Marie Francois
@mefrancois.bsky.social
History professor, research on everyday life in 18th and 19th cenury Mexico City, mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, feminist, anti-racist, scholar, author, historian
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
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historians, every day:
what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this information???
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
historians, every day:
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Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.
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"This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War"
Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
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Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
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This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War
Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
zeteo.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War"
Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
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Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
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Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
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In culture and in practice we still tend to assume that men pay the bill, and we always assume that women handle everything else, including the paperwork. This is true regardless of who actually pays the bill.
I will tell you what surprised me.Genealogy showed me that If you died, and your husband is the informant to fill out your death certificate, they don’t know your mother’s maiden name. They often write IDK or MRS. [husband’s last name]. You can be married to them over 50 years and they still….
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
In culture and in practice we still tend to assume that men pay the bill, and we always assume that women handle everything else, including the paperwork. This is true regardless of who actually pays the bill.
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A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
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glad to see jones getting back in the ring
Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones appears to be headed for another political showdown against current Sen. Tommy Tuberville, this time for the governor’s office.
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
glad to see jones getting back in the ring
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More Bovino-led horror in Little Village today. Matt is a reliable leader in the community.
www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...
www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
More Bovino-led horror in Little Village today. Matt is a reliable leader in the community.
www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...
www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...
Ojo
Por último. La versión corta del trabajo del profesor Hellmann se publicó en The Conversation.
"Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research"
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"Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research"
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Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research
Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ojo
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The US military buildup in the Caribbean is aimed at ousting Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, but also at cutting off the flow of Venezuelan oil to Cuba in order to fulfill the Republican right’s decades-long dream of collapsing the Cuban government. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
With Military Buildup Against Venezuela, the U.S. Eyes Cuba as Well
Washington hopes cutting off Venezuelan oil to Havana would collapse the Cuban regime.
foreignpolicy.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The US military buildup in the Caribbean is aimed at ousting Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, but also at cutting off the flow of Venezuelan oil to Cuba in order to fulfill the Republican right’s decades-long dream of collapsing the Cuban government. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...
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Brazil unveiled a Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests. It has already drawn $5.5 billion in pledges. Norway will contribute $3 billion, they said during a leaders’ summit ahead of the U.N. climate talks COP30. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Brazil unveiled a Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests. It has already drawn $5.5 billion in pledges. Norway will contribute $3 billion, they said during a leaders’ summit ahead of the U.N. climate talks COP30. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents.
by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.
by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents.
by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.
by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.
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Bergman: OpenAI “designed GPT-4o to emotionally entangle users, and released it without the safeguards needed to protect them.”
'OpenAI compromised safety and prioritized “emotional manipulation over ethical design.” '
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'OpenAI compromised safety and prioritized “emotional manipulation over ethical design.” '
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November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Bergman: OpenAI “designed GPT-4o to emotionally entangle users, and released it without the safeguards needed to protect them.”
'OpenAI compromised safety and prioritized “emotional manipulation over ethical design.” '
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'OpenAI compromised safety and prioritized “emotional manipulation over ethical design.” '
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ICE is retaliating against Oak Park right now, where most of the moms who were arrested for protesting at Broadview yesterday are from.
This is my sister, who's on the ground. ABOLISH ICE. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzuhMO...
This is my sister, who's on the ground. ABOLISH ICE. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzuhMO...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ICE is retaliating against Oak Park right now, where most of the moms who were arrested for protesting at Broadview yesterday are from.
This is my sister, who's on the ground. ABOLISH ICE. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzuhMO...
This is my sister, who's on the ground. ABOLISH ICE. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzuhMO...
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JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
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Prints below right by printmaker Ellen Heck, one of the many artists featured in the womensart book
REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS
Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁
Via any bookstore, e.g.
www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS
Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁
Via any bookstore, e.g.
www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Prints below right by printmaker Ellen Heck, one of the many artists featured in the womensart book
REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS
Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁
Via any bookstore, e.g.
www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS
Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁
Via any bookstore, e.g.
www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
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This also affirms my conviction that women (under patriarchy) are always either too much or not enough, and sometimes because we are so tricky both at once.
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This also affirms my conviction that women (under patriarchy) are always either too much or not enough, and sometimes because we are so tricky both at once.
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In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...