Omari
@oaverettephillips.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis; 19th-century working-class history; Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ; Host @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ; Chair SCWH GSCC ; Co-Chair OAH GSC ; Labor Organizer
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Omari
@oaverettephillips.bsky.social
· Nov 15
An intro:
Hey everyone! I’m Omari, a history PhD student at UC Davis. My work focuses on class consciousness as seen through interracial labor organizing in the US south during the late 19th and 20th century.
Big critic of capitalism and neoliberalism. Big fan of solidarity.
Hey everyone! I’m Omari, a history PhD student at UC Davis. My work focuses on class consciousness as seen through interracial labor organizing in the US south during the late 19th and 20th century.
Big critic of capitalism and neoliberalism. Big fan of solidarity.
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Dan O'Sullivan, welcome to Life After Cars.
My car's catalytic converter got stolen last week so I've been without a car & have been walking/using public transit. Unfortunately, this has solved 90% of the problems in my life with its social and mental health benefits, while adding the slight problem of realizing motorists now want to kill me.
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Dan O'Sullivan, welcome to Life After Cars.
Taxi Driver is one of my favorite films of all time and @jasonhiggins.bsky.social has provided great analysis of the movie and larger historical context in this great piece
“Are you talking to me?” This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Historian @jasonhiggins.bsky.social explains how Taxi Driver, like many #VietnamWar era films, contains historical truths but also reinforces deeply problematic myths about veterans, homecoming, & trauma. 🗃️
“Something of a Hero”: 50 Years Since the Taxi Driver
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Like many Vietnam War-era films, Taxi Driver contains historical truths but also reinforces deeply problematic myths ab…
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February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Taxi Driver is one of my favorite films of all time and @jasonhiggins.bsky.social has provided great analysis of the movie and larger historical context in this great piece
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In the wake of the ICE surge in Minnesota, @legg.bsky.social explains how federal immigration violence against Minnesotans echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. 🗃️
A Continuum of Federal Violence: A History of Indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the Wake of the Murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Federal immigration violence against Minnesotans in January 2026 echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century.
clioandthecontemporary.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM
In the wake of the ICE surge in Minnesota, @legg.bsky.social explains how federal immigration violence against Minnesotans echoes the historic federal violence committed against Minnesota’s Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. 🗃️
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Historian here, “The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitution and machinery, to politicians and statesmen for the safety of its liberties never will have any.” Abolitionist Wendell Phillips
January 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Historian here, “The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitution and machinery, to politicians and statesmen for the safety of its liberties never will have any.” Abolitionist Wendell Phillips
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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Oh, like Philando Castile did?
Chip Roy: "As someone who carries a weapon in TX, if I'm in front of law enforcement or if I get stopped, I tell them that. I tell them that I've got a concealed carry permit. I show them my ID. I tell them where the weapon is bc that's what we're supposed to do. That's not what I think I saw here"
January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Oh, like Philando Castile did?
Interesting how this is exactly what would happen when police would kill Black and Brown folk. It's almost like the lesson law enforcement learned is that this works....
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Interesting how this is exactly what would happen when police would kill Black and Brown folk. It's almost like the lesson law enforcement learned is that this works....
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Border Patrol has absolutely no business being a part of any union worthy of the name, and yet here they are.
January 25, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Border Patrol has absolutely no business being a part of any union worthy of the name, and yet here they are.
Just jumping in to say that Fetterman is right. ICE agents are indeed doing their job (the same as all law enforcement). And that's the problem.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Just jumping in to say that Fetterman is right. ICE agents are indeed doing their job (the same as all law enforcement). And that's the problem.
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People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
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I need you all to understand something for those of you who think you know what this black woman who has lived in racist America really thinks. I know this is hard for you all, but some of us saw this coming for years, decades even. So understand, I am not being snarky. I am grieving.
January 24, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I need you all to understand something for those of you who think you know what this black woman who has lived in racist America really thinks. I know this is hard for you all, but some of us saw this coming for years, decades even. So understand, I am not being snarky. I am grieving.
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The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
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I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.
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In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/must...
Muster Call for Graduate Student Submissions - The Journal of the Civil War Era
The Society of Civil War Historians’ Graduate Student Connection Committee, together with Muster, the blog of The Journal of the Civil War Era, is calling for submissions from graduate students. Muste...
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/must...
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ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 7:53 PM
ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them).
They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.
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Hitler looked *here* for inspiration - writing that this was the “one state” that “simply excludes the immigration of certain races."
Let's not forget it.
Let's not forget it.
January 20, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Hitler looked *here* for inspiration - writing that this was the “one state” that “simply excludes the immigration of certain races."
Let's not forget it.
Let's not forget it.
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Hilarious coming from the man who worships at the altar of billionaire SuperPACers, courts the worst nazis on the right for his little podcast, and spends his off days throwing out his constituents' entire belongings while wearing designer jeans
January 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Hilarious coming from the man who worships at the altar of billionaire SuperPACers, courts the worst nazis on the right for his little podcast, and spends his off days throwing out his constituents' entire belongings while wearing designer jeans
@cliocontemporary.bsky.social is looking for pieces marking the upcoming anniversaries
We welcome pitches from #skystorians looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. The past is present.
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Call for Contributors: 2026 Anniversaries in Historical Context
Clio and the Contemporary welcomes pitches from contributors looking to mark historically significant anniversaries or to draw attention to forgotten events. In 2026, we remember 1976, 1926, 1876, …
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January 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM
@cliocontemporary.bsky.social is looking for pieces marking the upcoming anniversaries
Great piece highlighting the life and activism of Coretta Scott King!
When honoring Dr. King's legacy, we must discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King, Dr. Kris Burrell argues. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we remember her not as a shadow of her husband, but as an equal. 🗃️
clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/01/19/i...
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“I Was Called, Too:” The Life and Work of Coretta Scott King
In honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, it is both appropriate—and overdue—to discuss the significance of Coretta Scott King. When Coretta declared, “I was called, too,” she insisted we r…
clioandthecontemporary.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Great piece highlighting the life and activism of Coretta Scott King!
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i simply don't think we need ICE and do not care how someone showed up in whatever place they happen to live.
January 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM
i simply don't think we need ICE and do not care how someone showed up in whatever place they happen to live.
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they are correct that “something needs to be done to the border”
“something” being tearing down the wall and anything else preventing the free migration of people and nature
“something” being tearing down the wall and anything else preventing the free migration of people and nature
The thing that pissed me off the most about that Pod S*mave America clip the other day was that they presented ‘that something needs to be done about the border’ as an indisputable fact that nobody could possibly disagree with.
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I disagree with it. I think it’s all imagined & perpetuated by bigots
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I disagree with it. I think it’s all imagined & perpetuated by bigots
January 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
they are correct that “something needs to be done to the border”
“something” being tearing down the wall and anything else preventing the free migration of people and nature
“something” being tearing down the wall and anything else preventing the free migration of people and nature
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“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
Must everything have a financial value?!
Did you know:
🐝 Pollinators create $800B/year globally in economic value, $34B in the US alone.
🌱 Mangroves prevent $65B+ in property damage every year worldwide.
Researchers are putting hard numbers on nature’s financial power.
🐝 Pollinators create $800B/year globally in economic value, $34B in the US alone.
🌱 Mangroves prevent $65B+ in property damage every year worldwide.
Researchers are putting hard numbers on nature’s financial power.
These researchers are working to quantify the value of nature
They consider themselves "natural capital" accountants.
www.motherjones.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Must everything have a financial value?!