still no snow in denver
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
still no snow in denver
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Excited to share that I’ve signed a contract to publish my third academic monograph with @dukepress.bsky.social! 🥳🥳🥳
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Excited to share that I’ve signed a contract to publish my third academic monograph with @dukepress.bsky.social! 🥳🥳🥳
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"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895
#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...
#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...
Sept. 10, 1895: South Carolina Constitutional Convention Convened
The South Carolina Constitutional Convention convened to disenfranchise Black voters.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895
#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...
#TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...
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As back-to-school season begins across the U.S. and many of our communities brace for ICE raids and other attacks, we wanted to share a few school-related resources to help inform, prepare, and empower folks with strategies and information to protect students, staff and educators. bit.ly/ICNews51
September 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
As back-to-school season begins across the U.S. and many of our communities brace for ICE raids and other attacks, we wanted to share a few school-related resources to help inform, prepare, and empower folks with strategies and information to protect students, staff and educators. bit.ly/ICNews51
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Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism.
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
mailchi.mp/truthout.org...
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
mailchi.mp/truthout.org...
Grassroots journalism organizations are a tool against fascism -- and their voices are growing
mailchi.mp
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism.
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
mailchi.mp/truthout.org...
In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️
mailchi.mp/truthout.org...
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yes because this is about Black people and controlling Black & brown people.
The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social
Chicago sees fewest summer murders since 1965, even as Trump cites high crime
The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
yes because this is about Black people and controlling Black & brown people.
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The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social
Chicago sees fewest summer murders since 1965, even as Trump cites high crime
The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social
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NEW - Resources to prepare for federal deployments in Chicago. Featured here: @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @meganpiont.bsky.social
We keep us safe: Trainings, workshops and resources for Chicagoans ahead of Trump’s feds deployment • The TRiiBE
Organizers are hosting trainings, workshops and providing mass text services
thetriibe.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
NEW - Resources to prepare for federal deployments in Chicago. Featured here: @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @meganpiont.bsky.social
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New from 404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's are sharing data from hundreds of AI cameras with cops. Records show a cop in Texas for example is able to search Flock cameras at Lowe's across the country. These stores are "contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet" www.404media.co/home-depot-a...
Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
www.404media.co
August 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses
Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.
www.latimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
July 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
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No words left for this engineered horror.
"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
More than 100 NGOs warn Israel’s forced ‘mass starvation’ stalks all Gaza
Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says 111 people have now died from famine and malnutrition in recent weeks.
www.aljazeera.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
No words left for this engineered horror.
"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
"More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
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After officials did nothing with the information from the first bestseller, which contains the Trump/Epstein rape documents, I wrote a new book about the methods they use to manage evidence. One is feigning shock to avoid accountability. They're doing it again now.
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
After officials did nothing with the information from the first bestseller, which contains the Trump/Epstein rape documents, I wrote a new book about the methods they use to manage evidence. One is feigning shock to avoid accountability. They're doing it again now.
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
Apparently I have no real friends because no one told me Wesley Morris has a new podcast 💜 you’re welcome 💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artist...
podcasts.apple.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Apparently I have no real friends because no one told me Wesley Morris has a new podcast 💜 you’re welcome 💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger.” Funding cuts would leave nearly 13 million Americans without access to their public broadcasters, threatening their ability to receive lifesaving alerts and emergency information.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/npr-a...
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/npr-a...
NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger” They Are Critical to Public Safety
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, today released a Snapshot Report that highlights data on publi...
www.commerce.senate.gov
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger.” Funding cuts would leave nearly 13 million Americans without access to their public broadcasters, threatening their ability to receive lifesaving alerts and emergency information.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/npr-a...
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/npr-a...
Went to Montana last week…
July 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Went to Montana last week…
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Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots chicagoreader.com/news/feature... - this is a good piece and I really hope that the Reader will be able to continue its work. Please donate to them if you live in Chicago
Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots - Chicago Reader
Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create lasting change.
chicagoreader.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Jobs, block clubs, investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots chicagoreader.com/news/feature... - this is a good piece and I really hope that the Reader will be able to continue its work. Please donate to them if you live in Chicago
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"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal."
That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored.
Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored.
Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Guns or Fireworks
America is not its government and normal does not mean right.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal."
That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored.
Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored.
Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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So is this guy just stuck in a foreign gulag ... forever?
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...
He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN
A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.
www.cnn.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So is this guy just stuck in a foreign gulag ... forever?
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...
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🤬”The Trump administration is withholding $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools: The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.”🤬
The Trump administration is withholding $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools
The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.
share.inquirer.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🤬”The Trump administration is withholding $230 million in education funding from Pa. schools: The cuts have left school districts in the Philadelphia area in limbo after they already approved budgets relying on that funding.”🤬
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If you think you might want to run or seek appointment to your local library board, we have a 2026 cohort for you. You can sign up now to be alerted when applications open this fall - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you think you might want to run or seek appointment to your local library board, we have a 2026 cohort for you. You can sign up now to be alerted when applications open this fall - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...