Eric Karolak
@ejkarolak.bsky.social
Coffee drinker/compost maker/dog walker/laundry doer/pierogi eater/mask wearer. He/him. Tweets mine, only. Doin' my part to make Zone 6 nicer.
“By the end of that first day, federal examiners had registered more than 100 black voters in Selma. By the end of that first week, they had added a total of 381 to the rolls, [more] than the total number of blacks who had registered in Dallas County over the previous 65 years combined.”
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Here's a piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on how the Civil Rights Division justified intervention in Dallas County, Alabama (home to Selma) and, in so doing, justified the Voting Rights Act itself.
Here's a piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on how the Civil Rights Division justified intervention in Dallas County, Alabama (home to Selma) and, in so doing, justified the Voting Rights Act itself.
Work in Progress: Justified
Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS, in which I share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights ...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“By the end of that first day, federal examiners had registered more than 100 black voters in Selma. By the end of that first week, they had added a total of 381 to the rolls, [more] than the total number of blacks who had registered in Dallas County over the previous 65 years combined.”
Reposted by Eric Karolak
Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college.
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
newrepublic.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college.
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Reposted by Eric Karolak
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...