction, and prayers are answered — will stay in business.
🧵 8 of 9
🧵 8 of 9
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My essay on this whole deal.....
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My essay on this whole deal.....