Betsy Cazden
@betsy-cazden.bsky.social
Quaker historian (New England, slavery, Indigenous land grabs, Indigenous boarding schools). Retired lawyer (NH).
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right-wing version of a land acknowledgement:
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
right-wing version of a land acknowledgement:
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/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.
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A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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📣 New video! After thoroughly enjoying @ericanela.bsky.social new book Zealous, I had to ask her to come on to talk about it! What followed was without question the most hilarious discussion I’ve had about Early Quaker history I’ve ever had… AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT!
youtu.be/mBadA04ZotY
youtu.be/mBadA04ZotY
Zealous: Uncovering the Darker Side of the First Quakers w/ Erica Canela
YouTube video by Quake It Up
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
📣 New video! After thoroughly enjoying @ericanela.bsky.social new book Zealous, I had to ask her to come on to talk about it! What followed was without question the most hilarious discussion I’ve had about Early Quaker history I’ve ever had… AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT!
youtu.be/mBadA04ZotY
youtu.be/mBadA04ZotY
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(1/5) Today we observe Red Shawl Day. This is a day of recognition for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today, in the United States, Indigenous women face violence at more than ten times the national average, and these instances of violence are often unprosecuted.
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
(1/5) Today we observe Red Shawl Day. This is a day of recognition for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today, in the United States, Indigenous women face violence at more than ten times the national average, and these instances of violence are often unprosecuted.
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Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
Kristi Noem is mad that protesters are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
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Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
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New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
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Note that any appeals of the Texas ruling will go straight to SCOTUS, without stopping at the 5th Circuit along the way. That's because the original case was heard by a three-judge district court. Federal law specifies that appeals of such cases go right to SCOTUS.
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Note that any appeals of the Texas ruling will go straight to SCOTUS, without stopping at the 5th Circuit along the way. That's because the original case was heard by a three-judge district court. Federal law specifies that appeals of such cases go right to SCOTUS.
Important thread linking the refined wealth of Cambridge, MA, to Jamaica's legacy of enslavement, by a knowledgeable scholar -- link at end for donations to aid Jamaica's hurricane recovery.
This is a plea to Massachusetts residents, particularly Cambridge residents and Harvard grads.
I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.
I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.
#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Important thread linking the refined wealth of Cambridge, MA, to Jamaica's legacy of enslavement, by a knowledgeable scholar -- link at end for donations to aid Jamaica's hurricane recovery.
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New documentary "Bring Them Home," narrated by Lily Gladstone, highlights the Blackfeet Nation's efforts to restore bison bison, revive culture and heal the community. On PBS this month.
www.news9.com/oklahoma-cit...
www.news9.com/oklahoma-cit...
New documentary highlights indigenous efforts to restore bison population
"Bring Them Home," an award-winning documentary narrated by Lily Gladstone, follows the Blackfeet Nation’s efforts to restore bison, revive culture and heal the community.
www.news9.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
New documentary "Bring Them Home," narrated by Lily Gladstone, highlights the Blackfeet Nation's efforts to restore bison bison, revive culture and heal the community. On PBS this month.
www.news9.com/oklahoma-cit...
www.news9.com/oklahoma-cit...
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When CBP left LA for Chicago @ajaxsinger.bsky.social made the most important point I’ve seen:
Be sand in their gears
They’re staging in a parking lot? Contact the owner of the lot, most don’t like it. Make noise outside their hotel. Don’t serve them in restaurants. Blow whistles. Make them quit.
Be sand in their gears
They’re staging in a parking lot? Contact the owner of the lot, most don’t like it. Make noise outside their hotel. Don’t serve them in restaurants. Blow whistles. Make them quit.
Miller's quotas are a bit of a saving grace bc as soon as an area makes it hard to rendition people, they're forced to move on or miss their metrics. Eventually, most enforcement will migrate into red areas and red states in spite of the promises to the business owners to leave those workers alone.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When CBP left LA for Chicago @ajaxsinger.bsky.social made the most important point I’ve seen:
Be sand in their gears
They’re staging in a parking lot? Contact the owner of the lot, most don’t like it. Make noise outside their hotel. Don’t serve them in restaurants. Blow whistles. Make them quit.
Be sand in their gears
They’re staging in a parking lot? Contact the owner of the lot, most don’t like it. Make noise outside their hotel. Don’t serve them in restaurants. Blow whistles. Make them quit.
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Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN buff.ly/re8zXyz
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN
In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation | CNN buff.ly/re8zXyz
It's well-known that this is a pattern for some men. If it happened once with one student, there were undoubtedly others over a number of years. It's why women students whisper to each other, "You really don't want ____ as your advisor, and don't go with him to that conference."
I'm not linking to the article because 1) I don't know if the woman named ever had a relationship with Larry Summers and 2) I have no idea whether it was consensual. But the fact that he's teaching 3 classes this fall, with all of this going on, and nobody has pulled him out is absolutely bonkers.
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's well-known that this is a pattern for some men. If it happened once with one student, there were undoubtedly others over a number of years. It's why women students whisper to each other, "You really don't want ____ as your advisor, and don't go with him to that conference."
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
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Get ready to hear this spiel from Trump's circle as commonly as we used to hear "of course Trump will be happy to release his taxes, just as soon as the IRS completes its audit."
Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Get ready to hear this spiel from Trump's circle as commonly as we used to hear "of course Trump will be happy to release his taxes, just as soon as the IRS completes its audit."
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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For everyone who is new here, we wanted to offer a “re-introduction” of who we are and our work.
Continue to learn more about The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition throughout the month of November and beyond: www.boardingschoolhealing.org
Continue to learn more about The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition throughout the month of November and beyond: www.boardingschoolhealing.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
For everyone who is new here, we wanted to offer a “re-introduction” of who we are and our work.
Continue to learn more about The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition throughout the month of November and beyond: www.boardingschoolhealing.org
Continue to learn more about The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition throughout the month of November and beyond: www.boardingschoolhealing.org
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BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
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BREAKING: Oklahoma has granted Tremane Wood clemency.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
BREAKING: Oklahoma has granted Tremane Wood clemency.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
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ALERT: Here’s what happened in court .. as defense for James Comey and defense for Letitia James argued to get the criminal cases dismissed
youtube.com/shorts/0OIMc...
youtube.com/shorts/0OIMc...
BREAKING: Here’s what happened in court as James Comey & Letitia James argue to get cases dismissed
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ALERT: Here’s what happened in court .. as defense for James Comey and defense for Letitia James argued to get the criminal cases dismissed
youtube.com/shorts/0OIMc...
youtube.com/shorts/0OIMc...
That Trump Thai-Cambodian "peace deal" (one of the ones he boasts about) has broken down. "The ceasefire agreement did not resolve the underlying basis of the dispute or longstanding differences over where the border should run."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Fatal clash on Thai-Cambodia border after Trump-brokered peace deal breaks down
The truce broke down this week after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine blast, prompting Thailand’s PM to say the peace deal was ‘now over’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
That Trump Thai-Cambodian "peace deal" (one of the ones he boasts about) has broken down. "The ceasefire agreement did not resolve the underlying basis of the dispute or longstanding differences over where the border should run."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Seems possible that this is about even more than underage women.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Seems possible that this is about even more than underage women.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?
Man, oh man.
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High risk pools means doing away w/ the mandate that requires ins companies to cover people regardless of health condition.
Welcome to health insurance companies telling you they won't cover your foot surgery cuz you had a sinus infection 20yrs ago.
Y'all think I'm joking. I Am Not! 😡
Welcome to health insurance companies telling you they won't cover your foot surgery cuz you had a sinus infection 20yrs ago.
Y'all think I'm joking. I Am Not! 😡
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
High risk pools means doing away w/ the mandate that requires ins companies to cover people regardless of health condition.
Welcome to health insurance companies telling you they won't cover your foot surgery cuz you had a sinus infection 20yrs ago.
Y'all think I'm joking. I Am Not! 😡
Welcome to health insurance companies telling you they won't cover your foot surgery cuz you had a sinus infection 20yrs ago.
Y'all think I'm joking. I Am Not! 😡