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E M
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Historian of Latin America, I study revolutionary struggles over belonging in the Andes. 🏳️‍🌈 content and dog photos, from the west but I guess I live in NY these days
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CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Get trained. Throw sand in the gears. Take video and photos for the inevitable trials of the lawless agents who brutalized our neighbors. The day when we hold them accountable to the law is coming. monarcamn.org/training
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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"I Was Surprised by the Good Nature of the Students."

Free article on student anti-war protests, available now from the latest issue of Middle West Review: bit.ly/46gLfS4
June 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter on Academic Freedom at UVA
Open Letter from Members of the Faculty of the University of Virginia In light of reporting that officials at the Department of Justice are pressuring University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to re...
docs.google.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The leaders of three of Pennsylvania’s largest employers — the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Comcast — on proposed SEPTA cuts
3 of Pa.’s largest employers urge: Fund SEPTA and other mass transit now | Opinion
Depriving public transit of needed resources will have economic impacts throughout the commonwealth, write the leaders of University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Comcast.
www.inquirer.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Faster, more frequent buses! Brought to you by congestion pricing.

"The MTA has already increased service on eight key express routes heading into Midtown. Next week’s improvements are meant to speed up travel within the boroughs on lines with particularly high ridership." —@nydailynews.com
NYC bus service to increase on 16 borough lines starting Sunday thanks to congestion pricing
Bus service on 16 local routes is set to increase next week, part of a package of improvements meant to augment increased bus speeds due to congestion pricing, Gov. Hochul’s office told the D…
www.nydailynews.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Buried in the Republicans' billionaire tax giveaway is a special interest provision that would essentially ban states from regulating AI for a decade.

This is a dangerous proposal that has nothing to do with taxes. It cannot become law.
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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#OnThisDay, 25 June 1983, around 2,000 women create a 4.5mile rainbow snake to encircle the Greenham Common camp in England, protesting the use of the airbase to house US nuclear weapons.

#GreenhamWomen #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
June 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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My only recent photo with Zohran is when he joined us at the first Jewish mass action against Israel in Gaza and we all got arrested and taken to jail. Now, we and thousands of people who volunteered for his campaign made him the boss of the very NYPD who arrested us.

Organizing can change anything
June 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition
June 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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From today's protest in Chicago.
June 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."
organizingmythoughts.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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the national guard was deployed against BLM protesters five years ago. All it did was make us angrier.
seeing a bunch of people who are mutuals with folks I follow post "my god it's all over" in response to the Administration deploying troops and like... my god, George Takei is on here! he was put in a concentration camp by our government in living memory and he hasn't given up! get a spine &protest!
June 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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oh my God

a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests

now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit

separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery
June 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Any academics interested in reviewing my book about how empire, global migration, and scientific understandings of race shaped the counter-insurgent and surveillance-heavy style of modern policing?
Matthew Guariglia ( @mguariglia.bsky.social), Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
June 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom.

Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵
Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats
Public opinion on immigration has shifted — and pundits need to catch up
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
June 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM