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Susan Strasser
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Historian of American consumer culture. Hiker. Knitter. Redhead. Aunt.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 2h
"If I should claim your land by word of mouth, that certainly would not make it mine; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself, and with which you had had nothing to do, the claim would be quite the same in substance, or rather in utter nothingness."
Abraham Lincoln, 1848
Papers Of Abraham Lincoln
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during ...
papersofabrahamlincoln.org

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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 9h
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/content/imag...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d
For the past year I've had the feeling that the Trump administration's primary goal is the creation of content, and I expanded upon it here in the wake of our excursion in Venezuela
The Trump-Flavored Content Administration
Understanding the administration as a content mill
cooperlund.medium.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.
gothamist.com

Reposted by Susan Strasser, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d
Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza.

It's 25 degrees outside.

Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!"

Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 3d
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Reposted by Mark Rice, Susan Strasser

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 3d
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.

“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
My latest is up!

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The Year America Broke Open
It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.
open.substack.com

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 5d
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d
The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Rural Mail-In Ballots at Risk as Post Office Finalizes Changes to Postmark Dates
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 9d
as seen at Reed College
A sign hanging from a dorm window that reads, “First they came for immigrants and I spoke up because I read the rest of the fucking poem.”

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9d
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com

sustras.bsky.social
Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 10d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
www.theguardian.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12d
Merry Christian Nationalism Day

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12d
"The first written mention of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day comes from 1935, when, according to The New York Times, a man named Eng Shee Chuck brought chow mein and toys to a New Jersey Jewish orphanage." fortune.com/2025/12/24/w...
American Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage | Fortune
Elena Kagan was asked where she was on Christmas during her Supreme Court confirmation: “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”
fortune.com

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 15d
Private property owners and leaseholders: You can post a notice saying you do not authorize certain immigration enforcement activities, such as staging for an operation. ➡️ Read more: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/city-federal-response/business-owners-common-questions

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 15d
For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The United States of Klarna
Want to understand the state of the economy? Just look to all the shoppers flocking to “buy now, pay later” services.
www.bloomberg.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16d
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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sustras.bsky.social
Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 16d
Bartleby offers the right answer to so many things.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17d
Surveillance pricing is a term that sounds right out of some dystopia, but that’s exactly what instacart’s “smart rounding” is.

It’s more than inflation, imagine pretty soon having surge pricing for shopping at the grocery store
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be

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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 17d
Thank you, @lmacthompson1.bsky.social! I have the flu (despite vax) and confess that I was hoping I wouldn't have to rouse myself to write a letter. I so appreciate that you caught this and spread the word.

sustras.bsky.social
Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 17d
Haha. I haven't spent any energy missing WordPerfect for awhile, now, but now that you mention it...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17d
Wayback Machine grabbed the original Epstein files dump before that photo of Trump got pulled.

You can't get to the individual PDF page for the missing image, but if you click "download all files" and download it locally you can find the now-deleted file in: IMAGES / 0001 / EFTA00000468.pdf
Data Set 1 Files
web.archive.org

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 17d
It's Day 19 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

Today thousands of Minnesotans poured onto Lake Street to rally in support of our immigrant neighbors and against ICE.

Take a moment to look at this crowd of you and your neighbors rallying in below zero windchill.

📸 @roblevine82.bsky.social
Drone photo of a crowd of thousands of anti-ICE protesters stretching into the distance on Lake Street. There's no end to the crowd in the photo.

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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 17d
I had to think hard about reposting this. Contribute to spreading it far and wide? I don't think so. But "DHS just shared" suggests that this is funded by our taxes, and we should know about it.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17d
DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks."

The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke."

Evil shit.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 17d
Hey OAH members. There's a post on Facebook that requires us to object. I did. Screenshot of post below and screenshots of email I sent to OAH leadership following.