Livia Gershon
@liviagershon.bsky.social
Former journalist. New Hampshire. she/her. liviagershon at gmail
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It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Professor Darren Michael has reportedly been reinstated and given $50,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The post Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
The "politics isn't just about marginal tax rates anymore" responses to this are driving me nuts.
#1 Never was.
#2 Thinking that we should structure society such that wealthy people can relentlessly exploit everyone else should be at least as much of a red flag as being rude to the waitstaff.
#1 Never was.
#2 Thinking that we should structure society such that wealthy people can relentlessly exploit everyone else should be at least as much of a red flag as being rude to the waitstaff.
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The "politics isn't just about marginal tax rates anymore" responses to this are driving me nuts.
#1 Never was.
#2 Thinking that we should structure society such that wealthy people can relentlessly exploit everyone else should be at least as much of a red flag as being rude to the waitstaff.
#1 Never was.
#2 Thinking that we should structure society such that wealthy people can relentlessly exploit everyone else should be at least as much of a red flag as being rude to the waitstaff.
The execution of on-the-ground violence was closely correlated with a mindset among officers in which “teachers, students, unionists, and everybody holding liberal, Marxist, or anti-Catholic values became a viable target”
(Post based on work by @ascharpf.bsky.social)
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(Post based on work by @ascharpf.bsky.social)
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The Committed Officers of Argentina’s Dirty War - JSTOR Daily
The viciousness of Argentina’s Dirty War resulted not only from orders from above but from ideological buy-in at the ground level.
daily.jstor.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The execution of on-the-ground violence was closely correlated with a mindset among officers in which “teachers, students, unionists, and everybody holding liberal, Marxist, or anti-Catholic values became a viable target”
(Post based on work by @ascharpf.bsky.social)
daily.jstor.org/the-committe...
(Post based on work by @ascharpf.bsky.social)
daily.jstor.org/the-committe...
As one letter to the mayor put it, “Hurdy-gurdy players are not beggars.… they work and are paid for it by the donations of an enjoying public.”
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daily.jstor.org/a-war-on-str...
A War on Street Music in NYC - JSTOR Daily
In the New Deal era, New York City banned street musicians, classifying them as beggars. Some New Yorkers fought back.
daily.jstor.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As one letter to the mayor put it, “Hurdy-gurdy players are not beggars.… they work and are paid for it by the donations of an enjoying public.”
daily.jstor.org/a-war-on-str...
daily.jstor.org/a-war-on-str...
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
A cypher used by Reconstruction-era KKK members shows how a secret elite network helped seed dens in different parts of the Carolinas
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daily.jstor.org/a-secret-cip...
A Secret Cipher for the KKK - JSTOR Daily
How did the Ku Klux Klan spread across the South? Part of its journey depended on a code for secret correspondence.
daily.jstor.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A cypher used by Reconstruction-era KKK members shows how a secret elite network helped seed dens in different parts of the Carolinas
daily.jstor.org/a-secret-cip...
daily.jstor.org/a-secret-cip...
Wild how the pundit conventional wisdom is that "Biden open borders" polarized voters into a radical anti-immigration position when the low point was still way above 50% and pretty average for the past 25 years
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wild how the pundit conventional wisdom is that "Biden open borders" polarized voters into a radical anti-immigration position when the low point was still way above 50% and pretty average for the past 25 years
I rolled my eyes as hard as anyone about The Argument's launch, but I have to admit this is refreshing and actually in line with the spirit of liberalism that they say they're all about
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I rolled my eyes as hard as anyone about The Argument's launch, but I have to admit this is refreshing and actually in line with the spirit of liberalism that they say they're all about
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
It's wild how people dismissed Occupy as a total failure of anarchist/non-electoral organizing when it made inequality a central political issue and paved the way for the Sanders campaign. Similar to the way a lot of liberal pundits talk about BLM/2020 protests now. No long-term thinking whatsoever
I just don't think you get to 2025 in the US with people openly and nakedly questioning capitalism with 2/3 of younger Americans supporting socialism without occupy. I'm also aware Occupy didnt come out of a vacuum but it was an inflection point.
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's wild how people dismissed Occupy as a total failure of anarchist/non-electoral organizing when it made inequality a central political issue and paved the way for the Sanders campaign. Similar to the way a lot of liberal pundits talk about BLM/2020 protests now. No long-term thinking whatsoever
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I cannot say enough, there are places in your community that need help and one of the most personally empowering things you can do in this disempowering era is show up and ask humbly where you can slot in and contribute.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I cannot say enough, there are places in your community that need help and one of the most personally empowering things you can do in this disempowering era is show up and ask humbly where you can slot in and contribute.
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New Hampshire's two Senators are rumored to be part of the Charlie Brown with the football caucus, ready to cave to the Republicans for an illusory promise of a vote next month.
Granite Staters should call @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov & let them know how you feel about it.
#NHPolitics
Granite Staters should call @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov & let them know how you feel about it.
#NHPolitics
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
New Hampshire's two Senators are rumored to be part of the Charlie Brown with the football caucus, ready to cave to the Republicans for an illusory promise of a vote next month.
Granite Staters should call @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov & let them know how you feel about it.
#NHPolitics
Granite Staters should call @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov & let them know how you feel about it.
#NHPolitics
This kind of thing is why tiktok remains wonderful
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpXWCWT/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpXWCWT/
#duet with @mikewilsonmusic @Ken Sandberg @Todd (TJ) build a ballroom #musiciansoftiktok #fyp
TikTok video by mikey on drums
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November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This kind of thing is why tiktok remains wonderful
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpXWCWT/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpXWCWT/
Researching my school board candidates. This guy is cool with trans people, I guess?
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Researching my school board candidates. This guy is cool with trans people, I guess?
Yet another thing about the American meritocratic elite. People raised from infancy to value professional success above everything else simply don't have the temperament to risk anything no matter how much is at stake.
approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Yet another thing about the American meritocratic elite. People raised from infancy to value professional success above everything else simply don't have the temperament to risk anything no matter how much is at stake.
Men who worked in agriculture and forestry often retreated to the cities and towns of sunny southern California for the winter. Some joked that, during the offseason, they invested their summer earnings in “houses and lots”—houses of prostitution and lots of whiskey.
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daily.jstor.org/los-angeless...
Los Angeles’s War on Tramps - JSTOR Daily
In the 1880s, Los Angeles began a large-scale project of incarcerating unemployed men whom they viewed as a threat to the vigor of white America.
daily.jstor.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Men who worked in agriculture and forestry often retreated to the cities and towns of sunny southern California for the winter. Some joked that, during the offseason, they invested their summer earnings in “houses and lots”—houses of prostitution and lots of whiskey.
daily.jstor.org/los-angeless...
daily.jstor.org/los-angeless...
I’m so confused by the wine moms discourse. It feels like people think that no one older than them can have radical politics. Like teenagers who can’t imagine their parents knowing about sex.
October 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m so confused by the wine moms discourse. It feels like people think that no one older than them can have radical politics. Like teenagers who can’t imagine their parents knowing about sex.
I don’t know if I buy the idea that the left or the Democrats need a special strategy to reach young men. But if I did, I would be thinking about how facing down bullies to protect other people is the kind of thing Charlie Kirk or Jordan Peterson would tell you is masculine and cool.
October 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I don’t know if I buy the idea that the left or the Democrats need a special strategy to reach young men. But if I did, I would be thinking about how facing down bullies to protect other people is the kind of thing Charlie Kirk or Jordan Peterson would tell you is masculine and cool.
When European colonists first arrived, 90% of New England was forested. By 1850, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were all down to around 30%
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The Art of Deforestation - JSTOR Daily
Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.
daily.jstor.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
When European colonists first arrived, 90% of New England was forested. By 1850, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were all down to around 30%
daily.jstor.org/the-art-of-d...
daily.jstor.org/the-art-of-d...
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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
Many American yoga instructors still refer to aspects of the ancient Indian spiritual-medical system, something that seems potentially at odds with most practitioners’ understanding of modern science.
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daily.jstor.org/should-yoga-...
Should Yoga Be More Than Exercise? - JSTOR Daily
How should Westerners studying modern postural yoga think about the religious and medical systems in which it developed?
daily.jstor.org
October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Many American yoga instructors still refer to aspects of the ancient Indian spiritual-medical system, something that seems potentially at odds with most practitioners’ understanding of modern science.
daily.jstor.org/should-yoga-...
daily.jstor.org/should-yoga-...
The women's room graffiti at the district court, coming in with more nuance than most media coverage of violence and abuse
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The women's room graffiti at the district court, coming in with more nuance than most media coverage of violence and abuse
Pagabai's union card was her first state-recognized identification. It allowed her to enter the university through the main gate rather than sneaking in to pick trash and eventually got her an official contract with the institution.
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daily.jstor.org/waste-picker...
Waste Pickers Unite! - JSTOR Daily
As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers in India.
daily.jstor.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pagabai's union card was her first state-recognized identification. It allowed her to enter the university through the main gate rather than sneaking in to pick trash and eventually got her an official contract with the institution.
daily.jstor.org/waste-picker...
daily.jstor.org/waste-picker...