Alyssa Ribeiro
@riverlys.bsky.social
Historian of race and US cities, Associate Professor at Allegheny College, book in progress on multiracial activism in Philadelphia
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Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.
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How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today?
@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA - UNC Press Blog
The following is a guest blog post by Adrienne Krone, author of Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States which is now available wherever books are sold. ...
uncpressblog.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
How have religious food movements from the early nineteenth century have to do with America’s MAHA health agenda today?
@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
@adriennekrone.bsky.social, author of FREE-RANGE-RELIGION, dives into the history in this recent blog post ⤵️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/19/h...
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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And just like that, it's real.
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland
www.press.uillinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
And just like that, it's real.
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Decisive victory for Democrats in my small town in NWPA (Meadville)!
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Decisive victory for Democrats in my small town in NWPA (Meadville)!
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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Teenie Harris took this photo of a billboard in Pittsburgh in 1949 and it’s wild to think how little has changed
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Teenie Harris took this photo of a billboard in Pittsburgh in 1949 and it’s wild to think how little has changed
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Every member of the House of Representatives is being paid to sit at home and do nothing while every air traffic controller is being denied a paycheck while tasked with keeping the flying public alive.
That is really messed up.
That is really messed up.
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Every member of the House of Representatives is being paid to sit at home and do nothing while every air traffic controller is being denied a paycheck while tasked with keeping the flying public alive.
That is really messed up.
That is really messed up.
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Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis
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through 25 years of working in 'tech', one thing I've learned is that literacy and linguistic mastery is THE SKILL. Not math, not anything related to formal 'logic'. Everything in any sort of office job is based on the ability to read and write. We're depriving students of the #1 thing.
The comments to this article are also interesting
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
through 25 years of working in 'tech', one thing I've learned is that literacy and linguistic mastery is THE SKILL. Not math, not anything related to formal 'logic'. Everything in any sort of office job is based on the ability to read and write. We're depriving students of the #1 thing.
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Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.
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Make Abhorrent Ideas Socially Unacceptable Again
Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Make Abhorrent Ideas Socially Unacceptable Again
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard
“I think most people are going to say, OK, I had a great deal during COVID,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “But now it’s back to business as usual, and I should be paying for health care.”
Republicans Face Voter Anger Over Rising Health Care Premiums
Notices of rising health insurance premiums are landing in voters' mailboxes and sending some to Republican town halls to vent their frustration.
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard
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Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
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Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.