SED Mitchell
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The lovers, the dreamers, and me
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With Medicaid funding under threat in Congress and attacks on federal disability protections in the courts, we're breaking down the state of disability rights.
Our host @wkamaubell.bsky.social is joined by disability rights activists on this episode of At Liberty.
Our host @wkamaubell.bsky.social is joined by disability rights activists on this episode of At Liberty.
Know Your Disability Rights with Zoe Brennan-Krohn and Nicole Jorwic | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
With Medicaid funding under threat in Congress and attacks on federal disability protections in the courts, we're breaking down the state of disability rights.
Our host @wkamaubell.bsky.social is joined by disability rights activists on this episode of At Liberty.
Our host @wkamaubell.bsky.social is joined by disability rights activists on this episode of At Liberty.
Seems like denying the validity of differences is the bias. Keep at ‘em @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
The assumption that people who have no relationship to an experience are unbiased and those who do have a relationship are biased is a stupid prejudice. Often direct experience dispels established assumptions about rape, prison, etc..... Wrote about that a few years ago.
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Seems like denying the validity of differences is the bias. Keep at ‘em @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
Closing out the unit by discussing LBJ’s Great Society programs in class. Yes, we critiqued some of the implementation, but when I pointed out how many were targeted this past week…the kids are getting it, they’re pissed.
February 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Closing out the unit by discussing LBJ’s Great Society programs in class. Yes, we critiqued some of the implementation, but when I pointed out how many were targeted this past week…the kids are getting it, they’re pissed.
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USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly took hundreds of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry from their homes and held them in incarceration camps.
Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for defying the government’s order and refusing to go to the camps.
Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for defying the government’s order and refusing to go to the camps.
January 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly took hundreds of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry from their homes and held them in incarceration camps.
Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for defying the government’s order and refusing to go to the camps.
Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for defying the government’s order and refusing to go to the camps.
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Every year is an election year. Make sure your voter records stay up to date! #VotingRights #TheSouthsGotNow
January 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Every year is an election year. Make sure your voter records stay up to date! #VotingRights #TheSouthsGotNow
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Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
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January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
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January 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The most dangerous myth US Americans have subconsciously accepted is American ✨Exceptionalism.✨ While we celebrate our successes, Exceptionalism also means we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re incapable of making the same mistakes other people/state make. It’s not the same when WE do it.
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The most dangerous myth US Americans have subconsciously accepted is American ✨Exceptionalism.✨ While we celebrate our successes, Exceptionalism also means we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re incapable of making the same mistakes other people/state make. It’s not the same when WE do it.
I’m not sure why @colsonwhitehead.com keeps talking about brussel sprouts right now, but it is oddly comforting.
Eliot “Fight the Power” Hodgkin.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
January 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m not sure why @colsonwhitehead.com keeps talking about brussel sprouts right now, but it is oddly comforting.
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Eliot “Fight the Power” Hodgkin.
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was too often boiled to oblivion.
January 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Eliot “Fight the Power” Hodgkin.
Thankful. @robertmitchell.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Thankful. @robertmitchell.bsky.social
I wish all the teachers out there a restful Thanksgiving break!
November 23, 2024 at 11:21 PM
I wish all the teachers out there a restful Thanksgiving break!