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Jennifer Selwyn
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Part-time history professor, music fanatic, Boomer-X, L.A. native, and poetry lover. Fighting white supremacy and fascism for the duration. 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸

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Truth. Where's the debate?
stevie547.bsky.social SteveSleeve @stevie547.bsky.social · May 6
We want our money, "Stop the Steal"
May 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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jvp.bsky.social
This Passover, we cannot hold seder as usual. The meal cannot be festive while Palestinians in Gaza face famine; the questions of liberation are not theoretical. This year’s Jewish holiday of liberation urges every one of us to step up our commitment to the liberation of the Palestinian people.
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Yet another example of how Bernie is actually providing moral leadership.
sanders.senate.gov Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Mar 18
Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.

Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
jensel.bsky.social
Excellent article by the always engaging and insightful @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social and his daughter, Jessie Lee Rubin.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin
The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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@chuckschumer.com
Please do your utmost to return Mahmoud Khalil to his family and out of ICE control and ensure that he is provided due process, legal representation. We cannot allow this Administration to criminalize the exercise of free speech.
March 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Amidst all of the political skullduggery of this moment, I am very sad hearing about David Johansen's grave medical crisis and what it says about our country that even a legendary musical artist in need of medical care cannot afford it. Grateful for his artistry.

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david johansen - frenchette
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February 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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@ruha9.bsky.social

Hello Dr. Benjamin,
I just had the pleasure of listening to your interview with Jonathan Bastian on KCRW’s Life Examined and found it fascinating and inspirational, especially at this very troubled moment in history. Look forward to digging deeper into your work. Many thanks!
February 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Today we honor the Superb Owl! #ucdavis in #vienna (www.instagram.com/history.ucda... ) students will visit Albrecht Dürer‘s magnificent owl, and his superlative rabbit @Albertina this coming August.
#superbowl #albrechtdürer #owl #rabbit #arthistory #history #ucdavisabroad #renaissance #albertina
February 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Please repost.
February 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
jensel.bsky.social
This is how you do it! One of the strong protest signs from the short t.v. clip linked in the article: "Chinga la Migra!" Indeed!

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Massive protest against Trump deportations forms near downtown L.A., LAPD calls it ‘non-permitted’
A large — and growing — protest formed near downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Trump’s crackdown on immigration and emphasis on deportations. The protest, which was organ…
ktla.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
jensel.bsky.social
More relevant now than on the day it was released in 1988.
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Talkin' Bout a Revolution
YouTube video by Tracy Chapman - Topic
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February 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
jensel.bsky.social
On the second day of Black History Month, we celebrate the precious treasures that Black folks have always given to our history and culture. Today, I remember someone whose impact on me as a student, educator, and scholar was profound: my UCSC professor/mentor, Gloria Watkins (aka, bell hooks).
Gloria Watkins (aka, bell hooks, 1952-2021)
February 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
jensel.bsky.social
For whatever bigoted and anti-historical nonsense Trump et al are trying to foment, it is more important than ever to resist. In honor of Black History Month…
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
jensel.bsky.social
If you stand with our trans siblings and always will, please reply and show your solidarity.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
January 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Such an excellent piece for this MLK, JR. Day!
January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
jensel.bsky.social
A final, welcome decision in the eleventh hour.
January 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
jensel.bsky.social
NY Times was in full-blown thrall to the about-to-be-inaugurated, dear leader in today’s paper, declaring all opposition d.o.a. and the US public ready to roll over. Pretty stomach-turning, demoralizing fare.
January 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Very glad to see fellow historians speaking out against scholasticide in Gaza at the AHA annual meeting. We need to do more to end the horrors, but this is an important moment of speaking out, especially now, as the powers of censorship are seeking our silence.
www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...
American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza
The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehen...
www.democracynow.org
January 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
jensel.bsky.social
Just going to put it out there: whenever I see someone posting about starter packs, or celebrating their legions of followers, I truly wonder WTAF I am doing on this, or any other social media site. We are facing very dire time (we are already in them) so why bizarre be so consumed by these things?
January 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Burn, baby, burn!💜🔥
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Dec 13
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
jensel.bsky.social
Excellent news!
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Dec 11
BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court has blocked the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, finding the 2023 law violates the state constitution’s privacy clause and that trans people have a right "to make medical judgments affecting her or his bodily integrity and health"
Montana Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Families & Doctors, Blocks Ban on Healthcare for Transgender Youth | American Civil Liberties Union
Earlier today, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that SB 99, a 2023 Montana law that categorically bans life-saving gender-affirming care for transgender...
www.aclu.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:30 PM
jensel.bsky.social
True story.
December 8, 2024 at 7:09 AM
jensel.bsky.social
I will always stand with my trans siblings!
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Dec 5
boosting the Cisgender Women Against Bathroom Bans petition again, please sign and share if you missed it the first time around! It’s at a little under 8,500 signatures now and we would love to try to get it to 10,000 by the weekend!

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On November 20th, Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a federal trans bathroom ban under the title of the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act." While this began as an attempt to bar newly-elected Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware from using the women's restroom in her own place of work as a legislator - which is unacceptable on its own merits - it will not end there. Speaker Johnson's decree in support of Mace's proposal reiterated the same argument: that this is an act designed to protect women, to keep us safe, because "women deserve women's only spaces." To introduce this legislation on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day commemorating trans people worldwide who have died due to hate and violence - is appalling. To pretend Mike Johnson and the House GOP care about the safety of women, given the candidate they just elected and the Cabinet nominations he continues to make, is beyond naive. Over the past several years, as trans bathroom bans have been enacted in communities across the country, we have seen firsthand the cascading negative effects. No one is made safer by this. Certainly trans youth are not, as we saw firsthand from the shocking, violent death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary youth in Oklahoma who complied with exactly such a bathroom restriction and was brutally beaten by classmates in February of this year. But even the women and girls these bills purport to protect are at increased risk; this legislation empowers individuals with narrow definitions of gender presentation to appoint themselves bathroom cops, and harass anyone they do not believe is publicly performing the role of womanhood correctly. Lesbians and butch women, women who are unusually tall, women who have short hair, women who wear baggy or "masculine" clothes, women of color in professional sports whose bodies are critiqued for their strength, even simply women who wear baseballs caps: all of this is sufficient evidence for increased harassment. This is not even a new phenomenon; there are news stories of exactly these cases going back to the bathroom bans of 2016. It will not just be Rep. McBride who suffers for this; it will be your own congressional staff - anyone who is queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or simply does not fit the stereotype of female physical appearance - whose workplace harassment you would be enabling if Mace's proposal is allowed to pass. The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.
December 5, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign
November 6, 2024 at 5:42 AM